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1. Pierre Hadot

   Author of What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault, Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision

2. Peter Kingsley

   Author of In the Dark Places of Wisdom, Reality, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition

3. Henry Corbin

   Author of Alone with the Alone, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam

4. Walter Burkert

   Author of The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Revealing Antiquity), Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture

5. Antoine Faivre

   Author of Access to Western Esotericism (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions), Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus

6. David Loy

   Author of Nonduality

7. R. B. Onians

   Author of The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate

8. Richard Sorabji

   Author of Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death

9. Proclus

   Author of The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary (Clarendon Paperbacks)

10. Peter Gay

    Author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

11. Ivan Illich

    Author of In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon

12. Randall Collins

    Author of The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change

13. Wouter J. Hanegraaff

    Author of New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought (S U N Y Series in Western Esoteric T

14. Mark Sedgwick

    Author of Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

15. Mircea Eliade

    Author of Yoga : Immortality and Freedom

16. Eliot Deutsch

    Author of Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction

17. David Gordon White

    Author of Tantra in Practice

18. Alexander Nehamas

    Author of The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (Sather Classical Lectures, 61)

19. Namkhai Norbu

    Author of Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State

20. Johannes Fabricius

    Author of Alchemy: The Medieval Alchemists and Their Royal Art