Psychedelic Gnosis and the Imaginal Double with Laurence Caruana
For episode two, we welcome Laurence Caruana, one of the leading figures in the European visionary art world. We discuss the ontology of dreams, Henry Corbin, ayahuasca visions, the language of images, Jesus in the Nag Hammadi Library, the ascent of the soul at death, and Laurence’s plan for an Apocryphon Chapel based on the ancient gnostic scriptures.
Laurence Caruana is a visionary artist, novelist, historian, and teacher. His paintings have been exhibited from Seattle to Hungary. Laurence has written several books, including Enter through the Image: The Ancient Image Language of Myth, Art, and Dreams, the novel The Hidden Passion, and most recently Sacred Codes, an exploration of sacred geometry and imagination in the history of art. He founded and directed the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art from 2013-2020, and is now working on the Apocryphon Chapel, the first such chapel to be modeled on the ancient Gnostic scriptures.
Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, Alone with the Alone
Elliott Wolfson, Through a Speculum that Shines, A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream
Charles Stang, Our Divine Double.