Why? The only reason religions ever find an audience, the promise of an afterlife. Immortality. There are those who talk about it or read about it. And there are true philosophers who actually die for it. To repeat Peter Kingsley’s single greatest insight about the Phocaeans who made Velia their new homeland: “To go down to the underworld when you’re dead is one thing. To go there while you’re alive, prepared and knowingly, and then learn from the experience—that’s another thing entirely.”
