1 00:00:19,630 --> 00:00:16,859 and deeper we go my beloved true seekers 2 00:00:22,929 --> 00:00:19,640 deeper into the wastelands of mater and 3 00:00:24,519 --> 00:00:22,939 graveyards of broken dreams please allow 4 00:00:27,310 --> 00:00:24,529 me to introduce myself 5 00:00:31,150 --> 00:00:27,320 and keep you company as your psychopomp 6 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:31,160 of impossible secrets I am and I am 7 00:00:36,910 --> 00:00:34,250 Abraxas and his meatsac incarnation of 8 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:36,920 new yel Connor broadcasting from the 9 00:00:43,420 --> 00:00:40,809 lawful but frigid dystopia of Chicago 10 00:00:46,270 --> 00:00:43,430 welcome you veterans of a thousand 11 00:00:49,170 --> 00:00:46,280 psychic wars welcome you revenge of the 12 00:00:53,290 --> 00:00:49,180 myth you Johnny Cash Bodhisattvas and 13 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:53,300 spiritual entrepreneurs welcome to the 14 00:00:59,390 --> 00:00:55,970 Machine my son and the means to escape 15 00:01:13,000 --> 00:00:59,400 it deeper we go 16 00:01:13,010 --> 00:01:35,510 [Music] 17 00:01:41,660 --> 00:01:39,560 certainly say my work has influenced or 18 00:01:44,580 --> 00:01:41,670 [Music] 19 00:01:47,610 --> 00:01:44,590 popularize the idea of Gnosticism the 20 00:01:49,590 --> 00:01:47,620 idea of archons didn't exist ten years 21 00:01:52,470 --> 00:01:49,600 ago now you have people like Alex Jones 22 00:01:55,070 --> 00:01:52,480 David Icke and so forth talking about it 23 00:01:58,500 --> 00:01:55,080 in the matrix has always been a popular 24 00:02:01,170 --> 00:01:58,510 movie but it seems only recently has it 25 00:02:03,630 --> 00:02:01,180 really infused itself into the the 26 00:02:06,540 --> 00:02:03,640 psyche of the public and of course there 27 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:06,550 are people like Elon Musk's and saying 28 00:02:13,590 --> 00:02:10,690 we live in a fabricated reality and this 29 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:13,600 is all program as Sam writer sang 30 00:02:19,710 --> 00:02:16,480 credits bad software we are stuck in bad 31 00:02:26,270 --> 00:02:19,720 software and now it's it's accepted it's 32 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:30,410 I think the beauty of podcasting is that 33 00:02:37,550 --> 00:02:34,110 you can literally have a PC and a mic 34 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:37,560 and very little else and you can connect 35 00:02:42,050 --> 00:02:40,050 with scholars in Oxford you can connect 36 00:02:43,910 --> 00:02:42,060 with researchers in Australia you can 37 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:43,920 bring them into your room and then you 38 00:02:48,020 --> 00:02:46,260 can spread that information out what I 39 00:02:49,970 --> 00:02:48,030 like about Gnosticism is that you can 40 00:02:52,190 --> 00:02:49,980 take it as psychologically spiritually 41 00:02:54,890 --> 00:02:52,200 or materially I mean you don't have to 42 00:02:56,870 --> 00:02:54,900 believe that there's these giant archons 43 00:02:59,690 --> 00:02:56,880 in heaven oppressing your life the 44 00:03:01,550 --> 00:02:59,700 Archon can be the boss at your job write 45 00:03:05,570 --> 00:03:01,560 your own gospel and live your own myth 46 00:03:07,699 --> 00:03:05,580 and for my life I've got my myth that 47 00:03:10,850 --> 00:03:07,709 I'm trying to live in my gospel Karl 48 00:03:13,010 --> 00:03:10,860 Yune said we have inner archetypes and 49 00:03:16,250 --> 00:03:13,020 mythologies that reside deep within our 50 00:03:18,170 --> 00:03:16,260 unconscious when we bring those out we 51 00:03:20,060 --> 00:03:18,180 can actually start changing the 52 00:03:23,330 --> 00:03:20,070 narrative of our life changing our 53 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:23,340 personas changing how things go and I 54 00:03:28,370 --> 00:03:26,370 think that tagline is what I really want 55 00:03:30,650 --> 00:03:28,380 people to know I want people to have as 56 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:30,660 much information as they can so they can 57 00:03:34,220 --> 00:03:32,310 write their own gospel and live their 58 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:34,230 own myths so they can as I say in my 59 00:03:38,030 --> 00:03:36,390 show create better than the Creator of 60 00:03:40,009 --> 00:03:38,040 gods and they're but slaves in the 61 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:40,019 establishment because all of us have 62 00:03:44,449 --> 00:03:42,090 been programmed all of us are leaving 63 00:03:47,090 --> 00:03:44,459 are living a story that was written by 64 00:03:49,009 --> 00:03:47,100 somebody else and it was the ancient 65 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:49,019 Gnostics who said enough of this we're 66 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:50,910 gonna write our own narrative