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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:23:33 No.7278812 View Reply Report Delete

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Is there a Western, more modern iteration of the Perennial philosophy?

Also, discussion of books on mysticism:
nonfiction, specific religions/schools, general descriptions of mysticism, fiction, anything.

Pic related, one of my favorites on the subject. Kind of introduced me to the concept of mysticism

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:35:54 No.7278860 Report Delete

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bump

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:45:12 No.7278910 Report Delete

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final bump

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:47:36 No.7278918 Report Delete

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>>7278860
Got to fucking love Rumi.
>“Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”

Truly words to live by.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:55:21 No.7278947 Report Delete

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>>7278918
>Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
There's something about him. There's some quality here I don't often see in other writers.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 21:57:18 No.7278951 Report Delete

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yes, guenon and coomaraswammy

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 22:20:53 No.7279016 Report Delete

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>>7278951
Interesting, I'll keep these two in mind. Thank you.

Anyone familiar with Gurdjieff?

I've tried reading Meetings with Remarkable Men, but man, the language is really different and I don't get much out of it.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 22:27:24 No.7279033 Report Delete

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>>7279016

if you're looking for more religious perennial esoteric stuff, perhaps seyyed hossein nasr or de benoist. the perennial movement is closely connected with Nouvelle Droite through evola, i recommend taking that path

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 22:49:22 No.7279091 Report Delete

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>>7279033
>seyyed hossein nasr

Interesting life.

>Physics at MIT
>PhD in Geophysics from Harvard
>Professor of Islamic Studies
Though no citations on wikipedia.

I think I'll check him out, I like his style.

Unrelated.

But I keep thinking about whether there are people using machines scanning 4chan trying to identify users. Like checking for idiosyncrasies and use of images. Wondering if I'm giving myself away.

Maybe I'm high.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 22:50:33 No.7279098 Report Delete

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Simone Weil

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 23:00:41 No.7279127 Report Delete

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>>7279098
>One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world.

Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action
— Simone Weil
Wow, this is really great! Thanks!

I always feel a bit of affinity with the Christian mystics, too.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 23:24:59 No.7279202 Report Delete

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>>7279033
>Julias Evola
Very interesting person. Seems pretty well in tune, but, or and has a politically right streak.

I'm not so much interested in politics, the entire thing seems distasteful; but it intrigues me that he's somehow influential there.

Thanks anon.

Do you know why the relationship there with Nouvelle Droite or the right in general?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:13:54 No.7279543 Report Delete

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>>7279127
pierre hadot too

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