Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Note from the Moderator: This is released as news item about fellow discussion group. Please contact rightly the author if you need more information. Namaste I hope you don't mind me drawing your attention to this new group, perhaps you would like to visit. There are many similarities between Advaita and Neoplatonism it would be interesting to discuss them. Group for the discussion and practice of Neoplatonism as a spiritual path. Neoplatonism is a form of Idealistic Monism. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, taught the existence of a single, ineffable and transcendent 'One', from which emanated the cosmos, to which, we are irresitibly drawn and by a process of mystical ascent we can return. "Our thought cannot grasp the One as long as any other image remains active in the soul…To this end, you must set free your soul from all outward things and turn wholly within yourself, with no more leaning to what lies outside, and lay your mind bare of ideal forms, as before of the objects of sense, and forget even yourself, and so come within sight of that One." Plotinus Emphasis is on Neoplatonism as a continuous independent tradition. Keywords: Plato, Platonism, Neoplatonism, Monism, Monistic Idealism, Plotinus, Porphery, Sallustius, Amelius, Iamblichus, Theodorus of Asine, Aedesius, Theon, Hypatia, Plutarch of Athens, Proclus, Simplicus, Damascius, Olympiodorus, Plethon, Cosimo de Medici, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandolla, Giordano Bruno, Thomas Taylor. Neoplatonist_Fellowship/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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