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Continue reading →: alchemy as hieratic art, from henry corbin
link: http://www.aaroncheak.com/alchemy-as-a-hieratic-art I would like to thank Aaron Cheak for this wonderful translation from Henry Corbin. The selections get to the heart of Corbin’s understanding of alchemy. It resonates with the process of concrescence in Alfred North Whitehead. It breaks from any materialism and from any spiritualism. It seeks what Roland…
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Continue reading →: eugene minkowski, vers une cosmologie
If, after having fixed before the mind’s eye the primitive form, we ask ourselves the question of knowing how this form comes into being and fills itself with life, we discover a new category—dynamic and vital, a new property of the universe: to reverberate. It is as if a spring…
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Continue reading →: rubem alves, tomorrow’s child, 106.
Imagination is not an instrument of clairvoyance made for revealing the secrets of the future or of another world. It is a mirror. The impossible it reflects is the impossible that is actually lived. The secret of utopias is thus the reality from which they grow.
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Continue reading →: gaston bachelard, poetics of space, 6.
Thought and experience are not the only things that sanction human values. The values that belong to daydreaming mark humanity in its depths. Daydreaming even has a privilege of autovalorization. It derives direct pleasure from its own being.
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Continue reading →: quote from alfred north whitehead, aims of education
You may not divide the seamless coat of learning. What education has to impart is an intimate sense for the power of ideas, for the beauty of ideas, and for the structure of ideas, together with a particular body of knowledge which has peculiar reference to the life of the…
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Continue reading →: quote from henry corbin’s theophanies and mirrors: idols or icons?
Thus, the ambiguity of the Image comes from the fact that it can be either an idol (Gr. eidolon) or an icon (Gr. eikon). It is an idol when it fixes the viewer’s vision on itself. Then it is opaque, without transparency, and remains at the level of that from…
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Continue reading →: imagination, conception and the unimaginable in schoenberg’s moses und aron
A lot of my thinking and writing is on the role or epistemological function of the imagination, that which allows us to perceive the world around us, and able to feel without experiencing, structuring a possible world from what we see before us. Imagination does something with what we perceive…
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Continue reading →: beyond the bifurcation of the imagination
Reading Amy Kind and Peter Kung’s magnificent edited work Knowledge Through Imagination, and am thinking through it’s implications. For Kind/Kung, their goal in the text is to lift up the instructive implications of the imagination over and beyond the transcendent capabilities. The problem with the transcendent capabilities of the imagination is…
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Continue reading →: a selection from henry corbin’s the jasmine of fedeli d’amore
I am in the middle of writing my chapter on Imagination and the space of multiplicity, when I found this wonderful piece of translation and interpretation by Corbin, and had to add it here for rememberance. Here it goes: “Seek Me in the Mystical Abode of Love “ But, whoever…
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Continue reading →: glimpses of breakages
As quiet as I am, as often times I may accept status quo, I’m anarchic. I fight, inwardly, on how to break free, to respond to questions that some have said is not possible, too hard. And in my own writing I am trying to break free from the move…
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