"It is not numerical singularity that guarantees uniqueness; rather eachness derives from the imaginal potential, the God, in the thing."
"We can respond from the heart, reawaken the heart. In the ancient world the organ of perception was the heart. The heart was immediately connected to things via the sense. The word for perception or sensation in Greek was aisthesis, which means at root a breathing in or taking in of the world, the gasp, "aha," the "uh" of the breath in wonder, shock, amazement, an aesthetic response to the image (eidolon) presented. In ancient Greek physiology and in Biblical psychology the heart was the organ of sensation: it was also the place of imagination. The common sense (sensus comunis) was lodged in and around the heart and its role was to apprehend images. Sensing the world and imagining the world are not divided in the aesthetic response of the heart as in our later psychologies derived from Scholastics, Cartesians, and British empiricists. Their notions abetted the murder of the world's soul by cutting apart the heart's natural activity into sensing facts on one side and intuiting fantasies on the other, leaving us images without bodies and bodies without images, an immaterial subjective imagination severed from an extended world of dead objective facts. But the heart's way of perceiving is both a sensing and an imagining: to sense penetratingly we must imagine, and to imagine accurately we must sense. "
-James Hillman, Anima Mundi
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