Miguel Conner explains how Gnosticism tackles the evil question.

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Welcome to Skeptiko where we explore controversial science with leading researchers thinkers and their critics. As the creator and host of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, Miguel Conner truly is veteran of a thousand existential deep dives. Through his interviews with nearly all of the notable esoteric thinkers of our time, Miguel has become recognized as a leading voice of not just Gnosticism, which has always been his foot in the door of your mind calling card, but the leader of, I think an undeniable alternative spirituality zeitgeist that we’re in the middle of.

So, it’s great to talk to Miguel… I’ve learned so much from him… he is one of my go-to mystics. It’s  great to have you Miguel, thanks for joining me. 

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Alex Tsakiris: [00:01:21] So, I twisted Miguel’s arm to come on and help me with this project that I’m working on that listeners have kind of had to endure in my kind of stumbling through the evil question. So we’re definitely going to want to talk about that. But Miguel also has some interesting things going on over at Aeon Byte, always does, including possibly a new podcast. Maybe we’ll talk a little bit about esoteric health and addiction.

Or how would you put that Miguel, what you’re thinking about doing?

Miguel Conner: [00:02:01] Well it’s been something at the back of my mind how there’s not that much media out there to deal specifically with the addiction and mental issues from an alternative science. I mean there’s a lot about health, podcasters and shows do it, but there’s really not much out there, and it’s something I can address from A) my experience in the Esoterica and B) as somebody who is a recovering drug addict, somebody who was told once upon a time by traditional medicine that I’m bipolar. And it seems the time is right, especially as, well we knew that the collective conscious as a humanity was breaking down but in 2020 it’s going to crumble. And I think we are in a time where people are slowly going to turn away from the traditional because the traditional keeps screwing us and finding alternative methods. Get away from the pharmaceutical industrial complex, get away from psychiatry, get away from the usual stuff and find alternatives that have worked. You know, the data tells us, like you always say, follow the data, and the data says alternative medicine, vitamins and other forgotten methods do work or can work or should be an option at the very least. 

Alex Tsakiris: [00:03:22] Yeah, absolutely. Maybe we will have a chance to talk more about that because I think it’s extremely timely, and as you said, it’s just in keeping with where everything’s going, especially, like you said, two old guys. I get that all the younger people totally get this, it’s about biohacking, it’s about ice baths, which I do, but it’s about breathing, it’s about yoga and it’s about, like you said, alternative medicine in the form of supplements and that kind of stuff. So yeah, I think there’s a ton there, and I think the intersection between that and kind of this extended consciousness science that continues to get all this traction that you talk about and I t...