Wow, I thought this was an amazing post Cyd. Your ability in the way you clarify and simplify not just the TTT , but particular and often difficult biblical passages is a real gift, you have a true mission with purpose.
I recently listened to a podcast discussing changes occurring in our current times with dark and despairing situations in the world. Although difficult and hard, much of it was referenced as a needed " cleansing " because of the expansion that is occurring of human " hearts and souls " changing into a deeper accord with cooperation and love for each other. And I believe that is the natural " birthright " of humans without the never-ending war enforced by the shadows.
I felt the way you explained the old testament passage from Ezekiel with an awakening to our " One Self that flows from above " resonates with this. Beautiful. Your Gnostic insight to the Pentecost offers us faith that everyone's path is truly onward and upward.....Let's let it flow....and that's a joyful thing.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Gabriella. Your presence in these comments is always valuable to all of us who read them. Thanks for sticking with me and the Gnostic Reformation.
My words and appreciation for you come from a sincere place .... Your insights and interpretations of ancient script, such as the TTT and others from the Nag Hamadi , as well as traditional Christian scripture has been nothing but positive and helpful for me in my seeking to grow into Spirit. I often used to think that many references to biblical scripture was often just dogma and hypocrisy. I see now it matters quite a lot how words are not just translated, but interpreted. Since I have been following your Gnostic Reformation, my appreciation and understanding that so many different paths do meld into the most important Gnosis, which is , that no one is ever denied the loving support and connection to God. And we shall all be connected eventually.
p.s. I was actually concerned that the episode was perhaps too theological. I'm guessing that many readers/listeners were bored by the hermeneutics. It was a very time consuming episode with all the back and forth with sources and dictionaries. I kept thinking--this is just like graduate school. This is what I would be doing if I returned to school for a theology degree, if only there were a gnostic university. Otherwise it would be non-stop head butting with the doctrinal folks.
What stood out to me here is the way you frame remembrance not as acquiring knowledge, but as recovering coherence beneath layers of inherited conditioning. That resonates deeply with how trauma often functions psychologically, not just as pain, but as a kind of fragmentation of signal where the original pattern gets obscured by survival adaptations.
The idea that the “living water” flows when the grip of ego loosens feels very close to what I’ve seen in nervous system work too: that beneath the defensive structures there is often something already intact, waiting to be felt again rather than built from scratch.
It’s striking how gnosis and embodied recovery sometimes seem to be describing the same movement through different symbolic languages: remembrance, reorganization, return.
There you go, Vlad. I love the way you articulate the process in different language. It's a great way to put it. My brother, Bill, uses the approach therapeutically in his hypnotherapy practice. It's all about uncovering the original gnosis we were born with and stripping away the layers of memes and obfuscation that cloud our true identity. So we aren't trying to build or learn, but rather to forget and remember. It's an important process in gnosticism called anamnesis.
Yes, exactly. That’s the convergence I keep returning to.
What the Gnostics called anamnesis, I increasingly see as a biological and energetic process as much as a spiritual one. Not learning something new, but restoring coherence to what was already there before trauma, conditioning, and inherited survival patterns distorted the signal.
In my own work, trauma often feels like a kind of counterfeit encoding, layers of emergency memory laid over the original template. Healing is less construction than de-obfuscation.
“Forget and remember” may be one of the most precise ways to describe it. Beautifully put. And your brother’s work sounds deeply aligned with that same movement.
"Young girl in a parking lot was preaching to a crowd, singin' sacred songs and reading from the Bible. Well I told her I was lost and she told me all about the Pentacost, and I seen that girl as the road to my susrvival..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-Quw2QGo8
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"But it goes beyond that, because it says, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.
And that new heart is the lev chadásh, which is new spirit. And the new heart is lev basár, which literally means in Hebrew, a heart of flesh, a soft, receptive psyche." ...
.."It says, furthermore, I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh. And the heart of stone in Hebrew is lev ha-éven, meaning heart of stone, or a hardened psyche."
Compassion replaces callousness, "loving our neighbor as ourselves". ;-)
Wow, I thought this was an amazing post Cyd. Your ability in the way you clarify and simplify not just the TTT , but particular and often difficult biblical passages is a real gift, you have a true mission with purpose.
