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1. Quoted in Wilson (1987) p. 267.
2. Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, February 14–May 3, 1819, in Keats pp. 335–36.
3. Review of Roth’s Everyman in The Times (London), April 22, 2006.
1. Eliade (1977) p. 177.
2. In Primitive Culture (1871); reprinted as Religion in Primitive Culture (1958).
3. Eliade (1977) pp. 177–78; Lévy-Bruhl p. 128.
4. Eliade (1977) p. 179.
5. Lévy-Bruhl p. 164.
6. Ibid. p. 160.
7. Quoted in Robbins p. 346.
8. Lévy-Bruhl pp. 160–61.
9. Ibid. pp. 167ff.
10. Personal communication from Nigel Barley, April 1979. See Barley (1983, 1986).
11. Lévy-Bruhl p. 203.
12. Ibid. pp. 167ff.
13. Ibid. p. 174.
14. Lady Gregory (1976a) p. 10.
15. Littlewood, R., and Douyon, C., “Clinical Findings in Three Cases of Zombification,” the Lancet, October 11, 1997.
16. Quoted by Merrily Harpur, album notes to Matt Molloy’s Shadows on Stone (RCA Records, 1996).
17. Lévy-Bruhl p. 301.
18. Ibid. pp. 265–66.
19. Ibid. p. 267.
1. Dodds (1952) pp. 150, 210.
2. Onians p. 100.
3. Snell p. 8.
4. Onians p. 168.
5. Ibid.
6. Dodds (1952) p. 153.
7. Onians p. 94.
8. Ibid. p. 100.
9. Quoted in Onians. Note to p. 197.
10. Heraclitus, frag. 45.
11. Dodds (1952) pp. 140ff.
12. See, for example, Godwin p. 2.
13. See, for example, Phaedo (62B) in Plato (1997) p. 140.
14. Naydler (2006) p. 75.
15. Ibid. pp. 75–76.
16. Ibid. p. 77.
17. Ibid. p. 78.
18. Ibid. p. 79.
19. Phaedo (67E).
20. Naydler (2006) p. 80.
21. Ibid. p. 79.
22. Naydler (1996) pp. 203–4.
23. Ibid. p. 209.
24. Naydler (2006) pp. 83–84.
25. Phaedo (66E).
26. Phaedrus (246E–247E).
27. Hillman (1983). Note to p. 141.
28. Copleston p. 153.
1. Henry, P., Introduction to the Enneads in Plotinus p. civ.
2. Ibid. IV, 4, 33; III, 2, 16.
3. Quoted in O’Meara p. 17.
4. Harpur (2002) pp. 5–7.
5. Ibid. pp. 5ff.
6. Chaucer, “The Tale of the Wife of Bath,” lines 8–18.
7. Quoted in Dodds (1965) p. 37.
8. Raine and Harper pp. 460–61.
9. De Defectu Oraculorum, 13.
10. Plotinus IV, 3, 9.
11. This sketch of the Imagination is based on my long discussion of it in Harpur (2002) chapters 5, 23, 24.
12. Coleridge p. 167.
13. Hillman (1975) p. x.
14. O’Meara p. 21.
15. Ibid. pp. 26–27.
16. Quoted in Hillman (1986) p. 155.
17. O’Meara pp. 15–16.
18. Ibid. p. 113.
19. This view is discussed at length in Lewis (1964).
20. O’Meara pp. 30–31.
21. Wallis pp. 157–58.
22. Ibid. p. 131.
1. Wordsworth, The Prelude III, lines 127–32.
2. Vitebsky (2005) pp. 259–61.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid. pp. 268–69.
5. Ibid. p. 269.
6. Ibid. p. 265.
7. Ibid. p. 264.
8. Harpur (1994) passim.
9. “On the Gods and the World” IV, quoted in Murray.
10. Vitebsky (2005) p. 269.
11. Ibid. p. 296.
12. Barfield p. 78.
13. Ibid. pp. 94–95.
14. Turnbull (1963) p. 28.
15. My Goat’s Eyes, Channel 4, June 3, 1996.
16. Letter to Thomas Butts, November 22, 1802, lines 27–28, in Blake p. 817.
17. “The Everlasting Gospel” (“d” version), lines 103–6, in Blake p. 753.
18. “The Everlasting Gospel,” lines 29–30, in Blake p. 817.
19. “The Everlasting Gospel,” lines 27–28, in Blake p. 817.
