Temenos Academy Special Event November 2025

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NEWSLETTER POETIC IMAGINATION AND THE REDISCOVERY OF MEANING Sunday 9 November 2025, 2.30-6pm A Symposium Celebrating Owen Barfield With Mark Vernon, Jeffrey Hipolito, Hilary Davies and Sir Ben Okri In collaboration with Rudolf Steiner House Meaning and imagination are two intertwined themes throughout the writing career of philosopher and poet Owen Barfield, whose ideas inspired the likes of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and T. S. Eliot. This symposium will explore these two central themes of Barfield's work, his debt to spiritual traditions from Neoplatonism to Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy, and his relevance to contemporary issues such as the meaning crisis and the secular age. Join authors Mark Vernon and Jeffrey Hipolito together with poets Sir Ben Okri and Hilary Davies for a lively mix of talks, poetry readings and conversations exploring Barfield’s lasting influence, the nature of the imagination and man's eternal quest for meaning. Mark Vernon - psychotherapist, podcaster and author of Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination. Jeffrey Hipolito - chairperson of the Owen Barfield Society and author of Owen Barfield’s Poetic Philosophy: Meaning and Imagination. Hilary Davies - poet, essayist, translator and author of Compass Light. Sir Ben Okri - poet, Booker Prize winning novelist, playwright and author of Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-Hearted. Venue & Admission Rudolf Steiner House London NW1 6XT £25 General Admission £15 for Temenos Academy Members/Full-time students with student ID card Book HERE E- temenos...@myfastmail.com T - 07513 883 335   BECOME A MEMBER You can support the Temenos Academy by becoming a member for £60/year. Members benefits include free admission to our lecture programme, concessionary rates to seminars, study days and online courses, a free copy of Temenos Academy Review 27 and Ten Basic Principles that Inspire the Work of Temenos on joining, and complimentary copies of forthcoming Temenos Academy publications as they are issued. To become a member click HERE THE ARCHIVE Our website Archive hosts many audio and video recordings of lectures and the texts of many articles from Temenos Academy Review. New material is added regularly. https://www.temenosacademy.org/videoarchive https://www.temenosacademy.org/audioarchive https://www.temenosacademy.org/essay-archive Many of our audio recordings are available as PODCASTS. FURTHER INFORMATION EMAIL temenos...@myfastmail.com TELEPHONE 07513 883 335 PRIVACY POLICY https://temenosacademy.org/privacy-policy