Danny Newman is author of Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry and also Angels in Vermilion: The Philosopher’s Stone from Dee to DMT. His newest book is Theurgy: Theory and Practrice – The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine. He is a 32nd degree master mason.
Here he focuses on the practice of theurgy as it was practiced by the neoplatonic philosophers who suggested that their rituals were derived from Homer.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:49 Early Greek practices
00:10:55 Mainstream scholarship
00:18:31 The neoplatonists
00:28:46 The rituals
00:49:03 Ancient controversies
01:02:47 Contempory theurgical practice
01:06:30 Theurgy in Orthodox Christianity
01:10:32 Conclusion
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.
(Recorded on December 5, 2023)
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