Blognosis
“Science is gnostic and superstition is gnostic; power, counter-power, and lack of power are gnostic; left is gnostic and right is gnostic; Hegel is gnostic and Marx is gnostic; Freud is gnostic and Jung is gnostic; all things and their opposites are equally gnostic. ” - Ioan Culianu
Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers Revisited - Tentacle sex
A one-off tribute to Francesca Myman’s fantastic Vintage Octopus Pulp site, featuring a gallery of tentacle sex themed comic book covers and rock art posters.
Interview with Jordan Stratford
When I met Jordan Stratford + online I was really excited to have the opportunity to talk to him, because our stories complement each others’ so well. I set up one of the first big Gnostic sites on the web in the mid-90s but wound up getting initiated as a priest in an African witchcraft [...]
“Five Criticisms of Modern Gnosticism”
Interesting commentary from Jordan Stratford+ and Eckhart Christopher on modern gnosticism.
I am probably profoundly misunderstanding them, but they seem to be saying that Modern gnosticism derives its authority, legitimacy, succession, etc solely from the RCC - the one that Benedict is in charge of now, and John Paul before him, etc. - and that [...]
The Spirit of Terrorism
Jean Baudrillard. The Spirit of Terrorism.
“It is very logically, and inexorably, that the (literally: “rise to power of power”) exacerbates a will to destroy it. And power is complicit with its own destruction. When the two towers collapsed, one could feel that they answered the suicide of the kamikazes by their own suicide. It [...]
The best thing ever
click on pic - via Kylark
The Watermelon Hunter
A favorite sufi parable:
The Watermelon Hunter
Once upon a time there was a man who strayed from his own country into the world known as the Land of Fools. He soon saw a number of people flying in terror from a field where they had been trying to reap wheat. “There is a monster in that [...]
Holy Canoley!
OK, I’ll admit it, I was ego-surfing, but this really does blow my mind - I’m honestly mystified when I imagine that this site might figure in anyone’s dreams or spiritual life, let alone in such a dramatic way:
http://themirror.livejournal.com/172175.html
I had what might be the most insane dream I have ever had in my life last [...]
They Live Redux
ultimate gnostic movie
Vampires
Interesting:
“Vampires, along with other automata and hell-beings created by the sick fantasies of human invention, swell in the qliphotic regions of the nightside of the Tree of Life. The magician crossing the qliphotic path of Characith (whose kala is cunnilingus) is warned to avoid lingering here too long lest he become an addict and vampire. [...]
Gnosticism & gnostics, witches and witchcraft
One of my pet peeves is the sort of self-inflated way that people who are into Wicca call it “The Craft,” as though Wicca represents some sort of ancient art that mankind has recognized as the one and only “craft” for thousands of years… it’s not that different from Christians who call refer to their [...]
