Dr. Angela Voss and I discuss “A Methodology of the Imagination,” transformative learning, magical and divinatory ways of knowing, balancing the rational and the intuitive, scholarship as initiation, the personal daimon and the daimonic, and Marsilio Ficino’s astrological music therapy.

Dr. Angela Voss is Programme Director for the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred at Canterbury Christ Church University. Previously she was the Director of the MA in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination at Kent. As a graduate student, she was introduced to the writing of the Renaissance philosopher, musician and astrologer, Marsilio Ficino, and became thoroughly immersed in the world of 15th-17th century music and philosophy, then decided to embark on a PhD to explore Ficino’s astrological music therapy - her dissertation was titled: 'Music, Astrology and Magic: the astrological music therapy of Marsilio Ficino and his role as a Renaissance Magus’. She has published numerous papers on Ficino, as well as an edited collection of his astrological writings for North Atlantic Books, Western Esoteric Masters series, and is the author and editor of several other books, including Seeing with Different Eyes: Essays on Astrology and Divination, The Imaginal Cosmos: Astrology, Divination, and the Sacred, Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence, and Re-enchanting the Academy. Angela is now moving deeper into the territory of symbolism and the imaginal, exploring statue-magic, the spiritual dimensions of music, and past-life therapy, ancient Greek mysteries and the metaphysics of divination. She is engaged in creating a framework for the MA within Transformative Learning, linking esoteric and wisdom traditions with soul-work and consciousness raising within the academy.

-- Notes --Dr. Voss on Academia - http://canterbury.academia.edu/AngelaVoss

Myth, Cosmology, and the Sacred MA - https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/courses/postgraduate/myth-cosmology-and-the-sacred-19-20.aspx

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