269 - John Vervaeke - After Socrates
The Symbolic World
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Is There a Difference Between the Imaginal and the Ritual?
The notion of the imaginal has been controversial in in orthodox circles because of the ascetic practice of his acasm and his acasm. There's a sense in which the imaginal space becomes a dangerous space like it's an intermediary that has to be crossed in order to reach higher space. The church full of all these paintings and drawings and images like it really is represents a cosmic image, he says. He believes there is room in Christianity for this notion of a positive vision of this intermediary world or "imaginal space"
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