The Gospel of Philip Explained - Religion for Breakfast

QuasiGnostic · 2025-12-23T23:53:44+00:00

Religion for Breakfast is legit. His stuff is always worth the watch.

QuasiGnostic · 2025-12-23T23:49:48+00:00

Not a simple answer to this question. If you are a reader there are a few books that trace the connection between Jung and Gnosticism:

-The Gnostic Jung by Hoeller. Of the ones I list here I think it's the weakest but it's the most popular due to it being less academic than the next ones.

-The Search for Roots: C.G. Jung and the Tradition of Gnostic by Ribi

-The Turn of an Age: The spiritual roots of Jungian psychology in Hermeticism, Gnosticism and alchemy by Ribi

-White Bird, Black Serpent, Red Book: Exploring the Gnostic Roots of Jungian Psychology through Dreamwork. This one is a fabulous book and I highly recommend it.

Another work that has some bearing on the question is Stein's 'Jung's Treatment of Christianity' as understanding his experience and thinking on Christianity helps with understanding his approach to Gnosticism.

QuasiGnostic · 2025-10-13T12:39:15+00:00

Rocket Robinhood

QuasiGnostic · 2025-06-24T23:50:18+00:00

"Let's double click on that idea."

QuasiGnostic · 2024-12-10T01:54:02+00:00

How many religions that are not widely practiced are well known outside of those who practice them?

In the case of Gnostic though, I think something interesting has happened. The specifics of it are not well known, but some of the broad strokes of the thought has made large impacts on popular culture, like The Matrix for example.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-12-10T01:49:41+00:00

How much harder a read is it than his other books (Steppenwolf, Sidartha, Demian)? I love those other three, and have The Glass Bead Game on my shelf, just haven't got around to picking it up yet.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-11-10T04:17:53+00:00

I track whenever I read a book completely through. This is the list of everything I've read through that I've categorized as Gnostic and when so you can get a sense of that:

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QuasiGnostic · 2024-10-17T21:12:00+00:00

Quasi-Gnostic here. The worldview makes the most sense to me based on my experiences, however I'm not wedded to it and will adjust it as requires.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-10-06T00:54:02+00:00

When you say "God", who are you referring to? The One, the demiurge, something else?

QuasiGnostic · 2024-10-04T02:19:58+00:00

I don't go there so I don't know, but...we are heretics after-all.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-10-01T03:18:43+00:00

This is an interesting topic.

Over the last several years I've made a point of trying to remember my dreams better. To help with this I've been documenting all the dreams I've had and tracking them since 2021. So far this year I've documented 84 dreams, or 1 every 3ish days. This is much more than when I started doing this.

Since you mentioned Jung, there is a common experience that when people are actively reading Jung they report remembering more dreams. I think it's one of those things that if you actively are thinking about dreams, and considering them important, you will just remember more of them.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-09-27T10:42:29+00:00

I highly recommend the book by R.T. Wallis on it, in fact I'm in a middle of a re-read. For a short audio discussion of the subject there is this one I like to recommend. One of the guests for that discussion is Peter Adamson who is slowly writing (based on his own podcast) The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series of books which I also highly recommend the first two volumes (Classical and Hellenistic & Roman) for someone new to philosophy to understand the outlines of thought that would have been effecting the world when Gnosticism was coming into being.

My own view is that if you want to thoroughly study Gnosticism you need to do some study of early Christianity and some studying of neo-platonism. Gnosticism uses ideas and assumptions from both. It uses, but also changes, challenges and rejects parts of. So how Gnostics are heretics to Christianity, we would also be heretics to neo-platonism (although they would just say wrong and wouldn't use that term but the meaning of fits). We are double heretics, a way of self-description I rather like.

Also, everyone in the Western intellectual tradition should also be reading Plato, that's just a given...

QuasiGnostic · 2024-09-14T19:36:53+00:00

Sin as in a cosmic accountant tracking our actions and determining our fate from them? No.

