Gnostica

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’d like to share my preliminary notes on the subject, and invite conversation. These [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

(to the tune of “Hooray for Hollywood”)
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’s listed by old Eusebius!
Hooray for Heretics!
When you’re malefic
if you’re even good!
Where anyone at all from Satorninus
to Valentinus
is equally misunderstood
No matter what you say
Welcome to auto-da-fe’
Hooray for Heretics! [...]

“All the comparisons that (Jesus) makes tend to show that the disciples of Jesus are necessarily few in number with little power. The leaven in the dough. The salt in the soup. The sheep in the middle of wolves, and how many other images. Jesus seems to have never had the vision of a triumphant [...]