Forty-Four Mystical Insights into the Fantasy Books J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield (e-book)

This is the second book in the Mystical Vision of the Inklings series, following Eleven Hidden Gems in the Works of the Inklings: the Music of Iluvatar in the Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield, published in 2022.

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It is written for readers who instinctively sense that Tolkien, Lewis, and Barfield were doing far more than telling stories or defending Christianity — they were training us how to see.

This book will help you recover a way of seeing the world that modern life quietly teaches us to forget.

Not by explanation.
Not by argument.
But by vision.

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As G.K. Chesterton wrote:

“The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything… Like the sun at noonday, mysticism explains everything else by the blaze of its own victorious invisibility.”

Mysticism is that noonday sun. You cannot stare directly at it — but once you stand in its light, everything else begins to make sense.

What You Will Discover Inside

This book invites you to rediscover your capacity to see through appearances — to pierce the veil of everyday reality and encounter the deeper realm of Meaning that the Inklings believed lies behind the world we see.

Through forty-four carefully crafted reflections, you will:

• Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, and Barfield understood Faërie not as escapism, but as true reality

• Recognize why modern people often see everything yet perceive nothing

• Understand why Faërie cannot be forced, argued, or proven — only sensed and received

• Discover how joy, beauty, and longing function as signals from another realm

• Recover the forgotten art of contemplative reading and seeing

You will revisit Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major, in which entrance into Faërie depends not on permission but on willingness to see.

You will encounter Lewis’s haunting image in The Last Battle, where the dwarves remain imprisoned not by walls but by their refusal to believe what stands right before them.

“Their prison is only in their own mind… yet they are in that prison.”

This book helps you recognize where such prisons still operate — quietly, invisibly — in your own way of seeing.

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How This Book Is Different

This is not an academic study.
It is not literary criticism in the usual sense.

It is a visionary meditation, inspired by Tolkien, Lewis, and Owen Barfield, written to be read slowly, attentively, and reflectively.

Each chapter is accompanied by an Art Nouveau illustration, chosen to deepen atmosphere rather than explain ideas. The book is designed to be entered, not skimmed — to draw you into a contemplative state where insight arises naturally.

What You May Experience

Readers often report:

• A renewed sense of wonder and attentiveness

• Moments of quiet recognition: “I’ve felt this before, but never had words for it.”

• A deepened appreciation of Tolkien, Lewis, and Barfield beyond plot or doctrine

• A gentle but persistent invitation to see the world differently

Faërie will not force itself upon you.
It never has.

But it continues to call — through beauty, joy, and longing.
This book is meant to help you hear that call again.

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