04-28-2014, 06:11 PM
(04-28-2014, 05:49 PM)Filter Wrote: ...In any event, it's clear to me that John Lash is a dangerous infiltrator into Gnosticism.The interchangeability of those terms is precisely why castigating someone for believing in archons and not aliens is a bit insipid.
He for example claims to be an expert on the Nag Hammadi Codices, but he is not telling it how it is.
He is lying and distorting to suit his own agenda. He certainly is not the leading expert on these Texts at all.
There are several others out there who deal with those same texts, but don't have the platform in the alternative media that John Lash has been given. He can peddle there that he is THE expert on Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism.... While he clearly is not.
Laurence Caruana, Gilles Quispel, Elaine Pagels, Stevan Davies, Karen King, Marvin Meyer are some other people who have translated those texts - they differ significantly from what John Lash makes of it, to start with.
John Lash stands out, as the only one... To me he is not a Gnostic, rather he is a New Ager.
Aliens, demons or archons ... First of all, it seems to me that there are different definitions out there of these 3 terms. So, what exactly is an "alien", what is a "demon" and what is an "archon" ... people have differing notions of these terms.
In any event, I am sure that the problem goes much deeper than just the players we see on stage.
I also think that these players on stage can be replaced by others quite easily. If you remove the current ones, others are put in that place that are of the same category ... or worse. That's pretty much what happened with EVERY so-called revolution in history. That's also something one should take into account in this, I think... Every revolution in history has been artificially triggered by the powers that be, whoever or whatever they are.
I think it's rather naive to think that by removing the world leaders, everything will be alright, or at least bettering on this Planet and for ourselves...
The Sages taught to come out of the world, to dissolve the ego, to go within and to detach, as the ONLY real and lasting remedy. Non-attachment.
Btw, I have no idea why John Lash has added that Kali narrative to his portfolio, and I don't know much about that character, so I'll have to leave in the middle what that is exactly about. It's certainly not in any Gnostic text whatsoever, it's only John Lash that comes up with that.
And just because all revolutions have been orchestrated by tptb doesn't mean they all must be from here forth.
I think what makes something NEW AGE is the complete apathy and unwillingness to do anything but meditate about things, and he does neither of those. His discussion of actions is precisely what puts him OUT of the new age movement.
What is his agenda? Do you think.