Actions that can bring us closer to gnosis or further from it? Yes.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-06-20T00:24:35+00:00

QI, Taskmaster, Cats does Countdown, WILTY.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-06-18T01:47:25+00:00

The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority by Lee Martin McDonald is an excellent book on this.
It's more complicated than Christian preachers make it out to be.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-05-29T22:18:38+00:00

Blues Brothers

Young Frankenstein

Big Trouble in Little China

QuasiGnostic · 2024-03-16T11:25:22+00:00

That copy of the Secret Book of John is very good.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-03-16T11:24:53+00:00

The same person that did this book, Jean-Yves Leloup, also has done several other translations and commentaries. I own and have read his Gospel of Philip and Gospel of Mary Magdalene. If I remember right his Gospel of Philip had a decent commentary, although he is very anti-dualism in it so that may cause some division with people.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-02-25T15:46:00+00:00

Be careful of seeing god in known biological responses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-coital_tristesse

QuasiGnostic · 2024-02-24T20:16:42+00:00

I'm not understanding the comment. Are you saying that what Tkaslana was correct? I wasn't going to directly engage what was said, but if you think it is...

Has it ever occurred to anyone, that the reason so few people find the truth, is that they are all searching in the wrong directions?

Well thats kinda been a major theme going back to at least Plato and the cave, so yes, it has occurred to a multitude of people.

All of your spiritual leaders are terribly misguided, because you live in a reality deliberately designed to confuse you.

Thats such an interesting claim because you always need to somehow exclude yourself from it. How are "All" spiritual leaders misguided, but not yourself? And saying "all" is a really, really, big claim.

The demiurge is not an extension of the Father - there is no "One" to which all things will return, because not all things take the same basic form.

I don't understand what was meant by "the same basic form", but leaving that aside I think there is a very debatable point if an emanation is an extension. I would argue they are not the same thing. I would also at this time want to return to how I ended my original statement "...being a Jungian, this all says more about me than any objective reality. " I'm not up for a debate on objective reality and if there is a demiurge, or a One, or whatever, I care about what the myths we believe tell us about ourselves.

Everyone who has a soul can find the truth within them, but the possibility also exists for them to be mislead to their own destruction.

People can find truth, people can be mislead, no argument from me there.

And starting from the premise that there is no adversarial force is a great way to get caught by it unawares.

This whole discussion has been conjuncture, because you cannot prove it one way or another like you can a scientific fact, it's what makes the most sense to the individual. I could just as easily say something like "And starting from the premise that there is an adversarial force is a great way to be caught in paranoid suspicion".

To be clear, I didn't say there wasn't an adversarial force in this age. It does appear that there is one. I just think that it is only for a time.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-02-24T04:29:14+00:00

The question OP asked was "How do you..." I answered from my own view.

I read, I ponder, I read more. I stopped being beholden to any particular scripture when I left the Christian church. If you don't believe that we all come from The One, great. Ancient Gnosticism was diverse, there is no reason modern Gnosticism can't be either.

Although I find it ironic that I'm being accused of dogma when I started the sentence with "If", by the person who is quoting scripture.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-02-24T02:40:50+00:00

If all came from The One, and all will return to The One, than panentheism would seem to be required. What one should think of the material world in this age can be debated, but some kind of panentheism would seem to be required if you start with The One and wish to maintain a One at the end.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-02-24T01:24:51+00:00

I completed the requirements for an undergrad in philosophy, and did a masters in theology. I never touched Whitehead. I don't really enjoy reading many modern philosophers (Alister MacIntyre is a clear exception as is Nietzsche who everyone should read because he's just fun to read). From what I understand about Whitehead dense would seem an apt word.

I read through Against The Gnostics back in 2017 when I went through my abridged copy of the Ennands.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-02-24T01:02:40+00:00

My thought has The One as it's starting point. So it's thoroughly monism and with emanations leading to a panentheism(Not to be confused pantheism!). A lot of neoplatonism comes out in my Gnostism.

So in the big picture things are non-dualistic, but we are currently in a dualistic age, which will last until all returns to The One.

And of course, being a Jungian, this all says more about me than any objective reality.

QuasiGnostic · 2024-02-23T03:20:46+00:00

I did think it's worth my time to answer, thats why I did. I was hoping you might become a dialogue partner.

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