Wed 13th: Patrick Harpur - Archetypes, Daimons & the Western Mind
Bernardo considers Patrick amongst the top 3 authors worthy of far more exposure, so I'm excited to have them in dialogue again.
Our last conversations with Patrick Harpur transformed how I engage with fairy-tales I have known my whole life, and revived a deeper respect for Western traditions. You can see their first dialogue here, and their second one here:
Amir Giles
There is sometimes less time for member questions when we have guests, but do submit you greatest curiosities in the comments as they help guide the conversation, and if there's time I'll always bring more voices in.
See you soon!
Wed 13th May 2026 | 6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST
Amir
About Patrick Harpur
Patrick Harpur attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, to read English, and his writings have appeared in The Guardian, Fortean Times, Gnosis, Resurgence, the New Statesman and the Independent on Sunday. He is often invited to give talks in the UK, in Spain and in America; and he has taught post-graduate students at Schumacher College (Dartington).
As well as several novels, Patrick is the author of 4 non-fiction books including Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld which attempted to make sense of visions and apparitions by recourse to Platonic philosophy, Jungian psychology, and the Romantic notion of imagination. He also wrote The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination outlined an esoteric Western way of seeing the world which has been largely neglected. In 2010, Rider published the rather ambitiously titled A Complete Guide to the Soul, which appeared a year later in the US as The Secret Tradition of the Soul (Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books). The Stormy Petrel (The Squeeze Press, 2017) is a novel based on the life and work of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard, whose writings have gripped Patrick for years.
You can read his article on the Daimonic Nature of Reality here
Zoom room
Wed 13th May 2026
6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST
