Browsing the "gnosis" Tag

July 7, 2024 - 0 Comments

Today we will discuss the history of western hermeticism, mysticism and esotericism from the recently published Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism & Esotericism. This is the first half of my...

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August 11, 2021 - 0 Comments

   Live at 745 PM CST tonight! A rising trend among disaffected moderns and dissidents is the attempt to recast Jesus into another kind of figure: a Hindu mystic...

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February 3, 2020 - 1 Comments

 Church of the Eternal Logos joins me and Snek to discuss his journey to Orthodoxy.  We will cover the theological and ideological side of his journey and how he...

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October 10, 2019 - 0 Comments

I was invited back to Aeon Byte for a debate – this is uploaded with express written permission. Jay Dyer and Scott Smith joined us for a civil but passionate...

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September 11, 2019 - 2 Comments

 This is the repaired free half, while the full talk is already available to subscribers to JaysAnalysis.com. After many requests, I have decided to cover gnosticism and why I...

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June 11, 2019 - 0 Comments

I return to the lost and forgotten book of Sirach, the phenomenal book of the Deuterocanon. It shows us many facts regarding the continuity of the two testaments: These lost...

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January 29, 2019 - 0 Comments

The 2018 film by Alex Garland bears remarkable similarity to his previous film Sunshine from a decade ago, where a team of scientists attempts to re-ignite the sun. Here, a...

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October 4, 2018 - 0 Comments

 Maniac is the new Netflix series starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. The series is a quirky fantasy comedy set in a near-future dystopia. However, the series is about...

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September 3, 2018 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer One of the central, most basic and ancient questions of philosophy is that of the one and the many. This question even transcended cultural barriers and mysteriously appeared...

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June 16, 2018 - 1 Comments

Guenon, Schuon, Evola and the perennialists, or the Bible and the Orthodox Tradition? Eric at the Perennialist Podcast invited me on to a debate. Stream or Download Audio  Subscribe to...

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March 26, 2017 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer I thought when I was going to see Assassin’s Creed it was a film about the attempt on 90s phenom frontman Scott Stapp’s life.  I was in...

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July 24, 2016 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer The popular 80s pastiche series Stranger Things begins with a familiar scene of E.T. nostalgia, centering around Dungeons & Dragons.   The scene is particularly familiar to me, since I played D&D back...

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August 2, 2015 - 0 Comments

 JaysAnalysis interviews James Kelley on the bizarre, gnostic background to the Nation of Islam. This is half of the full discussion which can be obtained by subscribing to JaysAnalysis.com...

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July 23, 2015 - 0 Comments

In this half audio for non-subscribers, I begin the analysis of Plato’s Republic, covering books I and II, setting the stage for what will be the ideal city. Also contained in...

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June 18, 2015 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Jupiter Ascending was not a particularly memorable film. Full of CGI vomit, the last installment from the Wachowskis presented a sci fi opera that recalls Star Wars...

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September 28, 2014 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer “The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer.  What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles?  Were the...

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October 12, 2010 - 0 Comments

  By: Jay Dyer I hate to harp on the same old thing, but the same old thing always manifests in films, and deserves to be harped on. Often what...

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April 10, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Peter Parker   Poised on the cusp of the summer season, as Hollywood begins to release it’s usual torrent of mind numbing crud, the “paranoid” observer would do well...

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April 10, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Still trudging through the voluminous Books Against Eunomius by St. Gregory of Nyssa, there is a literally a treasure trove of lucid argumentation and points that can be...

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