Sublime

Both Xenocrates and Aristotle attended Plato’s Academy in Athens. But whereas for Aristotle mathematics and science were unquestionably the correct basis for philosophy, having little time for his mentor Plato’s old-fashioned mysticism, Xenocrates worked on investigating the mystery cults and traditional religion of the ancient Greeks and integrati

An unpredictable “luck of the draw” plays its part in who we are. In Plato this random cause was named Ananke; the formidable goddess of necessity, she defied reason and, in Plato’s myth, governed the lots our souls selected. And it was called Tyche and Moira, who are personifications of fate. From Roman times into the Renaissance this principle wa

CHAPTER XVII Plato’s Cosmogony

a megadrought that impacted much of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean beginning ca. 1200 BC and lasting between 150 and 300 years.

Anaximander’s greatness lies in the fact that on the basis of so little, in order to better account for his observations, he redesigns the universe.

it was not Pleistocene ice but Neolithic humans that moved the stones – more than 250 kilometres, from Pembrokeshire to Salisbury Plain. The clincher for this hypothesis is the astonishing recent discovery by Professor Mike Parker Pearson and his team of the traces of what was once a stone circle at Waun Mawn in the Preseli Hills. It appears to be

During the advent of the Lunar cult, there were various episodes of exodus — people leaving the Egyptian area who were Stellar cult people. When they left the motherland due to droughts and famines not to viruses or bacteria or pandemics (read my book the biggest scam in history) they took with them the doctrines that had evolved up to the time of

Some writers have even suggested that the Druids might have invented the telescope, basing this idea on the statement of Diodorus Siculus, who said that in an island west of Celtae the Druids brought the sun and moon near to them, and on the statement of Hecataeus, who tells us that the Druids taught of the existence of lunar mountains.

Native Americans also crossed the Atlantic: anthropologists conjecture that Native Americans voyaged east millennia ago from Canada to Scandinavia or Scotland. Two American Indians shipwrecked in Holland around 60 BC became major curiosities in Europe.