Re-Appreciation of Ancient Western Wisdom, due to the recent "Gnostic Wave"

Re-appreciation of Western Wisdom - a positive outcome, psychologically, of the "Gnostic Wave" of the last five odd years. When it comes to flashing "philosophical-sounding religion" credentials, the westerner can now claim with a straight face that their civilization's history had many fine examples, stretching all the way back to Pythagoras. Ah, yes - The Axial Age

You have your Buddha and what-not, and we shall have our Pythagoras, Pre-Socratics, Plato, Middle Plantonists, Plotinus, the Neoplatonists, and Basilides (The Gnostics in general) dare I say? Did I mention the Cathars, my Asian friend?

The Western Mind, for whatever reasons, is affected by these sorts of things. Knowledge of our own past's glories... (even if it is really only the glories of our biological ancestors. But we are it's inheritors as well - the custodians! Duty!!)

Knowledge of our past's glories makes us hold our heads up High, or at least Eye to Eye with the East, and somehow makes us more complete :)