Episodes

April 11, 2026

Understanding Fractal Stories and Archetypes

On today’s episode, we’re going to talk some more about fractal stories and archetypes. These fractal stories make up our lives. We have very little original material in our lives. It’s as if we are each a character in a play. And this play was written by the Aeons of the Fullness before time began. These are archetypal stories. And when Logos fell and broke open all these stories into the world, and then we came down and populated the world from the Fullness, it is these stories we are reenacti...
April 18, 2026

Generation of the Aeons

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I’m currently teaching my second round of Gnostic Insights to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, also known as OLLI, at Southern Oregon University, and we’re going through step by step this concept of Gnosticism that I share with you here at Gnostic Insights and on the Gnostic Reformation. So I’m going to back up with you and take a deep dive into the scriptures of the Tripartite Tractate that we use as the basis he...
April 25, 2026

The Case Against Darwinian Evolution

The absurdity of random evolution Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I’ve been sharing these Gnostic Insights for a few years now, and I’ve discovered that the one topic that flares people up, the most controversial aspect of Gnosticism, doesn’t really have anything to do with the nature of God, or the Archons, or where we go after we die. Believe it or not, Darwinian evolution is the thing that really gets under people’s skins when I say, I don’t believ...
May 2, 2026

Understanding Pleromas: The Gnostic Journey of Consciousness

Let’s talk about pleromas. Pleroma is a common word in gnostic scriptures, and it has a particular meaning that only relates to Gnosticism. Today, I’d like to take another look at pleromas because they describe the flow of consciousness from the origin and tell us where we all came from, where we are, and where we will wind up at the end of days. I know that when I run through these various pleromas, people can get confused because it all sounds so complicated. But believe me, it isn’t complica...
May 9, 2026

Understanding Gnosticism: The Path to Inner Knowledge

In Simple Explanation terms, the Christ is the correcting algorithm for Second Order fractals that no longer ring true. The Christ replicates all of the qualities of the All—that is, the full attributes of the originating consciousness in their pure form that existed prior to the Fall, with all of the confounding memes stripped away. When one accepts the gift of the Christ, one invites a correction to ego's amnesiac memes so that the best functioning of the universal unit of consciousness may be...
May 13, 2026

Another strange tale from White City

Another funny story from my visit to the White City Veterans Hospital yesterday. Surely you remember the post, Lost in the Hallways – Gnostic Insights, from February? And then the follow-up to the story posted in Reforming the Demiurge – Gnostic Insights ? Well, here’s some more weirdness associated with the White City facility. First, the hallways remain a mystery to me, no matter how often I visit. I’ve returned there at least 10 times by now for various health related matters, and each time ...
May 16, 2026

Army of the Christ

It wasn’t only the singular Christ that was created–He who is the One image of the Son of God; it was the face of everyone who prays to the Father for help. This army of the Christ is the Third Order of Powers. These Third Order Powers are the Pleroma of the Christ, created as living images of the Son, the ALL, and the Aeons of the Fullness. They are far more powerful than we Second Order Powers and infinitely more powerful than the phantoms of the deficiency. There is one of those Third Order P...
May 23, 2026

Gnostic Christianity

Hello and welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Yesterday, my Hindi tech services guy asked me whether or not Gnosis is Christian. It seems like it should be a simple question. Is Gnosticism Christian? I explained to him that I certainly think that Christian Gnosticism is Christian, fully. And in fact, I believe it’s true Christianity—that Jesus was Gnostic, that John the Baptist was Gnostic. But what does that mean? Most of the Christians, pretty much all o...
May 29, 2026

Gnostic Redemption of the Nag Hammadi

Every once in a while I like to go back and share with you the original scriptures out of the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi from which I derive these teachings. So this week will be scripture-heavy. Don’t worry if the language is unwieldy or unfamiliar. You’ll get the hang of it. The original economy was that of the hierarchy of the Fullness, wherein every Aeon knew its place, position, and duties for cooperative overall functioning. The Aeons of the Fullness dream as one of Paradise....
June 6, 2026

Gnostic Pentacost

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week I was listening to one of the radio preachers I like to listen to and I caught a sermon on the Pentecost, and I realized I had at that point a Gnostic insight that Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit, when it infused the disciples in the upper room—that is the coming of the Third Order of Powers released by the Christ after his resurrection—that the Third Order Powers are the “anointing of the Holy Spiri...
June 13, 2026

The Spirit of Truth: The Holy Spirit as Gnosis

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week, we’re going to follow up on last week’s episode, which was called Gnostic Pentecost, and that was first broadcast on the 6th of June, 2026. I have a lot more examples out of the New Testament of the Bible about Pentecost, and as we learned last week, Pentecost is what we’ve been calling the coming of the Third Order of Powers here in this Gnosticism out of the Tripartite Tractate that I share with you at Gnos...
June 20, 2026

