What is the Source of Creative Genius? with Eric Wargo

What is the Source of Creative Genius? with Eric Wargo

Eric Wargo, PhD, an anthropologist, is author of Time Loops, Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages From Your Future, From Nowhere: Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination, Becoming Timefaring: Time Travel & the Human Future, and most recently Where Was It Before the Dream? His website is https://www.thenightshirt.com/

In this interview he focuses on the creative works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Franz Kafka. He suggests that their creative genius often stems from a precognitive anticipation of their own lives, and particularly how their individual works will impact themselves in later life.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:57 Reductionist literary criticism
00:09:09 Time loops in literature
00:20:16 Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan
00:27:23 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
00:35:45 J. R. Tolkien’s Hobbit
00:44:02 Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Trial
00:58:16 Einstein’s debate with Henri Bergson
01:03:05 The story of Caedmon
01:06:45 Conclusion

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(Recorded on May 3, 2025)

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