ABSTRACT
Magical thought with its mythological language has its own landscape and its own reality formed through the imagination. Imagination is a key to creativity, and creativity is central to magical consciousness. When William Blake wrote in 1790 that "if the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite" in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, it inspired generations of people to explore the poetic imagination. In anthropologist quest for understanding more about the dragon, he decided to find out more about William Blake's ideas that all life existed within the Imagination. Author's route to anthropology had followed a circuitous path that led through art school and photographic work, both of which contributed to his understanding of the importance of the imagination in anthropological research on magic. The anthropologist was starting to realise how much the magical mind thinks in patterns that connect in a psychic unity.
