Finding our ancient wisdom [videorecording] : the spiritual origins of Western civilization / with Peter Kingsley ; a presentation of Golden Thread Films.
Documentary. Commentary by Huston Smith, Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Cynthia Bourgeault, Gregory Shaw.
Contents:
Chapters. The tree of life. For the sake of Empedocles -- The silence -- The banishment -- The ocean inside us -- Trickery -- The divine within -- The tree of life.
Summary:
Western civilization can easily trace its roots back to the ancient Greeks. Greeks introduced logic and reason some 2500 years ago and they introduced an extraordinarily potent mysticism which contains the secret of our civilization. The great philosophers who helped create the Western world knew that the whole of reality lies inside us. At the heart of the process of creating Western civilization lies a man called Empedocles. Based on a four-day workshop that Peter Kingsley conducted to expose this new-found knowledge.
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