William Arkle was a painter, a philosopher, and a deeply original spiritual thinker and teacher. Here, he presents his vision of the human condition, and of what it means to be children of God in this world.

"among the half dozen most remarkable men I have ever met ... a true mystic and visionary" - Colin Wilson

"the most recent representative of a lineage of Romantic authors and artists that could include Blake, Coleridge, Owen Barfield, CS Lewis and Tolkien in England; Goethe, Novalis and Rudolf Steiner in Germany; and Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman in the United States." - Bruce G Charlton

This new edition of A Geography of Consciousness features William Arkle's "Letter From A Father," as well as a new Introduction by Arkle scholar Bruce G Charlton.