Jung and the new Gnosticism An excerpt from Stephan Hoeller's book The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead If one accepts the view expressed in the...
The Seven Sermons to the Dead, written by Basilides in Alexandria, the City where East meets West C. G. Jung The First Sermon The dead came back from...
Dear Friends, There is a discussion at Harry Potter for Seekers at the moment about how to bring the Path of Liberation into practice in everyday life. I am...
Excerpt from Psychology and Religion, by C. G. Jung If we allow ourselves to draw conclusions from modern mandalas we should ask people, first, whether they...
Excerpt from 'Christ, a Symbol of Self' by C. G. Jung Just as we have to remember the Gods of antiquity to appreciate the psychological value of the...
The following is something I posted on the Lectorium List today. Chris' posts on excerpts from Jung whose work I have studied a great deal in the past were...
I found further clarification on my questions about Jesus as symbol from Lesson 11. These excerpts helped me understand more clearly the Conspiracy Articles...
Chapter 3, Part 2 of The Coming New Man - Chapter Discussion Part II The Sevenfold Path of the Genesis of the New Man Chapter 3 This Chapter is titled...
I was just musing for a moment, and wanted to share a thought. There is a world of difference between someone who talks about the Gnosis and someone who lives...
Belief is a dangerous tool. It is the tool which our ego uses to support our clinging to ideas that we prefer. Belief precludes experience of truth, shutting...
water (chockmah) unchannelled flows freely, and will go anywhere To utilize, wash with drink, cook etc we must contain and channel the water(binah) In so...
One day Mara, the Evil One, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. he saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up on...
That's lovely. I'm hoping, though, that perhaps Mara is making a mistake here. That piece of truth, shining up out of the dust, is just the start of the...
Chapter 4, Part 2 of The Coming New Man - Chapter Discussion Part II The Sevenfold Path of the Genesis of the New Man Chapter 4 This Chapter is titled...
In 'The Nuctemeron of Appollonius of Tyana', Jan van Rijckenborgh describes what happens when we try to make that piece of truth into a belief. He describes...
There is a lovely quote of Mahatma Ghandi's, painted on a hoarding in St. Mary Axe in the City of London, that I pass by every day on the way to work. It...
... describes what happens when we try to make that piece of truth into a belief.< Michael: I think that the main problem of becoming dogmatised arises from...
My glimpses of meaning consist in moments of recognition of the underlying archetypal structure within the phenomenon that I am experiencing. The path itself...
The Buddha's Enlightenment This is from `The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon', translated from the Pali, selected and arranged by Bhikkhu ...
Hi Chris, Thank you for posting this on the Buddha's Enlightenment. I've been very interested in how the teachings of the Buddha which I've benefited from fit...
I received a question from someone new to the Teachings of Liberation who was going through quite a struggle deciding whether or not to continue going the Path...
Chapter 5, Part 2 of The Coming New Man - Chapter Discussion Part II The Sevenfold Path of the Genesis of the New Man Chapter 5 This Chapter is titled...
Dear Hans, Your post on "storms" while following the Path of Return is so helpful to me. As you know from my past postings, I have been filled with ambiguity...
Cathy <SnowyHome@...> wrote: Dear Hans, Could you and Chris respond to this question. I ask because you are both so committed to the Path. The question is:...
... Dear Hans, Your post on "storms" while following the Path of Return is so helpful to me. As you know from my past postings, I have been filled with...
Cathy: This ambiguity is like an open wound. Chris: If it's like an open wound, then it is a powerful focus for change. The gnosis affects us like that, it...
One of the biggest difficulties on the path of liberation is related to the fact that we are trying to become something but when it really comes down to the...
I watched a BBC documentary on the life of Buddha this weekend, unsatisfactory but it struck me how similar the life of Buddha is to the Gnostic journey. The...
I have benefited very much from the responses to my question on storms on the Path and the question on believing the teachings. It helps me not to dismiss the...
Of course I meant these responses help me "to dismiss the option of giving up." I wrote the opposite by mistake. If "not" is removed from that second...
