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WORKSHOP by Tom Cheetham: Imaginal Love

One way to see imaginal love is the 'sense of total immersion in the full range of being, that is common to the peoples of non-technological cultures, to artists and to mystics'. They share a heightened awareness of the uniqueness of the individual thing which "commands a focus on the singularity of the object to such a degree that everything seems at once marvelous, strange, familiar and unexpected. No category can exhaust such an object; it saturates the perceiving subject." The artist shares a focus on the individual object with the ordinary man, "but for him the object has become incandescent. He is perpetually recovering his primitivism."

The experience of the "satured object" and the need for a perpetual recovery of the full range of our experience of the world occupy a central place in the account of the imagination that will be developed in this workshop. We will expand our exploration by considering various understandings of creative imagination in the works of Henry Corbin, C.G. Jung, and James Hillman. Our aim will be to recapture the reality of our world through as expansive and active an exercise of the imagination as possible.

Tom Cheetham, Ph.D, is a biologist and philosopher and the author of four books on the imagination and the meaning of Henry Corbin's work for the contemporary world. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London and Adjunct Professor of Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. He lectures frequently in Europe and the US.

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All mental health professionals will receive 6 CE's for participating in this event.
Location: Westminster College. The Dick Science building, Room 102. Check the map here - http://www.westminstercollege.edu/campus_map/
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Price does NOT include lunch.

Discounts are available for Jung Society of Utah members - http://jungutah.com/member.html
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