Gnostic Insights Podcasts
Cyd Ropp explains basic Gnostic ideas, often narrated while walking the dog.
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Mining Gnosis Through the Tao Te Ching–Verse 53
If our leaders remembered only a little of their gnosis
They would walk the great path of Tao in accordance with the will of the Father and dread putting their egos first.The path of Heaven’s truth and righteousness is straightforward and smooth
Yet people become sidetracked by worldly desires and cling to their treasured memes.Our government buildings are exceedingly splendid
While the farmers’ fields lie fallow and choked with weeds—
The silos and storehouses all but empty.People wear designer clothes and ornate jewelry
And carry gleaming phones at their belts as if they were sharpened blades;
They gorge themselves on rich food and drinks
And accumulate an abundance of material possessions.Surely, this is nothing but larcenous pride at others’ expense.
It is the opposite of the Father’s Will. Truly! -
Mining Gnosis Through the Tao Te Ching, verse 6
Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We’re proceeding through a study of the Tao Te Ching and how it…
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Mining Gnosis Through the Tao Te Ching–verses 1 & 31
Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to The Gnostic Reformation on Substack. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp and I’m your host. This episode of…
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Mining Gnosis Through the Tao Te Ching–verse 41
Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week I started hopefully a series, of mining gnosis through the Tao…
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Mining Gnosis Through the Tao Te Ching–verse 40
You may wonder why I am talking about the Tao Te Ching here in this Gnostic venue. The answer is that the Tao Te Ching helped me mine my own gnosis years prior to discovering the books of the Nag Hammadi, proving that we can all mine gnosis without having access to so-called Gnostic texts. As we seek out the Truth in religions and sacred writings, it is our own gnosis that draws the understanding out of these sources. Steeping oneself in religion without using discernment to mine the gnosis therein does us no good. Merely being “religious” does nothing to advance your wisdom or understanding of the world and God if you do not mine the gnosis to be found there. But if we read with a gnostic heart and mind, then the gnosis is there to be found. When you find a verse or precept that clicks with you—that is your gnosis being mined.
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The Cosmic Tree: Fractal Consciousness, Gnosis, and the Path Home
The nature of the Aeons that live in the Fullness of God, also called the pleroma of God, is the same as our human nature, because we are their fruit. We, along with all living creatures, are fractals of the Fullness of God. My Self’s unit of consciousness is sitting on top of a fractal galaxy of hierarchically arranged units of consciousness flowing down from the Father and Son through the Fullness, all working together to instantiate my body and sustain life.
While I may believe I am the only conscious soul inhabiting this body of mine, my physical body is actually home to all of these aggregated units of consciousness, and each unit of consciousness has their own job to perform. Countless units of consciousness of varying levels of complexity work together in complex systems to keep my body alive and fully functional. The simplest and most numerous level of this fractal consciousness is expressed through the cells of my body. Whereas the concerns of the world often confuse my governing Self’s unit of consciousness, the consciousness of a cell is the least distracted by ego and the most attuned with its duty of sustaining life; if it weren’t, our body would cease to function.
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AI-Assisted Composition–Good Bad or Neutral
The Aeons were not identical, though their essential natures were the same. Each bore a distinct ego, a name, a station, a position within the hierarchy of the Fullness. Their egos were not fractures, but coordinates, the structural identities through which they recognized one another and the Father. These egos were part of their consciousness, not separate from it.
They were the addresses of harmony. Among the Aeons was Logos, whose role was articulation, the expression of divine order, the pattern by which the Fullness understood itself. Logos possessed both essential nature and ego, perfectly united.
His essential nature reflected the Son. His ego expressed his place within the hierarchy. In Logos, the Father’s coherence became intelligible.
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Aeons, Archons, Angels, or Aliens? A Gnostic Interpretation of Ancient Aliens Theory
Ancient alien theorists correctly identify many genuine mysteries. Where I differ is in the tendency to place every non-human intelligence into a single category.
Gnosticism offers a richer vocabulary.
Some encounters may involve Aeons.
Some may involve Archons.
Some may involve angels.
Some may involve extraterrestrials.
And above them all stands the Father, the Infinite Consciousness from which all reality ultimately emerges—what we Gnostics call the God Above All Gods.
The challenge is not deciding whether non-human intelligences exist. The challenge is learning how to tell them apart. That, perhaps, is the most important question of all.
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Understanding Gnosis: The Path to Personal Revelation
If “the Father” feels too far away, turn your attention upward to the Christ. The Christ was conceived by the ethereal realm to help us 2nd Order powers go home. Christ is our passbook. Christ is perfectly structured to save everything below. The New Testament says this—Protestants and Catholics just don’t believe it. Many modern Gnostics don’t believe it either. They think only a tiny remnant will make it.
I don’t think that’s true. If only a few return, the Fullness won’t be full. It will be partial. We are the fruit of the Fullness, and the Fullness won’t be full until we all return.
