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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807302203321

Autore

Cheetham Tom

Titolo

Green man, earth angel : the prophetic tradition and the battle for the soul of the world / / Tom Cheetham ; foreword by Robert Sardello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2005

ISBN

0-7914-8415-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions

Disciplina

200/.1/9

Soggetti

Spirituality - Psychology

Mysticism - Islam

Psychoanalysis and religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Green Man, Earth Angel""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. “We Are Now in Heaven�""; ""2. Consuming Passions""; ""3. Black Light""; ""4. Within This Darkness""; ""5. Harmonia Abrahamica""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

Green Man, Earth Angel explores the central role of imagination for understanding the place of humans in the cosmos. Tom Cheetham suggests that lives can only be completely whole if human beings come to recognize that the human and natural worlds are part of a vast living network and that the material and spiritual worlds are deeply interconnected. Central to this reimagining is an examination of the place of language in human life and art and in the worldview that the prophetic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—presuppose. If human language is experienced only as a subset of a vastly more-than-human whole, then it is not only humans who speak, but also God and the world with all its creatures. If humans' internal poetry and creative imaginations are part of a greater conversation, then language can have the vital power to transform the human soul, and the soul of the world itself.