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	Owen Barfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Owen Barfield (November 9, 1898–December 14, 1997) was a British philosopher, author, poet, and critic.
		Barfield began a lifelong study of the work and thought of Rudolf Steiner, also in the 1920s, and many of his earlier essays were published in anthroposophical publications.
		It is a fictional dialogue between a physicist, a biologist, a psychiatrist, a lawyer-philologist, a linguistic analyst, a theologian, a retired Waldorf School teacher, and a young man employed at a rocket research station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Owen_Barfield (810 words)

	Owen Barfield
		Owen Barfield, a close friend of C. Lewis, was a philosopher and writer at heart.
		Barfield begins the novel with an introductory chapter on the relationship between Burgeon (his creative, moral self) and Burden (his grasping, manipulative self); once introduced, we follow the two through eight chapter-length vignettes which deal with legal situations that Burgeon finds increasingly intolerable.
		Barfield seems to have achieved his goal of reestablishing equilibrium; Burgeon returns to the solicitor’s office obediently, while Burden, no longer living up to his name, must be rehabilitated by being made “to hew the wood of simplicity and draw the water of imagination” (144).
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/ralston24.htm (1319 words)

	Remembering Owen Barfield, Writing Human Consciousness
		Owen Barfield: The Evolution of Consciousness is an extensive collection of notes by Stephen L. Talbott on Barfield's philosophy.
		One of the elements of Barfield's thought that may be most fascinating to some, most upsetting to others, is alluded to in Owen Barfield's Heresy: The Two Jesus Boys.
		Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis by Owen Barfield
	anitra.net /books/philosophy/barfield.html (710 words)

	The Evolution of Consciousness - Owen Barfield
		Owen Barfield was born in London in 1898, produced his first scholarly book (History in English Words) in 1926, published the decisively important Poetic Diction in 1928, and, by his own testimony, has continued saying much the same thing ever since.
		Barfield is identified, above all else, with his numerous characterizations of the evolution of consciousness.
		Barfield was a member of the Inklings, an informal literary group that included C. Lewis, J. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /barfield.htm (8818 words)

	Touchstone Archives: The Uncertain Legacy of Owen Barfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In typically generous fashion, Barfield replied with comments on Schmemann’s book that showed his engagement with it, commending the Orthodox theologian’s “painstaking coalescence of the three concepts, participation, symbol and sacrament.” Barfield, raised in an agnostic family, was baptized and became a member of the Church of England only in late middle age.
		Barfield once said that the contrast between his faith and Lewis’s could be summarized by Barfield’s belief that man’s destiny is to become a free spiritual being, to which Lewis replied that he was not born to be free, but to obey and to adore.
		Barfield insisted that the main lines of his thought about the evolution of consciousness were laid down before he began to read Steiner or joined the Anthroposophic Society.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=11-03-036-b (2013 words)

	Lapis Magazine Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Barfield's belief in language as an archaeological record of "the evolution of consciousness", and as a means of translogical insight, was as at odds with the reigning Zeitgeist as you could get.
		Barfield, taking physics at its word, and drawing on the epistemological theories of Coleridge and Goethe-with a large helping of Rudolf Steiner-went in the opposite direction, towards a "participatory universe", in which human consciousness, far from being a "ghost in the machine", is master of ceremonies.
		Sitting in Barfield's living room, looking at the rows of books by his friends-T S Eliot, Charles Williams, J R R Tolkien, and, of course, Lewis-I was glad for once to be in the presence of a flesh and blood wise old man, and not only a psychic archetype.
	www.lapismagazine.org /archives/L03/lachman.html (3026 words)

	Owen Barfield's Interpretation of Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Barfield speaks of his "poetic" interpretation of Myth, he is thinking of a time, way, way, way, prior to the Classical Greeks and Rome and indeed way prior to the Ancient Civilizations of the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, and Indus River Valleys.
		Barfield is correct, we are in contact with the mental workings of the earliest humanity that we could identify as human.
		Barfield's statement is an example of the very real results of distinct and predictable social-cultural process which is the topic of this appendix.
	www.usca.edu /math/~mathdept/hsg/OwenBarfieldIntepretMythV67.html (11388 words)

	Owen Barfield: First and Last Inklings - George B. Tennyson
		Barfield is one of the most original and penetrating thinkers of our time, known to a smaller but highly discriminating and dedicated readership.
		The story of the friendship of Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis is the story of their individual geniuses and, by anticipation and implication, the story of the group arising from the friendship known as the Oxford Inklings.
		The story of their long friendship is also a fitting way to introduce to a wider public the thought and career of Owen Barfield.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1990/april/Sa16955.htm (348 words)

	Owen Barfield and Technological Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If you're familiar with the range and conceptual difficulty of Owen Barfield's thought, and if you go on to read some of his lectures, you can hardly help sensing the frustration he must have felt in adapting himself to the limitations of a single hour.
		To begin with, I would have claimed that Barfield's notion of polarity is the pivot on which all understanding of the technological society must swing.
		To embrace the concrete world in Barfield's sense, on the other hand, is to accept its qualities -- for example, the skin color of the person you are speaking with -- but not to stop there.
	www.praxagora.com /stevet/papers/barfield.html (2133 words)

