
The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
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Narrado por:
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Leslie James
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De:
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Gary Lachman
Imagination is a core aspect of being human. Our imagination allows us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.
Since the 17th century, however, imagination has been sidelined and dismissed as "make believe". Four centuries ago, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves emerged in the west and has gone on to dominate human life: science.
Imagination has been marginalized - depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than coming to grips with it - and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed. Yet as we move further into the strange new world of the 21st century, the need to regain this lost knowledge seems more necessary that ever before.
This insightful and inspiring book argues that, for the sake of the future of our world, we must redress the balance. Through the work of Owen Barfield, Goethe, Henry Corbin, Kathleen Raine, and others, and ranging from the teachings of ancient mystics to the latest developments in neuroscience, The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination introduces the listener to a philosophy and tradition that restores imagination to its rightful place, and argues that it is not only essential to our knowing reality to the full, but to our very humanity itself.
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Fascinating book! Love the references.
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It’s the story of a moment when human thought changed, and the consequences and possibilities branching out from that turning point. In the era of the Greek philosophers, the rational, reductionist concept of science gave humankind a newfound mastery of the world — but it lost contact with the holistic, intuitive knowledge of the imagination, which has survived in a subterranean golden thread woven throughout history, connecting the lives of alchemists, Qabalists, Sufi mystics, Romantic poets, and 20th Century scholars and occultists.
From Pythagoras, to Newton, to Goethe, to Swedenborg, to William Blake, to Crowley, to Rudolf Steiner, to Einstein, they’re all woven into this grand tapestry — along with remarkable figures you may never have heard of, though you’ll undoubtedly be chasing down more information.
(Chapter 4 of this book kind of blew my mind with its introduction to Suhrawardi, a 12th Century Sufi, the “Murdered Mystic” whose description of the imaginal realms between matter and spirit explains so much.)
Briskly paced, enlightening, and breathtaking in scope. Leslie James’s confident voice navigates us warmly and invitingly through these strange tides. (My only quibbles are that I wish this dense material had just a l-i-t-t-l-e more breathing room in its dizzying pace — and Gary lost me a bit with a rather conservative stance on modern art in the final chapters, a thought-provoking bit of editorializing that I just don’t happen to agree with entirely.)
Strongly recommended, inspiring, educational & deeply fascinating.
A worldwide tour of consciousness in 5 hours
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A great book but - get hard copy
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Great ideas - not well written
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Excellent book, narrator.. meh.
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The narration of this book was so terrible that it was difficult for me to focus on the content. It sounded almost like a poorly done AI voice. Although the narration wasn't monotone, the rises and falls in the narrator's voice were almost inconsequential to the material being presented. The worst aspect, though, was that there were no pauses between sentences or paragraphs. Each chapter sounded like one long run-on sentence. It was truly exhausting to listen and most of the content of the book went right by me. I forced myself to finish the book because I'm interested in the material, but it was a waste of time. I'll have to buy a print version.
This narrator needs to learn that reading words on a page is not the same as actually communicating the content of the material. Communicating the content requires some degree of interest in the material, not a desire to get through it as quickly as possible.
interesting content, terrible narrator
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Lackluster narration detracts from Lachman’s excellent message.
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Brilliant tour of the imaginal
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Good ideas, terrible narration
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