20. Letter to Dr. Trusler, August 23, 1799, in Blake p. 793.
21. Quoted in Hillman (1975) p. 149.
22. Ibid. p. 150.
23. Turnbull (1963) pp. 74–75.
1. Jung (1967a) p. 199.
2. Ibid. p. 201.
3. Ibid. p. 202.
4. Ibid. p. 203.
5. Freud pp. 20ff.
6. Jung (1967a) pp. 203–4.
7. Jung CW9 §105.
8. Jung (1967b) §388.
9. Proclus’s Commentary on Plato’s Republic quoted in Raine and Harper p. 376.
10. Hillman (1979) p. 23.
11. Wallis p. 60.
12. Much of this section is indebted to Hillman (1985). For our inhuman depths, see, for example, pp. 88–89.
13. Ibid. p. 81.
14. Ibid. pp. 58–59.
15. See Jung (1981).
16. Jung (1967a) p. 231.
17. A comprehensive account of the alchemical Great Work can be found in Harpur (1990). This section is largely drawn from my sketch of alchemy in Harpur (2002) chapters 7 and 8.
18. Jung (1967a) p. 222.
1. “The Hollow Men” II, line 2, in Eliot p. 89.
2. Popper, Karl, “The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions” in Hacking p. 87.
3. Cf. Raine and Harper pp. 460–61.
4. Yeats (1961) p. 107.
5. Cf. Hillman (1975) pp. 168–69.
6. Quoted ibid. p. 151.
7. Cf. Hillman (1979) p. 69.
8. Ibid. pp. 35–36.
9. Tarnas (1991) p. 110.
10. Snell pp. 40–41.
11. Plotinus I, 6, 9.
12. Kingsley pp. 102–3.
13. Ibid. pp. 110–11.
14. Hillman (1979) p. 92.
15. Hillman (1975) p. 71.
1. Bloom p. 42.
2. MacDonald p. 39.
3. Briggs p. 132.
4. Bloom pp. 202–3.
5. Ibid. p. 202.
6. Ibid. p. 47.
7. 1 Corinthians 11:10.
8. Quoted in Dodds (1965) p. 37.
9. Ibid.
10. Jung (1967a) pp. 208–9.
11. Jaffé p. 108.
12. Iamblichus III, iii–iv.
13. Onians pp. 137–38, 161–62.
14. Lévy-Bruhl p. 234.
15. Ibid. pp. 190–91.
16. Ibid. p. 192.
17. Stevens p. 192.
18. Lévy-Bruhl pp. 193–94.
19. Ibid. p. 195.
20. Cited in Auden (1971) p. 164.
21. Lévy-Bruhl p. 200.
22. Ibid. p. 198.
23. Naydler (1996) pp. 193–95.
24. Ibid. p. 198.
25. Ibid. p. 200.
26. Porphyry, “On the Life of Plotinus,” trans. Stephen MacKenna, in Plotinus p. cx.
27. Wallis p. 71.
28. Iamblichus IX, vi.
29. Plato, The Republic X, 620E.
30. Quoted in Peake pp. 231–32.
31. Lewontin p. 100.
32. Dawkins p. 8.
33. Hillman (1997) pp. 39–40.
34. Quoted in Avens pp. 79–80.
35. Hillman (1997) pp. 14–17.
36. Weil (1972) p. 73.
37. Jung (1967a) p. 356.
38. Hillman (1997) pp. 4–7, 251–53.
39. Ibid. pp. 193–94.
40. Ibid. pp. 41ff.
41. Quoted ibid. p. 7.
42. Quoted in Auden (1964) pp. 144–45.
43. Hughes p. 268.
44. Ibid. p. 275.
45. Yeats (1959) p. 335.
46. Quoted in Raine (1986) p. 163.
47. Hughes p. 9.
48. McCall, Basil, The Pavement Doctor of Calcutta: An On-line E-book About the Extraordinary Life and Work of Dr. Jack Preger, MBE—Founder of the Charity “Calcutta Rescue,” “Based on many hours of private interviews,” at http://sites.google.com/site/basilicum122/.
49. Yeats (1959) p. 336.
1. Quoted in Wilson (1989) p. 24.
2. Ibid.
3. Berenson p. 18.
4. From “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” in Hopkins p. 51.
5. “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey …” in Wordsworth pp. 47–49.
6. See Hardy.
7. Quoted in Wilson (1989) p. 43. For a fuller version, see Coxhead.
8. This discussion is indebted to W. H. Auden’s essay “The Protestant Mystics” in Auden (1973).
9. See the discussion of Dante’s La Vita Nuova in Williams (1943).
10. Auden (1973) p. 24.
11. Ibid. p. 102.
12. Williams (1963) pp. 212ff.
13. Galatians 2:20.
14. Weil (1972) p. 21.
15. Anonymous (1967) pp. 53–54, 135.
16. 2 Corinthians 12:2–4.
17. Dionysius the Areopagite pp. 194, 200.
18. Ibid. p. 201.
19. Quoted in Auden (1973) pp. 73–74.
20. “Upon a gloomy night …” (“En una noche oscura …”) in St. John of the Cross pp. 26–29.
