Date/Time
Date(s) - 25th October, 2025
14:00 - 17:00
Location
October Gallery
Categories
An afternoon seminar with the Beshara Trust.
Full details online here.
In the modern world, imagination is often regarded as a private possession, as if a creative person has more of it than a more prosaic soul. This contracted understanding can be traced back to the understanding of the mind developed by philosophers like John Locke.
But another account of the imagination is available to us through figures like William Blake, who understood that imagination is not something we possess but is, rather, the very activity of our being and all beings. “Nature is imagination itself!” he declared – also realising that imagination is divine.
So how can Blake help us participate in this wider flow and link us back to figures like Ibn ‘Arabi for whom the imagination was the transcendent known immanently, and so foster a renewed connection with the active presence called God? These questions and others will be explored during this seminar with presentation and discussion.