Erik Davis Gnosticism and Gnosis

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Lecture 1 - The Other Gospels: 00:00 • Lecture 2 - The Perfect Light: 00:23:25 • Lecture 3 - Jesus Tricked Everyone: 00:52:03 • Lecture 4 - The Alien Man: 01:20:51 • Lecture 5 - Archons Rule: 01:49:40 • Lecture 6 - Poesis: 02:25:19 • Lecture 7 - The Pink Light: 02:55:30 • Lecture 8 - Pharmakognosis: 03:27:00 • • Lecture 1 readings: • Unless otherwise mentioned, all readings from W. Barnstone’s necessary collection The Other Bible, now known as The Gnostic Bible (https://amzn.to/2H0QPwv). • • Excerpts from “The Gospel of Thomas” in The Gnostic Bible (verses 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 19, 24, 28, 29, 37, 39, 42, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 61, 62, 70, 777, 89, 91, 108, 113); • • Richard Smoley: “Who Were the Gnostics?”, from his great survey Forbidden Faith (https://amzn.to/2VaVQGu). • • Excerpts from “The Gospel of Philip” in The Gnostic Bible (“Names,” “Rulers,” “Jesus Tricked Everyone,” “The Lost,” “Seeing,” “God is a Man-Eater,” “Leaving the World,” “Joseph and the Wooden Cross,” “Superiority of Chrism to Baptism,” “Laughing Christ,” “Knowledge of Self,” “Slaves and Freedom,” “Root of Evil,” “The Perfect Light”) • • Lecture 2 readings: • • Excerpts from “The Gospel of Philip” in The Gnostic Bible, p. 257 (the brief sections called “Names,” “Rulers,” “Jesus Tricked Everyone,” “The Lost,” “Seeing,” “God is a Man-Eater,” “Leaving the World,” “Joseph and the Wooden Cross,” “Superiority of Chrism to Baptism,” “Laughing Christ,” “Knowledge of Self,” “Slaves and Freedom,” “Root of Evil,” “The Perfect Light”) • • Elaine Pagels: “Gnosis: Self-Knowledge as Knowledge of God,” in The Gnostic Gospels, p. 119 (https://amzn.to/2VjB7jX) • • Lecture 3 readings: • • “On the Origin of the World” in The Gnostic Bible • • Ioan Couliano: “Interplanetary Tours”, from Out of this World (https://amzn.to/2EtJhR7) • • Lecture 4 readings: • • Hans Jonas: “Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40982356...) • • Rene Daumal: “Provocations to Self Denial” (https://amzn.to/2XoYzOm) • • Lecture 5 readings: • • Antonin Artaud: “To Have Done with the Judgment of God” (http://surrealism-plays.com/Artaud.html) • • Franz Kafka: selected “Parables” (https://amzn.to/2H2xc71) • • William Burroughs: “Nova Express” (pages 1-8) (https://amzn.to/2XlN1LV) • • Lecture 6 readings: • • Harold Bloom: “A Prelude to Gnosis” from Agon (https://amzn.to/2U6BHBe) • • A.R. Ammons: “For Harold Bloom” (https://amzn.to/2VhOzVs) • • June Singer: “The Evolution of the Soul” (https://jungchicago.org/store/index.p...) • • Eric G. Wilson: “The Dark Art” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/41402824...) • • Lecture 7 readings: • • Philip K. Dick: “The Electric Ant” (http://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd077-0.html) • • Philip K. Dick: “How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” (https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to...) • • Lecture 8 readings: • • Rene Daumal: “The Determining Memory” (https://amzn.to/2Xfar5A) • • Dale Pendell: “Das Mutterkorn/The Luminosity of Sentient Dimensions” (https://amzn.to/2H0S7rl) • • John Lilly: “Controls Below Human Awareness” (https://amzn.to/2U26MWF) • ________________ • • Website: https://techgnosis.com/ • Twitter: / erik_davis • Podcast: https://expandingmind.podbean.com/ • Papers: https://rice.academia.edu/ErikDavis • Books: • High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis: https://amzn.to/2MilyFK • Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica by Erik Davis: https://amzn.to/2FK59J6 • TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis: https://amzn.to/2S1iSSc

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