Special guest Patrick Harpur - Archetypes, Daimons and the Western Mind
26th May 2026 | 31st March | 6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST
What if myths and legends could awaken a deeper relationship with the creative forces of reality?
Our last conversation 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:
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Bernardo Kastrup considers Patrick amongst the top 3 authors worthy of far more exposure, so I'm excited to have them in dialogue this coming session. They will discuss Bernardo's new book and the importance of moving past a literal understanding of imagination. Zoom link for all September meetings below.
I also promised to send a clip from Bernardo about how to know if you are following your daimon. Here it is on youtube. Members can watch the whole meeting this clip is from (ad free) here.
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
Looking forward to seeing you Tuesday!
UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST
