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Uzdavinys' Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth

>zeitgeist
Oh Lord. How many times do we have to debunk this?

>>14140955
Retarded pic
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>>14140965
Based for different reasons

>>14140955
y u no fact check?

>>14140955
This is gay but Christianity is also gay. What are some good books on Mithras and Mithraism

babby's first perennialism. I think /lit/ is the last place in the world with unironic perennialists.

>>14141129
My dad is a sort of perennialist. He thinks aliens/gods came to earth and taught mankind how to speak read write farm do math etc and that’s where all the religions developed from. It’s very popular among conspiracy theorist boomers

>>14141147
ancient aliens is a classic boomer transformation of their increasingly untenable bourgeois Christianity. It's quite gnostic really

The Masks of God series

>>14140955
http://esotericawakening.com/what-is-reality-the-holofractal-universe

>>14140955
Bill Cooper Babylon Mystery Radio, you can listen to the episodes on youtube.

>>14140955
Mythology is a language, it explains reality through symbolism, metaphor, etc. the reason there are similarities is because they're describing the same thing, unique aspects are explaining concepts others did not. Most of it is routed in astrology, philosophy, and other proto-sciences of which mythology itself is a part of. This is lost on the layman because he reads literally and is thus used by the priest-class of which are just merchants in funny hats (their respective garb is also full of symbolism and meaning), there are aspects of religious text that is exactly as it is on the surface, usually the various rules for followers to imbue the ignorant with certain baseline virtues. Read up on the anthropology of religion, comparative religion, start reading everything chronologically after having read the Trivium and Quadrivium along with The Secret Teachings of All Ages (just so you can get how to read between the lines, ignore the author's constant sucking off of contemporary secret societies like Freemasons, Rosicrucians, etc.) and other esoteric encyclopedias, encyclopedias of symbols and myth, and encyclopedias of astrology. This will allow you to make your own connections, I'm still at the beginning with just a handful of religions under my belt, regardless this is one of the most interesting intellectual journeys I've been on.

>>14140955
"my religion explains everything about every other religion!"
-every religion ever

>>14140955
>Genuinely curious why religions all over the world told basically the same stories.
This is explored in some depth in The Evolution of God by Robert Wright.

>>14141117
Try Iranian Leviathan by Jorjani

Who was that one Hindu God that actually did walk on water? I think Coomaraswamy mentions him somewhere but I can't remember who it is for the life of me

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Campbell "the hero with a thousand faces"
Jung
Turner " Beyond geography"

Also look up axial thought

>>14143329
Pretty sure it was Vishnu as Narayana

>>14141060
>tfw christfags post this with irony instead of defending the accusations within

>>14141060
More importantly, are there any books on the modern idea that something must be "original" in order to be valuable?

really interested in this as well! we were making a list of comparative deities across mythologies, but there ended up being way too many to reference them all. that being said, any progress someone else has made would help a lot! :)

>>14143370
I second this request

>>14140955
What the fuck. OP' "phenomenon" isn't even real. It's a factually invalid example of archetypes.

Masonic bullshit is what you are looking for.

>>14140955
Watch Ancient Aliens

>>14143339
this desu, although I don't know which Jung work to recommend first

>>14143348
You're right, thanks