by Miguel Conner | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog posts
The first time I met the Archons was playing StarCraft back in the mid-90s. They were a caste of the powerful aliens with Psionic powers known as the Protoss. The next time I met the Archons was a decade later reading the Nag Hammadi library. I had swallowed a Red...
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...
by Miguel Conner | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog posts
I truly enjoyed a recent episode with Andrew Phillip Smith on the Mandaeans, the last remaining Gnostic sect from antiquity. Andrew’s keen research has enriched the field of Gnosticism for decades. More important, I feel the Mandaeans deserve much more attention...
by Miguel Conner | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog posts
Every good narrative needs a good villain. In their evocative myths, the Gnostics supplied perhaps the best possible villain: The Supreme Being of the material universe and humanity’s very creator. How do you top that? This antagonist was often associated with the...
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...
