God: Suffering and Longing Posted on Dec 30th, 2008 by Marmalade God’s Goodness is man’s suffering by which I’m not implying the good and bad as theological beliefs.  Its the ideal of Goodness (via our longing for it) that creates dissatisfaction of this world.  Even so, this tendency to idealize and to long is natural [...]

From Horror to Gnosis: Pessimism, Culture, Monomyth

From Horror to Gnosis: Pessimism, Culture, Monomyth Posted on Dec 25th, 2008 by Marmalade I’ve had many ideas rolling around in my head this past week or so. I’ve at least mentioned most of them in my recent blogs, but there are still some I’ve been meaning to get around to.   Even though I’ve [...]

Fiction and Non-fiction, Gnosticism and the Gothic

Fiction and Non-fiction, Gnosticism and the Gothic Posted on Dec 23rd, 2008 by Marmalade I have an equal interest in fiction and nonfiction.  They often feel in confict and they can have very different effect on me.  I tend to obsess on one or the other.  In recent years, I’ve been more focused on nonfiction, [...]

New Age: Part 2

New Age: Part 2 Posted on Jul 22nd, 2008 by Marmalade In Unity, Jesus isn’t superior to us.  We don’t need to give the right answer or win his approval in order to be saved.  This is because our salvation isn’t in his hands.  He just shows the way.   In Unity, access to Heaven [...]

New Age: Part 1

New Age: Part 1 Posted on Jul 21st, 2008 by Marmalade New Age is a more general term and New Thought is a more specific term.  I don’t know when the term New Age was first used, but as its used in contemporary culture it seems to mostly to apply to the pop culture spirituality [...]

Integral… ?

Integral… ? Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by Marmalade Integral Conspiracy Theory? Integral UFOlogy? Integral Occultism? Integral Gnosticism? Integral Science Fiction? Integral Suicide? Access: Public What do you think? Print // Post this!views (176)   Tagged with: integral, wilber, kazlev, tim boucher, conspiracy theory, ufology, occultism, gnosticism, science fiction, suicide

Philip K. Dick — Gnostic Prophet of Science Fiction

Philip K. Dick — Gnostic Prophet of Science Fiction By Dr. Hoeller  In his best work “Valis” and its two companion volumes, “The Divine Invasion” and “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, the late Philip K. Dick develop a strangely Gnostic vision. In this 73 minute lecture, Dr. Hoeller discusses P. K. Dick, his vision,

“But in this dark world where he now dwelt…”

I’m in the process of reading again The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen.  In a recent discussion with Quentin S. Crisp, I was mentioning how Derrick Jensen is more depressing than even Thomas Ligotti.  The more I think about it, though, their two views do seem to resonate to a degree.  Jensen is an environmentalist [...]

Quentin S. Crisp’s Metta and the Lord’s Prayer

Here is my response to Quentin S. Crisp’s post Metta: I’ve read about Buddhism and I’ve practiced various forms of meditation, but for whatever reason that line of spirituality never fully engaged me.  However, Eastern ideas have heavily informed my worldview. I was raised in extremely liberal Christianity and so I have no distasteful memories [...]

Re: Proof for God’s Existence?

Someone pointed out the blog post entitled Proof for God’s Existence? by Mark Tetzlaff.  Here is the beginning of the post: It is interesting to note that the Bible does not begin with a proof for the existence of God. Instead it simply begins with the premise that God exists and presents God’s testimony to [...]