Soul Spelunker: Beyond The Mountain Of Qaf


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In his classic essay, Mundus Imaginalis, Henry Corbin attempts to articulate the distinction between the imaginal and the imaginary. This distinction has been necessary for discussion since Western scholars took a turn towards Averroism in the twelfth century. At this fork in the Western philosophical road, the acceptance of aspects of Averroes’ philosophy, particularly his cosmology, over that of Avicenna, led to the disparagement of imagination even down to our day and age.

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