Contemplating “what if we could learn as much from inner visions as from texts” Ann McCoy drew Dream of the Invisible College. “This inner world as a source of wisdom has always been an obsession of mine.” McCoy has spent her career bringing her subconscious musings, dreams and visions to the forefront in her deeply mystical art works. “The idea for the Invisible College came from an emblematic illustration, by the same title. This 1618 work by Theophilus Schweighardt. Frances Yates in her book The Rosicrucian Enlightenment identifies this as the “Invisible College of the Rosy Cross.” The Invisible College has been described as a precursor group to the Royal Society of London. This college mentioned in Rosicrucian Manifestos, is linked to alchemists like Robert Fludd, Michael Meier, Francis Bacon and John Dee, and a document of mysterious origins called The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz. I liked the idea of a college that studied numinosum, invisible forces, alchemical imagination, and dreams.”