A Story Waiting to Pierce You by Peter Kingsley

Point Reyes, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 2010. To this end, he gives talks and leads workshops and retreats near his home in Asheville, North Carolina and around the country. A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World. He continues to write and teach, working to make the spirituality and meditative disciplines of Empedocles, Parmenides, and those like them available to people today. His more recent works, in particular In the Dark Places of Wisdom and Reality, emphasize the lived experience and daily application of the mystical tradition of the ancient western world. Kingsley's early writings are traditionally academic, and culminate in the 1995 Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. He is a former Fellow of the Warburg Institute in London.

He has been made honorary Professor at the University of New Mexico and Canada's Simon Fraser University. He received his BA from the University of Lancaster, his Master of Letters from King's College, University of Cambridge, and his PhD from the University of London. A unique collaboration between the author and archaeologists, historians, and shamans from around the world, this document has the potential to change the future for all.Classical scholar and spiritual teacher Peter Kingsley was born in the UK.

Reflecting on a time when Eastern and Western cultures were one, this evocation contends that there is still a common spiritual heritage to all civilizations. The essence of Western civilization is said to have originated from this meeting andthis examination argues that today s conflicts and tensions have stemmed from taking this monumental occasion for granted, forgetting that there must be a greater meaning to life than everyday efforts and struggles. Highlighting how this nomad came as an envoy on a mission of purification, this study records how he met with a man who became tremendously influential in Western science, philosophy, culture, and religion: Pythagoras. an who made a dramatic appearance around the Mediterranean centuries before the time of Christ. Sufi, mystic, author, philosopher, scholar Kingsley describes a flowering. Recounting a true story, this exploration tells of a wandering Mongol sham. A Story Waiting to Pierce You Revealing a forgotten truth in the present day, this account illuminates the crumbling political and economic structures of.

Revealing a forgotten truth in the present day, this account illuminates the crumbling political and economic structures of the West, shedding light on an ongoing and arduous search for a sense of purpose. A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World (Trade Paperback / Paperback) /rebates/2fbook-search2fisbn2f18903502142f&.

A Story Waiting to Pierce You by Peter Kingsley