085467
Inverness, California
2005
15×23
meki
591
engleski
Price: 30,00 EUR
Reality is a book by the scholar and mystic Peter Kingsley that reinterprets the ancient Greek philosophers Parmenides and Empedocles as mystics and spiritual guides, arguing that the Western world has forgotten its own primary mystical traditions. Reality argues that Parmenides and Empedocles, traditionally seen as the founders of Western philosophy and rational thought, were actually shaman-like figures and masters of altered states of consciousness. Kingsley uses their original texts (which he provides in modern translation) to show that their teachings were a practical spiritual path, involving practices like dream incubation, designed to lead to a direct, transformative experience of reality itself. The book suggests that the subsequent academic tradition, starting with figures like Aristotle, distorted and obscured this mystical dimension, leaving Western culture disconnected from its own spiritual roots.
