The American Minervan

Tag: Seven Greek Sages

  • Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages: All the Wise Sages

    Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages: All the Wise Sages

    THE TRADITIONAL SEVEN SAGES OF GREECE AND THEIR FAMOUS MAXIMS Peter Kingsley portrays these pre-Socratic philosophers not as rationalists but as sages in a sacred, shamanic tradition and lineage originating from eastern influences e.g., Phocaea, an ancient Ionian Greek city of Anatolia, transplanted to southern Italy. The schools of these eminent sages emphasized incubation, divine…

  • 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…