PETER KINGSLEY: A STORY WAITING TO PIERCE YOU

Often we have heard the saying that "Greece is the birthplace of western civilization." Perhaps we have heard of Pythagoras too, and his theorem, in the context of a long-ago math class in high school. But that is typically where our awareness ends today. According to Peter Kingsley, we in the west have forgotten our origins and the mystical tradition and instructions meant for western civilization – and out culture is suffering for it.

 

Caer Hallundbaek speaks with Peter Kingsley, author and renowned scholar in the field of western civilization and spirituality. Kingsley earned his Master of Letters at King's College Cambridge, his PhD at the University of London, and has worked with many of the most prominent figures in the fields of classic and anthropology, philosophy and religious studies, ancient civilizations and the history of both healing and science. Described as "a successor to Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell," his work is to bring back to life, and make accessible again, the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies forgotten right at the roots of the western world. His latest book is “A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World.”

 

Topics in this hour include: how we in the west have completely forgotten our original spiritual heritage and what we as human beings are actually capable of; how our culture has splintered what once was whole; how we no longer perceive the divine in all things as our ancient Greek predecessors had; how the fields they gave us – including science and the model of our legal system – were one with spiritual awareness and goals; the sacred source and destiny of western civilization. Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras -- spiritual guides and experts in other states of consciousness, who laid the foundation for the world we now live in; Greece in relation to Christianity and the onset of the Judaic Christian mindset; how time became eschatological - "in the beginning" to "the end times”; the concept of salvation; the god Apollo and his twin sister Artemis; approaching the Divine with sensitivity; how remembering will help to make our society whole once more. For more information: www.peterkingsley.org