We regret having to sell copies of a flawed book for such an outrageous price; we’d like to publish a massmarket edition affordable by all — but if Harper & Row ever find out what we’re doing, we’ll need that money for court costs and lawye…If this paper emanates from PCF sources, as we believe, it indicates the poor quality of original research carried out by the enemies of Sohrawardi and the GFP, and may explain the PCF's relative lack of progress in the field (especially co…One of the few books mentioned by title in the Catalogue of the Inst. of Chaos Studies & Imaginal Yoga (see #9 in this list). The "mundus imaginalis", also called the World of Archetypes or the "Isthmus" (Arabic, barzakh), lies in-between t…
Ibn Arabi
philosopher · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Ibn Arabi appears only as a passing reference in the course readings, cited in a discussion of the "mundus imaginalis" or imaginal realm—a concept positioned between divine and material worlds that connects to medieval Islamic metaphysics. The readings invoke his ideas to theorize intermediate or ontologically ambiguous spaces, relevant to the seminar's interest in how systems architecture (whether mystical or computational) structures reality across multiple registers. This suggests the course is drawing on non-Western philosophical traditions to expand how we think about layered, hierarchical systems beyond Western cybernetics.
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