MEDICINE, MYSTICISM AND MYTHOLOGY : Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture

Author: Malcolm Peet

Publisher: The Swedenborg Society

Foreword: Robert Rix

Date of Publication: 2018

Place of Publication: London, UK

Pages: 464

Dimensions: 195 x 235 mm

Language: English

Cover/Book Design: Stephen McNeilly

ISBN: 978-0-85448-205-4

£12.95

Description

Malcolm Peet’s Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture explores the life and cultural milieu of the nineteenth-century Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99), whose largely forgotten influence touched a diverse range of intellectual fields and social reform movements. In the early chapters, Peet offers a brief biographical sketch of Wilkinson and a concise history of Swedenborg’s reception in England, touching on the involvement of such figures as John Clowes, Robert Hindmarsh, Manoah Sibly, Ebenezer Sibly and Charles Augustus Tulk.

Subsequent chapters go on to explore Wilkinson’s early role in publishing the poetry of William Blake; his dealings with Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson; his lifelong friendship with Henry James, Sr; his association with Daniel Dunglas Home, Thomas Lake Harris and Andrew Jackson Davis; his homoeopathic practice and its influence on James Tyler Kent; and his engagement with such causes as utopian socialism, environmentalism, women’s suffrage, antivivisectionism and the deregulation of medicine. The book concludes with a broader study of Wilkinson’s interest in mythology, psychology and Christian spiritualism.

 

Author bio

MALCOLM PEET is a retired Consultant Psychiatrist and was Honorary Professor in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield until 2017. Internationally recognized for his research on the relationship between nutrition and mental well-being, Malcolm also holds a Master’s Degree in Western Esotericism. Since his retirement from clinical practice, Malcolm’s intellectual focus has been on spirituality, particularly that of Emanuel Swedenborg and his followers.

Additional information

Weight 0.84 kg
Dimensions 23.5 × 19.5 × 3.0 cm

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