Robert Stark is interviewed as a simulcast by Jin the Ninja for his podcast, Threshold Saints, about his new religion, Cosmoplatonism. Jin the Ninja is a Tantric Buddhist and you can follow him on Twitter/X.

Topics:

–Robert and Matt Pegas’s podcast about starting a new religion from a couple years back

-The esoteric significance of Zelda’s Triforce

-How Theosophy is legit but there is a spiritual hierarchy among faiths

–Theurgy as ritual acts and use of aesthetics to become closer to the Divine

-Why Neoplatonic emanation theory makes more sense than the gnostic rejection of the physical world

-Jin the Ninja addresses the critique that the Buddhist rejection of attachment is demoralizing

-How a dualism about what is divine can help with both ethics and politics

-How Buddhism is misrepresented by western hippie leftists

–The Buddhist middle path

-Why Cosmoplatonism is simultaneously sex positive and sex negative, regarding stages of consciousness

–The intersectionality of spirituality and sexuality

-A nuanced embrace of asceticism

-How science is fundamentally interconnected to spiritually

-How human consciousness is an emanation from divine consciousness

-How human genetic differences reflect spirituality (eg. Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy)

-The Americanization process as an analogy for split consciousness

-Placing things and subjects in a neoplatonic hierarchy of importance

–Sufis on levels of consciousness

-How all Abrahamic faiths have factions that are influenced by Neoplatonism

-What actually is evil and sin?

-How to use occult practices, including Kabbalah, to reach the 5th layer of density

-Explaining the metaphysics of Cosmoplatonism, including the avatars

-Co-opting the gnostic demiurge to describe the manmade spiritual prison

–Why Near Death Experiences theologically contradict each other, despite their strong evidence

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