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Owen Barfield

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Philosopher of the Evolution of Consciousness | The First and Last Inkling | Official account for the Barfield Literary Estate | https://www.owenbarfield.org/

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Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This Good Friday is the ninetieth anniversary of the publication of a letter to the editor of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 written by Owen Barfield. It was part of a chain of correspondence which the paper titled "Nationalism and Economics". owenbarfield.org/peace-making...

Peace-Making and the Economic Earth: on Barfield's 1936 letter on "Nationalism and Economics" - The Owen Barfield Literary Estate

Ninety years ago, on April 3, 1936, The Spectator published a letter to the editor by Owen Barfield, which it headlined “Nationalism and Economics”. The letter, about the reality of the world’s econom...

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Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A suggestion for a Christmas present is Owen Barfield's fairy-tale 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵. It was published in a new edition by the Barfield Press this year, on its hundredth anniversary. (It was first published in November 1925, in time for Christmas then too...)

Illustration of a silver trumpet next to a manuscript
Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Upcoming Event, London, 9 November: 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.

Poster showing a photograph of Owen Barfield, wearing a suit and tie and smoking a pipe. Text reads "Poetic Imagination & The Rediscovery of Meaning: A Symposium Celebrating Owen Barfield, the man who inspired C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and T.S. Eliot."
Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Paul Wilkinson, a musician and teacher, writes very nicely about the essential nature of music, about the meaning of the decline in musical education, and how these are reflected in Barfield's fairy-tale, The Silver Trumpet. owenbarfield.org/the-music-th...

The Music That Shapes the Soul: Owen Barfield, Original Participation, and the Future of Education - The Owen Barfield Literary Estate

I’m incredibly fortunate to be a piano teacher and music composition instructor to students of all ages a few days each week. I also perform, compose, create content for YouTube, and write music educa...

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Esowteric@esowteric.bsky.social · last yr.

“[Owen] Barfield believed that as we look back into the history of language, we see that it becomes more figurative, more metaphorical, more, in a sense, alive and poetic; our own age is, as the literary philosopher Erich Heller said, much more one of prose.” ~ Gary Lachman.

A woman in bustling clothes and wearing a green wreath on her head is sitting with a pile of papers, having difficulty in writing poetry, a hand resting on her forehead. To the left, there are closed books on the ground, and to her right is a young naked child with what looks like a closed book. Behind the woman is a cloudy sky.
Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The 'original metaphors' of the Incarnate Word [...] are the exemplary reality, from which all meaning derives, and in which it participates to differing degrees." This insight and more from Jakob Ziguras' blog on the Owen Barfield website: www.owenbarfield.org/reflections-...

Reflections on a Passage from "Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion" - The Owen Barfield Literary Estate

The following contains some thoughts inspired by a very striking passage in Barfield’s late essay “Meaning, Revelation and Tradition in Language and Religion.” In reflecting on the Incarnation, he con...

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Captain Orient@ramieldestgenys.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Thus, without any particular exertion or theorising on my part I had had two things strongly impressed on me, firstly that the poetic or imaginative use of words enhances their meanings and secondly that those enhanced meanings may reveal hitherto unapprehended parts of reality." - Owen Barfield.

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Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

New on the blog: “Barfield’s understanding of language was one I had never encountered before”: an interview with Spencer Klavan www.owenbarfield.org/barfields-un...

"Barfield’s understanding of language was one I had never encountered before": an interview with Spencer Klavan - The Owen Barfield Literary Estate

Landon Loftin: Hello Spencer. Congratulations on your newest book: Light of the Mind, Light of the World. Can you say something about the book’s main thesis? Spencer Klavan: Thanks very much indeed, L...

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Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

Owen Barfield died on December 14, 1997. To mark the anniversary, we reprinted an article by Barfield's biographer, Simon Blaxland-de Lange. "Owen Barfield, Harbinger of the 21st Century" www.owenbarfield.org/owen-barfiel...

Owen Barfield: Harbinger of the 21st Century - The Owen Barfield Literary Estate

The following article was first printed in the 2005 edition of The Golden Blade, which was an annual anthroposophical publication which survived until 2009. It was written as the draft of a lecture ul...

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Will Sherwood@willsherwood.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Barfield’s impact on #Tolkien is wide ranging, including how they conceived of romance and the Romantic. Barfield’s writings on the #Romantic movement, Rudolf #Steiner, and #Romanticism are more consonant with Tolkien than meets the eye.

Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introduction 🧵Owen Barfield (1898–1997) was one of the twentieth century’s most insightful writers and philosophers. His ideas informed the thinking and writing of influential authors such as C. S. #Lewis and J. R. R. #Tolkien who were fellow members of the #Inklings, an Oxford group of thinkers. /1

Owen Barfield, April 1972 in Wheaton, IL, USA. A man with a pipe in his mouth, smart dark suit, grey hair slicked back, wrinkled face, and small round glasses. He is is pointing at something to the right of frame. In the background is a white wooden building.
Tom Emanuel@realtomemanuel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Many use the writings of C.S. Lewis to help make sense of J.R.R. Tolkien's beliefs. But in many ways it is the anthroposophist Owen Barfield, whose movement the Catholic Church condemned as heresy, and his writings on myth which hold the key to grasping how Tolkien understood his sub-creation.

Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introduction 🧵Owen Barfield (1898–1997) was one of the twentieth century’s most insightful writers and philosophers. His ideas informed the thinking and writing of influential authors such as C. S. #Lewis and J. R. R. #Tolkien who were fellow members of the #Inklings, an Oxford group of thinkers. /1

Owen Barfield, April 1972 in Wheaton, IL, USA. A man with a pipe in his mouth, smart dark suit, grey hair slicked back, wrinkled face, and small round glasses. He is is pointing at something to the right of frame. In the background is a white wooden building.
Owen Barfield@owenbarfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introduction 🧵Owen Barfield (1898–1997) was one of the twentieth century’s most insightful writers and philosophers. His ideas informed the thinking and writing of influential authors such as C. S. #Lewis and J. R. R. #Tolkien who were fellow members of the #Inklings, an Oxford group of thinkers. /1

Owen Barfield, April 1972 in Wheaton, IL, USA. A man with a pipe in his mouth, smart dark suit, grey hair slicked back, wrinkled face, and small round glasses. He is is pointing at something to the right of frame. In the background is a white wooden building.
Esowteric@esowteric.bsky.social · 2y ago

“The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.” ~ Owen Barfield, Worlds Apart. Image: The Art of Stating the Blindingly Obvious 1129253 [with added border] / David Lally / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Geograph) / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Photo showing a steep tarmac footpath with five steps at the far end, leading to a row of houses and bungalows. To the left of the path is a wide rectangular white sign at the top of a metal pole, that reads in block capitals: "Caution: Footpath is not suitable wheelchair or mobility scooters. The photo is aptly titled "The Art of Stating the Blindingly Obvious".