Join noted scholar of the imaginal, Tom Cheetham, for a close, guided reading of Alone with the Alone (originally published as Creative Imagination in the Works of Ibn’Arabi), and explore how an understanding of the imaginative world of the Sufis can open up our senses to a radically transformed reality. 

Henry Corbin and C.G. Jung shared a vision of the central importance of the imagination. Corbin was a key figure at the Eranos Conferences for thirty years. But diving into one of Corbin’s volumes can be a daunting, confusing task. Join noted scholar of the imaginal, Tom Cheetham, for a close, guided reading of Alone with the Alone (originally published as Creative Imagination in the Works of Ibn’Arabi), and explore how an understanding of the imaginative world of the Sufis can open up our senses to a radically transformed reality.



Instructor: Tom Cheetham
Eight Tuesdays, September 15 - November 17
(no class September 22 or October 6)
3 - 5 pm CST
$310 ($280 Jung Center Members)
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Tom Cheetham, PhD, is the author of five books on the imagination in religion, psychology and the arts, and one book of poems. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London, Adjunct Professor of Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic, and former Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at Wilson College. He compiled the bibliography of archetypal psychology for James Hillman’s Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account and is editor of Volume 11 of the Uniform Edition of Hillman's works, On Depression (forthcoming). He teaches and lectures regularly in the US and Europe.