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Barfield argues that if, as physics suggests, ordinary appearances—including for example colors, sounds, and smells—are a kind of subjective response of the human organism to an unknown underlying base of reality, and if what underlies our phenomena and is real independently of us is only what is suggested by science's experimental hypotheses of a subatomic world; if, that is, we must ...
Barfield was also an influence on T. S. Eliot who called Barfield's book Worlds Apart "a journey into seas of thought very far from ordinary routes of intellectual shipping." In her book Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World , Verlyn Flieger analyses the influence of Barfield's Poetic Diction on the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Barfield never made me an Anthroposophist, but his counterattacks destroyed forever two elements in my own thought. In the first place he made short work of what I have called my "chronological snobbery," the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that ...
The term participating consciousness was introduced by Berman in The Re-enchantment of the World (1981) [7] [8] expanding on Owen Barfield's concept of "original participation," to describe an ancient mode of human thinking that does not separate the perceiver from the world he or she perceives.
Telluride: Herzog's documentary about the brain turns into a vital but scattershot meditation on his fears for a future without him in it.
"I thought this was the most beautiful spot in the world, and now I know it." [2] — W. P. Ker, Scottish literary scholar (17 July 1923), to his hiking companions on the Pizzo Bianco before suffering a heart attack "That's good. Go on, read some more." [1]
Shakeda Barfield, 33, arrived at the school for a scheduled meeting with the principal. The principal noticed that the woman had bags of cocaine falling from her clothes, according to WREX.
Barfield appeared in 309 games over four major league seasons with San Diego (2006) and Cleveland (2007-09) after being selected by the Padres in the fourth round of the 2001 draft. “We are all ...