Gnostic Insights

Over the past two podcast episodes, you’ve been introduced to a number of Simple Explanation memes, and we’re building up a nice sized meme chord of shared definitions. We have taken a brief tour of exoteric and esoteric religious memes, and the roles these memes play within various religious traditions. We have also learned that several major religious traditions advocate sh...

Today’s episode is a continuation of a discussion of my simple model of memes out of my book,

Memes are the cultural expressions of societies, and their content is information. Memes, in other words, are the “stuff” of symbolic thought. Everyone holds their own personal bundle of memes tightly against their soul, and these memes influence every aspect of our lives.

Today I am going to read you a chapter out of my book, A Simple Explanation of A...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. For the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at the ancient Chinese wisdom book called the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. I shared with you some verses, and I’ve shared with you the means by which I translate it into Gnostic terminology.

Since beginning this series, one of my most reg...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We’re proceeding through a study of the Tao Te Ching and how it relates to our Gnostic beliefs. Today we’re going to have a look at verse six of the Tao Te Ching.

First, I’ll read the version translated by David Bentley Hart in his Tao Te Ching, A New Translation. It goes like this.

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