Gnosticism and Buddhism: 7 Surprising Convergences
In the first centuries of the Common Era, two radical spiritual movements…
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The Nymphon: Why the Valentinians Called Sex the Holy of Holies
The Nymphon, or bridal chamber, was one of the most provocative mysteries…
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The Archons Feed on Suffering: Gnosticism as Political Critique
The Nag Hammadi Library does not describe the archons as horned demons…
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Hermeticism and Gnosticism: Where They Meet and Where They Diverge
The Corpus Hermeticum and the Nag Hammadi Library were produced in the…
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Jung, Shadow Work, and Gnostic Pneuma: The Ancient Upstream
The contemporary enthusiasm for shadow work–bringing repressed emotions, fears, and desires into…
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Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade: A Gnostic Revival Burned
They called themselves Good Christians. Their enemies called them Cathars–from the Greek…
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Gnosticism vs Orthodox Christianity: What the Early Church Suppressed
For nearly two thousand years, the Christian story was told as if…
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Mandaeism: The Last Living Gnostic Religion
They call themselves the Nasoraeans–the guardians of secret knowledge–and they have persisted…
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Valentinian Gnosticism: The Most Systematic School of the Pleroma
Valentinian Gnosticism was one of the most sophisticated and influential forms of…
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Gnosis and the Near-Death Experience: What Ancient Cosmology Says
In 2001, a Dutch cardiologist published a study in The Lancet that…