I recently listened to a podcast discussing changes occurring in our current times with dark and despairing situations in the world. Although difficult and hard, much of it was referenced as a needed " cleansing " because of the expansion that is occurring of human " hearts and souls " changing into a deeper accord with cooperation and love for each other. And I believe that is the natural " birthright " of humans without the never-ending war enforced by the shadows.
I felt the way you explained the old testament passage from Ezekiel with an awakening to our " One Self that flows from above " resonates with this. Beautiful. Your Gnostic insight to the Pentecost offers us faith that everyone's path is truly onward and upward.....Let's let it flow....and that's a joyful thing.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Gabriella. Your presence in these comments is always valuable to all of us who read them. Thanks for sticking with me and the Gnostic Reformation.
My words and appreciation for you come from a sincere place .... Your insights and interpretations of ancient script, such as the TTT and others from the Nag Hamadi , as well as traditional Christian scripture has been nothing but positive and helpful for me in my seeking to grow into Spirit. I often used to think that many references to biblical scripture was often just dogma and hypocrisy. I see now it matters quite a lot how words are not just translated, but interpreted. Since I have been following your Gnostic Reformation, my appreciation and understanding that so many different paths do meld into the most important Gnosis, which is , that no one is ever denied the loving support and connection to God. And we shall all be connected eventually.
Thank you again, Gabriella.
love,
cyd
p.s. I was actually concerned that the episode was perhaps too theological. I'm guessing that many readers/listeners were bored by the hermeneutics. It was a very time consuming episode with all the back and forth with sources and dictionaries. I kept thinking--this is just like graduate school. This is what I would be doing if I returned to school for a theology degree, if only there were a gnostic university. Otherwise it would be non-stop head butting with the doctrinal folks.
Cyd got "the Spirit of Discernment", huh?
;-)
What stood out to me here is the way you frame remembrance not as acquiring knowledge, but as recovering coherence beneath layers of inherited conditioning. That resonates deeply with how trauma often functions psychologically, not just as pain, but as a kind of fragmentation of signal where the original pattern gets obscured by survival adaptations.
The idea that the “living water” flows when the grip of ego loosens feels very close to what I’ve seen in nervous system work too: that beneath the defensive structures there is often something already intact, waiting to be felt again rather than built from scratch.
It’s striking how gnosis and embodied recovery sometimes seem to be describing the same movement through different symbolic languages: remembrance, reorganization, return.
There you go, Vlad. I love the way you articulate the process in different language. It's a great way to put it. My brother, Bill, uses the approach therapeutically in his hypnotherapy practice. It's all about uncovering the original gnosis we were born with and stripping away the layers of memes and obfuscation that cloud our true identity. So we aren't trying to build or learn, but rather to forget and remember. It's an important process in gnosticism called anamnesis.
Yes, exactly. That’s the convergence I keep returning to.
What the Gnostics called anamnesis, I increasingly see as a biological and energetic process as much as a spiritual one. Not learning something new, but restoring coherence to what was already there before trauma, conditioning, and inherited survival patterns distorted the signal.
In my own work, trauma often feels like a kind of counterfeit encoding, layers of emergency memory laid over the original template. Healing is less construction than de-obfuscation.
“Forget and remember” may be one of the most precise ways to describe it. Beautifully put. And your brother’s work sounds deeply aligned with that same movement.
"Young girl in a parking lot was preaching to a crowd, singin' sacred songs and reading from the Bible. Well I told her I was lost and she told me all about the Pentacost, and I seen that girl as the road to my susrvival..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-Quw2QGo8
;-}
"But it goes beyond that, because it says, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.
And that new heart is the lev chadásh, which is new spirit. And the new heart is lev basár, which literally means in Hebrew, a heart of flesh, a soft, receptive psyche." ...
.."It says, furthermore, I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh. And the heart of stone in Hebrew is lev ha-éven, meaning heart of stone, or a hardened psyche."
Compassion replaces callousness, "loving our neighbor as ourselves". ;-)