Teaser for 'How The Gnostics Got Their Visions' 09/24/2011

HOW THE GNOSTICS GOT THEIR VISIONS MAIN

Topics Discussed:

--Interesting ways the ancients gained higher states of consciousness, including the possibility it was a gas leak that made the Oracle at Delphi a mystic place.

--Analyzing the various Gnostic rituals, and what scholars have missed in many of them.

--If some Gnostic sects used DMT to gain their visions, how did they gain it from plants that are found in South America?

--New scholarship showing new wrinkles in the rituals of the Mandaeans.

--Luke shares how he reconstructed the Gnostic rites and experienced their same visions.

And much more!!!

Our rebroadcast continues with last week's Apocalypse them, but this time it’s all about the New Age end of the world scenario. We take a full a swipe at the 2012 hysteria in all its aspects: understanding the Mayan and other pre-Colombian prophecies, the gross misinterpretations by modern occultists, the predicted outcomes such as environmental carnage or cosmic consciousness, the mythology of Atlantis, and even the visions of such modern soothsayers as Edgar Cayce. And, believe it or not, why the year 2012 does point to a global cataclysm supported by science and several other religions.  So we party like it’s 2011 in the meantime.  Our guest will be Frank Joseph, author of Atlantis and 2012: The Science of the Lost Civilization and the Prophecies of the Maya.

Next week we discuss one of the greatest Kabbalists in all of history and his legacy that not only crystallized ancient Gnosticism but transformed Judaism forever.  And that is the great Rabbi Isaac Luria.  Our guest will be Yakov-Leib HaKohain, author of Kabbalah and the Interpretation of Dreams, For the Sake of God: An Answer to Jung and To Die for the People: A Jewish Interpretation of the Crucifixion.

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