by Miguel Conner | May 15, 2018 | Blog posts
Gnosticism doesn’t matter. Gnosticism is irrelevant to today’s issues. The Gnostics are just long-dead mystic-anarchists who got crushed by more organized movements. Who cares about Gnostic thought? And so forth. I get these themes often in comment sections on my...
by Miguel Conner | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog posts
Guest post by Robin Robertson, where he presents two models of creativity: emergence and discovery. He provides examples of both in his own work, as a magician and as a writer. And listen to our latest interview with Robin. How is it that the imagination brings...
by Miguel Conner | Aug 9, 2017 | Blog posts
By Anthony Peake In the first of his Seven Sermons to the Dead, the Gnostic founding father of depth psychology Carl Gustav Jung, wrote the following: I began with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty....
by Miguel Conner | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog posts
By Robert Price Carl Jung was not only interested in Gnosticism; he was a Gnostic. And so am I. But let’s back up a few steps. The father of demythologizing was not Rudolf Bultmann, but rather that worthy’s student Hans Jonas, who wrote one of the earliest major books...
by Miguel Conner | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog posts
The concept of Gnosticism has intrigued and confounded scholars long after the ancient heretics stormed the Greco-Roman scene with their radical, counterculture faith. Some academics have even proposed that Gnosticism never existed, merely part of the malleable stream...
