Boy howdy did we have a ton of technical issues with this episode, however, we made it through and had a wonderful conversation with the illustrious Andrew Phillip Smith about the Cathars, his new book (The Lost Teachings of the Cathars), the new edition of the definitive history of the Gnostics, now called The Secret History of the Gnostics, and some of his other projects. He’s really done a lot for the modern Gnostic community, and it was great to finally get to talk to him.

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We chat with Dr. James McGrath about the Mandaeans, their magic bowls, The Matrix, Doctor Who, and even more!

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The Manicheans were a very successful and influential Gnostic sect, and we continue our conversation about them with Dr. Timothy Pettipiece. We spend some time talking about their influences and why they aren’t as big in popular culture as Gnosticism. The answer might surprise you.

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Talk Gnosis After Dark #61

A lost sect of drug-taking mystical Christians who used ‘shrooms to see Christ? UFO cultists finding proof of their beliefs in ancient texts? Shapeshifting transformer Jesus? Christmas? All of this and more in our discussion on the Revelation of the Magi, an ancient text which retells the journey of the wise men to visit baby Jesus in a way that’ll blow your mind. Brent Landau from the University of Texas at Austin joins us to discuss this fascinating gospel.

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There are lots of interesting stories about Jesus both in the canonical Bible and in the extra-canonical sources. Some of these involve Jesus doing some things that looks suspiciously like magic, sorcery, and necromancy. We’ll explore some of those stories in this episode.

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We go into some detail about the varying stories of Jesus in India, plus we talk about the actual spread of Christianity to India and what that might have meant for the myth.

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Feature Image: SHRINE OF INFANT JESUS FESTIVAL-2010 by Narisetty licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

We continue our conversation with Monsignor Scott Rassbach about the angels of the Shem ha-Mephorash. He tells us a bit about his experiences, and he lets us know how you can get started with angels if you are so inclined.

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Seriously horrifying carved turnips are a great subject for a podcast right? No? Okay how about horror movies? Boy do we have opinions about horror movies. Many of them have fun gnostic interpretations. We chat about a bunch of them with horror movie aficionado and blogger Deacon John DiGilio.

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Among the theological geekery, we take all the tangents in this episode. We talk about seeking and seeing, the light within, and lots of silly off-topic stuff too.

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