THE IMAGINAL

HENRY CORBIN

Henry Corbin → MUNDUS IMAGINALIS.

The imaginal is used here as a third territory between:

SENSORY REALITY

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MUNDUS IMAGINALIS

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RATIONAL / CONCEPTUAL REALITY.

QUESTIONS

What if imagination is not an escape from reality but another mode of encountering reality?

CPPM MATERIAL TO TEST

Search existing material for:

• images that produce knowledge;
• dreams;
• visions;
• symbolic thinking;
• altered perception;
• myth;
• archetype;
• imagination;
• projection;
• hallucination-like theatrical states;
• ritual imagery;
• non-literal meaning;
• embodied fantasy;
• the more-than-human.

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

• Ephia Gburek;
• Joseph Beuys;
• dream practices;
• ritual performance;
• Voodoo Child if present;
• Minor Keys if relevant;
• visual dramaturgy;
• mythological or sacred material;
• animal / non-human embodiment;
• surrealism or metamorphosis.

SAFEGUARD

Do not interpret every fictional image as mystical. Connect only where imagination functions as a genuine mode of perception, transformation or knowledge.