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I'm very intrigued to hear about your Golden Age philosophies or at least some Silver Age ones.

Because the core ideas of Buddhism are the only ones that can be applied directly to your behavioural patterns. They are practical, they are purely logic. I don't know what's the "supernatural claptrap" you're talking about, probably you picked the wrong school to study it and got distracted.

In my opinion other philosophies (especially European schools) are mostly a wordplay without an applied part.