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Human ecologist & Quaker, I share on justice, environment, nonviolence & spirituality. Books include Soil and Soul, Poacher's Pilgrimage & Riders on the Storm.
Jan 13, 2023 24 tweets 8 min read
1. Given that so many of the Old Believers seem to have left or are lying low on Twitter, I might as well get on with preaching to the Remnant Reprobate Heathen. Here’s some thoughts on #imagination from Henry Corbin, the great Shī’ite/Sufi scholar at The #Sorbonne, writ 1955-56. 2. “It may also seem misplaced to speak of spirituality in a study of the Imagination. We shall try to show in what sense this Imagination is creative: because it is essentially the ACTIVE Imagination … a theophanic* Imagination.” p. 6

* God-illuminating or manifesting.