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		<title>Curious Video Mashup of the Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to JayGnosis on YouTube: Matrix Industrial Truman Show Electro Goth Trippy Gnostic

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		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/12/curious-video-mashup-of-the-month/</link>
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		<title>The Lost Gospel &#8220;Q&#8221;  (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lost Gospel “Q” (Part 2)
(see September Archives for Part 1)


Like all Gospels, The Lost Gospel Q can be read on two different levels. That is, it can be read with two different questions in mind:
(1) What does it tell us about the people in the community that produced it? And: (2) What does it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/11/the-lost-gospel-q-part-2/</link>
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		<title>The Dharma of Gnosis:  An Introduction to Way Gnosticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of those weird flashes of insight that occasionally comes along at about 3 am, I recently came to the realization that my own spiritual journey is leading me to establish a formal syncretization between Buddhism and Gnosticism.  I&#8217;d like to share my preliminary notes on the subject, and invite conversation.  These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/11/the-dharma-of-gnosis-an-introduction-to-way-gnosticism/</link>
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		<title>Gnosis = Awakening (Word + Wisdom)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8211; This might be an epiphany, a theophany, a revelation, etc., but it must be personal and must be experienced. 
L: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/10/gnosis-awakening-word-wisdom/</link>
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		<title>Film: Story by Philip K. Dick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/10/film-story-by-philip-k-dick/</link>
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		<title>Gnostics Need to Be Real</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;re a Gnostic, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/10/gnostics-need-to-be-real/</link>
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		<title>Christ on a Bowl?  Not likely&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world of misleading headlines gets a little larger today with the lede to this story on MSN:
Earliest reference describes Christ as &#8216;magician&#8217;
The bowl itself is pretty interesting&#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/10/christ-on-a-bowl-not-likely/</link>
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		<title>Hooray for Heretics!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(to the tune of &#8220;Hooray for Hollywood&#8221;)
Hooray for Heretics,
Those crazy, lackadaisy Heretics!
Where any infidel
Or young apostate
can invoke hate
By referencing Arius,
And any well-read priest
Can be a well-dead priest
If he&#8217;s listed by old Eusebius!
Hooray for Heretics!
When you&#8217;re malefic
if you&#8217;re even good!
Where anyone at all from Satorninus
to Valentinus
is equally misunderstood
No matter what you say
Welcome to auto-da-fe&#8217;
Hooray for Heretics! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/09/hooray-for-heretics/</link>
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		<title>A Recipe for Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:  Mix-up corrected thanks to commenter.  
Leaving aside for a moment discussions as to whether the Gospel of Thomas was used by historical Gnostics, have a look at the two most common translations of the end part of the first Saying in the Gospel  (emphasis mine):
Lambdin:  &#8220;Whoever discovers the interpretation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/09/a-recipe-for-death/</link>
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		<title>The Lost Gospel &#8220;Q&#8221; (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
“For many who are familiar with the language of the Gospels, it could be an eye-opening revelation to read the sayings of Jesus without the usual contextualization of his words. A reader might discover wisdom instead of moralizing, beauty and poetry rather than opinion, and unfathomable mystery instead of plain persuasion. Q offers us a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palmtreegarden.org/blog/2008/09/the-lost-gospel-q-part-1/</link>
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