Nonduality, Zen Gnosis, Unitarian Mysticism w/ Rev. James Ishmael Ford

03/21/22 • -1 min

The Rev. James Ishmael Ford is an American Zen Buddhist priest, a Unitarian Universalist minister, writer, and a spiritual seeker who’s explored and been connected to the last 60 years or so of religious developments in the West. Our frank, funny, and enlightening (literally) conversation touches on everything to nonduality to the quirks of modern Gnosticism. Look, you don’t want to miss any of our shows but you’ll get a lot out of this one!

Check out James’ blog at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/

Get his books at https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/james-ishmael-ford/

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Check out James’ blog at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/

Get his books at https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/james-ishmael-ford/

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The Sophisians, Napoleon’s Sorcerers w/ Dr. Darius Spieth

A mysterious group of soldiers, theatre artists, writers, and mystics tried to bring the magic and mystery of ancient Egypt into 19th Century France through the Sacred Order of the Sophisians. A long forgotten secret society with some Gnostic qualities, the Sophisians are a fascinating group because of their beliefs, rituals, art, and entanglements with Napoleon and politics. An extremely obscure group we hope you enjoy discovering them with scholar Dr. Darius Spieth who’s the authour of “Napoleon’s Sorcerers: The Sophisians.”

Follow Dr. Spieth and his work at https://design.lsu.edu/faculty/spieth-darius/

Buy the book: https://udpress.udel.edu/book-title/napoleons-sorcerers-the-sophisians/

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The Gnostic “Book of Revelation”

Do you feel like the world’s ending? Well, you might be right (this time) but for thousands of years people have seen THE END just around the corner and the canonical Book of Revelation from the Christian bible has inspired thousands of years of paranoia and division but also amazing art, literature, empowerment for the downtrodden, and spiritual speculation. Is it Gnostic? Could it be made Gnostic?

What’s up with this trippy book anyway? To talk about Revelation and Gnosticism a 5-headed beast rose from the waters consisting of the Talk Gnosis all stars: Clark Aitkins, Deacon Angie Wisk-Nowell, Nic Laccetti, Jason Memel, and Deacon Jon.

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