“J.G. Bennett said that when the master passes on, his followers divide into three groups: one group is glad the old goat has kicked the bucket; another group hangs onto every word of the master and also his eyeglasses and his dentures; and a third group called the ‘near heretics’ who actually carry on his work.”

–paraphrasing Charles Upton

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jul 22, 2022 Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including The Science of the Greater Jihad, System of the Antichrist, Vectors of the Counter-Initiation, Folk Metaphysics, Alien Disclosure Deception: The Metaphysics of Social Engineering, and Day and Night on the Sufi Path. His most recent book is The Way Forward for Perennialism: After the Antinomianism of Frithjof Schuon. His website is https://charles-upton.com/. Here he explains that Traditionalism is a particular version of Perennialism. It is associated primarily with René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon. It is distinct from the more heterodox approach of Aldous Huxley. Traditionalists feel that the orthodox systems of the world’s major religions afford the best possibilities for spiritual attainment. They particularly frown upon syncretism, i.e., the tendency to try and combine the best practices of diverse traditions. Frithjof Schuon, however, acknowledged that he did, indeed, practice a form of syncretism. This led Upton to attribute antinomianism to Schuon. 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 July 8, 2022)