Another question. I'm reading an interesting manuscript claiming, basically, that theurgy, Tantric Buddhist kriya yoga (the ritualistic tantra), and the...
Hi Thomas, ... I've reached basically the same conclusion, and I would add shamanism and techniques such as active imagination from Jungian psychology. While...
I make use of some Tibetan examples in an attempt to expound Plotinus's spiritual exercises in 'Plotinus: Charms and Counter-Charms' in Conceptions of...
Hi Thomas, ... 1. Would it help to consider in what specific sense(s) these liturgies constitute theurgy? It seems to me that any of these might potentially...
I haven't yet had a chance to go through Kennedy's findings in depth. However Kennedy is not the first to reason thusly, and there is a fairly mind-blowing...
there's an article about "Buddhist Theurgy" in "Seeing with Different Eyes" a recent collection of essays on divination ... [Non-text portions of this message...
Hi everyone, I have put a new paper on the "Writings" page of my website (www.robertmwallace.com ): "Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness: An...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Jul 2, 2010 10:12 pm
... The aspect of this theory that attracts me, I must say, is that it is based on a standard ancient papyrus line of 35-36 characters- the length of an ...
Hello Bob, I can't comment much based on the description below. I am working on a neo-Platonist non-reductive philosophy of science (nice pay, a dollar per...
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your thoughts. My paragraphs were meant only as a hint of what can be found in the paper (which is only 3500 words or so). I know there...
Check out, for one, John Foster. In the reviews he is praised even by the materialists as having upped the rigor of the argumentation. In The Immaterial Self...
Thanks Bruce. I think you're right. My book I'm finishing up on mysticism as advanced virtue ethics, I get in a bit, into the 1980s debate between the...
Thanks for the article reference. I agree that similarities are probably due to a common human nature. Partly, I'm touching base in this query because I got...
Hello John, Â Speaking about the Orthodox Liturgy, it is spoken of a communal theandric work of the people (liturgy) by which the created is united in synergy...
Thanks, Thomas. I see that Foster has published another volume on the same subject, _A World for Us: The Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism_ (Oxford, 2008),...
Bob, The main reason I offered these discussions and sources is not to fully advocate them. Rather, in the case of Foster, his anayltic opponents can't dismiss...
Hi Thomas, Thank you for the beautiful analysis of the Orthodox Liturgy. I wonder what Orthodox or Church Father writings one might consult for further...
Dear Robert, as we have been discussing informally elsewhere, I think that you are still making the almost ubiquitous fundamental mistake of identifying the...
... I think that any sufficiently broad-minded approach to mysticism must arrive at the same conclusion. I like the way that William Blake put it in his "All...
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Harold Tarrant
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Jul 4, 2010 11:35 am
Dear All, I read the paper by Jay some time ago now, and it is certainly based, as John Dillon says, on some based principles about line-lengths and on the...
Hello Ted, Do you have the publishing info for this? Thanks, Thomas ... From: Ted Hand <ted.hand@...> Subject: Re: [neoplatonism] Theurgy - Kriya Tantra...
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John Dillon
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Jul 4, 2010 1:06 pm
... Yes, I think the whole thing has been inevitably grossly hyped up by the press. If Jay has hit on something here, as I think he has, it would increase our...
Thanks, Thomas. Yes, I too enjoy a good dualist or Berkeleyan critique of materialism. But I think that one of the reasons materialism continues to rule most ...
Hello John Thanks for the sentiment. I've said this to Orthodox audiences where it was well-received. I did a lecture series on liturgy and deification and...
Sometimes in biographies of ancient philosophers one comes across a passage like this: 'He then established a philosophy school at X, and eventually made a...
Well [smirk and cynical reaction], maybe they were paid directly (like the medieval university) instead of having some administrative godfather [Marlon Brando...
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Jan Opsomer
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Jul 5, 2010 11:19 am
Dear participants in the discussion, on the question of tuition, L.G. Westerink (Philosophy and medicine in late Antiquity, Janus, 51, 1964, 177) quotes...
