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Gnostic America: A Reading of Contemporary American Culture & Religion according to Christianity's Oldest Heresy

Peter M. Burfeind
Gnostic America is a reading of current American culture, politics, and religious life according to the ancient movement known as Gnosticism. In it, Peter M Burfeind builds off the foundations of Hans Jonas, Denis de Rougement, Norman Cohn, William Voegelin, Carl Jung, and Harold Bloom, each of whom saw the effects of Gnosticism in contemporary American (and Western) life. He explores the spiritual mechanisms going on behind everything from transgenderism to so-called "contemporary worship," fro...

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    Duke_Nukem7 декабря 2024 г.

    Opera itself was birthed in the middle to late sixteenth century by a group of humanist thinkers known as the Florentine Camerata. Considering the polyphonic music of the day to be corrupt, they believed a restoration of the ancient Greek drama - with its balance of music back to its firmer classical grounding, but improve society itself.

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    Duke_Nukem26 апреля 2024 г.

    In 1916, Jung wrote his The Seven Sermons to the Dead written by Basilides in Alexandria, the City Where the East Toucheth the West. Apparently Jung was visited in his dreams by the ghost of Basilides, an ancient Gnostic whose preached sermons Jung transcribed. In these sermons he introduces Abraxas, the God beyond good and evil. When the Nag Hammadi texts were discovered, one text was dedicated to him. Jung, an old man at the time, proclaimed, "All my life I have been working and studying to find these things, and these people knew already."25

    In short, Jung was a Gnostic.

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