A Guide For The Newly Uplifted
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you have suddenly become enlightened somehow or other. Now what?
First of all, cool! What a struggle to get to this place, am I right? To get here, you very likely had to pass through some serious fires on a personal level. And I commend you for [...]
I used to do a lot of theorizing. Theorizing typically happens from the armchair position. You create a theory, I find, because you are too lazy to test something out in the actual world. I have given up theorizing for hypothesizing lately. The difference between a theory and a hypothesis is that the latter is [...]
There is a difference between intoxication and ecstasy. One comes comes from God, and the other comes from ingesting poisons. But where then, ultimately, does poison come from? Poisons are wonderful and I’ve had some lovely times with them, but they’re ultimately God’s middle men. There are many types of poison out there, only the [...]
A Practical Guide to Gnostic Masturbation
Jesus said, “Whoever has come to know the world has discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of that one the world is not worthy.”
The importance of the body in Gnostic cosmology is cloudy to say the best. Philosophically, it seems like they often describe an existence in [...]
I work on my life like other people work on crossword puzzles. I lay in bed Sunday mornings with a cup of coffee and a pair of bifocals and try to rearrange the letters to make it all fit together. It never does really, but it seems important that I at least keep trying. People [...]
What am I working on right now? I have been working a lot on the devotion teaching. Every day I work on it, it seems only more mysterious. I have been working a lot also on the difference between mysteries and secrets. Secrets are just information withheld and they always have a way of outing [...]
