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The Return of BS Conspiracy Theories About Gnosticism

by Jonathan Stewart
added 3 years ago

One of my pet peeves (well actually more like "existential horror reaction") is that if you Google anything about Gnosticism you have an extremely high probability of getting result after result of conspiracy theories. This unfortunate association of anything ...

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More BS Conspiracy Theories About Gnosticism

by Jonathan Stewart
added 4 years ago

Due to its inherently mysterious characteristics, hermeneutics of suspicion, and thousands of years of being THE heres in the West, Gnosticism has attracted conspiracy theories to it since the very beginning. And thanks to the internet, a resurgence of Gnosti...

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Conspiracy Theories About Gnosticism (That Are BS)

by Jonathan Stewart
added 4 years ago

Now you might be thinking that this blog’s title is a bit redundant if it’s a conspiracy theory than it’s sure to be BS, right? Well, that’s because soon we’ll be covering some Gnostic conspiracy theories that are true (or have a strong element of truth to th...

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Changes Made to the Bible to Make it Less Gnostic: Part 2

by Jonathan Stewart
added 4 years ago

It’s a bit of a modern myth, bordering on a conspiracy theory, that the canonical Bible was completely rewritten by THEM (take your pick who THEY are: the Vatican? Lizard people?? Mole men???) to remove the original Gnostic character of the books of the Bible...

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A Very Merry Gnostic Christmas

by Jonathan Stewart
added 4 years ago

I’m a huge fan of Christmas, but the ancient Gnostics of the first few centuries C.E. probably weren’t, and that’s because of how they thought about Jesus’ divinity. Early Gnosticism was a diverse family of different Christian groups, but many of them held d...

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Unexpected Pop Gnosis Part 2

by Jonathan Stewart
added 4 years ago

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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Changes Made to the Bible to Make it Less Gnostic: Part 1

by Jonathan Stewart
added 4 years ago

It's a common belief on the internet, and in pop depictions of Gnosticism (think Da Vinci Code), that the canonical Bible was extensively rewritten, edited, and mistranslated, in a coordinated plot to cover up, destroy, and defame, Gnosticism. However, it d...

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Unexpected Pop Gnosis Part 1

by Jonathan Stewart
added 4 years ago

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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Practical Esotericism To Change Your Life

by Jonathan Stewart
added 5 years ago

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!

by Jonathan Stewart
added 5 years ago

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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