Ariak4s

“By giving objective body to intentions of the heart (himma,
W6V1.111a1S), this creativity fulfils the first aspect of its function.
This aspect comprises a large number of phenomena designated
today as extrasensory perception, telepathy, visions of syn-
chronicity, etc. Here Ibn Arabi contributes his personal testi-
mony. In his autobiography ( Risiilat al-Quds), he tells how he
was able to evoke the spirit of his shaikh, Yusuf al-Kumi, when-
ever he needed his help, and how Yusuf regularly appeared to
him, to help him and answer his questions. Sadruddin Qunyawi,
the disciple whom Ibn Arabi instructed in Qunya, also speaks
of his gift: "Our shaikh Ibn Arabi had the power to meet the
spirit of any Prophet or Saint departed from this world, either
by making him descend to the level of this world and contem-
plating him in an apparitional body ( surat mithaliya ) similar to
the sensible form of his person, or by making him appear in his
dreams, or by unbinding himself from his material body to rise
to meet the spirit.”
― Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi