![]() Lachman notes that Barfield based these ideas on poems and language, but Berman drew heavily on paintings and visual representations as well. And this affected how they carried out their everyday lives. Everything was filled with God, including the air and the “space” between people, so essentially everything touched everything else. For example, they didn’t see the world as consisting of mostly “empty space” as we moderns have been taught to think - rather for them there was no “empty space” at all. That is, they thought differently - it wasn’t just that the content of their thoughts was different. Anyway, the idea is that the medievals had a profoundly different understanding of the world than do the moderns. Berman’s argument was similar to the one that Lachman presents here, but I think it may have been based partly on Barfield’s ideas and perhaps it was in Berman’s book that I came across Barfield before. Many years ago I read a book called The Reenchantment of the World by Morris Berman that profoundly influenced me long before I read any of this other stuff (I think it was first published in 1981). I will look his work up and perhaps figure that out. Some interesting discussion of Jung and I have come across this Barfield before, although I cannot remember in what context now.
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