21. Quoted in Wilson (1989) pp. 44–45.
22. Pascal p. 309.
23. Henry, P., Introduction to the Enneads in Plotinus p. lxxxvi.
24. Plotinus IV, 9, 7.
25. Ibid. IV, 8, 1.
26. Dodds (1965) p. 88.
27. Some of the following distinctions between soul and spirit are indebted to Hillman (1975) pp. 67–70 and Hillman (1989) pp. 57–69.
28. Hopkins p. 31.
29. Quoted in “A Consciousness of Reality” in Auden (1973) p. 415.
30. Yeats (1967) p. 533.
31. For the distinction between Arcadia and Utopia, Eden and the New Jerusalem, see “Dingley Dell and the Fleet” in Auden (1964) pp. 409ff.
32. Raine (1991) pp. 105–6.
33. Quoted in Wind pp. 63–64.
34. Murdoch (1993) p. 318.
35. Tillich pp. 180–83.
36. See Miller pp. 27–28.
37. Hillman (1989) pp. 67–68.
38. Hillman (1975) p. 69.
1. Dodds, E. R., “Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus” in Dodds (1973) p. 135.
2. Hillman (1979) pp. 110–17.
3. Picard p. viii.
4. Ibid. pp. 214ff.
5. Midgley p. 77.
6. Lévy-Bruhl pp. 115–21.
7. Letter to Richard Woodhouse, October 27, 1818, in Keats pp. 227–28.
8. Tarnas (2006) p. 25.
1. Eliade (1995) pp. 24, 31.
2. Lévy-Bruhl p. 215.
3. Review in the London Times, August 10, 2008.
4. Lady Gregory (1976a) pp. 9–10.
5. Yeats, “Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places” in Lady Gregory (1976a) note 39 on p. 364.
6. Lady Gregory (1976a) pp. 9–10.
7. Ibid.
8. Halifax (1991) p. 161.
9. Hillman (1985) pp. 105–7.
10. Quoted in Barrett p. 8.
11. Levi (1988) p. 37.
12. Bettelheim p. 140.
13. Ibid. pp. 140–42.
14. Levi (1987) p. 96.
15. Vitebsky (1995) pp. 146–47.
16. Ibid. p. 46.
17. Ibid. pp. 60–61.
18. Quoted in Halifax (1991) p. 14.
19. Vitebsky (1995) p. 59.
20. Ibid.
21. Eliade (1989) pp. 137–38.
22. Halifax (1991) p. 16.
23. Ibid. pp. 82–85.
24. James p. 344.
25. Jung (1967a) pp. 204–5.
1. Zaleski p. 124.
2. Plutarch, “On the Soul” quoted in Eliade (1977) p. 302. But in other sources this quotation is attributed to Themistios (Themistius).
3. Apuleius, Metamorphoses XI, 1–26.
4. Zaleski p. 125.
5. Quoted in Lorimer p. 93.
6. By, for example, Kübler-Ross, Ring, Lorimer, Fenwick and Fenwick, and Parnia—see Bibliography for details.
7. Parnia p. 78.
8. Atwater p. 36, quoted in Lorimer p. 22.
9. Lorimer p. 22.
10. Quoted ibid. pp. 11–13.
11. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” in Blake p. 149.
12. Ibid. p. 154.
13. Swedenborg pp. 27–29.
14. Quoted in Wilson (1987) p. 176.
15. London, 1949.
16. Ibid. pp. 146ff.
17. Sherwood p. 60.
18. Ibid. p. 81.
19. Ibid. p. 91.
20. Heraclitus, frag. 60.
1. Turnbull (1978) pp. 82–83.
2. Lévy-Bruhl p. 300.
3. “Auguries of Innocence,” lines 1–2, in Blake p. 43.
4. Quoted in Parkin pp. 4–5.
5. Raine (1991) p. 48.
6. The Odyssey XI.
7. Eliade (1977) pp. 366–69.
8. Lévy-Bruhl p. 306.
9. Ibid. pp. 220–21.
10. Hutton, Ronald, p. 202.
11. Yates pp. 92–93.
12. Lévy-Bruhl p. 303.
13. Ibid. p. 304.
14. Vitebsky (1995) p. 18.
15. Vergil, The Aeneid VI, 743.
16. Blake p. 150.
17. Yeats op. cit. in Lady Gregory (1976a) p. 314.
18. Cf. Paracelsus p. 15.
19. Heraclitus, frag. 60.
20. “London,” line 8, in Blake p. 216.
22. Attributed to Alain de Lille (c.1128–1202) but probably of much earlier, Hermetic provenance.
22. Heraclitus, frag. 27.