What we call Christianity today, the religion of Christianity, may not be exactly what the Christ had in mind. It may be a human interpretation and institutional package of the religion that Jesus promoted, but there is no reason to throw out the baby with the bath water. When I was about four years old, I recognized the difference between Baby Jesus in the manger and Santa Claus. There was the religious iconography of baby Jesus in the manger and the Christian Christmas story....

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I read a very interesting article this week from Scientific American, February 1st, 2024 edition. It's a brand new article by a science writer called Rowan Jacobson. It was interesting to me because it just so happens to uphold—finally prove, in essence—one of the hypotheses of the Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything. You know, my Simple Explanation theory of everything was written over 15 years ago. The blog's been up that long, and there's a book by...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Today's episode is an interview with one of your fellow listeners to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Her name is Hathaway Jane. Hathaway wrote to me saying how much the Gnostic Insights episodes have meant to her. She's also purchased and read A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything and A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel of the Tripartite Tractate, and she has some very kind words to say about how meaningful they...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I'm your host. I'm really glad that you're with me and that we are exploring these topics together. Today I want to share with you an article that was first printed in the UNT Digital Library. That's the university library system. It's by Bruce Greyson, and it's called Near Death Experiences and Claims of Past Life Memories. This was printed in autumn of 2021 and it is accessed through the University of North Texas Library...

Welcome back to Gnostic insights. Lately I've been watching a lot of near death experience videos on YouTube. Have you been watching those? They really are fascinating. You can see that people have personalized experiences in their near death episodes. And by the way, in case you don't even know what near death experience is, it's when a person is clinically dead—no brain waves, no heartbeat—they can be dead for several minutes. They could be in a deep coma, a vegetative state, for...

Welcome to the Gnostic Insights podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Cyd Ropp. It's kind of funny to call this gnosis a simple explanation, isn't it? Because if you've been listening for any time, you see that it's becoming more and more complex. But, what I mean by simple is that I'm not trying to hide the gnosis from you. I'm not trying to obscure the truth so that only the worthy can mine this gnosis. We are all born with this gnosis. We are all representations of the Fullness of God, and I...

By Cyd Ropp, Ph. D. Copyright 2022; all rights reserved Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We garnered several new subscribers from last week's Christmas episode. I'm so glad you have found us! This week's episode is a review of an episode that was broadcasted in September of 2022. One of the Substack readers requested more information about the 3rd Order of Powers, so here goes. And for those of you who have been with Gnostic...

Today, we're going to look at the nature of the Christ—the who, what, why of Christ. Most people are familiar with seeing the baby Jesus in the manger and that's what we celebrate at Christmas time, the birth of the Christ on Earth in the form of a human. But the Christ is an ethereal creature that predates the birth of Jesus. Jesus and the Christ aren't exactly the same, although Jesus was fully Christ. The Christ predates the birth of the human known as Jesus. So, let's learn more about the...

Welcome back! This week's episode is a chapter out of the new book you keep hearing about. This chapter deals with the Fall of Logos and the rise of the Deficiency. It will be familiar territory by now and may clear up some fuzziness of thought. I'm not including a transcript because this material is available in the book which is, of course, copyrighted. The color edition of the book should be available for purchase sometime in January or February. I'm taking one last proof read of the...

The purpose of Gnostic Insights is to share with you the insights that I have gleaned through many years of contemplation, prayer, and study of the Gnostic writings, mostly as written in the Nag Hammadi library, and particularly the Tripartite Tractate, which is one of the books of the Nag Hammadi. So far in this series, we have laid out the development of our universe from the originating Father's consciousness, through the Son, through the Fullness of God. We've gone through Logos and the...

The purpose of this series of podcasts is to share with you the gnosis that I have gleaned from my readings of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts. These podcasts are coming in the order as the cosmology of our universe unfolds, and I think it's a lot easier for you to understand the material if you follow along in order. The particular book out of the Nag Hammadi that I am using as my primary reference is called the Tripartite Tractate. In 2019, I wrote a book called The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated,...

Today, we're going to talk about how the ego of Logos led to the Fall and the Fall broke open into what became the Deficiency, also known as our universe. Our material universe is a deficient copy of the ethereal plane of the Paradise that the Aeons dreamed of. The great thing about this episode is it introduces another character to the play, and that one is called the 2nd Order of Powers. I'm inserting this at the beginning so it might pique your interest in what comes. We are the 2nd Order...

The purpose of this podcast is to help us all achieve gnosis, which is knowledge of where we come from and who is the originating consciousness, and what is our relationship to that originating consciousness. So far, we have discussed the nature of the Father, which is the originating consciousness, and the Son, which is that originating consciousness made into a particular entity—that is called the Son. It is not the generalized diffuse, no thought consciousness of the Father, but rather...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. What we're doing for the next several weeks now is coming back around again to review the basic concepts of this Gnosticism that we study here. At this point in discussing the early Christian Gnosticism, we're studying consciousness. This is a branch of consciousness studies, is what they call it nowadays. And the reason we're studying consciousness is because we are conscious. And the basic difference between this sort of consciousness studies versus the...

Welcome to the Gnostic Insights podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I'm here to share Gnostic Insights with you. I've written a couple of books based upon one of the tractates of the Nag Hammadi scriptures, which were buried deep in the desert around 300 AD to save them from the Great Purge that occurred when the Bible was codified by the Pope and the Emperor of Rome and made into the packaged Christianity that we know today. Before that repackaging of Christianity, there was a type of...

Last week we looked at the unreasonable assumptions made by Darwinian evolutionists. This episode continues that discussion. I am going to begin this episode with a very quick review of basic Gnostic cosmology. In this series of podcasts I'm sharing with you the insights I have gained by my study of the Nag Hammadi transcripts and, in particular, one book of the Nag Hammadi called the Tripartite Tractate. A new podcast listener tells me that some podcast hosts, such as Spotify, do not...

Someone left a comment on an old article from 2019 on my Simple Explanation blog, and it caused me to reread the article. And, gee, it’s a good article. I don’t think we’ve ever shared it here on Gnostic Insights, so I’m going to talk to you today about a Simple Explanation of Gnostic Evolution.        (this podcast refuses to allow me to paste the link to the original Simple Explanation article! grrrr....) There are just a couple of basic ways you can think of evolution.  As commonly...

Welcome to Gnostic Insights. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I'm your host. In 2019, I posted an article to my new Gnostic Gospel blog called If All Are Redeemed, Why Not Be Sinful?, and I'd like to share that with you today. Much of this episode was broadcasted in May of 2021; this content has been updated as my gnosis has deepened. One of the big heresies of Gnosticism is that all Second Order Powers are redeemed by Christ and all will someday return to the paradise of the Fullness....

What is gnosis? I know that some people, perhaps many people who come to listen to Gnostic Insights, come here because of the word gnostic. And gnostic has come to be identified to a large extent with the ancient manuscripts that were dug up out of Nag Hammadi, and the Qumran scripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. And indeed, a lot of what I teach here has come out of the Nag Hammadi book called the Tripartite Tractate, as well as from my own familiarity with the Bible, mostly the New Testament,...