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Tag: Sufism
The Holy Birthing 2014
This post is an updated version of a post from Christmas 2013: What is it that is born, again and again - on Christmas day and in each new life, and in each moment of everyday? Perhaps it is symbolic of another ongoing kind of birth - the birth that brings renewal throughout our lifetime …
The Names of God
In reading Henry Corbin's book, Alone with the Alone, I am being introduced to Sufism in the writings of Ibn Arabi. I can feel its influence seeping into the layers of my being, radiating with joy for yet one more way to understand the nature of myself and the Cosmos. Tom Cheetham says in a …
The Holy Birthing
If Christmas is about a birthday, and the Holy birthday of the Christ child, what is it that is trying to be born in the repeating of this holiday each year? Why do we celebrate birthdays or Christmas? What does the ritual want with us? What is it that is born, again and again - on …
Ta’wil and the Ideas of Henry Corbin
"Ta’wil, the archetypal act of hermeneutics, that primary human activity overseen by Hermes who carries messages between the gods and mortals, is life lived at its highest pitch of intensity. It is the archaic and primordial experience of enacting meaning in the world. It is life lived in the full blaze of reality." Tom Cheetham …
Theoria 