![]() That single-pointed focus, just like the intense attention required of an arrow maker or demanded of someone shooting arrows at their mark, had to be totally undisturbed”.Ībaris had been shown by the god within him that in Pythagoras he would find a living incarnation of the same god. Kingsley explains, using evidence from pre-Buddhist Tibet (where the practice has survived within Buddhism) as well as Mongolia: “Wind walkers could go anywhere cover enormous distances with apparently effortless ease find their way over every conceivable obstacle and straight past the most impassable landscapes … in one unbroken trance, holding their god inside them. For Abaris was a wind walker, and on a mission. He carried a golden arrow in his hand, though in a way it carried him. ![]() Kingsley’s Abaris walked, or in some sense flew, from his homeland to meet Pythagoras. They still and still live under their older name in Dagestan, a Russian republic in the northern Caucasus. The Avars are one of the peoples ancestral to modern Mongols. ![]() Pythagoras got most of his own education outside of the Greek cultural sphere, and Kingsley focuses here on his relationship with Abaris the Hyperborean*, using ancient texts to guide him.Ībaris is not a personal name. Peter Kingsley is a scholar of early Greek philosophy, and A Story Waiting to Pierce You (1) links Pythagoras (ca 590-470 BCE) with central Asian shamanism. ![]()
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