by Miguel Conner | May 30, 2017 | Blog posts
Most of us have read Moby Dick, or are at least familiar with Herman Melville’s classic. Many of us know the metaphors and symbols and pathos of this great American novel. We heard it all in high school and perhaps found insights once we got older — as the whales of...
by Miguel Conner | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog posts
By the title, you might think I’m selling out by providing the popular list article, the absinthe of a short-attention and profoundly sick society (borrowing from J. Krishnamurti). However, let me remind that arguably the most famous apocryphal Christian text, the...
by Miguel Conner | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog posts
The 4th of July celebration is not only a time for Americans to entertain leisurely pride, but also a time to reflect on the origins and nature of a youthful empire. Perhaps even more so this year when a bright past seems dreamlike and obscure because of an oily...
by Miguel Conner | May 12, 2016 | Blog posts
Sometimes I miss the old days of The Palm Tree Garden forum. Classic Gnostics groups never held back when it came to internal polemics—as seen in such texts as the Apocalypse of Peter or the Gospel of Judas—the latter possibly written by a breakaway Sethian movement...
by Miguel Conner | Nov 13, 2014 | Blog posts
When thinking of JRR Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings mythos, Gnosticism or the Esoterica might not immediately come to anyone’s higher or lower mind. But here at the Virtual Alexandria we always reveal there is a reality behind the reality. This interview presents...
