Henry Corbin's Poetic Fabric of Reality - Dr. Tom Cheetham, Author - DS Pod #269

Dr. Tom Cheetham is a naturalist, poet, and author who has spent
the last few decades of his life engrossed in the work of Henry
Corbin, who inspired a century of studies of the unconscious
mind. Corbin’s aim was to understand the line that cut across the
mystic traditions of the world, in the hopes of finding something
that was the universal ground of being. To that end, he searched
for answers in the work of everyone from Continental
philosophers, to the medieval gnostics, to the Persian mystics
and honed in on something he called the “imaginal realm,”
inhabited by angels who guide their human charges towards a life
of meaning and profundity. We talk with Cheetham about the nature
of inspiration, the universal ground of experience, the search
for truth, and the visionary power of psychedelic experiences
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Eranos conferences (00:22:21) Poetry as undefinable revelations
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