Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.

The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.

Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death.

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

Once you're in a kind of revealed religious tradition, you wind up having to explain how the things said about God in the Bible or the Qur'an or whatever religious text you're dealing with, why these statements are true.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.