Dr. Seuss Does Gnosticism

by drmsheiser | Dec 20, 2010

Give this brilliant Dr. Seuss-ized version of the Gnostic creation myth a read (it’s also funny if you are familiar with Gnosticism). Mark Goodacre — if you read this, this guy deserves an A for something!

Were the Ancient Gnostics Great Intellectuals?

by drmsheiser | Mar 21, 2014 | Gnosticism

Here’s one New Testament scholar (Larry Hurtado, recently retired, Univ. of Edinburgh) who laughs at the idea. I’d agree with him (and I like reading western esotericism). If you think they’re intellectual elites, you’ve been watching too much...

Jesus and Mary Magdalene: Husband and Wife in the Gnostic Gospels?

by drmsheiser | Sep 16, 2010 | Gnosticism

I came across this video of a presentation I gave some years ago on this topic. I really should keep track of this stuff. Had a full beard then. The point of the presentation is to show that Gnostic gospels (the “real Bible” to conspiracists and Dan Brown...

The Gospel of Thomas: Is it Really Earlier than the Canonical Gospels?

by drmsheiser | Jul 22, 2009 | Gnosticism

Many scholars think so, especially those trotted out by the Discovery Channel, PBS, etc. A lot of scholars disagree, and for good reasons, but that isn’t as media-sexy. Here’s a good article on recent re-consideration of the “earliness” of...

Someone Else Promoting John Lamb Lash Gnostic Alien Archon Myth

by drmsheiser | Mar 27, 2009 | Gnosticism

Ah, wait a PaleoBabble feast this one is — a missive from a gullible Dr. John Singh in what I’m guessing is a Canadain version of the Weekly World News. I wonder if Dr. Singh ever actually checked the Gnostic texts to see if John Lamb Lash’s ideas...

Gnostic Archons = Aliens? Part 3 (of 3) on John Lamb Lash’s Theory

by drmsheiser | Jul 18, 2008 | Gnosticism

Here’s the second video on Lash’s theory. As you may recall, in the first video (Part 2 of this series), I searched for terms Lash uses (embryonic, reptilian, fetal, etc.) to claim that the Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi describe the “Greys”...

Gnostic Archons = Aliens? Part 2 on John Lamb Lash’s Theory

by drmsheiser | Jul 15, 2008 | Gnosticism

It’s been a while since I started the John Lamb Lash “Gnostic Archons = Aliens” thread. With so much PaleoBabble out there, you can get sidetracked. At any rate, in my first post on this topic, I quoted John Lamb Lash’s online article on this...

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1 Comment

tom bionic on December 22, 2010 at 9:57 am

genius

hopefully the author can work that into his dissertation somewhere….