More specifically, he traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into th

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REALITY introduces us to the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies right at the roots of western philosophy, science and civilization.

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A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fanta