Comments by "" (@tomrhodes1629) on "Mysticism in Ancient Greece" video.

Great job, as usual, but especially this time, because you broached a most important thread in "connecting the dots." Reason leads directly to mysticism when Reason is indeed followed faithfully. (Irrationalism too often masquerades as rationalism in this world of limitation, which believes that rationalism is to try and reduce limitless and abstract Truth to a limited and finite understanding!) And Parmenides is key to illustrating this connection (between the West and the East), as my book makes clear. Limitation must be recognized as IRRATIONAL (by definition) in order to make room for The Rational in one's mind. And "The Philosopher's Stone" is then found to be the foundation of all truly rational (whole) Thought; The Philosopher's Stone being the simple and yet most profound fact that "GOD" is The Mind that is ALL. There it is. But one has not FOUND the Philosopher's Stone until one has found very good reason to believe that this is true! Experience is required.
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Great job, as usual, but especially this time, because you broached a most important thread in "connecting the dots." Reason leads directly to mysticism when Reason is indeed followed faithfully. (Irrationalism too often masquerades as rationalism in this world of limitation, which believes that rationalism is to try and reduce limitless and abstract Truth to a limited and finite understanding!) And Parmenides is key to illustrating this connection (between the West and the East), as my book makes clear. Limitation must be recognized as IRRATIONAL (by definition) in order to make room for The Rational in one's mind. And "The Philosopher's Stone" is then found to be the foundation of all truly rational (whole) Thought; The Philosopher's Stone being the simple and yet most profound fact that "GOD" is The Mind that is ALL. There it is. But one has not FOUND the Philosopher's Stone until one has found very good reason to believe that this is true! Experience is required.
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