A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination, and PoetrySteinerBooks, 2003 - 167 pagina's We usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognition--a path of development to real knowing. Allison shows how poetry--poetic knowing and seeing--can reveal aspects of the world invisible to science. Three lucid chapters describe the path to true imagination, where attention is the key. First we must practice it, then we must become aware of the processes involved in it. Learning to experience "poise," we must come to terms with the shadow--or all that says "No" in us. The combination of attention, equanimity, and assent opens the world in a new way. Allison then examines how poets have actually developed and practiced the kind of "deep seeing" that "image work" involves. For this he draws on William Shakespeare, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Octavio Paz. The author concludes with a sequence of his own poems that exemplify the philosophy and practice he has developed. Contents:
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... inner mobility . This does not mean being all over the place , but rather achieving a dynamic poise in which there ... inner world and the outer world meet . Where they overlap , it is in every part of the overlap . " Attentiveness is ...
... inner and outer is like a two - way mirror : I both see through it and am reflected in it . Think about this for a moment . In waking up each morning , there is a more - or - less simultaneous recognition : out there the world is , and ...
... inner and outer , we do indeed find there is a " toggle - switch , " the experience of sym- pathy / antipathy . However , it seems to me that there is anoth- er experience where we can be simultaneously here and there , and that is in ...
... inner or outer reality . In this respect the pictures we expe- rience as Imaginations are similar to the kind of dream in which inner organic sensations may present themselves as external phenomena ( Rudolf Steiner gives the example of ...
... inner tranquillity in which to " contemplate and judge our own actions and experi- ences , as though they applied not to ourselves but to some other person . " We are thus to form an objective view of our- selves , to identify the ...
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Developing Imagination | 18 |
Owning the Shadow | 27 |
Getting It | 37 |
Freeing Imagination from Fancy | 47 |
Negative Capability | 58 |
Deep Seeing | 68 |
Instress and Inscape | 79 |
Another Way of Seeing Things | 107 |
Living in the World | 119 |
Connections | 127 |
Three Portals of the Imagination | 133 |
Crossings | 140 |
This | 150 |
Seeing Things II | 161 |
Heartwork | 90 |