In the Dark Places of Wisdom
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This extraordinary book uncovers an astonishing reality that lies unsuspected right at the origins of the Western world.For thousands of years now, the beginnings of western philosophy have systematically been split off and dissociated from the kind of practices we've come to think of as 'magical'. The process has been a long and determined one; it almost succeeded. But those ancient connections are calling out again to be acknowledged--and it's good to have some sense of the real issues involved.In the Dark Places of Wisdom takes us deep into the documents, the discoveries, a set of ancient inscriptions on marble found in 1968 in southern Italy recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them, and other evidence of a tradition of people who were mystics but "so intensely practical that, thousands of years ago, they sowed the seeds of western culture and shaped the structure of the world we live in."Almost singlehandedly they laid the foundation for disciplines that were to make the West what it now is: chemistry, physics, astronomy, biology, rhetoric, logic. But they did all this with an understanding we no longer have, because their knowledge came from a wisdom that to us is no more than a myth....Now it's important to make contact with that tradition again--not just for our sakes but for the sake of something larger. It's important because there's no other way forward. And we don't have to look outside ourselves. We don't have to turn to a culture any different from the world we live in. Everything we need is inside us, deep in our own roots, just waiting to be touched."It is impossible for me to express the brilliance and importance of this book. It is as simple as it is brilliant; as poetic as it is direct and to the point.... It is time we all realized the immense wisdom to which we all are heirs." --Michael Baigent, author of The Elixir & the Stone"To absorb what this book says is to encounter a completely new vision of the ancient world that lies at the root of our own civilization. Right there, at our own feet, lies a forgotten tradition that has the power to transform all our views about our culture and our life." --Jacob Needleman, author of Time and the Soul
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