The ishrāqī institute Facebook group
The ishrāqī institute has a new (private) Facebook group for folk interested in the work and “invisible college” of Iain McGilchrist (The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World), Henry Corbin (imaginal world), Tom Cheetham (The World Turned Inside Out; Green Man, Earth Angel; All the World an Icon; Imaginal Love), James Hillman (Re-visioning Psychology), Peter Kingsley (Reality; Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity), Gary Lachman (Lost Knowledge of the Imagination; The Secret Teachers of the Western World), Carl Jung (active imagination; individuation), et al.
Of particular, core interest to the ishrāqī institute is traditional wisdom, not only of the East but especially the lost knowledge and traditions of the West, such as the pre-Socratic philosophers, Neoplatonism, the Renaissance, Romanticism, and a return to imagination, depth and soul.
According to Steingass’s dictionary, in Persian ishrāq means “Rising (of the sun); sun-rise, morning; splendour, lustre, and beauty” and ishrāqī means “Of or pertaining to sun-rise; eastern, oriental; having the splendour of the East.” It also has links to the philosopher Suhrawardī, who founded the Persian school of Illuminationism which is a school of philosophy (and way of being) that flowered in Islam and draws upon Zoroastrian and Platonic ideas. Here, “Oriental” refers not to the geographical East but (according to Henry Corbin), to the mystical, Celestial Orient, the heavenly Pole.
You can find the ishrāqī institute group here.
Of particular, core interest to the ishrāqī institute is traditional wisdom, not only of the East but especially the lost knowledge and traditions of the West, such as the pre-Socratic philosophers, Neoplatonism, the Renaissance, Romanticism, and a return to imagination, depth and soul.
According to Steingass’s dictionary, in Persian ishrāq means “Rising (of the sun); sun-rise, morning; splendour, lustre, and beauty” and ishrāqī means “Of or pertaining to sun-rise; eastern, oriental; having the splendour of the East.” It also has links to the philosopher Suhrawardī, who founded the Persian school of Illuminationism which is a school of philosophy (and way of being) that flowered in Islam and draws upon Zoroastrian and Platonic ideas. Here, “Oriental” refers not to the geographical East but (according to Henry Corbin), to the mystical, Celestial Orient, the heavenly Pole.
You can find the ishrāqī institute group here.
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