Unexpected Pop Gnosis Part 2
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Unexpected Pop Gnosis Part 2
Last time, we wrote about finding Gnostic themes in some unexpected movies, novels, and TV shows. Sometimes the creators deliberately put them in, other times a confluence of influences and inspirations come together to accidentally produce new Gnostic gospels...
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Unexpected Pop Gnosis Part 1
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Unexpected Pop Gnosis Part 1
Gnosticism and the Gnosis are often found in unexpected places, I'd argue that's its nature, so the Gnosis is transmitted to us through comic books, old jars in fertilizer pits, peasants born in barns, and through other lowly, weird, and unanticipated, conduit...
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Chaos in a World of Archons
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Chaos in a World of Archons
In the late 20th century, the chaos magic challenged occultism’s dominant paradigms. Irreverent, suspicious, and focused on results, not personal ascension (whatever that means), chaos magic turned magical practice on its head. In our interview with author ...
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Chaos in a World of Archons
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Chaos in a World of Archons
Would you care for a side of chaos with your gnosis? Chaos magician and author Gordon White joins Father Tony and Rev. Subdeacon Jonathan for a discussion of chaos magic in the 21st century. Mr. White offers a fascinating look at this highly practical system o...
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Practical Esotericism To Change Your Life
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Practical Esotericism To Change Your Life
Being in raised in an extremely Liberal Protestant Church I was taught that spiritual practice consists of maybe sometimes reading the Bible or whatever, praying before bed, and serving our fellow human through agitating for social justice. That social justice...
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Ask Deeper Questions!
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Ask Deeper Questions!
Talk Gnosis is back and so that means it's time for more Blog Gnosis! Well, I'm a little late as Season 6 began in June and our second episode is already out but as the world's first and only Gnostic and esoteric online talk show (okay, not really, but 6 years...
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Practical Esotericism
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Practical Esotericism
The relationship between Gnosticism and occultism is a complex one. Many modern Gnostics, although certainly not all, are also practicing occultists and many episodes of Talk Gnosis have focused on a variety of esoteric and magical topics. For this episode,...
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Talk Gnosis: Practical Esotericism
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Talk Gnosis: Practical Esotericism
How practical is your occultism? Author, historian of the Occult, and former publishing executive Mitch Horowitz, joins Father Tony and Rev. Mr. Jonathan to address just this question in our latest episode. Learn about New Thought, the left-hand path, and what...
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Theology & Science Fiction Part 2
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Theology & Science Fiction Part 2
Dr. James McGrath joins us for an unprecedented third time to discuss his new(ish) book, Theology and Science Fiction. Here's the second part of our amazing discussion: https://youtu.be/rwZFMIknCF4 Dr. McGrath's book: https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Scie...
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SHOCKING! The Dead Sea Scrolls Exposed!
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SHOCKING! The Dead Sea Scrolls Exposed!
Welcome back to Blog Gnosis! We took a little time off so excuse me while I do a little catching up. Though our latest podcast/videocast is on Marcion, I have some unfinished business with our previous topic, the Dead Sea Scrolls! It's hard to understate th...
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Food For The Moon
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Food For The Moon
Because the scientific world view has gotten us as a race pretty far (I'm fond of space travel, the Internet, and vaccines) at some point we decided to apply it to everything. But maybe, that's not always aa great idea. Fundamentalists are derided as superstit...
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Taking a Trip With the Wise Men
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Taking a Trip With the Wise Men
A lost sect of drug-taking mystical Christians who used 'shrooms to see Christ? UFO cultists finding proof of their beliefs in ancient texts? Shapeshifting transformer Jesus? Christmas? All of this and more in our discussion on the Revelation of the Magi, an a...
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Taking a Trip With the Wise Men-podcast
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Taking a Trip With the Wise Men-podcast
A lost sect of drug-taking mystical Christians who used 'shrooms to see Christ? UFO cultists finding proof of their beliefs in ancient texts? Shapeshifting transformer Jesus? Christmas? All of this and more in our discussion on the Revelation of the Magi, an a...
