Here's how you can best help in our mission to revitalize classical spirituality:
1. Tell other people about it, whether online or in real life. Most people do not know that the West has a rich and deep non-Christian spirituality. They think their options are Christianity or Eastern spiritualities, like Buddhism. Explain to them that our philosophical tradition was originally a spiritual tradition akin to that found in the Indian Upanishads, that philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle were not mere "intellectuals" or "academics" but were profoundly spiritual men who influenced and shaped European thought, religion, and culture. Tell them that we have our own traditional medicine, music therapy, and a full-blown "path to enlightenment."
2. Research. We are in desperate need of intelligent, passionate students of the tradition willing to do focused research. For years our community has stumbled along half-blind, trying our best to practice a religion we only knew the vague outlines of. Things were made even more difficult by extreme politicization, a barrage of (sometimes willful) misinformation, and sheer buffoonery. But there's good news: we are now entering a new era. Thanks to the hard work of many people, the sad days of guessing our way to spiritual fulfillment are ending. There is now a clarity to classical spirituality—what it is and what to do—that I could only dream of 6 or even 2 years ago. But there is still a lot of work to do! If you are so inclined, I suggest focusing your research on one of the following areas: 🔸Moral education, as understood in this tradition. 🔸Traditional medicine. Europe has a vast and complex medical literature, and, like the traditional medical systems of, say, India and China, it is spiritually relevant. 🔸Philosophically informed ritual practice. 🔸Mathematics and science as purifications.
Here's how you can best help in our mission to revitalize classical spirituality:
1. Tell other people about it, whether online or in real life. Most people do not know that the West has a rich and deep non-Christian spirituality. They think their options are Christianity or Eastern spiritualities, like Buddhism. Explain to them that our philosophical tradition was originally a spiritual tradition akin to that found in the Indian Upanishads, that philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle were not mere "intellectuals" or "academics" but were profoundly spiritual men who influenced and shaped European thought, religion, and culture. Tell them that we have our own traditional medicine, music therapy, and a full-blown "path to enlightenment."
2. Research. We are in desperate need of intelligent, passionate students of the tradition willing to do focused research. For years our community has stumbled along half-blind, trying our best to practice a religion we only knew the vague outlines of. Things were made even more difficult by extreme politicization, a barrage of (sometimes willful) misinformation, and sheer buffoonery. But there's good news: we are now entering a new era. Thanks to the hard work of many people, the sad days of guessing our way to spiritual fulfillment are ending. There is now a clarity to classical spirituality—what it is and what to do—that I could only dream of 6 or even 2 years ago. But there is still a lot of work to do! If you are so inclined, I suggest focusing your research on one of the following areas: 🔸Moral education, as understood in this tradition. 🔸Traditional medicine. Europe has a vast and complex medical literature, and, like the traditional medical systems of, say, India and China, it is spiritually relevant. 🔸Philosophically informed ritual practice. 🔸Mathematics and science as purifications.
BY The Classical Wisdom Tradition
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WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice.
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