Interview with a Gnostic Bishop

Bishop Nathan Wilson pt.1 Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Hey, this week I interviewed Bishop Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union, and it was a good long interview, so I’ll be breaking it up probably into three segments for the next three weeks here. Bishop Wilson earned a diploma of ministry from the Gnostic Catholic Union, and then he later went on to create The Gnostic Union, and he’ll tell you about that in this week’s episode. Here I’ll read you t...
June 26, 2026

Interview with Bishop Wilson pt. 2: The Gnostic Christian Truth Bible

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week was part one of my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union, and he explained to us a bit about who the Gnostic Union is and what they believe in. At the beginning of that episode, I read from the Gnostic Union website their history and mission statement. And my brother Billy called me up and said, “Oh, but there’s a point of their theology that’s all wrong. I know they’re ecumenical and all, ...
July 3, 2026

Interview with Bishop Wilson pt. 3: Gnosis Hidden in the New Testament

Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union reveals gnosticism embedded in the New Testament gospels.
July 10, 2026

Understanding Biblical Gnosis: Bishop Wilson’s Perspective

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Dr. Cyd Ropp and Bishop Nathan Wilson Today’s episode is the last installment of my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union. Brother Nathan continues with his illustration of how correct translation of the original Koine Greek of the New Testament changes the way we may interpret Biblical scripture more precisely. The translations he shares come from his freely available Gnostic Christian Truth Bible t...
July 18, 2026

The True Gnosis: A Modern Gnostic Approach

I am not in favor of delving into history and trying to learn about God, or about your proper relationship to God and heaven, and all these kinds of questions through history, or through transcripts that have been funneled through human imagination and human interpretation. This is why you must go directly to the Father. Well, how? How? Prayer. That's what prayer is. Prayer is talking to the Father, or talking to Christ, or talking with Jesus, and waiting on their answers, waiting on those direc...
July 25, 2026

A Subscriber Questions the Basics

Welcome to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Before I get into this week’s episode, let me tell you that the entire uninterrupted interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union is now available on YouTube under Cyd Ropp Gnostic Insights playlist. I’ve tried and tried to upload the captioned transcript underneath the video, but neither YouTube nor my video editing software will cooperate. I can only chalk it up to Demiurgic interference, so this must be one impor...
Aug. 1, 2026

Gödel, AIs, and Axioms

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the new subscribers to the Gnostic Reformation here on Substack and to GnosticInsights.com. Did you know that there are three Gnostic Gospels that I have written? You can pick up the simplest book called The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated. It’s very short. Half of it is illustrations. Very simple. Very, very simple to understand this Gnosticism. This will give you the basic...
Aug. 7, 2026

AI’s Role in Deepening Gnosis: A Reflection

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Wow, the question posed at the end of the last episode concerning the role AIs may have in order to deepen gnosis struck a chord and stimulated a good, long conversational thread—29 comments and rising at this point—among three educated and erudite Gnostic gentlemen. I’m not going to attempt to summarize that conversation. If you’re curious, go to last week’s episode posted on Substack and read the threads for yourself...
Aug. 14, 2026

The Golden Rule: A Gnostic Perspective on Unity

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Back in 2022, I recorded an episode called Simple Model of Universe, and I’m updating the audio and the transcript for that post. This was originally recorded as I was preparing to put on a feature presentation at the AstroGnosis Conference that Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio held in March of 2022 down in Mexico, and this describes one slide out of that presentation that had about 15 slides in it. And this topic that we’re go...
Aug. 21, 2026

Understanding Gnosis: The Path to Personal Revelation

What is gnosis? There’s a lot of “Gnosticism” floating around on the Internet these days, isn’t there? And the gnosis I’m sharing with you is quite different from most of what’s out there. Before 1945 and 1947—before the Nag Hammadi and Qumran scriptures were dug out of deserts and caves—the only Gnosticism anyone knew was what had survived the Great Purge by the early Catholic Church and the Nicene Council. The Church intentionally stripped the Gnostic material out of what became our New Testam...
Aug. 28, 2026

Aeons, Archons, Angels, or Aliens? A Gnostic Interpretation of Ancient Aliens Theory

During the long months of the 2020 shutdown, I spent a surprising amount of time watching the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. I began as a skeptic, but the sheer variety of evidence presented gradually challenged my assumptions. Many years earlier I had read Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods?, so I was already familiar with the basic outline of ancient alien theory. I had also read Whitley Strieber’s Communion when it was first published, giving me a passing familiarity with the s...
Sept. 5, 2026

AI-Assisted Composition–Good Bad or Neutral

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Recently, I fed my book, A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, into the Copilot AI, in order to see how it would say what I’ve said in my book. And now I have a result, but I’m not sure whether to use it or not. We’ve had these conversations in the comments section concerning AI and the fact that it doesn’t know Gnosis. It doesn’t have Gnosis. The AI is actually an algorithm based upon a machine, so it’s of demiu...
Sept. 19, 2026

The Cosmic Tree: Fractal Consciousness, Gnosis, and the Path Home

Consciousness arises as a fractal of the originating consciousness of the Father, through the Son, through the Aeons of the Fullness, and down to us.