Argues for a renewed vision of the cosmos based on the centrality of the human encounter with the sacred. Green Man, Earth Angel explores the central role of imagination for understanding the place of humans in the cosmos. Tom Cheetham suggests that lives can only be completely whole if human beings come to recognize that the human and natural worlds are part of a vast living network and that the material and spiritual worlds are deeply interconnected. Central to this reimagining is an examination of the place of language in human life and art and in the worldview that the prophetic religions―Judaism, Christianity, and Islam―presuppose. If human language is experienced only as a subset of a vastly more-than-human whole, then it is not only humans who speak, but also God and the world with all its creatures. If humans’ internal poetry and creative imaginations are part of a greater conversation, then language can have the vital power to transform the human soul, and the soul of the world itself.

Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World (SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

Religion & Spirituality

Cheetham, Tom

Islam

State Univ of New York Pr

Argues for a renewed vision of the cosmos based on the centrality of the human encounter with the sacred. Green Man, Earth Angel explores the central role of imagination for understanding the place of humans in the cosmos. Tom Cheetham suggests that lives can only be completely whole if human beings come to recognize that the human and natural worlds are part of a vast living network and that the material and spiritual worlds are deeply interconnected. Central to this reimagining is an examination of the place of language in human life and art and in the worldview that the prophetic religions―Judaism, Christianity, and Islam―presuppose. If human language is experienced only as a subset of a vastly more-than-human whole, then it is not only humans who speak, but also God and the world with all its creatures. If humans’ internal poetry and creative imaginations are part of a greater conversation, then language can have the vital power to transform the human soul, and the soul of the world itself.

Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

Corbin’s work on the role of imagination in the religions and its fundamental place in human life has had a lasting and wide-ranging influence on contemporary poetry and the humanities. Among his most influential readers were the poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan and the archetypal psychologist James Hillman. Central to their common vision is the creative power of language, understood not as a human invention but as a fundamental feature of reality. This new book by philosopher, biologist, poet, and teacher Tom Cheetham provides an overview of Corbin’s “psychocosmology” and its significance for Hillman’s archetypal psychology, contemporary poetics, and spiritual practice. It will be of interest to psychotherapists, artists, poets, and anyone who has ever wondered at the mysterious power of language and the imagination to transform the human soul.

Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Spring Publications

This book explores the status of religion in the Post-Prophetic Age, especially as seen through the eyes of the French Islamic scholar Henry Corbin. In lucid and simple prose, Cheetham explores the creative role of the imagination in the formative ground of the three great Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For Corbin, engaging the soul of the world through the mediating power of the Imaginal is an act of love, a theme Cheetham expands through his analysis of such concepts as mystical poverty, contemplative knowledge, the luminosity of the earth, the theophanic vision, the Christ Angel, Incarnation, the divine sensorium, alchemical transformation, the spiritual humanism of Ivan Illich, Western iconoclasm, and the centrality of gnosis.Second, revised edition.

After Prophecy: Opening the Eyes of Fire

Spring Publications, Inc.

Corbin's work on the role of imagination in the religions and its fundamental place in human life has had a lasting and wide-ranging influence on contemporary poetry and the humanities. Among his most influential readers were the poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan and the archetypal psychologist James Hillman. Central to their common vision is the creative power of language, understood not as a human invention but as a fundamental feature of reality. This new book by philosopher, biologist, poet, and teacher Tom Cheetham provides an overview of Corbin's "psychocosmology" and its significance for Hillman's archetypal psychology, contemporary poetics, and spiritual practice. It will be of interest to psychotherapists, artists, poets, and anyone who has ever wondered at the mysterious power of language and the imagination to transform the human soul.

Imaginal Worlds: According to Corbin, Hillman, and Jung

LELOUP, JEAN-YVES

Barcellos, Gustavo

Schwarzstein, Marco André

Miranda, Punita

Crema, Roberto

The first book in English to synthesize the remarkable work of Henry Corbin, the great French philosopher, Christian theologian, and scholar of Islamic mysticism. Corbin, a colleague of C. G. Jung's at Eranos, and one themost important visionaries of the twentieth century, had a seminal influence on the development of archetypal psychology, especially through the idea of the "imaginal world." Corbin's work bridges the gap between the philosophy and theology ofthe West and the mysticism of Islam and provides a radical and unified vision of the three great monotheistic religions basedupon the Creative Imagination. One obstacle for the reader of Corbin's writings is the fact that the "Oriental" philosophy in which he came to find his home is little known. Corbin's heart lay in Iranian Shi'ism-for many people an obscure branch of a poorly understood religion. The mention of Iran or of Shi'ite Islam conjures up for too many only visions of violence and intolerance. Yet the message that Corbin brings from Iran and from Islam is potentially of such psychological and cultural importance as to make the effort of familiarizing ourselves with his work and the traditions from which it springs more than worthwhile. Second, revised editio

