What I'm Watching: The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
We take a look at old world architecture, astrotheology, Michael Tsarion, M. David Litwa, Justin Sledge, Eric Clapton, Layla, Pattie Boyd, George Harrison, the Herculaneum scrolls, and more.
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We take a look at old world architecture, astrotheology, Michael Tsarion, M. David Litwa, Justin Sledge, Eric Clapton, Layla, Pattie Boyd, George Harrison, the Herculaneum scrolls, and more.
Curiosity Stream. (2023). Herculaneum Scrolls: Unraveling History | Breakthrough. YouTube.
Description
"The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is renowned for its decimation of Pompeii, but nearby, an equally impressive Roman settlement known as Herculaneum was lost to history. Today, the latest in technology is opening a wind to the past, as scientists digitally "unravel" the Herculaneum Scrolls."
David Hartley. (2023). The story of Layla is much weirder than you thought. YouTube.
Description
"The story of Pattie Boyd, Eric Clapton, and George Harrison is heartbreaking and fascinating. It led Eric and George to write some of the greatest love songs of all time such as Layla, Something, and Wonderful Tonight. This video follows their relationships in the 1960s and 1970s and the music that came out of this time."
Esoteric Thoughts. (2021). The Great Mysteries w/ Michael Tsarion | Astrotheology part 1. YouTube.
Description
"Michael Tsarion reveals some of the mysteries around the biblical text with Astro-Theology. This is the first part in a series with Michael Tsarion as he discusses the esoteric side of religion and the hidden mysteries not publicly discussed by the church."
GaiaVideo. (2023). Scientific Evidence Shows Crystals Can Amplify Our Energy. YouTube.
Gnostic Informant. (2023). Early Christians: YAHWEH is Actually the DEVIL. YouTube.
Description
"In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. The Gnostics adopted the term demiurge. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the Creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are both considered consequences of something else. Depending on the system, they may be considered either uncreated and eternal or the product of some other entity. The word demiurge is an English word derived from demiurgus, a Latinised form of the Greek δημιουργός or dēmiurgós. It was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan", but gradually came to mean "producer", and eventually "creator". The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from Plato's Timaeus, written c. 360 BC, where the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe. The demiurge is also described as a creator in the Platonic (c. 310–90 BC) and Middle Platonic (c. 90 BC–AD 300) philosophical traditions. In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the Ideas, but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "the One". In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good. According to some strains of Gnosticism, the demiurge is malevolent, as it is linked to the material world. In others, including the teaching of Valentinus, the demiurge is simply ignorant or misguided. The first and highest aspect of God is described by Plato as the One (Τὸ Ἕν, 'To Hen'), the source, or the Monad. This is the God above the Demiurge, and manifests through the actions of the Demiurge. The Monad emanated the demiurge or Nous (consciousness) from its "indeterminate" vitality due to the monad being so abundant that it overflowed back onto itself, causing self-reflection. This self-reflection of the indeterminate vitality was referred to by Plotinus as the "Demiurge" or creator. The second principle is organization in its reflection of the nonsentient force or dynamis, also called the one or the Monad. The dyad is energeia emanated by the one that is then the work, process or activity called nous, Demiurge, mind, consciousness that organizes the indeterminate vitality into the experience called the material world, universe, cosmos. Plotinus also elucidates the equation of matter with nothing or non-being in The Enneads[9] which more correctly is to express the concept of idealism or that there is not anything or anywhere outside of the "mind" or nous (c.f. pantheism). The figure of the Demiurge emerges in the theoretic of Iamblichus, which conjoins the transcendent, incommunicable “One,” or Source. Here, at the summit of this system, the Source and Demiurge (material realm) coexist via the process of henosis. Iamblichus describes the One as a monad whose first principle or emanation is intellect (nous), while among "the many" that follow it there is a second, super-existent "One" that is the producer of intellect or soul (psyche). The "One" is further separated into spheres of intelligence; the first and superior sphere is objects of thought, while the latter sphere is the domain of thought. Thus, a triad is formed of the intelligible nous, the intellective nous, and the psyche in order to reconcile further the various Hellenistic philosophical schools of Aristotle's actus and potentia (actuality and potentiality) of the unmoved mover and Plato's Demiurge. Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God or Supreme Being and the demiurgic "creator" of the material, commonly identified as Yahweh, the God of the Hebrew Bible. Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in an unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality. Thus, in such systems, the Demiurge acts as a solution to (or, at least possibly, the problem or cause that gives rise to) the problem of evil."
Gravitas Documentaries. (2022). The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man | FULL DOCUMENTARY. YouTube.
Description
"Follow one man's journey to find meaning in Bill Murray's many unexpected adventures with everyday people. Featuring rare and never-before seen footage of the comedic icon participating in stories previously presumed to be urban legend. Whether it be singing karaoke late at night with strangers or crashing a kickball game in the middle of the afternoon, Bill Murray lives in the moment and by doing so, creates magic with real people. Deleted and extended scenes, behind the scenes and additional bonus footage included!"
M. David Litwa. (2022). "You Whom We Address in Silence": Dr Justin Sledge & Dr M David Litwa on the Hermetica. YouTube.
My Lunch Break. (2023). Destroying Ancient Buildings? YouTube.
My Lunch Break. (2023). Earth is Ancient? YouTube.
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Toldinstone. (2023). The Pagan Necropolis Under Vatican City. YouTube.
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"Beneath the floor of St. Peter's Basilica, an ancient Roman cemetery holds the secret to the origins of Vatican City."
University of Kentucky. (2023). Herculaneum scrolls: A 20-year journey to read the unreadable. YouTube.
Description
"Brent Seales, computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, discusses his work to rescue ancient text, such as that buried deep within the carbonized scrolls of Herculaneum."
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I've been accused here on 'stack of being a self-described expert on Gnosticism, and, how dare I, since I don't have a million subs and a publicist?
I dare because the bulk of what is stated about Gnosticism comes from very narrow scholarly study, not from any direct experience.
Therefore, I can say with complete confidence that Gnosticism didn't borrow the Demiurge, and that the necessity of a Demiurge is directly linked to a fashion of seeing the world, one which has existed in many different cultures, generally referred to as Emanation.
If one knows where to look, the Demiurge is actually pretty widespread.
I tend to look at this as a phenomenon of many different cultures coming to very similar conclusions.
Robert Frost wrote a poem about the Demiurge, "The Demiurge's Laugh." Good stuff.