Gnostic Insights Podcasts
Cyd Ropp explains basic Gnostic ideas, often narrated while walking the dog.
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Archons of the Deficiency
Archons are forces of the deficiency that feed on negativity. Created by the Demiurge as attack soldiers in the never-ending war, archons seek to lead us astray and create misery.
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Consciousness and Free Will
Every unit of consciousness has the free will to fulfill or contradict its responsibilities. The more complex the unit of consciousness, the more opportunities it has to exercise free will.
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Archetypes and Complex Fractals
Our lives are reenactments of dramas written long before our births, and we find ourselves playing out scenes populated by archetypal characters and complex fractal stories.
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The Thunder, Perfect Mind
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
and the word whose appearance is multiple.
I am the utterance of my name. -
I Am Not Me–The Self
For most people, the answer to “who am I?” is that I am my self-aware sense of “me” encased in this body of mine. Yes, we are that, but we are also the things we love and hate, plus the record of our actions in this world, overlaid upon a perfect fractal echo of God’s mind.
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A Simple Model of Memes, Pt. 2–Religious Memes
A tour of exoteric and esoteric religious memes from around the world. What do they have in common, and how do they differ?
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A Simple Model of Memes, Pt. 1–“Live and Let Live”
Memes are the cultural expressions of societies, and their content is information. Memes, in other words, are the “stuff” of symbolic thought. Everyone holds their own personal bundle of memes tightly against their soul, and these memes influence every aspect of our lives.
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Evolution and Conscious Design
Everything in the cosmos is created through aeonic principles embodied in all units of consciousness, and each governing Unit of Consciousness evolves according to personal inclination and ability.
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A Fractal Model of Human Nature
Within the confines of my skin, countless units of consciousness patterned after the Aeons, work together to keep me alive and fully functional.
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Who, What, and Why Is the Christ?
The Aeons of the Fullness gave glory to their Father while praying for a helper to bring peace to the Deficiency and restoration to Logos.
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Why Not Be Sinful?
If all souls eventually wind up in Paradise, then why not lead a sinful life? What is the point of virtue?
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Ego vs. Self
We humans are each engaged in a personal battle between our Ego and our Higher Self. One of them is devoted to our body, the other to reaching out to others with love…
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Episode 8 Redemption and Paradise
The Aeons of the Fullness produced a Fruit bearing the image of their Father; and that Fruit–the Christ–took charge of the economy and proceeded to bring Redemption, one soul at a time.
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Episode 7 Creating our Universe
Our world brings about a material version of the Paradise dreamed of by the Fullness, with 2nd Order Powers mixing together with the Deficiency of the Fall.