THE WORLD TURNED INSIDE OUT: Henry Corbin and the Angel Out Ahead

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

These informative entries examine the full range of modern separatist movements and insurgencies in the world today, including coverage of related organizations, parties, campaigns, political events, and leaders.
Acquaint yourself with the world's main ethnic separatist and unification crusades, organizations, parties, campaigns, political events, and leaders in this comprehensive reference work. Individual entries examine the full range of movements and insurgencies including Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Baluchis, South Moluccans, Berbers, New Caledonia, and more. An introductory essay defines and explains ethnic separatist and unification movements, including causes and outcomes, and a chronology places events in historical perspective.
 • An introductory essay defines and explains ethnic separatist and unification movements, including causes and outcomes
• A chronology places events in historical perspective
• Coverage is enhanced by illustrations and original maps

Encyclopedia of Modern Separatist Movements

History

Hewitt, Christopher

Historical Study & Educational Resources

ABC-CLIO

All the World an Icon is the fourth book in an informal "quartet" of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G. Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities is beginning to become clear. Cheetham's books have helped spark a renewed interest in the work of this important, creative religious thinker. Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was professor of Islamic religion at the Sorbonne in Paris and director of the department of Iranic studies at the Institut Franco-Iranien in Teheran. His wide-ranging work includes the first translations of Heidegger into French, studies in Swedenborg and Boehme, writings on the Grail and angelology, and definitive translations of Persian Islamic and Sufi texts. He introduced such seminal terms as "the imaginal realm" and "theophany" into Western thought, and his use of the Shi'ite idea of ta'wil or "spiritual interpretation" influenced psychologist James Hillman and the literary critic Harold Bloom. His books were read by a broad range of poets including Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, and his impact on American poetry, says Cheetham, has yet to be fully appreciated. His published titles in English include Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, and The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. As the religions of the Book place the divine Word at the center of creation, the importance of hermaneutics, the theory and practice of interpretation, cannot be overstated. In the theology and spirituality of Henry Corbin, the mystical heart of this tradition is to be found in the creative, active imagination; the alchemy of spiritual development is best understood as a story of the soul's search for the Lost Speech. Cheetham eloquently demonstrates Corbin's view that the living interpretation of texts, whether divine or human—or, indeed, of the world itself seen as the Text of Creation—is the primary task of spiritual life. In his first three books on Corbin, Cheetham explores different aspects of Corbin's work, but has saved for this book his final analysis of what Corbin meant by the Arabic term ta'wil—perhaps the most important concept in his entire oeuvre. "Any consideration of how Corbin's ideas were adapted by others has to begin with a clear idea of what Corbin himself intended," writes Cheetham; "his own intellectual and spiritual cosmos is already highly complex and eclectic and a knowledge of his particular philosophical project is crucial for understanding the range and implications of his work." Cheetham lays out the implications of ta'wil as well as the use of language as integral part of any artistic or spiritual practice, with the view that the creative imagination is a fundamentally linguistic phenomenon for the Abrahamic religions, and, as Corbin tells us, prayer is the supreme form of creative imagination.

All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

North Atlantic Books

These informative entries examine the full range of modern separatist movements and insurgencies in the world today, including coverage of related organizations, parties, campaigns, political events, and leaders.• An introductory essay defines and explains ethnic separatist and unification movements, including causes and outcomes• A chronology places events in historical perspective• Coverage is enhanced by illustrations and original maps

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

ABC CLIO Europe (ABC-CLIO)

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Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World (SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman

After Prophecy: Opening the Eyes of Fire

Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman

Imaginal Worlds: According to Corbin, Hillman, and Jung

THE WORLD TURNED INSIDE OUT: Henry Corbin and the Angel Out Ahead

Encyclopedia of Modern Separatist Movements

All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings

Encyclopedia of Modern Separatist Movements