I’ve been reading Greek philosophers. I formed a neoplatonist book club recently with a couple of Pagan friends, and we’re reading Iamblichus’s On the Mysteries. I’m plowing through it, chewing on some very dense prose as I try to take in and understand neoplatonist ideas about God and the Gods, time and eternity, body and mind and soul.
I am aware of being very attached to some ideas about the soul. It’s not all that different from the way Christians cling to their orthodoxy. Christians (and that includes me when I was younger) will do a lot of mental gymnastics to make their experiences of the world to fit into Christian doctrines they can’t afford to let go of. Everything new they learn gets reworked and reinterpreted to fit with their core beliefs.
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Mr. Bishop, Thanks for sharing! Nicely done picture of the statue, as well.