"...the Imagination (or love, or sympathy, or any other sentiment) induces knowledge, and knowledge of an 'object' which is proper to it..."
Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was a scholar, philosopher and theologian. He was a champion of the transformative power of the Imagination and of the transcendent reality of the individual in a world threatened by totalitarianisms of all kinds. One of the 20th century’s most prolific scholars of Islamic mysticism, Corbin was Professor of Islam & Islamic Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Teheran. He was a major figure at the Eranos Conferences in Switzerland. He introduced the concept of the mundus imaginalis into contemporary thought. His work has provided a foundation for archetypal psychology as developed by James Hillman and influenced countless poets and artists worldwide. But Corbin’s central project was to provide a framework for understanding the unity of the religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. His great work Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi is a classic initiatory text of visionary spirituality that transcends the tragic divisions among the three great monotheisms. Corbin’s life was devoted to the struggle to free the religious imagination from fundamentalisms of every kind. His work marks a watershed in our understanding of the religions of the West and makes a profound contribution to the study of the place of the imagination in human life.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Summer Online Corbin Course


After Prophecy
Henry Corbin & the Angel Out Ahead

with

Tom Cheetham
8 Week OnLine Class
Tuesdays, May 14 — July 2 2019
3pm New York Time



TO REGISTER CONTACT tcheetham@gmail.com






3rd in a series introducing the work of Henry Corbin. 
This course can be taken with no prerequisite. 
We meet once a week for approximately 2 ½ hours.
All sessions are recorded and available for download by registered students. 
Tuition for the course is $300, or $40 per session.
"Scholarships" are available for those in need. 


Reading

"Mundus Imaginalis or the Imaginary and the Imaginal" 
The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism

& selections from 

Temple and Contemplation 
Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis

Texts are available as pdf files free of charge through links I will provide.  
There will be a weekly Newsletter with notes and reference material. 



Tom Cheetham, PhD, is a biologist, philosopher and poet. He is the author of five books on the imagination in psychology, religion and the arts, most recently Imaginal Love (2015), and a book of poems, Boundary Violations (2015). He compiled the bibliography of archetypal psychology for James Hillman’s Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account and is editor of volume 11 of the Uniform Edition of Hillman's works, On Depression (forthcoming). He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London and teaches and lectures regularly in Europe and the US.
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