Tom Bray
@tombray.bsky.social
“Call the world if you please ‘The vale of Soul-making’. Then you will find out the use of the world.” — Keats
My English teacher in high school once told me, “Never underestimate the power of metaphor.” Henry Corbin takes that idea all the way.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My English teacher in high school once told me, “Never underestimate the power of metaphor.” Henry Corbin takes that idea all the way.
…can evolve to allow richer and broader communication between the two components on either side of the interface they share. I connect this concept to Corbin’s idea of “angels on the left” communicating with “angels on the right”. I imagine a fractal nesting of these component-interface triplets.
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
…can evolve to allow richer and broader communication between the two components on either side of the interface they share. I connect this concept to Corbin’s idea of “angels on the left” communicating with “angels on the right”. I imagine a fractal nesting of these component-interface triplets.
Henry Corbin via All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Henry Corbin via All the World an Icon by Tom Cheetham
This statement that “these always eventually burst” is super interesting to me. “Always be bursting” would be a good motto for the universe to avoid getting trapped in local maxima.
June 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This statement that “these always eventually burst” is super interesting to me. “Always be bursting” would be a good motto for the universe to avoid getting trapped in local maxima.
Love it. Claude does too
June 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Love it. Claude does too
Just a Sunday morning convo with Claude about slime molds, the Tower of Babel, and élan vital.
June 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a Sunday morning convo with Claude about slime molds, the Tower of Babel, and élan vital.
“Soul could be reclaimed from soulful places out there filled with God-given beauty, as if soul were given to us automatically…
It is less given and more made-made through our work with it in the actual world by making that actual world reflect the soul's need for beauty.”
It is less given and more made-made through our work with it in the actual world by making that actual world reflect the soul's need for beauty.”
March 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Soul could be reclaimed from soulful places out there filled with God-given beauty, as if soul were given to us automatically…
It is less given and more made-made through our work with it in the actual world by making that actual world reflect the soul's need for beauty.”
It is less given and more made-made through our work with it in the actual world by making that actual world reflect the soul's need for beauty.”
March 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Around the 1:18 mark in the above video Tim refers to a passage in Plato’s Timaeus about the winnowing basket. Edinger connects the alchemical symbolism of separatio to the same passage here. (Cool little synchronicity for me as I took a break from reading to listen.)
@footnotes2plato.substack.com
@footnotes2plato.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Around the 1:18 mark in the above video Tim refers to a passage in Plato’s Timaeus about the winnowing basket. Edinger connects the alchemical symbolism of separatio to the same passage here. (Cool little synchronicity for me as I took a break from reading to listen.)
@footnotes2plato.substack.com
@footnotes2plato.substack.com
“true philosophers make dying their profession”
— Plato, via Edinger’s Anatomy of the Psyche
— Plato, via Edinger’s Anatomy of the Psyche
March 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“true philosophers make dying their profession”
— Plato, via Edinger’s Anatomy of the Psyche
— Plato, via Edinger’s Anatomy of the Psyche
Which reminds me of this passage from C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet
March 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Which reminds me of this passage from C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet
“Reason, which gives people a standpoint outside their personal likes and dislikes, becomes an indispensable agent of sublimatio by teaching them how to be reflective spectators of them-selves. Schopenhauer puts it beautifully:”
March 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Reason, which gives people a standpoint outside their personal likes and dislikes, becomes an indispensable agent of sublimatio by teaching them how to be reflective spectators of them-selves. Schopenhauer puts it beautifully:”
Love the concept of “fragmentary autonomous systems” here from James Hillman and Jung.
Sounds compatible with agentic patterns à la @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
#jameshillman #jung
Sounds compatible with agentic patterns à la @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
#jameshillman #jung
March 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Love the concept of “fragmentary autonomous systems” here from James Hillman and Jung.
Sounds compatible with agentic patterns à la @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
#jameshillman #jung
Sounds compatible with agentic patterns à la @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
#jameshillman #jung
TIL about Hillman’s concept of polytheistic psychology and I’m so here for it.
From A Blue Fire
#jameshillman #booksky
From A Blue Fire
#jameshillman #booksky
March 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
TIL about Hillman’s concept of polytheistic psychology and I’m so here for it.
From A Blue Fire
#jameshillman #booksky
From A Blue Fire
#jameshillman #booksky
“From the traditional psychology (of Neoplato-nism), ego-consciousness does not deserve the name of consciousness at all.”
#jameshillman #booksky
#jameshillman #booksky
March 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“From the traditional psychology (of Neoplato-nism), ego-consciousness does not deserve the name of consciousness at all.”
#jameshillman #booksky
#jameshillman #booksky
(1/2) This passage from Plato’s Timaeus (via Edinger’s book on alchemical symbolism in psychotherapy) has me thinking about a recent conversation between @footnotes2plato.substack.com and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
If patterns are agentic, I would expect to see…
If patterns are agentic, I would expect to see…
March 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
(1/2) This passage from Plato’s Timaeus (via Edinger’s book on alchemical symbolism in psychotherapy) has me thinking about a recent conversation between @footnotes2plato.substack.com and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
If patterns are agentic, I would expect to see…
If patterns are agentic, I would expect to see…
February 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Thomas Moore on James Hillman
February 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Thomas Moore on James Hillman
Hold on to the thread.
February 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hold on to the thread.
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social Perhaps a musical variant of the body-as-scratchpad idea might be body-as-sounding-board.
Not only does the music play the band, it creates/evolves the instruments to amplify its sound.
Not only does the music play the band, it creates/evolves the instruments to amplify its sound.
February 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social Perhaps a musical variant of the body-as-scratchpad idea might be body-as-sounding-board.
Not only does the music play the band, it creates/evolves the instruments to amplify its sound.
Not only does the music play the band, it creates/evolves the instruments to amplify its sound.
Here’s another cool passage from that book
February 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here’s another cool passage from that book
