Gormenghast Trilogy; Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Charles Williams’ supernatural
thrillers, C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy. Poems? John Keats’ “The Eve of St Agnes”,
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Spencer’s Faerie Queen.
Q8. Tapping into an eternal and universal stream of vision. ... I feel awe and
admiration when I read excellent writing – the boundless powers of human
imagination never cease to amaze and inspire me.
Q9. Practicing shaman for about three years.
Q10. No serious childhood illnesses.
Q11. All.
Q12. The satisfaction is in knowing that one has been faithful to the vision (which
exists independently) and that one is ‘soul fed’ by it.
To be the vehicle of a new mythology is the greatest gift.
Q13. Maureen responded: I n reading good mythopoeic writing, one is tapping into
the ‘primal sympathy’ (Wordsworth), and into what Jung calls the collective
unconscious as the realm of myth, both experiences which transcend personal
consciousness.
Q14. Maureen believes that the reader-writer relationship is reciprocal; you have
to actively put something into the reading experience, preferably your own ‘active
imagination’ in order to meet the writer halfway. Otherwise it is simply passive
entertainment. This leads to Q15 in that no the reader is not part of the writer’s
fantasy but there is a common mental receptive state.
Q17. Home is a sacred space where I can surround myself with sacred objects,
natural treasures and art that keep me connected to the vaster realm of Nature and
Art. My imaginal Home – which my soul always yearns for – is Andemar, my spiral
galaxy, which I know in detail and am more comfortable in than in any place on
Earth. Andemar is my primary reality; Earth secondary.
Q18. Maureen suggested that ... places affect us all in different ways according to
temperament and typology (Jung’s four functions and introvert/ extravert polarity).
The extravert finds identity in place as a space in which to achieve and relate to
others; the introvert finds what the space means privately to him/ her on the inner
plane.
Q19. Maureen named the fictional places in the literature of Lindsay, Dunsany,
Peake and Tolkien and stated that all are equally believable, unique in atmosphere,
internally consistent, imaginatively vast in scope, concrete, evocative of the sublime
and transcendent as it is incarnate intangible, imaginal reality.
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(Ron)
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