A Story Waiting to Pierce You by Peter Kingsley

Nothing to teach the secular intellectual. It has nothing to offer the New Age seeker, It reads at times like a prose poem, an incantation, a song of ecstasy.Īnd ecstasy is uncompromising. Waiting to Pierce You conveys this power and urgency through its remarkable

People like Pythagoras and Abaris learned how to step outside of Tradition is the living soil from which all our cultures Kingsley shows us that the opposite is true. Something that just barely survives inside of a civilization of ecstasy as otherworldlyĪnd impractical. Too often we think of a sacred tradition as This bookĬomes as an urgent reminder of first things: of where worlds and civilizations Have forgotten what our ancestors knew-the sacred ecstasy that allowed them toįace their own desperate times, allowed them to do the impossible. Mongolian, Tibetan and even Native American sacred tradition. Most serious and far-reaching implications for our understanding of Western, As the book shows, what follows from this has the The indigenous wisdom of the West was intimately connected with Mongolian and At the heart of his “story” is a startling revelation: that Threads that these stories offer and weaves together a narrative of remarkable Kingsley picks up the glossed, ignored and abandoned Role in the life of Pythagoras-and so in the creation of Western science, Mysterious visitor from the East and ended up playing an absolutely crucial The book takes as its starting point theĮnigmatic accounts of Pythagoras’ encounter with Abaris the Hyperborean.Ībaris, an itinerant healer, miracle worker and prophet, arrived in Greece as a Kingsley’s new book, A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and theĭestiny of the Western World, is, as the title suggests, not only about the The latest Neoplatonic authors. In this last claim he was

The Ancient Egyptian religion, and his assertion of the substantialĬontinuity of Greek philosophical tradition from Pythagoras down to Upon graduation he came inĬontact with the writings and authors of the Traditionalist or Perennialist school,Īnd this influenced his comparative exegesis, notably his studies on Sufism, The hermeneutical comparative study of Egyptian and Greek religions,Įspecially their esoteric relations to Semitic religions, and in particular

Was a prolific Lithuanian philosopher and scholar. Pierre Hadot is another scholar who haveĮmphasized this, and who is a central philosopher for the new movement of This is a quite central aspect of my own view of philosophy. Peter Kingsley is an English scholar who work with the assumption that philosophy is a spiritual practice with a spiritual purpose.

A Story Waiting to Pierce You by Peter Kingsley