This is blowing my cock off
>>25561325omg! why?!
It's an amazing book. I wish more people knew about it.
>>25561325>>25561447it looks like it could be interesting. what do you like about it in particular?
The "rebirth" in the title refers to an expansion of human awareness upward toward the divine and outward to embrace creation as a living image of the sacred
Here's a blurb from the publisher >Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth challenges our understanding of philosophy – indeed it challenges many centuries of assumptions which have reduced othodox philosophy to a shadow of its original. Algis Uždavinys returns to the very roots of philosophy in Ancient Egypt, and shows why the Greeks revered that land of pyramids and priest-kings as the source of divine wisdom. Bringing his understanding of many great traditions of philosophy – Indian, Islamic, Greek, and others – he presents the case for considering philosophy as a human participation in a theophany, or divine drama>Casting aside the unnatural limitations of modern philosophy, as well as the grave misunderstandings of Egyptologists, radical and exciting possibilities emerge for the serious philosopher. These possibilities will certainly change our view of the universe in general, but most particularly our view of ourselves. The Rebirth of the title is one that implies an expansion of consciousness both upwards towards the divine heights of reality, and outwards to embrace the whole of creation as a living image of the gods. The exercises of philosophy thus move from the rational to the intuitive, onward to pure contemplation and, ultimately, to a god-like energy in the divine drama.Tldr: I wanna feel the phil not think it, and I want it to be Egyptian themed instead of Greek Sounds like hokum
>>25563215So like Shintoism?
>>25563221It draws the throughline of mysticism from bronze age Egypt to sufism through neoplatonism and hermeticism, sometimes referencing eastern similarities
>>25561325this is exactly the kind of shit I'm looking for as a beginner interested in both philosophy and mysticism, thanks
>>25563268>beginnerThis is the last book
>>25563215>and I want it to be Egyptian themed instead of Greek
>>25563215Why are so many people on /lit/ enthralled with schizobabble?
>>25563297it's mostly people who couldn't take the intensity of /x/ so they migrated
>>25563297Because its better than where actual philosophy leads, which is promortalism.
>>25563297Got tired of abrahamist schizobabble and leveled up
>>25563280yeah, unfortunately you'll have to start with the Greeks
>>25563309the intensity of the stupidity, the drug-induced insanity, or the LARPing?
>>25563297scholarly stuff is the /lit/ choice, otherwise you have an unending selection of magic/occult 101 stuff by grifters, or cryptic art/poetry/rituals in limited edition of 93, bound in leather from goat testicles, signed with an ink made from the semen, shit and blood of the author, for $777
>>25563439KEK
It's crazy how suffocatingly small these circles are now and how all content is downstream of shitter and youtube now. You with Kalos and the schizo retards on /x/ by HyperboreanKnowledge.
>>25563814huh?
>>25563297it is not limited to /lit/ (e.g. bataille being referenced by anyone ever)
Why do jews and christgolems lash out so hard at Neoplatonism?
>>25564115It's difficult for them to confront the origins of (some of) their beliefs. Most of them believe their traditions have to be hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world. Not Neoplatonism, but do you know how long Christians tried to hold onto the idea of Seneca having correspondence with Paul, with Seneca being inspired by Paul's epistles rather than Paul by Seneca's?
>>25564115watthe history of christianity is full of people who admired neoplatonism and adopted its ideas
>>25561325How's your cockless life going?
>>25563297most people do not understand category distinctions between metaphysics and superstition
>>25564284i assume he means modern day christcucks or something
>>25563297Filtered by actual philosophy so they start reading D&G, Land, Evola, Guenon, Bataille, etc
>>25564115They probably compose over half of the people who'd call themselves "neoplatonists" today so idk what ur talking about.
