Here is Part 2 of my conversation with musician, poet, and intellectual provocateur, Tessa Lena. In this part of the interview, Tessa explains the importance of courage and lovingly letting go of the

This week I had the pleasure of talking with New York musician, intellectual provocateur, poet, and podcaster--Tessa Lena. In this episode, Tessa shares some Russian history with us as well as deliver

Where does morality come from? Is it an empty pipe dream imposed by society and adopted out of a sense of guilt and terror of hell? Or is there another way of arriving at virtue without relying on gui

This episode is a Christmas treat for your enjoyment. I am sharing an alternative nativity story of Jesus from The Infancy Gospel of James, one of the books that didn't make it into the Bible. This bo

This episode shares a couple of basic concepts from Cyd's theory of everything called "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything." The idea that kicked it all off was a phrase that came to me: "Mu

According to Gnostic cosmology, the Fall was not instigated by humans. It was most definitely not when Eve handed Adam an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The Fall occurred way befor

Abstract thought on the part of the Pleroma defined creation prior to the Big Bang. In our universe, we are only able to recognize objects and concepts we have named.

In Gnostic terminology, the Tao spoken of by Lao Tzu refers to the Father. The principles of organization that have informed our universe since the moment before creation refers to the Fullness of God

The Demiurge is great and powerful. It is the god of this universe, identified in the Old Testament as Yahweh. But there is a higher God that came before the Demiurge, known as "the Father" in Gnostic

The anti-Christ is to be found within the oft repeated mantra that we can take care of each other and build a better tomorrow without God. That more and more powerful governmental and corporate entiti