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In this Religion of the Mind there is no opposition of the heart and head. It is not a cult of intellect alone, it is not a cult of emotion alone; it is the Path of Devotion and Gnosis inseparably united, the true Sacred Marriage of Soul and Mind, of Life and Light, the ineffable union of God the Mother and God the Father in the Divine Man, the Logos, the Alone-Begotten of the Mystery of Mysteries, the All and One—Ineffability and Effability eternally in simultaneous Act and Passion. 

I saw my dad die today. I was with him when it happened. It is odd how I had certain expectations of how it shouldb happen, perhaps from stories or too much television as a child. Both the nurse and I had dreams with messages from him. I knew it would be today...he had declined that much. He did not come to at the last moment with a message or even a deathbed vision when he passed. There was no death rattle. He was simply surrounded by his loved ones and simply stopes breathing peacefully. Seeing my mother and his father weep deeply in their grief made it all the more sorrowful. I found myself hoping against hope that there is an afterlife. I wish I had a strong faith,as I saw how it comforted the rest of the family, in the afterlife. I thought about my own afterlife and a verse from the Bible describes my life: "Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief." Please pray for my family as we go through this time of loss.

ooh! A Calendar on Quattro on the main page? very nice :)

Topics Discussed: --Tim summarizes his progressive approach to spirituality, including the definition of new terms like ‘paralogical thinking’, ‘deep awake’, and ‘presencing’, among others. --The major flaws of non-dualist spiritualties that advance the notion of oneness. --A reconstruction revealing what great thinkers like Albert Einstein or Neil Bohr would think of today’s materialistic science. --Revisiting Carl Jung’s concept of The Shadow and how important it is to any type of mental or spiritual growth. --How skepticism should be the centerpiece of any mystic tradition, even against itself. --Why most esoteric faiths continue to flounder in an age when an advanced form of thinking is necessary. And much more!!! We end the show with The Prayer of Norea, from The Gnostic Eden—the first ever dance theater performance based on the Gnostic Creation Narrative. Written by Zeke Li and music composed by Piotr Nowotnik. You can find more information at Pleroma Theatre Productions. Our rebroadcast is Aeon Byte #79-- Was There a Historical Jesus? with Acharya S./D.M. Murdock, author of Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ, Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection, Suns of God & The Christ Conspiracy. The Savior was born and died for our sins…wait…maybe he never was born. Could all the contradictions and anachronisms in the Bible, lack of historical data, absent archeological evidence, Church Father silence and even the Gnostic Scriptures be in reality pointing to a mythic godman, a patchwork hero with a thousand theologies? Is there really any first century proof indicating there was anything close to a fist century Galilean Rabbi?  We take on this herculean task in a CSI manner and attempt to find if there is a man behind the legend at all. Next week we discuss the life and intimate secrets of one of today's foremost occultists and magicians. From his evolution from a country Christian in the Midwest to a master of the Esoterica, he shares his experiences and knowledge on the deepest natures of magick, mysticism, and simple wisdom-lessons for a better life. And in the end, despite all the regulations and rules that even the Occult is wrought with, he reflects the core theme of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio: write your own Gospel and live your own Myth. Then everything becomes magical and the Kingdom of God is always around you and visible!  And this is the erudite and kind Lon Milo Duquette, discussing his new and autobiographical book Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is.
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Sitting here with my father in his final days on earth, many people have come to see him. He has touched many lives. I grew up in this small town. I know many of these people. It was here where my spiritual life began, and it was here where I was rejected by my faith community that has left me scarred with a spiritual limp like Jacob who wrestled with God and forever walked with a limp afterwards. I knew the wound had never completely healed, crippling my trust in Christianity, the church, God, and really any religion. Sitting here, watching folks come in there have been several members of the clergy come as well as church folk. Some have been the stereotypical religious types but a few have been as Jesus. They weep and suffer with my dad and my mom who is losing the love of her life. One of them is the one who stood with me when I had to stand before the church tribunal. Rather than stand with the majority against me, he went out on a limb and publically stood with me and was ejected and shunned with me. Today, he is on staff as a minister in this town and has used our story to share what damage Christianity can do when not guided by love.

“And the lords of the earth will withdraw themselves. And they will establish themselves in a city that is in a corner of Egypt and that will be built toward the setting of the sun. Every man will go into it, whether they come on the sea or on the shore.” ~ Hermes Trismegistus - Asclepius

Dispy and Diabook…. looking great :) I hadn’t tried #dispy for awhile :) My only issue is that i feel the need to click on the downward pointing arrow next to my @domain.com in the upper right - however clicking the arrow does nothing, I need to click on the actual @domain itself which could be confusing. I find it loads very quickly though. nice.

