![]() I gave it a chance largely on the strength of the supportive blurb by Walter Burkert, the great scholar of the ancient world, but then Professor Burkert is himself rather tone-deaf when it comes to style. I can't easily think of a book I've enjoyed less than this insufferable, pretentious bit of sermonizing by Peter Kingsley. His most recent book, Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity, is due to be published in November 2018 and for the first time it shifts the focus of his work directly onto our modern 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 emphasize the lived experience and daily application of the ancient mystical tradition that helped give rise to the 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 and has held honorary professorships or fellowships at universities in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. He received his BA from the University of Lancaster, his Master of Letters from King's College, Cambridge University, and his PhD from the University of London. Classical scholar and spiritual teacher Peter Kingsley was born in the UK. ![]()
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