One of the most interesting writers of the twentieth century is Owen Barfield. CS Lewis, who was no mean intellect himself, described him as the best of his unofficial tutors. Barfield was destined for a brilliant academic career at Oxford but the early death of his father required him to take over the family law [...]
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Ways of seeing
Posted in Psychology, Science, tagged consciousness, Evolution, Psychology, Science, thinking on August 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s always fun to analyse things. We do analysis so readily because it is easy ; synthesis (imaginative thinking) is a lot harder. Science makes such good progress because it involves mostly analysis. But, easy though it is, the results of analysis are still a puzzle. For example, we might do a hundred experiments in [...]
A matter of conviction
Posted in Psychology, Science, tagged beauty, perception, thinking, witch on July 19, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The picture of the old woman, whose name is Cracklebones, with the huge hooked nose and cruel thin lips, and wearing a dirty-white headscarf, reminds us of a witch ; it also reminds us of our tendency to make judgements of people ; judgements that are often based on little evidence. Is this prejudice? Well, [...]
Mindful of pain
Posted in Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Therapy, tagged contemplating, emotions, mind, pain, Psyche, soul, thinking on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The life of Man is the life of the mind. Not for us the unconscious or semi-conscious world that the lesser creatures inhabit. We are not automatons that simply ‘behave’ ; we are much more than our instincts and biological drives. It was one of those frightful eighteenth-century agricultural scientists who remarked, “What is a [...]
Poetic meaning
Posted in culture, poetry, Psychology, tagged emotion, meaning, poetry, speaking, thinking, writing on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An emotion is called such because it calls upon us to do something. And the presence of an emotion is signified by more or less definite physiological movements which can be felt. It can be a useful and revealing exercise to note where one feels a particular emotion. Do you feel it in your legs? [...]
What does it all mean?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, interpretation, meaning, symbols, thinking, wisdom on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How often have I heard somebody say, “There’s wisdom in that book?” We take it as a truth that a book by a learned author contains wisdom. But is that true?
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