We share thoughts, concepts, experiences. That beautiful sunset. The idea of love. 1+1=2. But given what is in my mind is the same as in yours, then it cannot be the product of my mind or yours. We must dwell in a shared inner life if we have an inner life. (HT: Owen Barfield)

There is an online event in honour of the republication of The Silver Trumpet being held online this Friday 8th August. For more information and to get the Zoom link to the meeting, please visit: inklingfolk.org

“A man lends 10 francs to another. There you have a relation between two persons.” Barfield highlighted this comment of Steiner’s in his essay Equity, and here Amadeus Bodie tells us its meaning for economic life: youtu.be/yRkqjVj8Osg?si…

"Really, there is no distinction between Poetry and Science, as kinds of knowing, at all. There is only a distinction between bad poetry and bad science." — Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction

Goethe's Home in Weimar, Germany

Today!

For the Barfieldians out there… Owen Barfield’s essay ‘Language, Consciousness, and the Recovery of Human Meaning’ rediscovered after four decades and published here in VII (2024): journals.wheaton.edu/index.php/vii/…

Fr David Harris has written on the Barfield blog about Heidegger and about Barfield: owenbarfield.org/haunted-by-hei…

Might seem a bit unusual to ask, but making a request for prayer for an intention connected with publication of books by Barfield. Thank you.

owenbarfield.org/barfield-news-… News of a symposium (all welcome) inspired by Barfield in London in November. News of an online reading group exploring The Rediscovery of Meaning over the coming months. And a nice review of the Silver Trumpet.

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-that…

This is an excellent more than introduction to the thought of Owen Barfield.

Hugely looking forward to this #OwenBarfield event. If you're remotely interested in his genius, and why #CSLewis and #Tolkien were in awe, do come along!

The symposium on #OwenBarfield is a week Sunday, 9th Nov, at Rudolf Steiner House, London.