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The Mother Universe
QUANTUM FLUCTUATION
Perhaps the closest modern parallel to the "Barbelo" may be found in the inflationary model, or the idea that our universe - and the big bang which produced it - emerged as the result of a "quantum fluctuation" in some sort of primieval cosmic vaccum.
In quantum physical terms, a vacuum is [...]
Whirling
"[This world] exists non-necessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual… The impact of this captivated realization upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without [...]
Mad Science of the Multiverse
The”anthropic principle” is a hybrid idea - part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument - which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability.
It asks the questions: why does our universe seem fine-tuned for human life? Did an Intelligent Designer plan this universe just for us, or is it simply one of many universes in a larger multiverse, the random byproduct of an endless process of creation with no beginning and no end?
The Incredibly Strange Story of Intelligent Design
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #97, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of alternative human origins theories and their links to Gnostic mythology!
No Outside
"It is best to try to avoid thinking of the Big Bang as an explosion, even though it is usually described that way. The problem with the word explosion is this: it conjures an image in the mind's eye that the Big Bang should be imagined from the outside, with the universe going "boom" and [...]
Divine Implosion
"The universe is not born of the design or act of a genetic God, particularly since the genetic God in the Bible is only a degenerate God. The universe emerges from the process of the infinite retreating upon itself, as if this infinite were characterized by a kind of impurity. This retraction of the infinite [...]
Rev Max Interview by Tim Boucher
Rev Max (a pseudonym) is the deranged mind behind Enemies.com, the weird art website which first exposed me to gnostic myths and symbols in the late 1990’s. I didn’t actually get really into gnostic thought until several years later, but I always really loved Max’s out-there artistic vision. So I was very excited when earlier [...]
Star Wars
My wife and I drove to see the new Star Wars movie on sunday. I had spent the better part of the previous night and most of that morning trying to get trackbacks to work on this blog but to no avail. I also managed to somehow break my epson 1280 whilst cleaning it with [...]
The Demiurge and Disorder
The Biblical creator god's greatest flaw is his ignorance - he literally does not understand where he came from. The Demiurge's limited awareness made him the target of many cruel jokes in the gnostic scriptures, not least of which were the insulting nicknames he was given:
"This gloomy ruler has three names: "The first name [...]
The Barbelo
Beautiful and mysterious, the goddess “Barbelo” was born as the Alien God saw his own reflection in “the water of life” and fell in love.
“His thought became active” and Barbelo emerged from this “luminous water” as the Alien’s God’s “first Thought… She became the universal womb, for she precedes everything.” [1]
ROLE OF THE [...]
