Gnostic Insights

Is there a qualitative difference between life forms and the potential consciousness of computers and robots? Why is it that "meat" levels up to make more complex, conscious assemblages, whereas "mud" can't rise above its molecular level aggregations? Hint: perhaps it's the difference between the Demiurge and the Pleroma.

Much to its chagrin, the demiurge cannot create life or imbue consciousness into dead matter. This episode examines viruses and organoids to uncover the fine line between living and non-living forms, and asks the question: what is life?

This brain organoid shows odd toroidal clumps of tissue. Organoids cannot level up to form organs.

Bacteriophage virus. This machine is a molecule. It is not alive.

SARS Covid-19 virus cross-section, displaying coiled RNA payload. A molecule. Viruses are not alive.

One cool thing about slime molds is that they are individual, single-celled organisms, yet when conditions call for it, they come together and form one fully coordinated body. Once in that aggregated body, the mold acts according to the Simple Golden Rule, with one mind, one will, and one goal, just like the Pleroma.

This is the donut-shaped geometric form known as a torus. This torus is the shape of consciousness, called a unit of consciousness in the Simple Explanation.

The hierarchy of the Pleroma of God resembles a slime mold colony that sits in Oneness, dreaming of Paradise

Our universe is comprised of fractal units of consciousness of the Fullness of God, each with their own point-of-view. These monads come into our universe with all of the original consciousness of the Father and the Son, however the knowledge contained is on a need-to-know basis.

In this ground-breaking episode, we take a close look at David Bentley Hart's recent translation of the New Testament, and how his more accurate rendering of the original Greek brings the New Testament fully in line with the concepts of Gnosticism. While Hart's translation clearly removes eternal damnation from Christianity, Dr. Ropp takes it a step further and suggests that the term "aion" should not be translated as a unit of time, an "Age," but rather as a unit of consciousness--an "Aeon" of the Pleroma. This single shift in translation changes everything!

Truth is truth. Gnosis is gnosis. And do you know what isn't gnosis? Academia.  We have no need of knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Knowledge should be used to inform your own gnosis. Knowledge should be weighed by the scales of your own discernment.  The purpose of reading, writing, and arithmetic is to aid your own recall of gnosis.  The purpose of scholarship, if you want to be a gnostic scholar, is to enhance your practice of gnosis. It is far better to be a gnostic with little formal education, than a scholar with little gnosis.

Other words for the Gnostic word "pleroma" include the "Fullness," the "All," the "Totalities," and "the circle of divine attributes," which gives you a pretty good idea of what pleroma means. This episode challenges the notion that there's something wrong and "unChristian" about the pleroma.

Who and what is the "Son" presented in the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi library? The Son makes it possible for us to infer who the inexpressible Father is. This episode looks deep into the gnosis of the Son. Not for beginners...

The Gnostic God is known as "The Father" and "The God Above All Gods." This Father is definitely not the wrathful God of the Old Testament called Jehovah. Confused? No need. Take a deep dive into The Father, as laid out by the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi scrolls.

The Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is an ancient Chinese collection of 81 wisdom verses. In the Simple Explanation model, the Tao spoken of by Lao Tzu refers to the metaversal information and principles of organization that have informed our universe since the moment before creation. In gnostic terms, we call this the Fullness of God. This episode presents Verse 21 of the Tao Te Ching through the lens of both the Simple Explanation and the Gnostic Gospel Illuminated.