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September 9, 2021

III. The Heart

Opening the Imaginal Heart

The heart as a subtle organ of perception

Theoretical focus

Corbin and the mundus imaginalis
James Hillman and the Thought of the Heart
The heart as a perceiving center distinct from intellect and emotion
Imaginal knowing beyond metaphor or fantasy

Practical focus

Practices for sensing, listening, and seeing from the heart
Entering imaginal space through affect, image, and presence
Deepening relationship with inner figures through the heart
Guided imaginal journeys centered on heart-perception

"... we are bereft in our culture of an adequate philosophy and psychology of the heart, and therefore also of the imagination. Our hearts cannot apprehend that they are imaginatively thinking hearts because we have been so long told that the mind thinks and the heart feel and that imagination leads us astray from both" - James Hillman

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Suggested Sources:

Litterature:

James Hillman. “The Thought of the Heart”
Richard Avens “The New Gnosis”
Henri Corbin “Alone with the Alone; Creative Imagination in the work of Ibn Arabi”

Videos:

Pir Zia Imayat Khan: “Turning Toward the Heart”