Talk Gnosis

Author and scholar Jason Whittaker is our guide to the genius of William Blake: poet, visual artist, and religious maveric. We talk about Blake’s life, what sets his work apart, and how the religious mythology he created has some interesting comparisons to Gnosticism. PLUS: we find out if William Blake was doing esoteric sex rituals or not.

Check out Prof. Whittaker’s Blake site at: https://zoamorphosis.com/

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Scholar, scientist, spiritual teacher, and writer Ravi Ravindra has studied and practiced mysticism from both Eastern and Western and joins us to talk about his book “The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism” and more. From the Gurdjieff work to Hindusism to Zen he studied with some of the 20th Centuries great religious masters and he shares the wisdom of a life time of truly living as a mystic.

Check out Dr. Ravindra’s website at: http://www.ravindra.ca/

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The Rev. Shawn Garan is an Associate Pastor in the mainline, mainstream, United Church of Christ denomination, and he’s lately been studying a series of Gnostic texts with his community. Shawn comes on Talk Gnosis to talk about this exciting project, what he and his community have learned from the texts, how the mysticism and teachings of the Gnostics are relevant for those outside of the “Gnosticism” lable, some reflections on psychoanalysis and gnosis (he’s currently studying in the field) and more!

Check out Shawn’s work at http://www.shawngaran.com/

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Deacon Angie Wisk Nowell and Joanne Leone are both part of a special project within the Apostolic Johannite Church studying the great (and sometimes forgotten and neglected) female mystics of the Christian tradition (including its esoteric and Gnostic forms). They share the Gnosis of these amazing spiritual giants as well as the insights these greats inspired in them. Plus, we have a special guest host with Bishop Tim Mansfield returning to the show.

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Musician (and philosopher/theologian) Hunter Hunt-Hendrix of the Transcendental Metal band Liturgy shares her Gnosis with us. Tune in to hear Hunter discuss her Kabbalistic-Mystical-Gnosticy metal opera “Origin of the Alimonies,” her insights into Christian theology and mysticism, art, Blake, Nietzsche, the Death of God, and…you know it… so much more.

You may want to listen to Origin of the Alimonies first, stream it on Hunter’s YouTube channel and while there check out her vids where she discusses theology and philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/c/hunterhunthendrix

Buy the album and her past albums on Bandcamp at https://liturgy.bandcamp.com/

This is part of our bonus “Black Iron Prison” series where we talk to creators and thinkers who might be outside of the Gnostic world or academia about Gnostic themes that show up in their work.

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Legendary artist and cartoonist Jim Woodring has illustrated a new beautiful edition of the Gnostic allegorical head-trip, “Voyage to Arcturus.” Obscure while being influencial on some of our greatest creators (C.S. Lewis, Alan Moore, Clive Barker,) “Voyage to Arcturus” is like nothing else and only the master Woodring could illustrate it. Listen in as we talk about this bizarre Gnostic book as well as discuss Jim’s take on art, religion, and creativity.

Pre-order it at https://beehivebooks.com/illuminatededitions/a-voyage-to-arcturus-illustrated-by-jim-woodring

Take in more Jim through Google images https://cutt.ly/ybF0FfO

Jim Woodring’s homepage is https://www.jimwoodring.com/

This is part of our bonus “Black Iron Prison” series where we talk to creators and thinkers who might be outside of the Gnostic world or academia about Gnostic themes that show up in their work.

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Karen Weaver of Denver’s St. Mary Magdalene Parish guests on Talk Gnosis to talk about the Divine Feminine. Join in to discover the role the Divine Feminine plays in Gnosticism, Sophia and Mary and Mary and Mary, the important role of women in mystical religion, the Divine Feminine as reflected and understood in other esoteric, mystical, and magical traditions, and so much more.

Check out all the great stuff Karen and her community is up to at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ajcmagdalene

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