The Gnostic Wisdom Network

Rather than being a quirky religion from almost 2000 years ago, Gnosticism weaves its self through Western culture and history, sometimes hiding, sometimes prevalent. In her book "The Gnostic Paradigm," Natanela Elias uncovers gnostic undercurrents in the lite...

For more than 2000 years, Judas Iscariot has been THE villain and betrayer. BUT in a lost-until-recently text the ancient Gnostics had an actual Gospel of Judas where Judas is... a hero? a religious leader? an ambiguous figure? an evil demon? the new g...

From believing Jesus is a cosmic space dragon to the need to build a communal heaven on earth, there were a variety of different Christian beliefs and doctrines from a variety of lost Christianities in the 2nd Century. To find out more about these groups and ...

The Cathars were medieval dualists who lived in what's now Southern France/Northern Italy and created an alternative parallel Gnostic church of peace and light until they were wiped out by crusade and inquisition... um...right...? The Cathars have captured...

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) was a French philosopher, author, surrealist, poet, writer of erotica, sociologist, a master of transgression and filth, a founder of a secret society, and a mystic...well a mystic of some sort...you'll see...and a whole lot of ot...

Temple Theology posits a secret lost tradition that lies behind Western religion and mysticism... and the now unveiled mysteries of Temple Theology shine a new light on both Gnosticism and one of its most famous texts: The Secret Book of John Become a pat...

Make sure you check out part 1 at: https://pod.link/845230843/episode/c04f717fcb4c922e21a94eed430d59e2The Secret Book of John aka The Apocryphon of John is often considered the paradigm of the Gnostic myth, what many people think of when they think of Gnostic...