	Amazon.com: Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (Wesleyan Paperback): Books: Owen Barfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Barfield supposed, further, that what may be prosaic to the author may still have a "poetic" effect on the reader, i.e., expanding the reader's awareness of the world.
		Moreover, so many of the basic approaches that Barfield takes to this subject are unmistakeably characteristic of an earlier generation of scholarship-- his attempt to outline a metahistory of language from so-called 'primitive' times to the present for example, is something no contemporary scholar would be so naive as to do.
		Mr Barfield, by the most lucid use of words, describes the differences between poetic and aesthetic, the idea and profundities of metaphor, the reality of translation, (that exact translation does not exist, as an extention of the difference between definition and meaning), etc. etc.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/081956026X?v=glance (2283 words)

	How I Was Brought to Discover Owen Barfield. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Barfield's understanding of science, along with a solid understanding of the history of language and words, no doubt helps him stay well grounded and hence valuable and contemporary.
		It was Barfield who helped me most to fathom the deceptiveneness of science by seeing that when metaphors become crystallized and abstract, cut off from their roots in consciousness, and forgotten by their creators, they become idols.
		Barfield's insights into the deep structure of metaphors as the real engine of a given language's history are only now being studied in laboratories dedicated to mapping language functions in the human brain.
	www.usca.edu /math/~mathdept/hsg/barfield.html (2144 words)

	OWEN BARFIELD: The Journey of the Soul through Western Consciousness
		Barfield's answer involves his bedazzling notion of the evolution of consciousness and the changed -- and changing -- nature of language.
		It is as if the culture was not ready for Barfield, and would not be ready until the most revolutionary thinkers of the time had done their work upon it.
		The analogy between poetic perception and active thinking is clear: The spiritual meaning which is dormant in things does not achieve being but for the creative activity of the perceiver. A significant measure of that creative activity is linguistic and poetic.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /43/mcclure.htm (2471 words)

	Lewis, Tolkien and Barfield explore reincarnation and theosophy
		Barfield was Lewis's legal and financial advisor, and became an executor of his estate.
		Barfield as the Second Friend, the one who never fails to challenge one and prod one to new understanding.
		"Barfield, raised in an agnostic family, was baptized and became a member of the Church of England only in late middle age.
	www.crossroad.to /Quotes/spirituality/tolkien-lewis.htm (1710 words)

	Amazon.de: Saving the Appearances: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In this study, Owen Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.
		Barfield preps the reader with the philosophical puzzles of perception, but then goes way beyond perceptual psychology.
		Barfield pays close attention to the history of human languages, specifically the phenomena of change of meaning in words through time.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/081956205X (683 words)

	UPNE \| A Barfield Reader
		Barfield’s explorations of ‘participation’ and ‘imagination’ in the 20th century can b thought of as the first of many Steps To An Ecology of Mind (G. Bateson) and a guide to the kinds of consciousness humans will need to survive the next century.” – Charles Keil, author of Urban Blues
		OWEN BARFIELD was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century, the man whose writings have won praise from figures as diverse as T.S. Eliot and Saul Bellow, Walter de la Mare and Howard Nemeroc, W. Auden and Marshall McLuhan.
		Barfield was a writer who gained a discriminating and dedicated readership on both sides of the Atlantic, but especially in the United States.
	www.upne.com /0-8195-6351-X.html (352 words)

	The Nature Institute - Owen Barfield: The Evolution of Consciousness
		I have already quoted his remark that "the full meanings of words are flashing, iridescent shapes like flames—ever-flickering vestiges of the slowly evolving consciousness beneath them." History in English Words is one of the relatively few attempts in our language to tell the history of peoples as revealed in these flickering word-shapes.
		The idea that the earliest languages were "born literal"—exhibiting purely material meanings that were subsequently extended to the immaterial through metaphor—is confused and self-contradictory.
		Our own use of metaphor is made possible by the fact that this unity has fallen apart; it is no longer given, but must be grasped consciously—as it is whenever we apprehend an inner meaning shining through an exterior "vehicle" and construct a metaphor to convey this insight.
	www.natureinstitute.org /about/who/barfield.htm (5179 words)

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		Lindisfarne Press, 1985 (1953) Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning.
		Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.
		It is recommended that the first paper focus primarily on Emerson (perhaps with Goethe), and the second primarily on Barfield (or perhaps with Coleridge, Goethe, or Steiner).
	www.ciis.edu /students/syllabisp05/PARP6208.doc (565 words)

	Steve Scroggins - Genealogy - Owen Barfield descendants
		Georgia Barfield Childs of Ideal, were held at the Sanford Edwards residence in County Line Community at which place her death occurred Saturday morning, the services being held Sunday, August 8th with the Rev. E.
		Born February 26, 1874 the daughter of the late Owen and Amanda Taunton Barfield, Mrs.
		Mood Barfield, both of Butler, one brother, Buddy Barfield of Butler; twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
	members.fortunecity.com /steve_scroggins/Gen-Barfield-Owen.htm (585 words)