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why can’t I post on @Enyon Eugenius ‘s wall? We are friends… it does that to me with my tarot group  also, sometimes I have to log out and in to post on it. If I click on the user icon  from my ‘last users’ in the right sidebar of #dispy it is guaranteed to not allow me to post.

My dad is dying.  He had been fighting this latest round of skin cancer for a year.  He won several smaller battles.  This one-he will not win.  I live five hours from home and when my folks would come up for chemo they would travel to the city I live in for chemo.  The last time they were up was about 2 weeks ago.  He did not look great, but nothing prepared me for how he looks now.  My sister tried to warn me when she told me it was time to come down and say our goodbyes.  It was hard not to gasp and cry when I walked into his hosptial room.  He looked like a living skeleton with only the lightest layer of skin on bone.  His muscles were gone.  My dad had always been an athlete, like his father before him.  One eye has gone blind and he cannot close it.  He also has lost the ability to speak. All within the past few days. It is times like this when one realizes what you are made of.  I have been a spiritual nomad for a large part of my life.  My first love and how I was raised was Christian, but as a teenager I was corrupted by an extreme fundamentalist type of Christianity (who publically excommunicated me for questioning) that pretty much ruined me to the whole thing.  Last year my niece became a Christian.  Through all this my folks who were nominally Christian, also became more devout, spiritual church-going Christians.  My sister too told me she also goes to church weekly now.  Driving down here, I knew facing the death of someone so close to me would reveal what my truest beliefs were...when you are raw and facing the suffering and immenent death of one you love, what is dross and nothing more than theological masturbation is burned away...what is left is the foundation.  What sitting with my grieving mom and dying dad revealed was a deep down faith.  Something almost innate.  Reading my blog you may say that this is no surprise, but to me it is.  I have played with religion as a toy.  I have messed around with it, they way some people get into sports or video games.  It was great.  When bored I would put it down for a while, or look at a perspective more interesting.  I had a little anxiety driving down here...what if it revealed that when the curtains on my spirituality are pulled back, there is nothing there.  Or it is too much of a jumble to be of any use.  This flicker of faith and hope, was that God saw this suffering and grieved with all of us.  With my father whose life is being cut short...with my mother who is losing the love of her life.  With my sister and I are are sad, angry, and grieving the loss of our dad.  God is with us.  I cannot say I have had any visions or blinding revelations.  I have no answers why this is happening or why if God is there he does not fix it.  I won't even presume to have a clue.  I am pretty agnostic there.. and even about the afterlife.  I have had an experience when I was in a wreck where I saw my body from above that gives me hope of an afterlife, but again I don't know what if anything lies ahead. What I did find is Jesus there.  That the promise in the Gospel of Thomas and the mainstream Gospels is true....that we are the sons and daughters of God.  This is not a refutation of any other religion or faith tradition.  This is merely my experience.. perhaps because that is the religion and cultureI was nominally raised in.  It may be.  But even so, it reveals what I am made of...where my foundation is.  What I truly believe in the foxhole.  It wasn't any other God or Goddess I called on or sought.  It wasn't any other religious practice that I clung to.  It was simply this. 

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For decades Tim Freke has brought forth the treasures of the Gnostics and Mystery Schools to the forefront of both scholarship and the occult-minded. He has distilled the wisdom of the ancients into a modern meaning (in order to give life a richer meaning to those seeking it). He reveals many of his groundbreaking insights from his new book, The Mystery Experience-- drawing from the depths of various heterodox traditions across history to create a compelling kaleidoscope that includes quantum physics, the Tao, Advaita, Buddhism, Joseph Campbell, and Carl Jung. What is synthesized is an approachable and contemporary way for each one to access a higher state of consciousness and enter into the mystery of existence. We also discuss the problem of out-dated superstitious movements, the important marriage of science and mysticism to induce spiritual harmony, and many other topics relevant to anyone involved in Modern Esoterica (and beyond). Astral Guest-- Tim Freke, best-selling author of The Mystery Experience: A revolutionary Approach to Spiritual Awakening, How Long is Now?, and coauthor of The Jesus Mysteries.
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♲ Mike Oh yeah - Happy Friendica Day. Party on six continents (but that reminds me we need to apply a bit more pressure to the Antarcticans). Gonna’ be some :homebrew goin’ down tonight. Thank you one and all for all the hard work and extra effort. Cheers! Bloody well done, mates.

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