Gnostic Reformation, Clear and Simple

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation. I read a very interesting article this week from Scientific American, February 1st, 2024 edition. It’s a brand new article by a science writer called Rowan Jacobson. It was interesting to me because it just so happens to uphold—finally prove, in essence—one of the hypotheses of the Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything. You know, my Simple Explanation...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Today’s episode is an interview with one of your fellow listeners to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Her name is Hathaway Jane. Hathaway wrote to me saying how much the Gnostic Insights episodes have meant to her. She’s also purchased and read A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything and A Simple Explanation of the...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I’m your host. I’m really glad that you’re with me and that we are exploring these topics together. Today I want to share with you an article that was first printed in the UNT Digital Library. That’s the university library system. It’s by Bruce Greyson, and it’s called Near Death Experiences and Claims of Past Life M...

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of near death experience videos on YouTube . Have you been watching those? They really are fascinating. You can see that people have personalized experiences in their near death episodes. And by the way, in case you don’t even know what near death experience is, it’s when a person is clinically dead—no brain waves, no heartbeat—they can be dead for several minutes....

What is gnosis? There’s a lot of Gnosticism out there on the Internet, isn’t there? And this gnosis that I am sharing with you is quite different from most of that Gnosticism that’s out there. Before 1945 and 1947, when the Nag Hammadi and the Qumran scriptures were discovered and dug up out of the deserts or pulled out of caves where they were hidden, the only Gnosticism they were familiar with w...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We garnered several new subscribers from last week’s Christmas episode. I’m so glad you have found us! This week’s episode is a review of an episode that was broadcasted in September of 2022. One of the Substack readers requested more information about the 3rd Order of Powers, so here goes. And for those of you who have been...

Today, we’re going to look at the nature of the Christ—the who, what, why of Christ. Most people are familiar with seeing the baby Jesus in the manger and that’s what we celebrate at Christmas time, the birth of the Christ on Earth in the form of a human. But the Christ is an ethereal creature that predates the birth of Jesus. Jesus and the Christ aren’t exactly the same, although Jesus was fully...

Welcome back! This week’s episode is a chapter out of the new book you keep hearing about. This chapter deals with the Fall of Logos and the rise of the Deficiency. It will be familiar territory by now and may clear up some fuzziness of thought. I’m not including a transcript because this material is available in the book which is, of course, copyrighted. The color edition of the book should be av...

These essays and accompanying podcast audios are based on the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi. I always present a brief recap at the beginning of each episode to remind you of the concepts and for the benefit of new readers/listeners. This material is logical and additive, so it helps to understand the progression. So far in this series, we have laid out the development of our universe from...

The purpose of this series of podcasts is to share with you the gnosis that I have gleaned from my readings of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts. These podcasts are coming in the order as the cosmology of our universe unfolds, and I think it’s a lot easier for you to understand the material if you follow along in order. The particular book out of the Nag Hammadi that I am using as my primary reference i...

Today, we’re going to talk about how the ego of Logos led to the Fall and the Fall broke open into what became the Deficiency, also known as our universe. Our material universe is a deficient copy of the ethereal plane of the Paradise that the Aeons dreamed of. The great thing about this episode is it introduces another character to the play, and that one is called the 2nd Order of Powers. I’m ins...

The purpose of this podcast is to help us all achieve gnosis, which is knowledge of where we come from and who the originating consciousness is, and what is our relationship to that originating consciousness. So far, we have discussed the nature of the Father, which is the originating consciousness, and the Son, which is that originating consciousness made into a particular entity—that is called t...

Welcome to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We're synchronizing these episodes with the podcast called Gnostic Insights. For now, we're doing the same podcast on both platforms, mainly because I know that a lot of you here at the Gnostic Reformation are new to this talk. And even though we've been discussing concepts and articles that play upon these notions, you were never really given the ba...

Welcome to the Gnostic Reformation. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp and I'm your host. I've had a podcast available on the usual podcast apps for about 2 ½ years now. I don't know how many of my sub stack listeners have started out over on the Gnostic Insights podcast and how many of you overlap. Are you fresh sub stack listeners or are you people that are coming over from the Gnostic Insights podcast? Th...

Copyright 2022, all rights reserved This episode was previously published on the Gnostic Insights podcast on August 6th, 2022 . From the book, A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel of the Tripartite Tractate by Cyd Ropp, Ph. D. Let’s review for a moment. In the last chapter, the Totalities of the ALL had  awakened to themselves in fulfillment of the Father’s desire for innumerable points of v...

Welcome back to the Gnostic Reformation here on Substack. Two weeks ago I posted a post I meant to post as a podcast , but it apparently is in the column called posts. But there is an audio version of it, and it's called Live and Let Live . And that episode was an introduction to the concept of memes that we share and what brings people together and what pushes people apart. And we generally like...

Welcome to the Gnostic Reformation. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I'm your host. Today's episode is a continuation of the discussion of my simple model of memes out of my book, A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything . Today we are going to speak about a simple model of memes . In our previous episode, we discussed the basic model of memes. Memes are any thought a person can have—any piece of...

A listener to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack recommended a video this week about Near Death Experiences. NDEs. (Thank you, John!) It’s been quite a long time since I looked into the subject. He was right in saying the video was gnostic. In fact, the experiencer in the video I watched confirmed many of the spiritual aspects of the gnostic cosmology I share here. The video is called Neuro Surge...

The manner by which we are mining gnosis often involves using analogies between what is known and what is less tangible—”as below, so above” provides a handy tool for inferring otherwise undetectable aspects of the spiritual dimension. If we start with the premise of a singular consciousness that pre-exists everything that came after it, then we can follow the genesis of our universe from that con...

Bill Puett Interview, 08/24/23 We welcome my brother, Dr. Bill Puett. Bill is going to help clarify some issues with us between information versus knowledge, and what is a meme? Bill's doctorate is in philosophy and mine is in Classical Rhetoric, so I often turn to him for philosophical clarification of terms. Bill is a Professor Emeritus from the California University system. I love talking philo...

Since we've been talking about reincarnation a bit lately, I've had some correspondence from a couple of listeners who have wondered about this idea of karma because, as I say, it's your karma and your meme bundle that influence your next incarnation, or even your escape from this material plane and back up to the ethereal plane. So I would like to explain today what I mean by both memes and by ka...

Alternate Past Life Therapy from the book A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel of the Tripartite Tractate by Cyd Ropp Article contributed by Bill Puett, Ph. D., C.HT. For years some hypnotherapists have used past life therapy to bring about healing in clients who have present life issues rooted in the past. The mere recall of a past life can bring about understanding and healing. However, my...

There is much speculation concerning the mechanics of reincarnation. I recently posted this essay over on my Gnostic Insights podcast . I’m re-posting it here in order to open up the conversation. Here’s my simple explanation of reincarnation; let me know what you think of it. My brother and I have discussed the concept of reincarnation for over 50 years. Bill has always favored the concept of rei...

My brother Bill and I frequently pass articles and videos back and forth, as so many of us do nowadays. Recently, Bill recommended an article by David Bentley Hart and a video by Roger Penrose concerning today’s topic. Both were excellent and they prompted a couple of marathon phone calls between us. Bill is a doctor of philosophy and he knows all the jargon—he had to explain the concept of catego...

In our last episode, we began talking about human nature through the lens of a new Gnostic Psychology. This psychological approach has many roots in my thinking. It is not only based upon the Gnostic Gospel as I am interpreting it through the Tripartite Tractate book of the Nag Hammadi codices, but it is also based on concepts from my own “ Simple Explanation ” theory of everything. I have always...