Lecture 1: The Other Gospels - 00:00
Lecture 2: The Perfect Light - 00:23:25
Lecture 3: Jesus Tricked Everyone - 00:52:03
Lecture 4: The Alien Man - 01:20:51
Lecture 5: Archons Rule - 01:49:41
Lecture 6: Poesis - 02:25:19
Lecture 7: The Pink Light - 02:55:30
Lecture 8: Pharmakognosis - 03:27:00
Lecture 1 readings:
(Unless otherwise mentioned, all readings from W. Barnstone’s necessary collection The Other Bible, now known as The Gnostic Bible.
• Excerpts from “The Gospel of Thomas” (verses 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 19, 24, 28, 29, 37, 39, 42, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 61, 62, 70, 777, 89, 91, 108, 113);
• Richard Smoley: “Who Were the Gnostics?”, from his great survey Forbidden Faith.
• Excerpts from “The Gospel of Philip” (“Names,” “Rulers,” “Jesus Tricked Everyone,” “The Lost,” “Seeing,” “God is a Man-Eater,” “Leaving the World,” “Joseph and the Wooden Cross,” “Superiority of Chrism to Baptism,” “Laughing Christ,” “Knowledge of Self,” “Slaves and Freedom,” “Root of Evil,” “The Perfect Light”)
Lecture 2 readings:
• Excerpts from “The Gospel of Philip” in The Gnostic Bible, p. 257 (the brief sections called “Names,” “Rulers,” “Jesus Tricked Everyone,” “The Lost,” “Seeing,” “God is a Man-Eater,” “Leaving the World,” “Joseph and the Wooden Cross,” “Superiority of Chrism to Baptism,” “Laughing Christ,” “Knowledge of Self,” “Slaves and Freedom,” “Root of Evil,” “The Perfect Light”)
• Elaine Pagels: “Gnosis: Self-Knowledge as Knowledge of God,” in The Gnostic Gospels, p. 119
Lecture 3 readings:
• “On the Origin of the World” in The Gnostic Bible
• Ioan Couliano: “Interplanetary Tours”, from Out of this World
Lecture 4 readings:
• Hans Jonas: “Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism”
• Rene Daumal: “Provocations to Self Denial”
Lecture 5 readings:
• Antonin Artaud: “To Have Done with the Judgment of God”
• Franz Kafka: selected “Parables”
• William Burroughs: “Nova Express” (pages 1-8)
Lecture 6 readings:
• Harold Bloom: “A Prelude to Gnosis” from Agon
• A.R. Ammo..
