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A Story Waiting to Pierce You

By Peter Kingsley

Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World

Though the common historical understanding agreed with Rudyard Kipling’s saying, “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” cultural overlap and influence makes that saying inaccurate if not completely false. This book describes the deep influence an ancient Mongolian shaman had on the Greek philosopher Pythagoras that rippled through Western Civilization, science, philosophy, culture, and religion. Kingsley concludes that this origin and influence still effects us today, clarifies our universal spiritual heritage, and points toward both a deeper meaning to individual life and a direction for genuine cultural evolution.

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“[Abaris] has the makings and markings of a shaman—of one of those strange, uncontrollable healers and mystics found across the world but especially familiar in the areas around Siberia and Central Asia.”

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“always there are people who know how to gather the essence of life and hold it safely, protect it and nurture it until the next seeding”

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“barbarians… are the life behind what we think of as life.”

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Themes: Evolution

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“behind the walkman, BMWs, all our wonderful technological inventions, … there is a purpose waiting to be discovered”

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“Civilizations are so quick to identify with their own particular brand of life that… they never have the humility to identify the source of the life and oneness running through their veins.”

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“civilizations, cultures are organisms seeded (seeds = teachings) from another unseen world and planted”

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Themes: Gardening Culture

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“every single civilization including this western world, was brought into being from a sacred place to serve a sacred purpose. And when that purpose is forgotten… the fundamental balance and harmony of its existence become disrupted”

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“everybody is living a totally wasted life… a sham, living in a dream … we are asleep never really using our senses”

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Themes: Obstacles Dream

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“Genghis Khan... brought with him an all-embracing openness, a religious tolerance based on shamanic principles that was almost as much of a threat to his enemies as anything else. He introduced not just the idea but the reality of international law and trade and travel, and helped lay the foundations for the modern world.”

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“History is not so much a matter of what is remembered or repeated as of the things we prefer to leave unsaid.”

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Themes: History

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“In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours”

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“poems of Parmenides and Empedocles… designed to lead the reader to a direct experience of the oneness of reality and the realization of his or her own divinity.”

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Themes: Poetry Oneness

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“The blackness (emptiness) between the senses - an eternity that never changes but contains the seeds of all change...”

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Themes: Emptiness

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“the excruciating ache of the awakening love for wisdom… the sacred origin not just of religion but also everything else, of science, technology, education, law, medicine, logic architecture, ordinary daily life”

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“The sacred symbolism of the arrow was carried from Asia to North America: from the Mongols through to the Iroquois. Then with the help of the Iroquois Confederacy as well as the Founding Fathers, its imagery went straight into creating the Great Seal of the United States while its essential message was taken into the US Constitution.”

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“There is no escaping the barbarians because they are the life behind what we think of as life.”

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Themes: Crazy Wisdom

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“Those who make a difference do so because they are different… prepared to… ignore the warnings and rewrite the rules; plush back the barriers of the impossible.”

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“If those who make history were like those who write it, nothing would ever happen.

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