The other day I had an interesting email exchange with a reader (Mario, or you may know him as the Italian “Debunker’s Debunker” from several posts ago) part of which revolved around the “reading” of texts in a religious manner.
He wrote:
You must admit that most people are capable of discerning the “qualitative” difference between […]

Earlier today we witnessed the birth of Phildickian Gnosticism, a term which has already caught on several other places. As a follow-up to that, Fantastic Planet also put together the first part of what promises to be an excellent series on varieties of modern gnosticism. Chief among these are: (1) so-called “Bullshitian Gnosticism” (New […]

Just took a pretty good afternoon nap. Here’s the dream I had just before waking: I’m laying outside, having a sort of picnic or something on a blanket. Something I never really do, but wouldn’t at all be aversed to doing. At some point, this older man, maybe 55 comes by, and without saying anything […]

I recently happened across an article from a UK newspaper called The Secret World of the New Gnostics which starts out as an innocent-enough discussion of The Da Vinci Code, but somehow devolves into an unmitigated attack on all things gnostic. It features such inelegant quotes as:
“I’m glad to say I thought myself out of […]