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s05e44 | Live with James Lindsay: Woke Gnosticism and the Oxford Debate

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Hegel and the Mystical Tradition

There was a giant new age movement. It was very syncretistic and it just kind of picked and chose. The texts were brought to Europe for the first time and translated into Latin by Marcello Ficino. So these texts get translated into Latin, the intelligentsia of Europe, the Madonna's of their day can therefore now. And I mean that not Madonna in the kind of classical sense, but Madonna in the like sense. Well, Botox is a form of matter. She believes in that. Hermeticism is the goal to transform reality. There is a oneness to everything and every bit of distinction is an illusion.

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