Robert Bly gives a delicate and lively view of the fantastic flowering of feeling and thought developed from the Arabic, Gnostic, and Albigensian sources that flowered in the famous love poetry of 12th Century Provence. In this recording, Bly distinguishes between the literal mode, the psychological mode, and the mythological mode, and locates the “Amor” or ecstatic love in the latter, which led to Sufism among the Arabs. Bly’s recitation of Provencal poetry brings to awareness the terrible loss we suffered when these traditions were uprooted and destroyed. The full download is available at BetterListen.com https://www.betterlisten.com/products/the-educated-heart-by-robert-bly