we're 67 00:03:57,030 --> 00:03:54,610 gonna create our own reality not in this 68 00:04:02,280 --> 00:03:57,040 [Music] 69 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:02,290 I was born in Europe and Lisbon Portugal 70 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:05,590 and my father was a geologist he worked 71 00:04:10,649 --> 00:04:08,049 for oil companies so we moved around a 72 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:10,659 lot as a kid so what I saw was different 73 00:04:15,449 --> 00:04:13,090 worlds in these world were always ending 74 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:15,459 and I saw different cultures as a young 75 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:18,310 kid I saw the reality that governments 76 00:04:22,590 --> 00:04:20,289 and cultures were different and I wonder 77 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:22,600 well which is they're all false oh 78 00:04:27,210 --> 00:04:24,340 they're all real how malleable is 79 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:27,220 reality when one year you're in Tanzania 80 00:04:31,710 --> 00:04:29,110 in the next year you're in Brazil and so 81 00:04:33,510 --> 00:04:31,720 forth so we settled in Mexico for many 82 00:04:35,790 --> 00:04:33,520 years and of course that's where I 83 00:04:40,140 --> 00:04:35,800 really picked up the idea magic realism 84 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:40,150 which really influences southern America 85 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:42,190 and Europe and that of course is the ID 86 00:04:47,250 --> 00:04:44,770 that the spiritual and the material 87 00:04:48,450 --> 00:04:47,260 world or today we could say the digital 88 00:04:50,969 --> 00:04:48,460 in the material world are always 89 00:04:53,550 --> 00:04:50,979 together and they're always 90 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:53,560 communicating they ended up in Chicago 91 00:04:57,180 --> 00:04:56,110 and Chicago really was as much as it a 92 00:04:59,850 --> 00:04:57,190 great city 93 00:05:01,980 --> 00:04:59,860 it really had that Gnostic vibe of the 94 00:05:03,659 --> 00:05:01,990 the soul of the divine spark being 95 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:03,669 trapped in matter because the city is 96 00:05:09,750 --> 00:05:06,610 sprawling it's intense but it's also 97 00:05:11,339 --> 00:05:09,760 very segregated in siloed and you all 98 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:11,349 and it's certainly very claustrophobic 99 00:05:16,170 --> 00:05:13,210 when you live in the city with the 100 00:05:19,290 --> 00:05:16,180 family so it also accentuated that sense 101 00:05:21,210 --> 00:05:19,300 that I was trapped and I needed to to 102 00:05:24,089 --> 00:05:21,220 get out and of course I always say that 103 00:05:26,820 --> 00:05:24,099 I call Chicago the frigid and lawful 104 00:05:29,490 --> 00:05:26,830 dystopia I would say it's rewarding to 105 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:29,500 say my listeners are very varied I mean 106 00:05:33,270 --> 00:05:31,210 I have a lot of listeners who are 107 00:05:36,450 --> 00:05:33,280 atheists a lot of listeners who are 108 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:36,460 still practicing Catholics or Methodists 109 00:05:42,450 --> 00:05:39,810 I had had a listener who told me he had 110 00:05:44,969 --> 00:05:42,460 converted to Islam and he was now gonna 111 00:05:46,830 --> 00:05:44,979 be a strict Muslim but he still loved am 112 00:05:48,750 --> 00:05:46,840 bide because he loved the message of 113 00:05:50,730 --> 00:05:48,760 liberation and breaking through the 114 00:05:52,529 --> 00:05:50,740 falseness of our realities I think 115 00:05:55,950 --> 00:05:52,539 religion is great I think human beings 116 00:05:59,070 --> 00:05:55,960 are really our brain is hardwired for 117 00:06:02,010 --> 00:05:59,080 mysticism I think we need to be I think 118 00:06:04,649 --> 00:06:02,020 humans should be religious but religious 119 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:04,659 in the way of mythology again what are 120 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:06,630 the symbols and the 121 00:06:12,620 --> 00:06:09,390 myths and the archetypes that inform us 122 00:06:14,390 --> 00:06:12,630 and where do they lead us to our growth 123 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:14,400 I would tell people what they need to 124 00:06:19,130 --> 00:06:16,710 embrace it what is what works for them 125 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:19,140 I always tell one thing that I say in 126 00:06:24,170 --> 00:06:22,410 the show is we don't take prisoners we 127 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:24,180 liberate them we are not the final 128 00:06:28,850 --> 00:06:26,490 authority in anything you are the final 129 00:06:31,850 --> 00:06:28,860 authority and I hope that the a.m. by 130 