Holy shit is this guy awesome. Some of the most simultaneously beautiful and theoretically sound thought ever written. I can't pretend like I don't fall under the charms of his arguments, as they really do feel like gears clicking into place, especially during a spiritual crisis, seemingly managing to guide you to solutions to a myriad of metaphysical problems. I can understand why Islamic neoplatonist Avicenna's grand opus was named ''The Book of Healing'', as neoplatonic thought does seem to serve a soothing purpose, to a certain extent. The versatility and compatibility of this school of thought with almost every single tradition leads me to believe that there is a golden core underneath it all.
BUT. How the fuck did he manage to arrive to this line of thinking? How can I be sure that he wasn't fed a bunch of pretty little thoughts by malevolent and parasitic spirits? What did he ever say about the existence and the actions of non-human entities (demons, djinns, aliens, machine elves, ''spirits''...etc) and their status as evil due to their, as traditionally understood, distance from God? And finally, how do you fit this line of thinking into a practical mode of living?
>Just read
I am trying, but I don't want to spend 10 years rummaging through tomes of excruciatingly difficult jargon so I can finally locate when they addressed the questions that I've been asking myself for decades on end.