Peter Samsel is an independent scholar with wide-ranging interests in traditional metaphysics, symbolism, science, and art.He holds a doctorate in theoretical physics and is the author of articles and review essays in Parabola, Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies, and Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity. His article, A Unity with Distinctions: Parallels in the Thought of Gregory Palamas and Ibn al-Arabi, appears in the volume Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East, edited by James S. Cutsinger, which is part of World Wisdom s Perennial Philosophy series.An articl...