I’m really having a lot of fun picking apart this Sophia Stewart interview. There are so many weird gems and bizarre nuggets of information in it, that I feel like it’s especially worthy of a close-reading.

Another part of what interests me in this process is the method whereby something becomes a “sacred text.” In this case, this interview has been one of the only pieces of “revelation” which I’ve been able to track down on the subject of Sophia Stewart - who may or may not have been the original source from which both the Matrix and Terminator movies were plagiarized. Since this interview is one of the only available sources of information and its such a tantalizing mystery, it pulls you deeper and deeper into it, the more you puzzle over it.

An even better example of this is the Tractates Cryptica Scriptura, the appendix/exegesis of Philip K. Dick’s metaphysical novel, VALIS. Ever since I first got immersed in the gnostic story-systems of Philip K. Dick, I’ve found myself coming back again and again to this text. I’ll pore over certain passages in it, try to research connections, and then explain them to myself and to others. Other texts that I’ve found myself forming such a relationship with are the many and varied gnostic scriptures - available online at Gnosis.org’s Library.

Working with texts like this and comparing my notes with others doing similar work has taught me a great deal about just how it is that religions are formed on a dayto-day basis. It’s really shown me how meaning is cobbled together out of little fragments, combined with lots of deep interpretation, speculation, and application.

Going back to this Sophia Stewart interview, it almost makes me want to go back into this, and re-format the whole thing so that it can be picked apart and studied in greater detail. I’m not saying it has all the world’s metaphysical insights in it - I just think it’s a very interesting case study for the whole process. And I’ve been having great fun going in and writing elaborate exegetical materials on it. And I plan to do a bunch more.

Of course, if and when more information on this matter comes out (ie, we receive more “divine revelations”), it’s going to be extremely fucking interesting to see how not only my own perception of this changes, but how new meaning is created through the work of an entire community.