Dr. Tom Cheetham is a naturalist, poet, and author who has spent the last few decades of his life engrossed in the work of Henry Corbin, who inspired a century of studies of the unconscious mind. Corbin’s aim was to understand the line that cut across the mystic traditions of the world, in the hopes of finding something that was the universal ground of being. To that end, he searched for answers in the work of everyone from Continental philosophers, to the medieval gnostics, to the Persian mystics and honed in on something he called the “imaginal realm,” inhabited by angels who guide their human charges towards a life of meaning and profundity. We talk with Cheetham about the nature of inspiration, the universal ground of experience, the search for truth, and the visionary power of psychedelic experiences Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ Check out 00:00 Go! 00:08:46 Cheetham's road to Corbin 00:13:17 Eranos conferences 00:22:21 Poetry as undefinable revelations 00:38:20 Interpretation of visions 00:58:24 Needing a handbook for visions 01:06:37 Escaping death 01:15:26 True open-mindedness can be dangerous 01:26:28 Need to plant cap T truth flags 01:31:28 Conquest & western psychology 01:42:19 UFO hits the NYTimes & opens up esotericism 01:52:30 Abductees & Mack 02:08:16 Psychdelic breaks & burden of the self 02:32:44 Wave equation for a symphony 02:47:45 Search for shared reality #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #HenriCorbin, #ComparativeReligion, #Mysticism, #Gnosticism, #Hermeneutics, #Psychedelics, #Consciousness, #PhilosophyOfMind, #SpiritualityAndScience, #ImaginationAndReality, #ModernMysticism, #AngelologyAndUFOs, #JungianPsychology, #PoeticBasisOfMind, #ExploringConsciousness Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671