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gay-jesus, gay-spirituality, gnostic-gospels, gnosticism, jesus
Sweetness linkness
08.21.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Sweetness linkness“Gay Jesus art sparks violence… and hope” from MyOutSpirit. “Could the gnostic gospels be considered fanfic?” from the Blind Bookworm.
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empire, gnosticism, good-earth, kingdom-of-god, material-world, naturalism
Good earth gnosticism
08.16.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Good earth gnosticismGnosticism gets a lot of guff for seeing the material world as something to be escaped from. I think that’s a caricature of gnosticism. Sure, the Used Car Salesman who created the world set up a lemon of a universe, but that doesn’t mean gnosticism has to be anti-body and anti-earth. Even if many flavors […]
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gnosticism, hbo, john-from-cininnati, sophia
The gnosticism of John from Cincinnati
08.14.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI don’t know how many of you watch HBO’s John From Cincinanti. The long and short of it is that the Second Coming has come to a run down stretch of beach south of San Diego. Instead of Jesus of Nazareth, he’s John from Cincinnati. A recurring theme is John’s incomprehensibility. He just almost makes […]
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empire, evil, gnosticism, gnostics, theodicy
The empire never ended
I finished up Philip K. Dick’s freaky book VALIS last night. It’s gnostic, and if there’s anything consistently true about Gnostic writing, it’s that it’s freaky. “Phildickian” gnosticism does not disappoint on that account. There’s the VALIS—the Vast Active Living Intelligence System—which controls the world and even creates it. There’s the Black Iron Prison, which […]
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gnosticism, god, lost, phil-k-dick, valis
Finding and misplacing god
07.24.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAfter browsing some gnostic bloggers, I went and picked up a copy of VALIS, one of Phil K. Dick’s last novels. It’s a trip. He writes: “They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep him.” Assuming they do let you keep God, the problems come when […]
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gnosticism, lectio, lectio-divina, mandaean, spiritual-disciplines, spiritual-reading, tao-te-ching, unamuno
Sample texts for practicing Spiritual Reading
07.21.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Sample texts for practicing Spiritual ReadingHere are some sample texts for trying out Spiritual Reading:
