For another east-west connection (admittedly, one that Kingsley very strongly disagrees with) you might enjoy looking at Sri Aurobindo's writings on Heraclitus. Sri Aurobindo was sent by his father from India to England at age 5, graduated from Cambridge at the top of his class in Greek and Latin, was later arrested as a terrorist by the British, fled to then French ruled southern india where he spent 40 years exploring the possibility of a radical transformation of the mind and body.