Well, Mark, in this case I agree with every word you say! The fana you describe would be the emotional experience of the opening up to the ’alam al-mithal, which clearly is beyond the ego's little regime.
I can't take credit for the dialect/language metaphor--that's Ananda Coomaraswamy.
[Editing back in to add: I don’t have the slightest idea if what I said would make sense to a sufi. Only that it strikes me that surrender of the ego and discovery of the imagination as Ibn ‘Arabi meant it would have to be closely related.]
Last edited by Andrew Frisardi; 02-01-2009 at 06:15 AM.
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