Metaphysical Thoughts and Visions

Exploring Mysticism and Parapsychology. This blog is also an attempt to promote awareness of a Modern Universal Paradigm known as Multi-Dimensional Science. It offers a "Scientific" Methodology for a more "objective" understanding of claimed Psychic and Spiritual Phenomena. A link to this subject should be found on this page or alternatively it can be found easily via a word search.Please note that the Internet articles here may not always reflect the views of the Blogger.

Saturday 13 August 2016

The Imaginal World

The following comes from the splendid Kheper site/ Blogger Ref http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science

Centrum naturae, by Jacob Boehme, a symbolic representation of the Imaginal World

Centrum naturae - Jacob Boehme

from

The Legacy of Henry Corbin - The Battle for the Soul of the World

The term "Imaginal" was coined by

Henry Corbin and is a central element in esoteric Islamic. The Collective Unconscious of Jung is equivalent. The Imaginal s the subtle or intermediate world between the Gross physical and the pure spiritual realms. It can be accessed through inner Gnosis and

sacred symbols.
Recently I have become a lot more interested in

the Imaginal world and its relation to mythopoesis and popular culture. Fiction has to provide a mythos of something not here, a way of entering vicariously into the other world, i.e. the Imaginal world (the imaginal enacted indirectly via mythopoesis, role playing, etc, as opposed to direct gnostic insight).
Imaginal esotericism and metaphysics represents a very different yet perfectly complementary and equally authentic approach to nonduality; one being in the realm of higher (rather than gross) form and subtle and sacred symbols, the other in the Suchness beyond all being, and hence it can only be called just this, just this. However both can be reconciled at the noetic level; for example the Buddhist concept of Trikaya would seem to incorporate both. Ultuimately that is what the Integral Realisation means, to include all aspects of being.
In accessing the gnostic, imaginal heart of each spiritual tradition and teaching, the rational mind, which on spiritual matters is a bad master, then becomes a beautiful servant .

Introduction The Imaginal Realm in Islamic Esotericism
The Esoteric Philosophy of Henry Corbin (from Wikipedia)
Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal by Henri Corbin

Mythopoesis In The Modern World (my essay on SEM)