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Your Own Personal Jesus-podcast
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Your Own Personal Jesus-podcast
"The Jesus Myth Theory," the idea that there was never a historical Jesus of Nazareth and his story is constructed from legends and myths is having its time in the sun right now. Popular among many atheists, it's a viral idea sweeping around the 'net. But, cou...
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Your Own Personal Jesus
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Your Own Personal Jesus
"The Jesus Myth Theory," the idea that there was never a historical Jesus of Nazareth and his story is constructed from legends and myths is having its time in the sun right now. Popular among many atheists, it's a viral idea sweeping around the 'net. But, cou...
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Enlightened Sage or Fat-Headed Egoist?
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Enlightened Sage or Fat-Headed Egoist?
Deacon John DiGilio has a background in both Gnosticism and Eastern traditions so he's the perfect guest for us to ask about the criticism that Buddhism and Gnosticism is too self-centered. Here on After Dark the Bishops continue our Gnarcissism episode, with ...
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Gnarcissism w/ Deacon John DiGilio
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Gnarcissism w/ Deacon John DiGilio
Is Gnosticism self-centered? Shouldn't we be spending our time at the food bank instead of sitting around trying to get enlightened? Does all that self-reflection leave one with a swollen head? Get some perspective on Gnarcissism with our guest Deacon John DiG...
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Ride this Chariot to the Stars-podcast
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Ride this Chariot to the Stars-podcast
We love to jaw about the Gospel of Thomas, and in this After Dark Bishops Lainie and Ken, plus Father Tony, are joined by Bishop Lewis Keizer for a new perspective on the GoT. Bishop Lewis Keizer's research has shown him that Jesus of Nazareth was originally ...
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Ride this Chariot to the Stars
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Ride this Chariot to the Stars
We love to jaw about the Gospel of Thomas, and in this After Dark Bishops Lainie and Ken, plus Father Tony, are joined by Bishop Lewis Keizer for a new perspective on the GoT. Bishop Lewis Keizer's research has shown him that Jesus of Nazareth was originall...
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Angelic Hangouts-podcast
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Angelic Hangouts-podcast
Frater Aschen Chassan is a practicing occultist and grimoiric traditionalist who has been involved in traditional forms of Western ceremonial magic for over fourteen years. He joined us on Talk Gnosis to discuss working with angels and he stuck around to keep ...
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Angelic Hangouts
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Angelic Hangouts
Frater Aschen Chassan is a practicing occultist and grimoiric traditionalist who has been involved in traditional forms of Western ceremonial magic for over fourteen years. He joined us on Talk Gnosis to discuss working with angels and he stuck around to keep ...
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Getting Divine With Seth-podcast
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Getting Divine With Seth-podcast
The religious geniuses who created the imaginative Sethian Gnostic texts composed wild myths that incorporated the heights of Greek philosophy, the power of Christian mysticism, and Judaism's poetic lyricism. Scholarship is revealing more and more about their ...
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Getting Divine With Seth
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Getting Divine With Seth
The religious geniuses who created the imaginative Sethian Gnostic texts composed wild myths that incorporated the heights of Greek philosophy, the power of Christian mysticism, and Judaism's poetic lyricism. Scholarship is revealing more and more about their ...
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[Talk Gnosis] The Sethians
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[Talk Gnosis] The Sethians
Dr. Dylan M. Burns, author of the acclaimed book Apocalypse of the Alien God, guests on Talk Gnosis to present the best in cutting edge scholarship on the mysteries hidden in the myths of an ancient religion that straddled the borders between Greek philosophy,...
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A Real Trip Through Lent-podcast
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A Real Trip Through Lent-podcast
Lent is a time for growth. On this Talk Gnosis hosts Bishop Lainie and Bishop Ken are joined by our director Father Tony for a real trip through Lent. We cover a universe of subjects all while relating back to how you can use the Lenten season to advance furth...
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A Real Trip Through Lent
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A Real Trip Through Lent
Lent is a time for growth. On this Talk Gnosis After Dark hosts Bishop Lainie and Bishop Ken are joined by our director Father Tony for a real trip through Lent. We cover a universe of subjects all while relating back to how you can use the Lenten season to ad...
