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Gnostic Insights

Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.

Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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21:43

Easter Blessings from the Gnostic Christ

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/04/03

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. And Happy Easter, everybody! This is the time of year when Christians all over the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the grave. Holy Week leading up to the resurrection is a rough one because it’s the passion of the Christ where the scriptures talk about and people reenact the trial of Christ, his walk with the cross to the hill of Calvary, and then his agony on the cross.We all know that story. But what

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20:09

The Myth of Psychopathy: A Gnostic Perspective

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2026/03/28

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week, I had a good conversation on the telephone with my brother that I thought I’d share that with you today. It’s another aspect of what I call Gnostic Psychology that my brother Bill, Dr. Bill Puett, and I have been developing. He wanted to share with me an article about psychopathy and his Gnostic insight about the article.These conversations started when I was probably about four years old, and Bill

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24:25

Peace, Love, and Happiness

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2026/03/21

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. The goal here at this Gnostic Insights podcast and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack is to share with you information from the Nag Hammadi, primarily from a book in the Nag Hammadi called the Tripartite Tractate, concerning the gnosis of our existence.The reason that it’s important to discover this gnosis is because gnosis is your personal reassurance that you are loved and not alone. Gnosis isn’t just about knowledge or arcane knowledge or

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22:28

Children of the Fullness–Animated!

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2026/03/14

The animation is posted to YouTube. Click here to watch!I had the children’s book converted into an animation, set to my narration of a previous episode. The animation is alright, but I bet that within a few months AI will have developed to the point where the animation would be quite a bit more polished. We did the best we could with the tools at hand. I hope you enjoy this experiment and find the overall effect to be pleasant and educational. This animation of the book is not aimed at children,

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21:06

Reforming the Demiurge

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2026/03/07

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. First I have to tell you, what was lost has been found. I went back to White City VA yesterday and had an acupuncture treatment. And on my way out of the building, I saw a maintenance man, a custodian at his cart with his broom. I thought to myself, well, if anybody should be able to find something, it would be this guy. I told him I lost a book two weeks ago, somewhere between 201 and 209 in a lady’s room on a

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23:59

Reforming Gnosticism

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2026/02/28

Last week, I started talking about the nature of this Gnostic Reformation that I’m describing here. It turns out that the approach to Gnosticism that I am sharing with you here at Gnostic Insights is a reformation of what is understood to be Gnosticism. If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode yet, it would be really good for you to start there. Go back and listen to or read the episode called, This Gnostic Reformation.I didn’t read any books about Gnosticism; I

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20:54

This Gnostic Reformation

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/02/21

I occasionally get comments from people that the Gnosticism I’m sharing with you here at Gnostic Insights is different than the Gnosticism they’re accustomed to or the Gnosticism they see elsewhere on the internet. And that is very true, and that is why the Substack is called the Gnostic Reformation.This Gnosticism that I’m sharing with you—yes, it comes out of my own personal gnosis. It is a compilation of both Valentinian Gnosticism, primarily from the Tripartite Tractate of the

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15:06

Lost in the Hallways

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2026/02/14

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. It’s been a few weeks since I recorded a live episode, and here I am. Now, I don’t have any particular Gnostic insights for you today. However, I do have some interesting news to share and a very strange experience I had a couple of days ago. So, let’s start with the news.One of the reasons I don’t have a new episode for you this week, in particular a philosophical episode, is because I’ve been

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34:56

The Radiant Answer

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2026/02/07

Universal Salvation, part 4Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I’m going to do my best to wrap up this review of David Bentley Hart’s book, That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. And I hope you understand, particularly those of you who are Christians that are listening to this, that I do all of this in the name of the Father. It’s not to tear down Christianity. It’s to uphold the mission of the Messiah, which has been lost over the past several hundred years of

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25:08

The True Nature of the God Above All Gods

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2026/01/31

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Today is part three of my book report on David Bentley Hart’s book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. The past two weeks we covered the beginning of his book, the Introduction.I’m going to begin this section by reading out of his final remarks, because he does a good job of simplifying his arguments here at the end of the book. So we’ll start with that. Hart says on page 201, It may offend against our egalitarian principles

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28:37

Deluded? or Damned?

