Imaginal Love

Cranz’s project in “phenomenological hermeneutics” is an attempt to reclaim an experience of the psyche that was consciously articulated by Aristotle.

an image is not a picture – it may have little or no visual component, and manifests as a psychosomatic event.

Knowledge, whether granted freely via Revelation or gained with the cooperation of human intellect, is a result of illumination from above, not the culmination of a process of abstraction, deduction, or induction from the “data” of sense perception.

It presumes and mirrors one of the fundamental dichotomies that characterizes the Western rationalist world view ‒ that between thought and things.

Hence, the opposite of idolatry would not consist in breaking idols, in practicing a fierce iconoclasm aimed against every inner or external Image; it would rather consist in rendering the idol transparent to the light invested in it.

What has to go is the overwhelming sense of personal significance that comes with anima,

This twelfth-century reorientation is the foundation of the modern sense of a self alienated in the world and trapped in a system of merely human meanings.

become conscious of all the feeling-toned complexes that generally orchestrate the moods and experiences of our daily lives.

the creative and active Imagination. It is the exercise of this faculty, conceived not as a merely human attribute but as continuous with the creative power of the world, that provides the means by which the intensive self can escape from its prison and enter that wider, more-than-human world.