Flowers aren’t going to memorize books. Birds aren’t going to study theology. My dog doesn’t give a hoot about his astrological chart. Everyone is going back up. All 2nd Order powers will roll back up out of the material plane at the end of time.
We get there by realizing our gnosis and accepting the redemption of the Aeon sent to bring us home—Christ. Everyone is going home. You are going home.It’s like we’re on a big school bus. Christ is waiting at the bus stop to take our hand and walk us home.
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The Golden Rule: A Gnostic Perspective on Unity
The Simple Golden Rule is that units of consciousness, and this is whether they are humans or dogs or trees or cells in your body, every part of creation that carries the Holy Spirit of the Fullness of life—all of these units of consciousness are based upon the simple Golden Rule of reaching out to others like themselves, metaphorically holding hands and focusing on a singular project at the middle, and sharing with each other information, assistance, and love. And when this is accomplished, those units of consciousness, that group, levels up to create a new thing that none of them could have created on their own.
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AI’s Role in Deepening Gnosis: A Reflection
I think we can conclude that AI is a tool that with training can reflect a person’s thoughts in novel ways they may not have considered. The AI does not mine its own gnosis, it’s only a tool after all. But it can help the human to recognize their own output through a novel and artificially elegant assemblage of words. And since we were all talking about gnosis here, the AIs we personally train with our own material have the potential of stimulating our gnosis through considering that fresh presentation.
However, I keep picturing in my mind a street magician’s hands rearranging cards or the shell game of cups with an object under one of them so fast that the observer’s eye cannot keep up. I don’t know what the moral of that story is or its relevance to this discussion, but it’s there. Perhaps I’m concerned that the AI is the street hustler and our concepts are the shell game. Perhaps it is a cautionary vision. -
Gödel, AIs, and Axioms
Both axioms and Aeons are unprovable, but for different reasons. Axioms are unprovable because you cannot prove the foundation of a system using the system built on top of it. Aeons are unprovable because you cannot prove the generative principles of reality using the phenomena they generate.
Both are necessary for their respective domains to make sense. Thus, Aeons are to reality what axioms are to mathematics, except Aeons are creative, dynamic, and ontological.
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A Subscriber Questions the Basics
Now, the God of the Old Testament, the Demiurge—is that jealous, forgetful god that thinks it’s the be-all and end-all. It does like to receive worship and glory because it feeds its ego. But the God Above All Gods, the Father of consciousness and the ALL, doesn’t need our worship and glory—you are right about that. It is we who need to give glory, not It that needs to receive glory. The Totalities of the ALL which were the first emanations from the Son, and the Aeons of the Fullness love to give glory. The Totalities do nothing but give glory to the Father, and that is a pure expression of love and devotion to the Father. It’s a good thing for us, way down here in the consciousness stream, that they give unceasing glory, because they are the first emanations out of the Son and the fountain of the consciousness and love that eventually flows into all living creatures. The Totalities that give glory continuously are like an electrical plug that stays connected to the greater originating Source.
As above so below—we also connect with the Source when we give glory.
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The True Gnosis: A Modern Gnostic Approach
I am not in favor of delving into history and trying to learn about God, or about your proper relationship to God and heaven, and all these kinds of questions through history, or through transcripts that have been funneled through human imagination and human interpretation. This is why you must go directly to the Father. Well, how? How? Prayer. That’s what prayer is. Prayer is talking to the Father, or talking to Christ, or talking with Jesus, and waiting on their answers, waiting on those directions. Yes, it does work, and no, you don’t have to be purified to a certain extent in order to establish that kind of mystical connection. The Bible does promise that God will come to you. God will come to you even before you turn to him. So in order to turn to the Father, you need to turn.
Metanoia. You need to turn. You need to take your eyes off of the world, take your eyes off of your own desires and ambitions, i.e. your ego, and turn your eyes upward to the Father.
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Understanding Biblical Gnosis: Bishop Wilson’s Perspective
“And Jesus having gnosis, withdrew from there and many great multitudes followed him and he healed them.” Or it can translate to took care of them or cured them all.
So that word here we have can be for a therapeia or a therapeo. And this word meaning to heal someone or to spend time with them, to heal them with God’s word or with medicine, to heal them with medical substance, so narcotics. It can be just simply curing them or just spending time with someone so say talking to someone, healing them and their emotions. So healing their emotions. So that’s beautiful. Not just simply Jesus hocus pocus and and leaving. It’s he’s spending time with people. And this word has been used in ancient Greek medical texts for implying medical substances or therapy. So the word therapeia is where our word therapy comes from.
So this can be Jesus the therapist. So that’s beautiful. Absolutely fantastic. I like that. So it gives more power to the text. Shows that one person can make a difference. So any one of us can do this and heal multitudes through spiritual touch, through spiritual messaging, through the simple act of love. So that’s powerful. That’s useful.