This article is the eighth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. The next section of this dialogue is designed to show us the nature of truth and its relationship to the initiates of the mysteries. TheContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: The Sacred Mysteries and the Something that is Death(63e-64d)”
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Yoga, Plato, and The Mysteries: Freedom and Liberation of the Seer
The goal of all spiritual paths is freedom or liberation, the freedom from suffering, the liberation from the “mad masters”, as Plato mentions in his first book of the Republic. Freedom is something that the ancient Athenian culture deeply prized and yet lost. Freedom is something Americans prize and have already lost. Many speak aboutContinue reading “Yoga, Plato, and The Mysteries: Freedom and Liberation of the Seer”
Soul in the machine 