Gnostic Insights Gnostic Psychology Slide Show pt. 1
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This week was my final lecture at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon University on the Gnostic Gospel and the topic was Gnostic Psychology. So I’m going to share with you that final slideshow today because it’s easier than coming up with a brand new episode when I’m having to work on these lectures.
Of course, this Gnostic material is complicated and yet it’s simple. Once you get it, everything falls into place, but I can understand that it’s difficult to grasp it initially. I’m happy to share with you that my students that have been with me for nine weeks now, they’ve got it. They finally got it. It’s all fallen into place. So it happens.
So let’s look at the slideshow from this week’s lecture on Gnostic Psychology. And if you’re listening to this as an audio only podcast, I suggest you go either to Substack, to the Gnostic Reformation, or to my home base website, GnosticInsights.com, and visualize the slideshow because it’s pretty and the diagrams really help the audio information make sense.
When we talk about Gnostic Psychology, I’m going to answer the question of who we are, and we’re going to cover six topics. We’re going to talk about units of consciousness, memes, karma, Self, Aeonic inheritance, and then how your body even gets into the picture when we’re talking about the psychology.
Let’s start with units of consciousness. This concept comes out of my original theory of everything called A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, but it’s very useful and it works in the Gnostic setting as well.
And that would be an infinite number, because the Son reflects the infinity of the Father. The Totalities of the ALL have no self-identity. They still identify with the Son. They’re parts of the Son. But during the giving of glory and the singing upstream to the Father and the Son, the Totalities recognized their individuality and immediately sorted themselves into the hierarchy of the fullness of God. And I would say that that differentiation of the Aeons into self-identity was the formation of their egos.
The next concept is distributed fractal consciousness. Now we’ve talked a lot about fractals here at Gnostic Insights, and if you don’t know what a fractal is, please go to GnosticInsights.com and look up the episodes about fractals, and you’ll learn about it. Because consciousness is fractally distributed.
Another factor in our psychology is memes.
My illustration of that is to show that torus, that donut shape, with all these strings lying on the outside of it. Just tons of strings stuck to the outside of your torus. That’s not an official gnostic concept. That’s out of my Simple Explanation and I’ll talk a little more about the torus later.
These memes are units of thought. They’re vibratory things and each one carries a thought. The memes dwell, I think, in the transpersonal unconscious or the akashic record. They are immaterial. They’re thought forms.
Memes and karma go together.
Now, comparing Freud and Jung’s theories to this Gnostic psychology:
In terms of fractals, the body’s units of consciousness are smaller fractal iterations of the Fullness of God than my governing unit of consciousness.
The Self is connected to the Fullness of God at all times, though we often ignore it. The Ego sits on the outside because it is in contact with others and the material world.
Okay, we’re going to stop there for today. There are a few more slides in this slide show, but this is a good place to stop. Perhaps I’ll pick them up next week and we’ll talk more about Gnostic psychology and then how it is applied therapeutically. Until then, God bless us all and onward and upward!
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