Noel Cobb (21 March 1938 in

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, USA – 2 January 2015, England) Philosopher, psychologist and author Noel Cobb lived and studied in

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from 1959 to 1966 and made many friends there. Among them

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and

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. He published numerous books of poetry and non-fiction. He worked with

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, studied various forms of

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, became a

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analyst, and founded a charitable trust, "The London Convivium for Archetypal Studies". He is the author of "Prospero's Island: The Secret Alchemy at the Heart of The Tempest". In

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, he was integrated into a radical cultural environment and took a degree in psychology. However, he was expelled from Norway because of his experimentation with

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— this despite his having fathered a child there. After returning to England he worked as general manager at R. D. Laing experimental clinic for

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s in

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, where Axel Jensen also stayed one year. Later he studied

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an language,

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, therapy and meditation in

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and

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. In 1981 he opened a private practice as a

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in England. From 1987 he led "The London Convivium for Archetypal Studies". Noel started the

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"Sphinx: A Journal of Archetypal Psychology and the Arts", where he published many articles.

Bibliography

* 1984, Prospero's Island – the Secret Alchemy at the Heart of the Tempest, (Coventure, London) * 1992, Archetypal Imagination – Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art, (Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, New York) * 1994, Kunsten og Sjelen, (Aschehoug Forlag, Oslo, Norway) – Translation of A, I. Into Norwegian * 1997, Sofferanza e Belleza, (Milan, Moretti & Vitali) – Edited for Eva Loewe * 1998, Maestri di Anima, (Milan, Moretti & Vitali)

References

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