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Has anyone here read deeply into Western mysticism and/or the perennialists? Are there any good places to start if I'm looking for mystical intuition of metaphysical/supersensible knowledge? I'm especially wondering if Evola can help.

I am also interested in eastern things like neo-Vedanta and Buddhism, obviously, but what ultimately interests me is intellectual intuition of divine knowledge. I'm also looking to avoid adopting any specific frameworks or "traditions" uncritically, and to approach things from a Western philosophical angle, where anything intellectually intuited must also be justified or mirrored in conceptual knowledge, and enlightenment is not achieved merely by following a traditional set of instructions, or suppressing the conceptual understanding. I understand the value of the latter in initiation, but I am not looking solely to rely on it. Essentially, I am looking for a mysticism that Husserl could undertake, that unites conceptual and super-conceptual knowledge, without merely abrogating the former.

Also interested in Christian approaches, but I don't like most of the Christian contemplative traditions for the same reason that they are traditions first and foremost, and instead of being philosophical, many seem to denigrate speculative philosophy and advise simply meditating on aspects of the gospels and such.

Which was his best book and why?

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>"The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are."