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Philip Pullman Meets Iain McGilchrist - The Meaning of Life
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Is There a Difference Between Fantasy and Imagination?
I was particularly interested in, perhaps I can mention this, the writings of words within courage on imagination. To them, fantasy turned you away from reality and just clothed it in something prefabricated that came from somewhere else in experience. Now that is the magic that we are talking about. And if I wanted to use the word magic, I would do it very much circumscribed by this idea that it is, we are referring to a creative power that is utterly revealed. It is quite essential for contacting reality, but it is not reducible to a technique or to a fantasy and there is no way to do a deceit. That's voices. Exactly.
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