Daimonic Reality
Book description
Lake monsters, Yetis, UFOs, crop circles, guardian angels and visions of the Virgin Mary can all be described as apparitions, and this book weaves together an account of them. It argues that only in the last three centuries or so, and only in Western culture, they're as lively as ever.…
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1 author picked Daimonic Reality as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Contemporary thought surrounding the supernatural has become rigid, mired in demands for “proof” like photographs and video recordings.
These phenomena rarely offer anything so compelling. Their genesis lies more in imagination than the material world, straddling the line between both. To better understand what might be going on, this rigid thinking must be broken.
Few books do that as elegantly as Patrick Harpur’s Daimonic Reality. Drawing upon Classical philosophy and Jungian psychology, Harpur obliterates the usual traps of distinction we rely upon: internal versus external, objective versus subjective.
While Harpur’s interpretation remains speculative, anyone with an open mind will find…
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