Creator God
Playing God in Eden
These Gnostic movies play with the theme of “mad scientist” - a demiurgic figure if ever there was one! Like the insane creator god of gnostic myth, the researchers and scientists in these films succumb to that most ancient of temptations, hubris - and they (and their creations) pay a heavy price for their folly.
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!
Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!
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 [...]
Pavlovs Gods
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #95, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of brainwashing and trauma in primitive Christianity, touching upon a number of shocking and exotic themes!
The Super-Ego and the Demiurge
I read a great book years ago by a guy named Karl Menninger called “Man Against Himself - the Psychology of Self-Destruction” (or something like that). Basically it was psychological study of the suicidal impulse.
One of the most fascinating and worthwhile insights in this book came in the chapter on alchoholism and addiction. Basically, Menninger’s [...]
Hidden History of the Flood
Almost every culture on Earth has some sort of flood myth - and the same haunting feeling accompanies them all, the same nagging suspicion that something so traumatic as to be almost unbearable might actually have happened.
Intense trauma can sometimes hide itself from awareness by short-circuiting the memory; this may be why so many of [...]
Those Nasty Nephilim
The idea that an omnipotent creator god could callously seek to exterminate an entire species for the sins of a few shocks and outrages the conscience, but the Biblical "flood" had nothing to do with human sin; instead, fallen angels had been skinny-dipping in the human gene-pool:
"To theologians and philosophers, it is [...]
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 [...]
