Once I start reading 抱朴子外篇 with students, it's all I ever want to read.
Didn't Nathan Sivin say something like Ge Hong was the Alan Watts of his time?
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Which seems harsh to me, though I suppose it depends on what one thinks of Alan Watts, and I confess I loved his book Tao: The Watercourse Way when I was a teenager
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Probably Sivin meant it harshly. I think Ge Hong would have a very successful podcast were he around today.
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Yes! “Purveyor of occultism to the upper class” in Sivin’s “On the word ‘Taoist’. . .
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