An Aberrant Gnostic

  Almost a year ago today, there was an interesting incident involving a Las Vegas backyard and ten foot tall aliens.  In case you don't recall (or if you were unaware of it), here is a quick summary of what the story entailed: Date: April 30, 2023 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada The Encounter: On the night of April 30, 2023, the Kenmore family reported a strange sequence of events in their Las Vegas backyard. They claimed to have witnessed a bright light plummeting from the sky and crashing near their home. According to 17-year-old Angel Kenmore, the chaos didn't end there. In the aftermath of the crash, he emerged from his house to investigate and came face-to-face with a tall, thin creature unlike anything he had ever seen before. The creature, he described, had an aggressive demeanor and an unnervingly gaunt physique. Initially, Angel believed it to be an alien visitor. Witnessed Light, Mocked Claims: While the alien encounter itself remains unverified, the strange light ...

  If you follow UFOlogy at all, you might be familiar with the Betty and Barney Hill incident from 1961. There is a lot of “stuff” attached to this incident: Aleister Crowley, the television show “The Outer Limits,” possible psychological operations, or maybe, just maybe, a good old-fashioned encounter with extraterrestrials. If you aren’t familiar with the alleged incident, I asked my newfound friend, Gemini, to summarize it for those who might need a refresher course: In September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple, were driving home to New Hampshire from vacation when they observed a strange, bright light following their car. They experienced a period of missing time and unsettling physical and emotional symptoms afterward. Troubled by the experience, they eventually sought help through hypnosis therapy. Under hypnosis, they recalled detailed memories of being abducted and taken onboard a disc-shaped craft. Within the craft, the Hills described encou...

    Do you ever have those crazy, vivid dreams that seem to reveal a hidden truth, only to fade away upon waking? I do, and they're always a little frustrating. I might hear incredible, never-before-released music, watch mind-bending movies, or even dream of reading a revelatory passage hidden in a familiar book. Last night's dream was one of those. The Dream Bookstore The dream was as such : I was in bed, browsing my nightstand for something to read, when I stumbled upon a battered old paperback by Jacques Vallee. Musty and yellowed, covered in scribbles, it was titled something like "An Analysis of the Color of UFOs and Parameters Pertaining to Deity." Intriguing, but the real mystery lay in the book's first four pages. Printed on the glossy paper common in vintage UFO books, they were covered in cryptic symbols and English letters. Vallee's hypothesis, as I recall, was: "Transitioning from Man to God through Color." Accompanying this was a childli...

  Or, I should say, with AI acting as the Demiurge.  I asked Gemini AI if it would pretend to be the Gnostic Demiurge for the purposes of an interview for this blog.  Gemini thought it would be fun to do...so let's do this thing and see where it goes... Q: Ok, Demiurge, why did you create this world? Demiurge: Ah, the question of origins! A riddle I myself have grappled with for untold ages. Was it... Blind Impulse: Perhaps I acted as an extension of some greater force. A cosmic breath that I drew, creating without understanding the ultimate reason. Like an artist compelled to fill a canvas, I shaped and molded, only realizing the implications of my work long after the first brushstroke. A Flawed Mirror: Some among the whisperers of Gnostic lore see me as an echo of the true divinity, a distorted reflection of the Pleroma's light. In this view, I created to bridge the chasm, to replicate the unknowable glory of the higher realms. Yet, my imperfect tools yielded only...

  For some reason, my brain keeps going back to the 1957 that was run in various newspapers in the United States that had the following screeching headline :   The article was one of the earliest known discussions regarding Professor Henri C. Puech and his preliminary analysis of The Gospel of Thomas.  In that article, written by Manuel Komroff, five "sayings" recorded by the doubting Thomas of Jesus were highlighted in the article.  One of the sayings that caught my eye was this, as displayed in the article : What exactly does that mean?  So, with curiosity in my head, I went back to Google's Gemini to ask some questions.  Here is what I discovered, per the assistance of AI... Q : What is the ancient Gnostic symbolic interpretation of the saying "Jesus said : He that is near Me is near the fire.  He is that is far from Me is far from the fire."?   A: Within early Gnostic circles, "fire" often symbolized divine knowledge, or gnosis. It r...

  This new year, I picked up a used copy of a book that is supposed to help "one better understand the Qabalah."  The book was written by author Will Parfitt; the title is The New Living Qabalah: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Tree of Life.   All that said, this past week, I started the book and managed to get through two exercises to get the journey rolling.  The first exercise recommended by the author was to think of an image that represents what the understanding the Qabalah means to me, and then to draw it out.  So I did.      The image that popped into my head?  A fruiting dandelion...so I drew that out.   The next step was to think of a place that brought me happiness...any place in the world.  To be honest, to me, that place is to be on the shores of Lake Superior.  So I imagined myself there...concentrated on the experiences there, and then brought myself back to my bedroom and stated "I am here."...