Parapsychology, Eclecticism, and Politics Third, it is very much worth underlining that Corbin’s understanding of the imaginal assumed the presence of parapsychological phenomena. This is evident in his repeated and rather matter-of-fact treatment of clairvoyance, mind reading, telepathy, synchronicity, photisms, and even materialization and a kind of apport or manifested object in the life and teachings of the great Islamic mystical philosopher Ibn ‘Arabī.