The Ascent to the Divine with P.D. 'Danny' Newman

Danny Newman is author of Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry and also Angels in Vermilion: The Philosopher's Stone from Dee to DMT. His newest book is Theurgy: Theory and Practrice – The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine. He is a 32nd degree master mason.

Here he focuses on the practice of theurgy as it was practiced by the neoplatonic philosophers who suggested that their rituals were derived from Homer.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:49 Early Greek practices
00:10:55 Mainstream scholarship
00:18:31 The neoplatonists
00:28:46 The rituals
00:49:03 Ancient controversies
01:02:47 Contempory theurgical practice
01:06:30 Theurgy in Orthodox Christianity
01:10:32 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on December 5, 2023)

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[mortalclown]

Gotta love knowing there's a theurgist in Mississippi.

Thanks, NTA, for another interesting conversation. 💫

[NealBird-bqix]

I hope you read this comment Mr Newman .

May I humbly thank you for that interview. You have filled in so many gaps I’ve been pondering on for years … thank You again ☺️

[celt]

Such a great topic and so well-presented by Danny. Thank you for this esoteric food for the soul.

[chachenaki_kichenancha]

I love the fact that Danny is using psychedelics as a tool in exploration of the magic realms. It's so much to discover there.

[ConsciousnessWatch]

Great broadcast! Thank you for introducing me to Danny Newman. 👍

[gunkwretch]

Neato, I know PD, and I love Thinking Allowed, great combo

[uncannydeduction]

Well spoken Danny. Honestly I didn't expect much but this is slowly turning to the best I've listened to in long while. Also thanks to Jeffrey!

[WhirlpoolFarmer]

What an extraordinary repository of knowledge this man is. I intend to listen to this episode again. Thank you Jeff & Danny.

[luigifilippodl]

Incredibly informative, thank you. I hope there will be more interviews with this guest.

[geniexmay]

Beautifully informed conversation. Lots to follow up on!! 😃 Thank You Both.

[AARCANUM]

Amazing and brilliant. Extremely informative. Thanks It was excellent. I look forward to more from this gentleman. What a mind!

[richardkettering]

I really did enjoy this discussion Dan never disappoints. Thank Dr.Mishlove.

[AdiMaco]

This is one of the best dialogues about this topic!

[infiniteskydiamonds]

Johnny Qwest

PD is absolutely Stunning in his understanding

[robertgray]

I adore the silver glowing "Pseudo Dionysius" present behind him on the bookshelf. Let's all try to actualization together towards the good in whatever form we can muster, lol 💫🙏

[joshuavanderplaats]

I always know someone has done some work when Dr. Peter Kingsley is mentioned.

[musamba]

That is for the simple reason that both Judaism and the Greek philosophy are branches of the more ancient shamanism. This is why shamanism-sorcery is a world phenomena, while there is no one "world religion" that truly spans the whole world. Shamanism is the foundation and religions are the off shoots. The Axial Age has obscured all this very well.

[SRAVALM]

Proclus Theology of Plato is probably the #1 book of theurgical discourse.
I'm interested in this man's book. I read some of the read sample on Amazon.

[spiritseeker]

this preparing of a space for the divine to enter sounds alot like the sweat lodge preparations of native american shaman