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  • Time’s Circle in Zurvanite Philosophy and Theosophy: Monism beyond Dualism

    Time’s Circle in Zurvanite Philosophy and Theosophy: Monism beyond Dualism

    INTRODUCTION Alireza Assary, an independent researcher of ancient Iranian mythology, David Reigle and Henry Corbin is an influence for my approach and dialogue here. Assary explains in Zurvan and the Philosophy of Time: On the Necessity of Reinterpretation, that modern reinterpretations view Zurvan as a philosophical framework for TIME, where infinite time flows cyclically, arguing…

  • G.I. Gurdjieff on Esoteric Christianity and the Slavery of the Masses

    G.I. Gurdjieff on Esoteric Christianity and the Slavery of the Masses

    Peter D. Ouspensky, a Russian philosopher and student of Armenian mystic, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff around 1870 recounts a conversation he had with him in his book, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1949). In one account, Peter D. Ouspensky asks Gurdjieff: “Why if ancient knowledge is preserved, why aren’t such men…