Ficino, the Renaissance and the Orphic Mysteries with Ronnie Pontiac Part 2

In Part 2 of the podcast with Ronnie Pontiac we go further into the spread of Neoplatonic and Orphic ideas in the West since the Renaissance. We talk about Thomas Taylor in the UK and how that influenced William Blake and Shelley and Keats and others, and then what was happening in the US. We also talk about some of the history of the Western esoteric tradition and what we might be able to learn from the Renaissance for this time.

Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistant for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. He is co-author with Tamra Lucid of The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic.

Please note there is a small glitch in this recording where it freezes for a short time around the 6 minute mark

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