For someone coming from Dharmic metaphysics (Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Yoga), what books would you recommend for learning about and studying Neoplatonism? I mean modern books, besides the historical classics.What I like about Dharmic paths is that they are still alive. You have lots of metaphysical theory, but you also have clear practical paths, simple meditation methods (anapanasati, dzogchen, mahamudra, etc.), and a graded path with stages so you know where you are and what to do next (jhanas, rupas/lokas, samadhi, etc.), how to live the good life (precepts, ashrama, etc.). Are there things like that in Neoplatonism? I am perennialist and curious to study a more "Western" serious metaphysics, which is not just a regurgitation of Kabbalah like most Western occult schools.
>>41271506https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuVuCJQ6mEhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/AoLW5gFCSRoStart with Plato
When i read corpus hermeticum it all seemed like a rip off of bhagavad gita
>>41271506Off topic, but I like the cut of your jib.. and would like to know your daily diet, do you fast? How often do you meditate, what do you do on the daily, how do you live, what do you enjoy doing, what insights has your journey thus far brough you, etc. Thank you, anon.
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Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus by Gregory Shaw
>>41271506The primary texts are Plato and second Aristotle, so for example virtue ethics for the latter and the Idea of Good and Iambichus for the former. There's an influence of paganism, ie. daemons.
>>41273715Any source on daimon other than Plotinus? Also do you know anything?
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