	Alfred North Whitehead, Rudolf Steiner and Owen Barfield—a Conversation
		I think that where Steiner and Barfield depart most strongly from metaphysical thought in general, is by their insistence that thought is primary, and although it is obvious, existentially speaking, that ‘being’ must come before thinking, it is the exact opposite where cognition is concerned; i.e.
		And it is this same fact that brings Steiner and Barfield into opposition both with conventional religion and with science as it now exists, because neither, despite centuries of trying, was able to solve the epistemological riddle in the clear manner that Steiner has done in his
		For both Steiner and for Barfield thought is the ‘inside’ of nature, and so every bit as natural as the outside that our senses experience.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /41/cruse.htm (3585 words)

	Psybertron Asks » Owen Barfield’s Poetic Diction
		Just read Barfield’s Poetic Diction, originally published in 1928, when he was 30.
		This Weslyan University Press edition has a 1973 Foreword by Howard Nemerov, as well as an original 1928 Preface, and 1952 Preface and a 1972 Afterword all by Barfield.
		I can see why people recommended I look at Barfield after Pirsig, Northrop and Lakoff.
	www.psybertron.org /?p=538 (835 words)

	Lindisfarne Books - Books by Owen Barfield
		Owen Barfield (1898—1997), the British philosopher and critic, has been called the “First and Last Inkling,” because of his influence and enduring role in the group known as the Oxford Inklings.
		It was Barfield who first advanced the ideas about language, myth, and belief that became identified with the thinking and art of the Inklings.
		He is the author of numerous books, including Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning; Romanticism Comes of Age; Unancestoral Voice; History in English Words; and Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960s.
	www.lindisfarne.org /author.html?au=701 (127 words)

	Discovery Institute
		IF THE said ALEXANDER BARFIELD shall die before me or within six months of my death his wife the said MARGARITA de BARFIELD shall take the share of my Residuary Estate which he would have taken had he survived so long.
		I ARTHUR OWEN BARFIELD of the Walhatch Forest Row East Sussex RH18 5AW DECLARE this to be the First Codicil to my Will dated the Sixteenth day of July One thousand nine hundred and ninety four ('my will')
		SIGNED by the said ARTHUR OWEN BARFIELD as a First Codicil to his Will dated 16th July 1994 in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
	www.discovery.org /cslewis/articles/writingspblcdmn/barfield.php (828 words)

	Amazon.com: History in English Words: Books: Owen Barfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For anyone who wants to chart the change in human thought through the evolution of the currency of that thought - then this book is both tutor and inspiration.
		Escape from the dull mill of Chomsky into the dazzling bakery of Barfield.
		Whether you wish to understand old literature - revive and practice an ancient belief system or mystery - or even would you plumb the thinking of your ancestors or perhaps yourself in a previous lifetime then let this recent and blessed "Dead Guy" be at your elbow.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940262118?v=glance (967 words)

	List of Reviewed Books
		Barfield, Owen, History, Guilt, and Habit, Wesleyan, 1979 Barfield, Owen, Owen Barfield on C. Lewis, Wesleyan, 1989
		Barfield, Owen, Poetic Diction, Wesleyan University Press, 1973 Barfield, Owen, Rediscovery of Meaning, Wesleyan Press, 1977 Barfield, Owen, Romanticism Comes of Age, Wesleyan Press, 1966 Barfield, Owen, Saving the Appearances, Wesleyan, 1965
		Barfield, Owen, Worlds Apart, Wesleyan, 1963 Bates, Brian, The Way of the Actor, Shambhala, 1987
	www.antroposofi.org /matherne/booklist.htm (2453 words)

	SEVEN: Back Issues
		Volume 15 (Owen Barfield and C S Lewis Centenary Issue)
		Remembrances of Lucy Barfield, Rev. Peter Bide, George Every, and Kathryn Lindskoog.
		"Charles Williams and Owen Barfield: Common (and Uncommon) Ground" by Stephen Dunning
	www.sayers.org.uk /seven-back.html (1774 words)

	Daerons Books - The Inklings
		Other important authors who contributed considerably to English Literature like Nevill Coghill, Owen Barfield, Charles Wrenn, J.A.W. Bennett, etc. were also occasional members.
		Membership was variable and so it is difficult to be definite about who can be called a member.
		Rudolf Steiner Press, 1982, second edition, paperback, fine, very slightest creasing near spine, introduction by Owen Barfield who often contributed to Rudolf Steiner studies,
	www.daerons.co.uk /inklings.html (1031 words)

	Find in a Library: Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis
		Find in a Library: Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis
		by Owen Barfield; C S Lewis; G B Tennyson
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/761f2320ee09cb3ba19afeb4da09e526.html (69 words)

	A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield - Price Comparison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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