::From Mythology to Cosmology and Spirituality::
The best way of encapsulating the central motif, the particular constellation of ideas that motivated the production of this company and the philosophy underlying this project is the following quotation from one of our great teachers Dr. Martin Lings, otherwise known as Shaykh Abū Bakr Sirāj al-Dīn, who died in 2005 at the age of 96 ; “Our aim is to express some of the universal truths which lie at the heart of all religions” quoted from the preface of his book The Book of Certainty.
Part of our aim and part of what driven us is trying to re-present the legacy of Dr. Lings and there by the Perennial Philosophy in the English language with the emphasis of the audio access. We want people to be able to hear on themes of perennial philosophy , comparative religion, and the deeper aspect of the mystical path in the traditions and to do this in a way that will be accessible on the internet through the spoken word with the emphasis of going back to tradition. In a certain way this new medium can be used in a postmodern way to actually go back to the pre-modern realities, to traditional realities and to traditional ways of expressing this wonderful truth that have been giving to all of us by the Almighty through all of our traditions and cultures.
Reza Shah-Kazemi
Publisher
Abdu Gazzar
Category
arts · religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality
Sing To Me Muse — A review on Christopher Nolan’s Homer The Odyssey by Gabriel Stevens
In reviewing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I do not intend to offer a sweeping overview of the many alterations Nolan has made to the Homeric epic. After all, in its protean form, The Odyssey was sung by bards in an oral tradition, which meant that the story was always being made anew. However, what happens when a director embarks upon the voyage of The Odyssey without invoking the Muses? Should divinely inspired poetry be turned into a motion picture? And when does an interpretation sever rather than serve its relationship to the source material? To answer some of these questions, I will focus upon a singular omission in Nolan’s adaptation: the moment Odysseus tricks the Cyclops into believing his name is ‘Nobody’. In the spirit of the bardic tradition, in which no one person holds the definitive meaning of a text, may this essay sit as one amongst many interpretations of the film. A fragment of the whole that offers a glimpse into the spellbinding magic of the oral tradition of Homeric poetry.
Gabriel Thomas Stevens
To read the full article click the link down below
https://thegreenknight.org/booksarticles/sing-to-me-muse/
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8 Aug 2024
Śiva and Brahmā in the Mahābhārata - Dominique Wohlschlag
A Conversation with Dominique Wohlschlag
In this dialogue, Reza asks Dominique a particular question about the
roles of Śiva and Brahmā in the Mahābhārata. Additionally, he inquires
why we refer to Vaiṣṇavites and Śivaites but don’t seem to have a
corresponding category of Brahmānites.
Dominique Wohlschlag is a specialist in medieval romance languages
and previously taught Latin at the Collège de Genève. With an extensive
background in Indian studies, he has offered courses on Sanskrit and
Indian Civilization at various Swiss institutions and has worked with
the Geneva Ethnography Museum. His scholarly contributions include three
translations of Indian poets (Jayadeva, Bhartrihari, Vidyâkara) and
numerous interpretative analyses of Hindu scriptures. In addition,
Wohlschlag has also written several books on the Hindu tradition with
two of them available in the link below for those interested in
exploring this rich tradition further.
The Queen and the Avatar (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Avatar-Dominique-Wohlschlag/dp/1908092165/)
The Great War of the Dark Age: Keys to the Mahābhārata (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-War-Dark-Age-Mah%C4%81bh%C4%81rata/dp/1908092173/)
15 Apr 2024
Light on the Ancient Worlds-Frithjof Schuon; Some Excerpts
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