Patrick Harpur is an acclaimed author, best known for his philosophical works that delve into the nature of imagination and the world beyond our immediate perception. His writings explore the intangible aspects of human experience with keen intellect and a distinctive style. Harpur delves into the depths of thought, offering readers insightful explorations into hidden realities.
Based on the life of the Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard, The Stormy Petrel is the inside story of what his life is about - an investigation into a soul torn between natural love and a supernatural vocation, which leads inexorably to the attack that makes his name anathema for a hundred years.
Two women see something uncanny in the skies over west London in the summer of 1989.
Set in the opulent surroundings of Surrey during a transformative era, this darkly comic drama follows the Blyte children as they navigate their quirky lives amidst societal changes. Each sibling grapples with their own challenges: Hugh's infatuation with the au pair, Janey's romantic musings, George's vendetta, and Moo's retreat to the Sloppy Club. A family crisis introduces madness, death, and a supernatural twist, forcing the children to confront their parents' follies with humor and creativity.
A Complete Guide to the Soul explains that answers can in fact be found in a secret history that runs like quicksilver through Western culture, from philosophy and alchemy, to poetry and modern psychology.
In this dazzling history of the imagination, Patrick Harpur links together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and modern models of the Universe, to trace how myths have been used to make sense of the world.
Is there any place for the ancient myths of our ancestors in modern times? Could their shadowy presence in our common imagination be more influential than we realise? Across the globe many societies still believe in an Otherworld of spirits, gods and daimons, which the West has banished to the unconscious mind and now only visits in dreams. Yet this visionary tradition continues to subvert the rational universe, erupting out of the shadows in times of intense religious and philosophical transition. In his dazzling history of the imagination, Patrick Harpur links together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and the ecstasy of the shaman, to trace how myths have been used to make sense of the world. He uncovers that tradition which alchemists imagined as a Golden Chain of initiates, who passed their mysterious 'secret fire' down through the ages. As this inspiring book shows, the secret of this perennial wisdom is of an imaginative insight: a simple way of seeing that re-enchants our existence and restores us to our own true selves.