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[Talk Gnosis] Lent for Gnostics
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[Talk Gnosis] Lent for Gnostics
In this episode, it's Lent for Gnostics! Our hosts Bishops Lainie and Ken explain that Lent isn't a forty day period of beating one's self up and depriving one's self for the sake of feeling holy, Instead, it's a time to deepen spiritual practices and delve in...
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Waking Up to the Cosmos with Meditation
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Waking Up to the Cosmos with Meditation
Don't just do something...sit there. It's time to pull out the meditation cushion and plop yourself down and get meditating, whatever your style might be. Centering prayer, mantra meditation, the bodyscan, there are so many techniques and so many methods, and ...
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Following the Trail of Gnosis-podcast
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Following the Trail of Gnosis-podcast
The beauty of the Gospel of Thomas is the layers and levels of meaning packed into every saying. On Talk Gnosis #41 we investigate Logion 23: Jesus says: "I will choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and those whom I have chosen will be l...
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Following the Trail of Gnosis
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Following the Trail of Gnosis
The beauty of the Gospel of Thomas is the layers and levels of meaning packed into every saying. On Talk Gnosis After Dark #41 we investigate Logion 23: Jesus says: "I will choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and those whom I have cho...
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The Return of the Gnostics-podcast
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The Return of the Gnostics-podcast
Gnosticism exploded back onto the scene of the world in a big way in France's Golden Age at the end of the 1800s. Here in Talk Gnosis #40 Bishop Lainie, Father Tony, and Brother Jonathan talk about the 19th century Gnostic Restoration of Jules Doinel.....aaaan...
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The Return of the Gnostics
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The Return of the Gnostics
Gnosticism exploded back onto the scene of the world in a big way in France's Golden Age at the end of the 1800s. Here in Talk Gnosis After Dark #40 Bishop Lainie, Father Tony, and Brother Jonathan talk about the 19th century Gnostic Restoration of Jules Doine...
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The Super Gnostic Heroes of Comic Books
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The Super Gnostic Heroes of Comic Books
Writer and director Jason Mehmel leads the Talk Gnosis After Dark crew on an epic adventure through the super-gnosis of comic books. Gnosticism is all through your favorite graphic novels, from the recent experimental occult comics of Alan Moore to the 1970's ...
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Healing Through Gnosis
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Healing Through Gnosis
Gnostic Pneumatherapy is healing through Gnosis, therapy through initiation, and Talk Gnosis After Dark delves into this pioneering form of psychoanalysis with its founders Dr. Robert Lloyd and Dr. Joseph Lancaster. Get into it below and start the journey to k...
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Healing Through Gnosis-podcast
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Healing Through Gnosis-podcast
Gnostic Pneumatherapy is healing through Gnosis, therapy through initiation, and Talk Gnosis delves into this pioneering form of psychoanalysis with its founders Dr. Robert Lloyd and Dr. Joseph Lancaster. Get into it below and start the journey to know thyself...
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Making the Above Like the Below
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Making the Above Like the Below
We have a very special guest in the Rev. Shawna Atteberry for our After Dark podcast on the Gospel of Thomas' Saying 22.  She helps unpack the mysteries of GoT with Bishops Lainie and Ken and our director Father Tony. You've got to check out our free-ranging d...
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Making the Above Like the Below-podcast
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Making the Above Like the Below-podcast
We have a very special guest in the Rev. Shawna Atteberry for our After Dark podcast on the Gospel of Thomas' Saying 22.  She helps unpack the mysteries of GoT with Bishops Lainie and Ken and our director Father Tony. You've got to check out our free-ranging d...
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A Very Merry Gnostic Christmas
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A Very Merry Gnostic Christmas
We celebrate the season by examining the many Gnostic perspectives of who Jesus and the Christ are. Man, God, or Myth? Or maybe all three of these things? Get into it in this freewheeling conversation with the whole Talk Gnosis crew of Bishop Lainie, Bishop Ke...
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A Very Merry Gnostic Christmas-podcast
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A Very Merry Gnostic Christmas-podcast
We celebrate the season by examining the many Gnostic perspectives of who Jesus and the Christ are. Man, God, or Myth? Or maybe all three of these things? Get into it in this freewheeling conversation with the whole Talk Gnosis crew of Bishop Lainie, Bishop Ke...
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