Random House New Releases - Religion - Gnosticism

Essential Gnostic Scriptures by Willis Barnstone

2011-11-22T00:30:00-05:00

Essential Gnostic Scriptures
Written by Marvin Meyer and Willis Barnstone

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Shambhala | Religion - Gnosticism; Religion - Christianity - Theology - History; Religion - Christian Church - History | $18.95 | 978-1-59030-925-4 (1-59030-925-1)

The people we’ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries with remarkable power and beauty—beginning with texts from the earliest years of Christianity—including material from the Nag Hammadi library—and continuing all the way up to expressions of gnostic wisdom found within Islam and in the Cathar movement of the Middle Ages. The twenty-one texts included here serve as a compact introduction to Gnosticism and its principal ideas—and they also provide an entrée to the pleasures of gnostic literature in general, representing, as they do, the greatest masterpieces of that tradition. <iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rx7uvwrdCrE" width="640" frameborder="0" height="390"> </iframe>

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The Electric Jesus by Graham Hancock

2011-11-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Electric Jesus The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
Written by Jonathan Talat Phillips
Introduction by Graham Hancock

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | EVOLVER EDITIONS | Body, Mind & Spirit - Spirituality - General; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Religion - Gnosticism | $17.95 | 978-1-58394-316-8 (1-58394-316-1)

When Jonathan Talat Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist, he unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival, and miraculous energy healings that reshape his skeptical worldview. Along the way, he chronicles the rise of an international movement that is trailblazing visionary ways to address our current planetary crisis through raised consciousness.

To better understand his spiritual journey, Jonathan delves into his own Christian background, discovering the lost rites of the mystery schools. Uncovering secret “electric” meanings behind biblical symbols like the serpent, dove, and tree of life, he reveals how early Christians utilized a radical initiation process for harnessing divine energy in order to achieve gnosis, direct knowledge or experience of the divine. Jonathan suggests that these mystical symbols, which appear in spiritual traditions across the globe, offer a profound energetic roadmap and alchemical message for personal transformation, as well as a potential evolutionary shift for our world.

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The Electric Jesus by Graham Hancock

2011-11-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Electric Jesus The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
Written by Jonathan Talat Phillips
Introduction by Graham Hancock

eBook, 240 pages | EVOLVER EDITIONS | Body, Mind & Spirit - Spirituality - General; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Religion - Gnosticism | $16.99 | 978-1-58394-343-4 (1-58394-343-9)

The Gnostic Bible by Marvin Meyer

2009-06-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Gnostic Bible Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer

Trade Paperback, 896 pages | Shambhala | Religion - Gnosticism; Religion - Christianity - Theology - History; Religion - Christian Church - History | $29.95 | 978-1-59030-631-4 (1-59030-631-7)

Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced.

The selections gathered here, in poetic, readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading. <iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rx7uvwrdCrE" width="640" frameborder="0" height="390"> </iframe>

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The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas

2001-01-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Gnostic Religion
Written by Hans Jonas

Trade Paperback, 400 pages | Beacon Press | Religion - Gnosticism; Philosophy - Existentialism; Religion - Ancient | $26.00 | 978-0-8070-5801-5 (0-8070-5801-7)

Random House New Releases - Religion - Gnosticism

Essential Gnostic Scriptures by Willis Barnstone

Essential Gnostic Scriptures Written by Marvin Meyer and Willis Barnstone

The Electric Jesus by Graham Hancock

The Electric Jesus The Healing Journey of a Contemporary GnosticWritten by Jonathan Talat Phillips Introduction by Graham Hancock

The Electric Jesus by Graham Hancock

The Electric Jesus The Healing Journey of a Contemporary GnosticWritten by Jonathan Talat Phillips Introduction by Graham Hancock

The Gnostic Bible by Marvin Meyer

The Gnostic Bible Revised and Expanded EditionEdited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer

The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas

The Gnostic Religion Written by Hans Jonas

Essential Gnostic Scriptures
Written by Marvin Meyer and Willis Barnstone

The Electric Jesus The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
Written by Jonathan Talat Phillips
Introduction by Graham Hancock

The Electric Jesus The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
Written by Jonathan Talat Phillips
Introduction by Graham Hancock

The Gnostic Bible Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer

The Gnostic Religion
Written by Hans Jonas