Tag Archives: New Age

All In The Playing

All In The Playing My first memory of Shirley MacLaine is watching a bit of her made for TV movie Out On A Limb. My mother had read some of her books, but I was too young to read them … Continue reading

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Guide To Gnosticism

Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities by Richard Valantasis came out in 2006.  In the preface he discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls and The Nag Hammadi Library.  Gnosticism is intellectual, intense, spiritual, sophisticated … Continue reading

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Academic Attitude

October 2, 2008 Academic Attitude I want to know to know why modern academics feel that anything remotely positive is naïve or flaky?  This week I read the book Top Secret by Robert M Price.  I knew that I’d probably … Continue reading

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