Platonic Studies
Platonism arrived as a homecoming. I had been working in Sufi metaphysics for decades, and when I encountered the Platonic texts, particularly through Tim Addey and the Thomas Taylor translations, I recognized the same country from a different direction. The language was different, the cultural lineage was different, but the fundamental orientation was identical: the soul is on a return journey, and philosophy is one of the means of that return.
Study of this kind is unlike academic study. It asks something of you. The texts of Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, Iamblichus are not objects to be analyzed but mirrors to be looked into slowly, and what they reflect back changes over time. Riffing on Eternity grew out of sitting with those mirrors during the Prometheus Trust zoom classes, letting phrases from the study sessions become writing prompts, following the thread wherever it led. That series is probably the most direct record I have of what Platonic study actually feels like from the inside.
