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Ancient Philosophy Mystery and Magic
Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105018238308 |
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More specifically, he traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into the world of Islam. "Highly polemical new book ... The thesis is argued with immense learning." "Times Higher Education Supplement".
Ancient Philosophy Mystery and Magic
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Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Pythagoras and Pythagorean school |
ISBN | : 1383005591 |
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This study brings to light new evidence about ancient Pythagoreanism and its influence on Plato, as it reconstructs the esoteric transmission of Pythagorean ideas from ancient Greece, to the alchemists and magicians of Egypt, to the world of Islam.
REALITY New 2020 Edition
Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publsiher | : Catafalque Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1999638425 |
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REALITY introduces us to the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies right at the roots of western philosophy, science and civilization.
Magic and Mystery in Tibet
Author | : Madame Alexandra David-Neel |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2012-04-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780486119441 |
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A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Magic Mystery and Science
Author | : Dan Burton,David Grandy |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0253216567 |
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"[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality—one that cancels out physical disintegration and death—figures into science at some fundamental level. Einstein found solace in his theory of relativity, which suggested to him that events are ever-present in the space-time continuum. When his friend Michele Besso passed on shortly before his own death, he wrote: 'For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.'" —from Magic, Mystery, and Science The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed light on what was dark to our understanding. Nor have the occult arts disappeared. We humans have a need for mystery and a sense of the infinite. Magic, Mystery, and Science presents the occult as a "third stream" of belief, as important to the shaping of Western civilization as Greek rationalism or Judeo-Christianity. The occult seeks explanations in a world that is living and intelligent—quite unlike the one supposed by science. By taking these beliefs seriously, while keeping an eye on science, this book aims to capture some of the power of the occult. Readers will discover that the occult has a long history that reaches back to Babylonia and ancient Egypt. It proceeds alongside, and frequently mingles with, religion and science. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to New Age beliefs, from Plato to Adolf Hitler, occult ways of knowing have been used—and hideously abused—to explain a world that still tempts us with the knowledge of its dark secrets.
Parmenides and Empedocles
Author | : Parmenides,,Empedocles, |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781725229600 |
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Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poets of the ancient world. But their work is rarely treated and still more rarely translated in its original form--as poetry. The complete extant fragments of Parmenides and Empedocles are collected here for the first time in a translation responsive to the original verse texts. Parmenides' philosophical fragments are here given as the poetic remains of the thinker from Elea in Southern Italy whom Socrates wondered at and Plato held in awe. What emerges from the poetry is at once an uncompromising vision of absolute Being and a compassionate understanding of the human cosmos: It is the body grows to Mind. All men desire the same thing, apprehend the same The plenum is thought, and thought preponderates. The poetry of Empedocles--reincarnationist, naturalist, cosmologist, religious leader, physiologist, and a metaphysician--is presented here in the personal idiom of the fifth-century Sicilian who has been called the last of the Greek shamans: I have already been A bush and a bird A boy and a girl A mute fish in the sea.
In the Dark Places of Wisdom
Author | : Peter Kingsley |
Publsiher | : Duckworth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0715631195 |
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This book brings the key evidence together and presents a new picture of Parmenides, the ancient Greek poet, as priest, initiate and healer.
Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment
Author | : Steven Berg |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438430195 |
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Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.