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2026/01/24

God is loving and merciful, not judgmental and cruelWelcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week I began sharing with you what is essentially a book report on the book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation by David Bentley Hart, and he’s the translator of the New Testament that I’ve been using. So, last week we got up to page 21 out of this book, and now I’m all the way up to page 85, so we’ll see what happened in this latest

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28:37

Are You Going to Hell

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2026/01/17

I thought today I would share with you a book by David Bentley Hart. Hart wrote that translation of the New Testament that I’m very much enjoying, because it mirrors the same language that the Gnostic gospel uses in the Nag Hammadi codices, particularly the Tripartite Tractate, which is what I share with you here at Gnostic Insights.David Bentley Hart is extremely eloquent and erudite. His prose puts me to shame. He is a great writer and a brilliant mind. He’s an Eastern Orthodox scholar of

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27:12

Journey to Gnosis

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2026/01/10

When I first conceived of my theory of everything named “A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything” back in 2008, I was unfamiliar with Gnosticism. A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything is presented in secular terms, using common concepts from all fields of human endeavor from math and science on through religion, psychology, and sociology. In A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, God is usually referred to as Metaversal Consciousness, and we here on this plane carry that

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27:01

Three Glories

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2026/01/03

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack.This morning I’m going to read to you a large section out of the Tripartite Tractate, which is the book out of the Nag Hammadi scriptures that I generally follow and teach from. This is about the distinction between the Father and the Son. And again, remember there is no gender. The Father is our Father. It is the source of consciousness out of which all of us come. All consciousness, all life, all love in the universe comes

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20:54

The Illusion of Form: A Gnostic Inquiry into Gender...

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2025/12/27

Is transgenderism a mental disorder? Is transexualism a delusional pursuit? Is sexual identity a cultural value arbitrarily assigned at birth? This is the topic of today’s discussion.My first experience with a person seeking transexual modification was as a private practice marriage counselor in Idaho, back in the early 1980’s. This fellow was seeking an official diagnosis of transexualism as required by the state in order to proceed with surgical procedures. He had been denied certification by

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21:57

Another Gnostic Christmas

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/12/20

I had another episode planned for today, but at the last minute I decided to rerun this Christmas episode for you. I think this will become our traditional Christmas episode here at Gnostic Insights. And, if you are new to this podcast, welcome! Next week’s episode will be controversial, so I thought it best to wait until after Christmas for its release.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

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22:28

Children of the Fullness Gnostic Cosmology

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2025/12/05

Last week’s episode, The Key to Gnostic Cosmology, was well-timed to greet the slew of new subscribers who joined The Gnostic Reformation as a result of the wonderful review by The New Unhinged that appeared on Mariah’s Substack website on November 28, 2025. It’s titled: Roast for Relief #17: The Gnostic Who Broke My Brain in the Best Way If you haven’t seen the piece yet, please hightail it over there and take a look. It’s funny and reverentially irreverent at the same time. I feel honored by

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24:12

Remembering the Mission

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2025/12/02

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.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. Yay! Everyone’s going to Heaven! No one is going to hell, not even the Fallen angels. What joy! This seems to fly in the face of Christian orthodoxy that promotes the idea that only those humans who

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25:31

The Key to Gnostic Cosmology

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2025/11/28

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I think we’ve got a lot of new listeners now and new subscribers. And since you haven’t been with us from the beginning, I’d like to review the Gnostic cosmology.A basic premise of Gnosticism is that we are all born with gnosis inherent within us. We already have the answers. We already are our perfect Selves. But because of the nature of the never-ending war that we find ourselves in here in this

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28:33

Gnostic Psychology Slide Show, Pt. 2

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/11/22

There's only peace and joy and happiness on the side of virtue when you're sincere. We're not talking about hypocrisy. We're not talking about forcing the issue. We're not talking about whipping yourself with a flagellant whip to make yourself holy. That is not God's will. God is entirely love, entirely acceptance, entirely forgiving, entirely compassionate, entirely charitable.And if you think you're living a righteous life, yet you're feeling anger, hatred, division, well then you're not living

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