The Metaphor Society
Where metaphor, mind and meaning meet.
Brain change via direct access to the non-dominant hemisphere, exploring the human experience through talks, discussion, scholarship and direct enquiry.
Explore and participate
Member activities
Decoding the symbolic architecture of the unconscious mind through shared enquiry and conversation.
01 · Gather
Live Talks and Discussions
Join presentations and conversations exploring metaphor from therapeutic, academic, symbolic and cultural perspectives.
02 · Revisit
Recording Archive
Members can revisit previous Society presentations through our growing collection of webinar recordings.
03 · Discover
Articles and Explorations
Discover essays, word histories, symbolic analyses and introductions to important thinkers and theories.
Continue the conversation
Join the Metaphor Society community on WhatsApp.
Language beneath language
Metaphor is more than a figure of speech.
We speak of feeling stuck, carrying a burden, reaching a crossroads, building barriers, losing direction or finding a way forward. These are not merely decorative expressions. They reveal how experience is organised through images of space, movement, force, position and relationship.
The Society explores these hidden structures across psychology, therapy, language, embodied cognition, mythology, art, symbolism, storytelling and culture.
Metaphor gives visible form to structures of experience that might otherwise remain unseen.
A shared archive of dreaming
Enter The Dream Section
Explore nocturnal worlds, strange encounters, recurring landscapes and the imagery through which the dreaming mind speaks. Read dreams shared by others, offer thoughtful reflections or contribute a dream of your own.
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Join, learn and explore
Enter a community for people interested in how metaphor and symbolic thought shape human experience.
Membership
Learn, question, discuss and connect with others who share an interest in metaphor and symbolic thought.
- Live online meetings
- Presentation recordings
- Member discussions
- Articles and resources
- Interdisciplinary community
- Professional connections
From the Archive
Our growing archive brings together presentations on metaphor, language, psychology, symbolism, culture and the many ways human beings represent experience.
Each presentation offers a different route into the subject, drawing on established scholarship and original exploration.
The changing mind
Psyche & Plasticity
The science, technology, art and culture of changing minds.
Explore the extraordinary capacity of the human mind to change. Psyche & Plasticity brings together contemporary neuroscience, altered states, transformative technologies, visionary culture and the thinkers who challenged our assumptions about consciousness.
From John C. Lilly, Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson to neuroplasticity, flotation-REST, light-and-sound machines and modern brain-stimulation research.
