Summary: The ancient master Plotinus (204-270 CE) looms large among the mystics of antiquity. Earlier masters like Plato and Aristotle informed his thinking but Plotinus took it in a more spiritual direction, thereby influencing later giants such as Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, and the great Ibn 'Arabi. He regarded human's true nature as being fundamentally different than the physical stuff that most of us associate with our selves. Instead, he advocated for a conception of a self having nothing to do with our physical forms and mental fabrications. Through spiritual transcendence he believed we could regain contact with the perfect within ourselves. To explain the nature of human beings he frequently used the metaphor of a mirror. And that is the imgage that this 30 minute version of the Plotinus' Mirror uses to help you reach these higher levels of consciousness that he wrote of so long ago.<br><hr><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
