Gnostica

Or, G = AL + AS
Gnosis must be a deeply personal experience, but not every deeply personal experience is gnosis.
According to this contemporary approach, true Gnosis (G) requires three variables:
A: An Awakening Event– This might be an epiphany, a theophany, a revelation, etc., but it must be personal and must be experienced.
L: [...]

Movie Crunch has conveniently listed all of the films that have been made with screenplays based on the stories of Philip K. Dick.  Most people know about Blade Runner and Total Recall.  How many have heard of Paycheck (one of the more faithful adaptations; great cast but uninspired acting) or Next with Nicholas Cage as Dick’s [...]

One of the biggest problems with much of modern Gnosticism, in my humble opinion, is the crazy notion that somehow being a Gnostic means you get to make stuff up. Or, in other words, for some reason the idea has been propogated in certain Gnostic circles that if you claim you’re a Gnostic, you [...]

The world of misleading headlines gets a little larger today with the lede to this story on MSN:
Earliest reference describes Christ as ‘magician’
The bowl itself is pretty interesting– dating to between 200 BCE and 100 CE, it carries an inscription currently being read as DIA CHRHSTOU OGOISTAIS (ΔIA XPHCTOY OΓOICTAIC). The story continues:
If the [...]