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Gnostic Insights

Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.

Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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24:45

Misplaced Hopes

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2023/08/12

Are you better off than you were four years ago? Are you better off than you were ten years ago? Are the cities safer? Are the homeless housed? Are the drug addicts taken care of and given a clean and better life? Has cancer been cured? Do immunizations really help? So without stepping on any of my listeners' toes, I would say no, probably not. And that's what I'm going to try to explain to you today.

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26:56

Finding Gnosis, Finding God

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2023/08/05

The God Above All Gods wants to be known. This God wants us to know we are loved.

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28:05

Aeons, Archons, Angels, or Aliens? A Gnostic...

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2023/07/29

This episode pays attention to the question continually raised by the ancient aliens theorists—were the “gods” of the pre-flood era merely misinterpreted alien visitors with alien tech? Are the “fallen angels” of the Book Enoch angels from God, or were they actually ancient astronauts who moved to earth and occasionally married human women? It is said that the worldwide flood was sent by God to wipe out the angel-human offspring known as Nephilim. What were the Nephilim and what God would have wiped

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22:37

Revisiting Reincarnation

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2023/07/22

That the "you" that exists between material incarnations is nothing but your karmic record is proved by one of our basic assertions that all units of consciousness are fundamentally one and the same, and that all units of consciousness begin their individuated journey as perfect echoes of God. Then it follows that "I" develop as a result of my choices and the choices of others—“I” am my perfect unit of consciousness enshrouded in karma and the memes that my karma attracts.

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32:54

John Munter Interview Part 2

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2023/07/15

This week we'll hear part two of my interview with gnostic John Munter. He's a follower of the Gospel of Thomas, which is one of the more popular gnostic books. John offers a unique method of interpreting the Gospel of Thomas.

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32:26

The Ecstasy of Another–John Munter Interview Part 1

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2023/07/08

This week's episode presents part 1 of an interview with a fellow gnostic, John Munter. In this episode, John tells us about his unique method of interpreting the Gospel of Thomas. We will continue that train of thought next week.

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28:42

Demiurgic Justice

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2023/07/01

A podcast listener recently asked me to amend my categorization of the Demiurge as a malevolent force. He asked me to read the "Epistle to Flora" from The Gnostic Scriptures to see that the Demiurge is a force for good on the right hand side of the ledger. In other words, is the Demiurge evil or good? Turns out it's a controversial subject in the Gnostic community. That is what we consider on today's podcast.

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31:07

Birth of the Demiurge

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2023/06/24

What is the Demiurge and how did it come about? What was the presumptuous thought that led the youngest Aeon to overreach and fall and how does that relate to Self and Ego? Why would the Father set things up so that this Aeon could make a unilateral decision that resulted in the Fall? Was it a mistake? Did God cause this Aeon to create evil? How is such a thing even possible? Was it God's will that it should fall?

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34:56

There’s too much confusion

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2023/06/17

This week's episode is about confusion versus simplicity. Our God is not a god of confusion, but of peace. If you find yourself becoming more and more confused when studying gnostic scriptures and books about gnosticism, it's possible you are heading down the wrong rabbit trails. We don't need to learn how historical gnostics practiced their religion. We don't need to memorize arcane diagrams and rituals. All we need to do is remember the gnosis that is already within us. Anything more than that may

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21:43

The Truth About Eternal Damnation

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2023/06/10

Those who have not accepted the forgiveness and redemption of the Christ do indeed suffer when they pass away from this life. This suffering is not handed down by an angry God but is rather their own recognition and guilt over their sins and shortcomings. The more sinful an unredeemed person is, the more they suffer when they die. The suffering comes from their own conscience as they see clearly the path of their ego-driven life and the true condition of their soul. After a period of denying their

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26:14

Consciousness and Categorical Errors

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2023/06/03

Consciousness does not arise out of information. Consciousness predates information, particularly the information that comes out of this universe. You can add up all of the information on the Internet and out of all of the libraries in the world and you will not begin to touch the consciousness of the Father or God because it exists on a different plane. It is different in kind. It is different in category, it is not simply more. Consciousness does not arise out of the category of knowledge.

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30:55

Not By Works

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2023/05/27

If you reject the Christ because you believe in the strength of your Ego more than the Christ’s, then you're not on the glory beam. We need the pattern of Christ’s human inheritance plus the Father’s perfection and love to overlay upon our souls. This lends us the perfection of Christ that redeems us from the karma and memes we have generated. That is the only surefire way to achieve full enlightenment.

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34:04

Interview: Scott S. Smith, part 2

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2023/05/20

Part Two of my interview with fellow Gnostic, Scott S. Smith. He attends the Ecclesia Gnostica Church in Los Angeles and regularly appears on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio and a slew of other Gnostic podcasts. In this episode, we discuss reincarnation and Scott's pragmatic approach to Gnosticism.

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32:05

Interview: Scott S. Smith, part 1

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2023/05/13

Part One of my interview with fellow Gnostic, Scott S. Smith.

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27:27

Fractal Pleromas

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2023/05/06

It turns out that every entity, with the exception of the originating Father and Son, is not only part of a larger Pleroma, it is itself a Pleroma that contains a host of smaller entities. We are all fractals of the Fullness and we are all nested iterations of the Father's fractal consciousness.

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30:37

Free Will Is Essential

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2023/04/29

Free will is at the core of our being. It was the free will of Logos that caused him to leave the Fullness and fall. It was the free will of the restored Logos and the Totalities that created the Second Order Powers. And it is the free will of the Powers, by way of our Aeonic inheritance, that directs ours lives here below. It is our own free will that causes us to forget about the Father and the Fullness of God from which we come. It is our own free will that allows us to bow to the rule of the

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18:46

Fear Not–We Are Going Home

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2023/04/22

“Know thyself” was an important maxim in ancient Greece. “Know thyself” refers to your big S Self. Knowing your Self puts you in alignment with the Fullness and the Father. By mining your gnosis now, and meditating upon the Father, the Son, and the Christ, you prepare your Self to transcend death before you cross over.

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23:06

Overcoming Death–Follow the Light

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2023/04/15

We Gnostics do not need to pass through layers of Hell in order to find redemption. Remember that the figure called the Christ has brought redemption to all of us. All you need to remember is that you come from the Father and the Fullness; Christ takes care of the rest.

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26:28

Communion with the Demiurge

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/04/08

This episode offers an explanation of the philosophical and spiritual pitfalls of transhumanism. Can our units of consciousness be downloaded into a computer matrix? If it could, what would that metaverse look like, and would you want to live there?

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22:57

Garden of the 3-Fold Order

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2023/04/02

This week's episode takes a sneak peek into Chapter 13 of my upcoming book, "A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel." Chapter 13 is about the way ethereal consciousness came to create physical matter and how this consciousness interfaces with that matter. This chapter is ground zero for consciousness studies--providing a logical framework for the flow and process of consciousness—how it was in the beginning, and how it instantiates down here.

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