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:31,860 Gnostic radio is there so that people as 131 00:06:36,650 --> 00:06:34,050 I tell them they can find the mystery 132 00:06:39,020 --> 00:06:36,660 that works for them and only them what's 133 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:39,030 the supplying parts of your life the 134 00:06:44,330 --> 00:06:41,090 artistic parts of your life that really 135 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:44,340 liberate you I think the greatest thing 136 00:06:48,890 --> 00:06:46,770 that I found or the true the central 137 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:48,900 core about Gnosticism find is that they 138 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:50,910 have a lucid yearning for liberation 139 00:06:55,820 --> 00:06:53,610 that was their thrust and has been their 140 00:06:58,040 --> 00:06:55,830 thrust throughout history liberation 141 00:07:00,320 --> 00:06:58,050 from the material world liberation from 142 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:00,330 the constructs of the world liberation 143 00:07:04,490 --> 00:07:02,730 from outside and inner demons because 144 00:07:06,230 --> 00:07:04,500 the hardest thing you're gonna tell 145 00:07:08,660 --> 00:07:06,240 somebody and that's really the 146 00:07:11,780 --> 00:07:08,670 underlying message of the Gnostic is 147 00:07:14,090 --> 00:07:11,790 that you are a lie and everything you've 148 00:07:15,620 --> 00:07:14,100 been told in this world is a lie that's 149 00:07:18,530 --> 00:07:15,630 a hard pill to swallow 150 00:07:21,410 --> 00:07:18,540 again I'd rather be free and live in 151 00:07:23,420 --> 00:07:21,420 truth and you know just a chattel to 152 00:07:25,130 --> 00:07:23,430 some overlords living a lie 153 00:07:27,410 --> 00:07:25,140 living an illusion and I could be wrong 154 00:07:29,660 --> 00:07:27,420 I mean I could be delusional the whole 155 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:29,670 time I mean but at least it's my journey 156 00:07:34,550 --> 00:07:32,730 to take there's always conflict and as 157 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:34,560 you you break through to new 158 00:07:38,780 --> 00:07:36,810 realizations you get new insights new 159 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:38,790 data in there's always gonna be a 160 00:07:42,860 --> 00:07:40,530 resistance because of course I want to 161 00:07:46,130 --> 00:07:42,870 settle I want to find a nice comfortable 162 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:46,140 place with my own comfortable ideology 163 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:48,690 and I just want to chill and sort of 164 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:50,880 putt-putt the rest of my life but this 165 00:07:55,850 --> 00:07:53,490 this Gnostic impulse always keeps me 166 00:07:58,100 --> 00:07:55,860 pushing and yes there is conflict there 167 00:08:01,220 --> 00:07:58,110 is doubt and a lot of times there is 168 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:01,230 pain I mean it it's not easy being 169 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:04,050 outside of a community it's not easy 170 00:08:09,470 --> 00:08:07,650 being outside of a family zone when they 171 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:09,480 have their own traditions and all that 172 00:08:12,860 --> 00:08:11,850 it's it is hard I mean I am a human 173 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:12,870 being I'm a pack 174 00:08:18,260 --> 00:08:15,930 animal I like communities but in this 175 00:08:21,140 --> 00:08:18,270 world of podcasting and this sort of 176 00:08:23,630 --> 00:08:21,150 edgy philosophy that you call Gnosticism 177 00:08:25,190 --> 00:08:23,640 you often find yourself in a Bardo as 178 00:08:27,650 --> 00:08:25,200 they say in Buddhism in that middle 179 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:27,660 space where you're in between you're in 180 00:08:31,340 --> 00:08:29,250 between everything you're not really 181 00:08:40,370 --> 00:08:31,350 part of anything so yeah it can be very 182 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:40,380 challenging the divine spark is a term 183 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:42,330 the Gnostics had for that shard of 184 00:08:48,710 --> 00:08:45,510 infinity that lives within us it is that 185 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:48,720 shard that fell from the higher worlds 186 00:08:55,490 --> 00:08:52,770 and resides in each human being and it 187 00:08:58,370 --> 00:08:55,500 is our greatest potential the matrix is 188 00:09:00,860 --> 00:08:58,380 probably the greatest Gnostic modern 189 00:09:04,070 --> 00:09:00,870 myth and of course it's probably our 190 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:04,080 greatest modern myth period and if 191 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:06,810 