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"imaginal" coined by Henry Corbin "mystics since time immemorial have been visiting places that are immaterial, yet totally real." – guess this is the crux of his belief. Coleridge, Jung ... "were united by a conviction that at least some of the images we see in visions, dreams, and fabulations are Things in the horror-genre sense of the term. That is, they are beings in a world of beings. Our world is not limited to matter as com- monly understood."

Early pioneers: Freud, before him Humphrey Davey with nitrous. Coleridge, de Quincey, Romanticism. Got into cannabis era (early 20th century) and beginning of psychedelic era.

He's making an argument against technology, in part by resurrecting older ones (Luddites, Blake, the Lunar Society romantics like Coleridge and Wordsworth).

poem by Coleridge, dear to my heart because my father used to recite it around the house, and so I have had it memorized from a young age.

Coleridge: subjective imagination vs primary imagination (latter is as real as the physical world). Sufi mundum ? More reality when you see the thistle an old man. Eh.

I too have memorized Coleridge's Kubla Khan thanks to my father's habit of reciting it.

I am sure that two very different meanings if not more lurk in the word, One. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge

18 Mar 2023 - 05 Jul 2023

I have a special relationship since my father used to recite Xanadu and so I have it memorized from childhood.

It is among the miseries of the present age that it recognizes no medium between literal and metaphorical. – The Statesman's Manual (PC p388)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- England’s Most Underrated Political Philosopher | National Review

As Cheyne observes, the effect of these books “was so impressive that John Stuart Mill named Coleridge as one of the two great British philosophers of the age — the other being Jeremy Bentham, Coleridge’s polar opposite.”