The Wisdom of the Imagination

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of imagination as a fundamental feature of reality, drawing on the ideas of William Blake.

The imagination is often regarded as a valuable but fanciful capacity. But what if imagination were not an optional extra, or even the possession of human beings alone, but a fundamental feature of reality? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon draw on the ideas of William Blake to explore Blake’s insistence that “nature is imagination itself!”. They discuss how the understanding of the imagination has contracted in recent times, though also how m...

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Hosts: Rupert Sheldrake, Mark Vernon

Topics covered

• imagination
• William Blake
• nature
• reality
• philosophy

Keywords

• imagination
• William Blake
• nature
• philosophy
• reality
• spirituality

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