you're ever confused about Gnosticism a 192 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:09,150 gnostic philosophy or gnostic ideology 193 00:09:14,270 --> 00:09:11,310 just go watch the matrix you'll get a 194 00:09:17,510 --> 00:09:14,280 blow-by-blow account of what Gnosticism 195 00:09:20,180 --> 00:09:17,520 is the Demiurge is the main villain he's 196 00:09:22,340 --> 00:09:20,190 the biggest baddest guy in the in the 197 00:09:24,740 --> 00:09:22,350 whole place he's basically the Supreme 198 00:09:26,780 --> 00:09:24,750 Being and creator of the universe in 199 00:09:28,970 --> 00:09:26,790 Gnostic texts they associate the 200 00:09:32,090 --> 00:09:28,980 Demiurge with the Old Testament God 201 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:32,100 Jehovah or Yahweh he is sort of this 202 00:09:38,030 --> 00:09:35,250 creator of this imperfect fabricated 203 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:38,040 world who traps our divine sparks within 204 00:09:43,750 --> 00:09:41,370 our bodies I remember years ago when I 205 00:09:47,570 --> 00:09:43,760 was a Catholic somebody gave me these 206 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:47,580 photocopies and it was a chariot S's the 207 00:09:53,420 --> 00:09:49,890 Christ conspiracy I never heard of it so 208 00:09:56,450 --> 00:09:53,430 I started reading them how Jesus had 209 00:09:58,880 --> 00:09:56,460 these parallels to Horus to Krishna 210 00:10:01,640 --> 00:09:58,890 so in it it blew my mind in a very 211 00:10:04,220 --> 00:10:01,650 positive way because it showed me the 212 00:10:06,470 --> 00:10:04,230 richness of myth how syncretic cultures 213 00:10:08,570 --> 00:10:06,480 was and it showed me that all these 214 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:08,580 beings including jesus were beings of 215 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:10,710 possibility like the Gnostics the 216 00:10:14,990 --> 00:10:13,770 Gnostics posited theoretical Jesus they 217 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:15,000 weren't too concerned with the 218 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:16,410 historical Jesus 219 00:10:20,540 --> 00:10:18,690 some groups thought he was historical or 220 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:20,550 the flesh some thought it was our own 221 00:10:24,569 --> 00:10:21,970 intuition coming 222 00:10:27,689 --> 00:10:24,579 from within and projecting out into the 223 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:27,699 world and showing the world what a 224 00:10:33,059 --> 00:10:30,430 positive compassionate good figure could 225 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:33,069 be as I always like to tell people don't 226 00:10:37,110 --> 00:10:35,290 concern you don't concern yourself too 227 00:10:38,730 --> 00:10:37,120 much with a historical Jesus 228 00:10:41,249 --> 00:10:38,740 why don't you concern yourself whether 229 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:41,259 you are historical it's probably a shock 230 00:10:46,650 --> 00:10:44,170 to many but there is no doubt that the 231 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:46,660 Gospel of John was originally a gnostic 232 00:10:50,579 --> 00:10:48,490 text and it was actually the first 233 00:10:53,340 --> 00:10:50,589 people to ever write commentary on the 234 00:10:55,860 --> 00:10:53,350 Gospel of John where the Gnostics it's 235 00:10:58,679 --> 00:10:55,870 probably a shock that Paul the Apostle 236 00:11:01,439 --> 00:10:58,689 Paul really sets the foundation from 237 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:01,449 Gnosticism he's talking about archons 238 00:11:06,509 --> 00:11:03,610 he's talking about Sophia he's talking 239 00:11:10,079 --> 00:11:06,519 about the mysteries and he's talking 240 00:11:12,179 --> 00:11:10,089 about this sort of cosmic war and all 241 00:11:14,519 --> 00:11:12,189 the and how we are all trapped by the 242 00:11:17,699 --> 00:11:14,529 ruler of this age the god of this age 243 00:11:21,150 --> 00:11:17,709 and how the angels are up there screwing 244 00:11:23,579 --> 00:11:21,160 up creation so the Gnostic element was 245 00:11:25,530 --> 00:11:23,589 there is there even in the Bible of 246 00:11:28,199 --> 00:11:25,540 course the church sort of once they 247 00:11:30,660 --> 00:11:28,209 eliminated the Gnostic sort of altered 248 00:11:33,569 --> 00:11:30,670 things around gave it their own spin but 249 00:11:35,819 --> 00:11:33,579 it's all there but for people not only 250 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:35,829 is the Gnostic idea there but there's 251 00:11:40,079 --> 00:11:38,170 also the Gnostic idea that you know you 252 00:11:41,819 --> 00:11:40,089 really don't need a church that's your 253 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:41,829 that's your choice what you need is a 254 00:11:46,259 --> 00:11:43,930 brain and your heart to go exploring