The Gnostic Wisdom Network

The relationship between Platonism and ancient Gnosticism is a fascinating, complicated, and strange tangle of joint influences, transformation, complimentary and clashing philosophies. That's why we're doing this special 3 part series on the topic with Joann...

We'll just say it: Travis Lawrence is one of the best living artists working with esoteric themes. Influenced by Jungian psychology and mythology, Travis uses the art of printmaking to create illustrious allegorical imagery with both personal and timeless sym...

The Montreal International Voodoo Festival, Aug 14-20 2023, is days of music, performance, food, and lectures, it's a true artistic immersion as Voodoo is more than a religion--it's a beautiful culture of resistance and poetry. Linda Chery comes on the show to...

Dr. Nathan Bjorge is back for two hours of liberation theurgy...and so is Nic! We dive deep into the thelemic Gnostic Mass and what it has to teach us about the anxieties of modern life, sexuation, living out the death of god, nonduality, as well as discussion...

Magical, mysterious, lost, forgotten, repressed, rediscovered, weird, moving, imaginative. New Testament apocryphal texts tell stories not found in the canonical Bible and Dr. Tony Burke is here to help explain what's up with the apocrypha and why these texts ...

Join us as Jason, Jonathan, and Bee take a swim to Michael Bay's early-oughts entry into rebellious filmmaking, The Island. Starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, two people inside a closed dystopian system. But somehow, they just know there's more ...

The ancient Gnostics were, and still are, accused of cosmic pessimism, of seeing this life as torture. Many have pushed back that this wasn't their true message but maybe there's something here we shouldn't be turning away from: Is life horrible and happiness ...

The Secret Revelation of John was lost to humanity for almost a millennia and a half, and now that we have it again, what light can it shine on the human condition and our relationship with the Divine? What healing can it bring to a world that feels more broke...

German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is considered by many to be one of the most important thinkers to have ever lived. And he had a lot to say about Christianity, maybe even enough to say he changed how we thought about the faith forever. Howe...

Welcome to another episode of Pop Gnosis! Today we're going to be talking about the Netflix phenomenon Sandman, created by Neil Gaiman. We'll touch on its comic history as well. On Pop Gnosis we take a look at the culture around us through a gnostic lens. Some...

Epiphany season, which marks the famous visit of the Magi to Jesus in the well known Christmas story, is upon us! And to celebrate we're interviewing Dr. Eric Vanden Eykel, author of "The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fas...

It's our Christmas special and also another ep of our new show Pop Gnosis and wow...it's also the reveal of our new host Rebecca "Bee" Scolnick! Bee and Jason will be exploring how Gnosticism is reflected in the cultural world around us, and how movies, music,...

Listen to Part 1 first :) A strange scene in the Bible where Moses erects a bronze serpent upon a pole becomes the jumping off point for a whirlwind exploration of life, the universe, and everything in Michael R. Osbourne's "The Brazen Serpent: Chaos and Or...

The Christian Community is a renewal of Christianity incorporating the insights of the mystic Rudolph Steiner, the liberal church, the esoteric Christian tradition with a mission to be a church for now. Patrick Kennedy and Jonah Evans, directors of the Seminar...

The Most Holy Trinosophia is a mysterious text from the late 18th century composed of mystical images and text, maybe written by the infamous Cagliostro in the prison of the inquisition, that tells the story of an allegorical and initiatory journey. Writer M.R...

Dr. M.David Litwa returns to Talk Gnosis and we talk about an evil creator god based on the deity of the Bible, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos Set, a near-forgotten Christian leader named Marcion, the real "first" and secret New Testament, and generally shi...

Author Robert Guffey has long been an explorer of everything darkly weird and a chronicler of high strangeness—and his extensive knowledge of conspiracy theories serves him well for his new book "Operation Mindfuck," which chronicles where the intermeshed cons...