In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Dennis Patrick Slattery about the poetic basis of the mind. Amongst other things we talk about teaching mythopoetics at Pacifica, Hillman, anima, poesis(making or shaping into a form), noticia, towards an aesthetic psychology, Louise Cowan, gnosis or deep knowing and staying with the image. Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is also the author of many books which include The Way of Myth, A Limbo of Shards: Essays on Memory, Myth and Metaphor, and From War to Wonder an exploration of the Odyssey.
The word for perception or sensation in Greek was aesthesis, which means at root a breathing in or taking in of the world, the gasp, ‘aha,’ the ‘uh’ of the breath in wonder, shock, amazement, an aesthetic response to the image (eidolon) presented. In ancient Greek physiology and in biblical psychology the heart was the organ of sensation: it was also the place of imagination. - James Hillman
The Poetic Basis of Mind with Dennis Patrick Slattery