“What Are the Gnostic Gospels?” – Elaine Pagels | Within Reason ▶️

Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExBkcB0RTs TIMESTAMPS 00:00 What is a Gnostic Gospel?04:51 How the Gnostic Gospels Were Discovered10:36 Secret Knowledge & Teachings18:01 Do the Gnostic Gospels Contradict the New…

“Are Quakers Amish?” – Max Carter | QuakerSpeak ▶️

"We live now, more than ever, in an America where a great many people are Gnostics without knowing it, which is a peculiar irony." Harold Bloom, Omens of Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. July 17, 2024 | This week's Quaker video: "You're a Quaker? You mean, like,…

Quakers: That of God in Everyone | Documentary film (2015) ▶️

Our American Religion, whether homegrown or ostensibly Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant, is more of a Gnostic amalgam than a European kind of historical and doctrinal Christianity, though very few are able to see this, or perhaps most don’t wish to see it. Harold Bloom, Omens of Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection…

«Foreshortened Confession» & «Rereading…» – CIORAN

Foreshortened Confession[Confession en raccourci] I WANT TO WRITE only in an explosive state, in a fever or under great nervous tension, in an atmosphere of settling accounts, where invectives replace blows and slaps. It usually begins this way: a faint trembling that becomes stronger and stronger, as after an insult one has swallowed without responding.…

“C. S. Lewis had better come up with a better argument” – Richard DAWKINS & Alex J. O’CONNOR ▶️

De şi-ar aşeza Dumnezeu fruntea pe umărul meu, ce bine ne-ar sta nouă aşa, singuri şi nemîngîiaţi... [If only God would place his forehead on my shoulder, how good it would be for us to stay like this, alone and uncomforted]. Cioran, Amurgul gândurilor [The Twilight of Thoughts] It is more important to recover, in…

“Be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the Earth”: Dominion Theology | NARWatch Israel | Moriel TV ▶️

Dominion Theology is an integral part of NAR (New Apostolic Reformation1). This video shows one of its aspects and reveals how Tikkun Ministries, currently headed by "Apostle" Asher Intrater, is teaching this false doctrine to its followers. "Only a fallen and expulsed humanity could make good on the idea of achieving more than the God…

Ludwig Klages and chthonic gnosis – Paul Bishop | Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio ▶️

We explore an overlooked esoteric giant, an individual considered a main modern Pagan Gnostic and advocate of the concept of Chthonic Gnosis. That is the German philosopher and psychologist Ludwig Klages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0MwXRYNvw&ab_channel=AeonByteGnosticRadio Beyond his breathtaking Gnostic metaphysics, we’ll find how Klages' work interacts and overlaps with Jung and Nietzsche – and why his views have…

“Who were the Cathars?” – Filip Holm | Let’s Talk Religion ▶️

In this video we discuss the famous medieval "heretics" known as the Cathars, and the Albigensian crusade which tried to wipe them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySrpKMlhG2c Sources/Suggested Reading: Barber, Malcolm, The Cathars: Dualist heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages, Second edition (Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson, 2013). Sennis, Antonio (ed.), Cathars in Question (York: York Medieval…

Arianism, Heresy, and the Council of Nicea – Filip Holm | Let’s Talk Religion ▶️

Jews and Muslims hold an "Arian" view of Jesus in the sense that they don't believe, as Christians do, that Jesus is actually God incarnate. The Arian heresy basically claims that, albeit enlightened, Jesus was absolutely human, a prophet. God, according to them, could never become human, suffer, and die or be killed, as happened…

“What is the Gospel of Philip?” – Filip Holm | Let’s Talk Religion ▶️

In this episode, Filip Holm explores the fascinating spiritual and philosophical teachings of the non-canonical Gospel of Philip. Often termed a "gnostic" text, this incredible ancient document contains some truly interesting ideas, and a very controversial and famous account of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFCYAeihJOk Sources/Recomended Reading: Brakke, David (2012). Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity…