Gnostic Reformation, Clear and Simple

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Last week I shared for you the first verse of the Letter to the Colossians, out of David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament, which I highly recommend. Hart translated directly from the original Greek manuscripts, rather than deriving his translation the way most Bibles have been translated, which is from the Latin Vulgate and on into King James, and o...

 Today I thought I would share with you one of the books out of the New Testament as translated by David Bentley Hart and published by Yale University Press, which, as I've said before, is very Gnostic in its interpretation because it uses the same words that our Gnostic Gospel uses. The translation is more precise than your normal conventional Bible. Colossians is purportedly Paul writing a lette...

This episode begins and ends with samples from the audio version of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel narrated by Miguel Conner. I've been listening to the recording of Miguel Conner reading A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel , and it's beautiful. It is thrilling. You're absolutely going to want a copy of this because you can listen to it while you're doing other things. I've been...

I signed up the Kindle e-book version of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel for a free five-day giveaway. So, on September 20th, running through midnight of the 24th, I’m going to share with you A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel for absolutely free if you have a Kindle. I’m posting this week’s episode a couple of days early, so you can catch the Kindle giveaway. I have removed an...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I heard one of those radio preachers this week talking out of the book of John, the 17th chapter, and it sounded so Gnostic to me that I had to go ahead and look it up. I wanted to share it with you this week and share with you why it sounds so Gnostic. So I'll be sharing both from the book of John and from the Tripartite Tractate. One of the reasons I'm sharing w...

I received my copy of the hardback of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel in the mail this week, and wow, it’s really beautiful. It’s just as beautiful as I expected it would be. The paper is the heavier and more smooth than the paperback, and the ink is the deluxe application, so the colors of the illustrations are just as bright and beautiful as they are on screen. It’s a really beautiful...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. The big day has come. The book is now available. A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel , is now available on Amazon. Just type in that name, or type in my name, C-Y-D, R-O-P-P, and you’ll be taken to my various books that are on Amazon. A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel is available for only $9 as an e-book, or free on Kindle, if you have a Kindle su...

The big day has finally arrived! The book is ready. It’s in publication. It will be posted on Amazon for sale. The soonest they’ll get it up for me is on the 28th of August. That’s Wednesday, the 28th of August. You’ll be able to buy the paperback version of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel for only $24. That’s the least I’m allowed to sell it for by Amazon. So, meanwhile, as a bonus, I...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation. Well, the final proof copy of the book is in the mail and on its way to me. I’ll have one more look at it and then I’ll put it up on Amazon for sale. I’d like to personally thank Hathaway, Gabriella, John, Barbara, and Jenny for their very generous support. If anybody else would like to contribute $50 towards this publication cost, actually it’s not the cos...

Last week we revisited an episode that was originally posted in October of 2021. It was originally entitled, As Below, So Above, Inferring the Transcendent. We only got through the first half of that original episode because it was a long one and, as I was re-recording it, I added some new insights about the current state of politics and how it relates to the Demiurge. If you didn’t hear last week...

Today I’m going to re-record and re-present an episode from October of 2021. You probably haven’t heard it or don’t remember it. I had just gotten braces in 2021 and the actual recording itself is pretty poor. Well, you can tell it’s a person who just has fresh braces on their teeth, so we don’t have that trouble anymore. It’s a pretty long episode and it was originally entitled, As Below, So Abov...

I was listening to a radio preacher this morning, and he was talking, as they often do, about the inherent sin nature of man, or humanity as I would like to say, being a woman. He was saying that we are born into sin because of the original fall of Adam and Eve, and we have a sin nature. They’re always talking about the sin nature, and that that is why we need to turn to Christ and repent and ask...

This week, on July 18th, 2024, I was a guest on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio with my good Gnostic friend, Adrian Smith and, of course, Vance Socci and Miguel Conner, and we were discussing the Demiurge. That’s why I’m running this episode this week about the Demiurge. But I encourage you to go to YouTube to the Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, to the episode that’s up this week now. It’s called Navigating Thes...

Last week I made a plea to you for donations to help me publish this book that I’m putting out now. Please, if you can afford to, this is a good time to chip in and give me some financial support. I really hate asking for money. This goes against my grain in a big, big way, so please don’t confuse me with the televangelists or any other person out there with a podcast that’s always asking for mone...

This week's episode was first broadcast on Gnostic Insights in May of 2021 So far, here at Gnostic Insights, we have discussed the basic cosmology of Gnosticism as explained by the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi codices, and those are outlined in the first eight episodes of the Gnostic Insights podcast. I recommend that you listen to those first eight episodes, and you can find them on the...

During the lost months of the 2020 shutdown, I spent much of my time watching the History Channel series “Ancient Aliens.” I began with a skeptical mind, but was soon persuaded by the variety of evidence presented. Many years earlier I had read Erich von Danikens’ Chariots of the Gods, so I had the basic outline of ancient alien theory already in my head. I had also read Whitley Streiber’s Communi...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation. This week’s episode is going to be a little different. First, I want to share with you an update about my upcoming book, and then I’m going to play for you a couple of snippets of recording that I did off of my iPhone while cleaning house, one of them, and the other was while taking a dog walk. So those would be like Gnostic musings or Gnostic Stream of Con...

Today we're going to talk again about worldviews, ideologies, and memes. And the way I use the word meme is to represent an idea, a tidbit, a small piece of information. It was actually Richard Dawkins, of all people, that coined the term meme , and he used it as an analogous term to the word gene —so a meme is to worldviews and ideologies as a gene is to your DNA makeup. And your DNA is made up o...

Don’t you think it’s interesting that God is so often in the news? If this were a purely secular life that we’re living, if life really had no meaning and there was no God, then why are people always talking about God? Even the people that say they don’t believe in God at all talk about God. For example, the big atheist of our generation is Richard Dawkins, and I’ve referred to Richard Dawkins man...

I’m not trying to hide the gnosis from you. I’m not trying to obscure the truth so that only the worthy can mine this gnosis. We are all born with this gnosis. We are all representations of the Fullness of God, and I think it’s my calling to share this gnosis with you and show you how you can mine your gnosis. The Tripartite Tractate from the Nag Hammadi is the book I’m using to do that, because i...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation. This episode is about archons. It’s kind of a long episode because what I’m going to do is read to you directly out of the Tripartite Tractate and then make explanations about that, and that’s a long process. Also, if this becomes too thick and too difficult to understand just by the hearing of it, go to GnosticInsights.com and read the transcript. And in t...

If you find these episodes to be repetitive, yes, they are. That is because the gnosis that we need to remember is all here, and though it may seem complicated at times, it is actually quite simple. I’ve been reading and explaining the Tripartite Tractate for several years, and I continue to gain new insights every time I read it, and every time I review an episode of mine. This isn’t knowledge to...

In the previous episode, I talked about the characteristics of the Father as recounted by the Tripartite Tractate in the Nag Hammadi library. Now, the funny thing about that whole last episode discussing the characteristics of the Father is that the Father is unknowable. The father is ineffable and illimitable, and all those gigantic words which mean that we can't really comprehend the Father at a...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation. I’m starting to review a few of our previous episodes from a couple of years ago because we have a lot of new listeners and, in case you haven’t backed up to listen to the entire series, I’m picking out what seems to me to be important ideas. And for those of you who have already heard this, again, like I said last week, it really bears repeating. It takes...

This morning we’re going to hear an episode that was recorded in 2022 that bears repeating. It’s called Heavenly Pleromas. And if you’re fairly new to Gnostic Insights, or even if you’ve been with us for a while, all of this information about the various nested pleromas of consciousness bears repeating. You’ll even learn what the word pleroma means. Before we hear that, I’d like to mention somethi...