/lit/ - Literature

There was an interesting discussion in another thread about the Platonic view on stars, that they possess minds and an inner life that I thought was really interesting.

Does anyone know of any books or articles that talk about this? Modern cosmology viewed through a mystical lens? I'll post some of my favorite stuff to get the thread started.

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Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker is a fictional take on sentient stars

I know that the sentient star hypothesis is actually being seriously pursued by Greg Metcalf.

Stellar Larva Theory (online, google it) is a system that argues biological life are actually "larval" stars.

John Lamb Lash's Not In His Image is a cosmological interpretation of the gnostic creation myths. In it, he explains the reason why our sun is so stable (it is, look it up) is because it is allied to the Sophia's grand plan for the Earth. The sun is actually a lesser god of the "outer chaos": the galactic arms.

If you ask me, and especially when you internalize certain Platonic doctrines (such as an exterior form always being the correlate of some an internal state: what could be the mental correlate of a giant ball of pure light and energy illuminating the void for billions of miles around, I wonder?), I believe stars have minds.

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More like this.

Because the forms are found immanently in our nous not floating around in space by themselves, the thing-in-itself doesn't exist