James Hillman speaks of the need for "a psychology that returns psychic reality to the
world," that restores the Renaissance cosmology of an anima mundi. In this essay, I present an
argument for an imaginal epistemology which takes as its central claim that the anima mundi is
biologically and psychologically enacted as image, pattern, metaphor, and narrative. I offer a
revisioning of selected findings within empirical psychology and biology as first steps toward
legitimating such an epistemology, and I try to suggest that dangers for self-deception implicit in an
imaginal epistemology may be met through the tools provided by poststructural critique.