Chance Garton, the wonderful host of the InnerVerse Podcast, kindly invited me to participate in a truly rich and deep conversation on The Lord of the Rings. We began by discussing my book Journal to the Imaginal Realm, and soon expanded into innumerable Tolkienian subjects, delving into the First Age of Arda, the cosmogonic music of the Ainulindalë, Tolkien’s notion of sub-creation and how it relates to Coleridge’s ideas of the Primary and Secondary Imagination, and many other such enticing subjects.
The first hour of our conversation is available publicly, and can be accessed through the InnerVerse website or listened to directly below. In the first hour, we discussed the source of the human imagination, the Atlantis myth as told in Middle-earth, the parallels between the Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien, and the means by which great stories are able to immerse us in an enchanted otherworld.
The second hour is available to Patreon supporters of InnerVerse, and I must say it is well worth subscribing to hear the places our conversation took us (as well as to have access to all the other wonderful episodes in the InnerVerse archive!) In the second hour, Chance and I explored Tolkien’s use of Venusian symbolism, the archetype of the syzygy of Solar and Lunar, Tolkien’s critique of industrialization, the enigmatic character of Tom Bombadil, as well as wading into the difference between polarity and binary, Solar feminine and Lunar masculine, and of course the essential topic of ecological crisis and our relationship to the Earth.
To listen to the first hour: Journey to the Imaginal Realm: Archetypes in The Lord of the Rings
To listen to the second hour: InnerVerse on Patreon
As Chance said: “Get ready for an unexpected journey!”
Becca Tarnas 
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Innerverse is a beautiful expression. Similar to what the poet Rainer Maria Rilke calls the „Weltinnenraum“, the inner space of the world 🙂 The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien come from that deeper place of pure consciousness and cosmic intelligence. Every single thing in the universe is an aspect of „the One Field of Consciousness“. Our true Self is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind.