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Tag: Peter Kingsley

  • Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages Part I: The Traditional Seven Sages and their famous Maxims

    Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages Part I: The Traditional Seven Sages and their famous Maxims

    THE STANDARD TRADITIONAL SEVEN SAGES OF ANCIENT GREECE The Seven Sages (or Seven Wise Men) of ancient Greece were a group of renowned statesmen, lawgivers, and thinkers from the 7th–6th centuries BCE, celebrated for their practical wisdom and pithy maxims. Ancient sources vary on the exact list, but the most traditional and commonly accepted ones…

  • Peter Kingsley: The Presocratic Sages who created Western Civilization

    Peter Kingsley: The Presocratic Sages who created Western Civilization

    Peter Kingsley on the sacred Tradition at the heart of Western Civilization “We can romanticize about the sacred origins of Tibetan Buddhism and South American Shamanic Traditions, and anything, as long as it’s not our own; and that’s apart of this tremendous understanding, this tremendous resistance. (…) and this is one of the paradoxes I…