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All the World an IconAn Introduction to the Thought of Henry Corbin
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An Online Coursewith Tom Cheetham
We meet once a week for 8 weeks in either of two sections:
Section 1: Tuesdays 7pm GMT, (12pm EST)Begins January 8, 2019- for those in Europe -
Section 2: Wednesdays 2pm GMT, (7pm EST)Begins January 9, 2019- for those in W. Hemisphere -
Register or inquire about details by contacting me directly: tcheetham@gmail.com
Please register before January 1, 2019.
Suggested Tuition: $50 per 90-minute live class session$400 for the course.*Sliding scale: No one will be turned away because of inability to pay.*Recordings of the live classes will be available for all registered students.
Classes will be via Zoom online meeting host.

Neo-Orientalism and the Study of Islamic Philosophy: An Interview with Professor Mohammed Rustom 
Mohammed Rustom and Soroosh ShahriariJournal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (May 2018), pp. 112-119 
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/... 

I'm going to offer some online classes beginning in January 2019 - not through an accredited institution, but simply online via Zoom or some other such platform. I will make the tuition voluntary and ask people to pay what they feel they can afford per session. Class size will be limited to no more than 10 or 12. I have three topics in mind as of now:

An Introduction to Henry CorbinAn Introduction to James HillmanAn Introduction to Psychoecology
Classes will be recorded and made available to those whose time zone makes real-time attendance difficult.

Anyone with interest should contact me via email:
tcheetham@gmail.com

‘I have never understood a single poem’: Chi Tran Interviews Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
"I think all time is simultaneous, so that remembering is more of a creative process, and so imagination plays a larger role in our perception of reality."

SEPTEMBER, 2018The Houston Jung Center
The Poetic Basis of Mind: An Introduction to Archetypal Psychology
Note: Tom Cheetham will teach this class remotely. Technology will allow for discussion between Dr. Cheetham and his students.

Archetypal psychology is closely associated with the work of James Hillman. Departing from foundations in Freudian and Jungian thought, it moves in a different air: more Mediterranean, polytheistic, and exhibiting conscious parallels with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies in its dissolution of literalisms and essentialisms. It provides a psychology of soul where anima is located primarily in the world and secondarily in the human person. It is more than a psychology and functions as a form of life for which metaphor and imagination are primary constituents of the world and the poetic basis of mind and nature is fundamental.

This course is available to live-stream, attend in person, or take in the combination that best suits you.

Registrants will be emailed viewing instructions prior to the event. Please contact Mary Oleyar at moleyar@junghouston.org or 713-524-8253 ext. 23 with any questions.


Member Pricing: $125.00Non-member Pricing: $135.00Dates: Sep 5-26, 5:45pm-7:15pmREGISTER ONLINE HERE
SYLLABUS

who chose this cover?
Here is a passage from Henry Corbin;  “Le paradoxe du monothèisme,” in Le Paradoxe du Monothèisme. Paris: Ed. de l'Herne (Le Livre de Poche), 1981, 69-70.

I think this is my translation, I really don't remember:

This pre-eminence of visionary clairvoyance may even render us clairvoyant regarding a prophetic symbol that André Neher in his book entitled The Exile of the Word [1] urges us to understand in an entirely different manner: before the two statues on the southern façade of the Strasburg Cathedral, he writes, more than one Christian has been struck by the fascinating beauty of the Synagoga, of this surprisingly young woman: a band over her eyes prevents her from seeing, and she has most certainly heard nothing and hears nothing, as she pursues a dream whose silence speaks volumes more than the eloquent expression of the Ecclesia. The band over the young woman's eyes alerts us that her vision is beyond vision. So emphatic is the certitude of this visionary clairvoyance that it made its presence felt to a German poet, a Christian and theologian of our times. André Neher reports his testimony. The poet Albrecht Goes believed that in a metaphysical dimension the Synagoga was not only more beautiful but also more truthful than the exoteric Ecclesia. Which prompts him to declare: Sie ist's, die sieht :"It is She who sees."

Monday of Pentecost
7 June 1976

[1] André Neher, L’Exile de la Parole, Paris, Le Seuil, 1970, p. 50.

I never found a place to put this little passage. So here it is. Along with the illustrations that I sought out some years ago. Synagoga and Ecclesia from Strasbourg...

Meet Supercontinent Pangaea Proxima—in 250 Million YearsOur maps show how Earth's mountains collide and oceans swirl as a new landmass takes shape.BY MATTHEW W. CHWASTYK

All life on Earth, in one staggering chart

Source

from Geographica 7B.C.E.-23C.E.