Awakening the World Beyond Sight: Barfield’s Mystical Vision in The Silver Trumpet
The life of the image should be none other than the life of imagination. Owen Barfield
With the new Barfield Press edition of The Silver Trumpet coming out in 2025, I thought I’d collect some of my older reflections on Owen Barfield’s 1925 fairy tale that wonderfully captures some of his most difficult philosophical ideas from his other works, especially Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry,
The life of the image shoul…
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