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“The openings require a loosening of your attention and relaxing of your intentions—you have to stop grasping at the world. You have to come to feel that nothing is literal – nothing is only what it seems on the surface. Everything has depth, breadth, and extended reference.“

Wowee…

agh!! i love this so far. Been wanting to taste more of the magic of Henry Corbin and James Hillman and the imaginal dimension but I couldn’t find a good entryway. Great primer here, posits that imagination is at the center of reality and that literalism is the root of all madness. I think? that might be too ‘literal’ of a summary 😏 associative words - pluralistic thinking, non-dual, literal-metaphor, soul.

This is a most wonderful book. I have no doubt already that it will be a book that I reread and use as an ongoing inspiration. I have been meditating for over twenty years in various traditions. These two individuals, James Hillman and Corbin and Tom Cheetham present a way of perceiving the human psyche and spirit that is practical, wise and experience based as opposed to conceptually driven