Aspects of the ancient heretical religion of Gnosticism are common in movies and video games –from Star Wars to Titanic to The Legend of Zelda.  This year’s reboot of Superman does not deviate from ...

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Morpheus, a man with circular mirrored glasses, approaches Neo Anderson, a young man who feels something is wrong with the world. “You are a slave, Neo,” the man continues. “You, like everyone else, ...

If you want to understand the Matrix trilogy, think of it as a capsule history of baby-boom rock. The original Matrix is a three-chord riff of a movie: a simple, familiar idea—"What if reality is a ...

“The whole world groaned, and was astonished to find itself Arian.” — St. Jerome. Now the whole world groans, and is astonished to find itself Gnostic. Over on my subscriber-only Substack (become a ...

What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

WASHINGTON, March 30 (UPI) -- Editor's note: This is part two of the UPI series on the new schism running horizontally through most Christian denominations. In this installment, theologians argue that ...

I was assigned to build my own religion. And sometimes I get carried away with my projects. <BR>This is what I've outlined so far, and I want to flesh it out and create a mythology and "universe" for ...

The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity-experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there I can’t be the only Christian reading Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels’ ...

Near the nexus of Hillhurst Avenue and Sunset and Hollywood boulevards, Bishop Stephan Hoeller has presided since 1977 at Ecclesia Gnostica, the tiny, incense-infused chapel of the Gnostic Society.