Wisdom from the Gnostics

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1. Mike
   July 11, 2017 @ 11:08 pm

   For those perplexed by this as Max and I were, here’s what I learned:

   It’s explained as that which we repress. If we own our darkness, that integration heals us. If humanity continues with using ‘other’ unconsciously to project that darkness onto, we are destroying ourselve(s).

   A related idea from Gustave Grunebaum said that the neurosis experienced from developmentally-damaging-isolation is from the untimely removal of external objects (people) TO project internal dark onto. Earlier cultures had healthier practices of art and ritual for ‘exposing’ the unconscious.

   To know that we are NOT that which we are owning, makes a lot more sense out of why we CAN own it, and therefore release it. THAT is what is healing, not the WHAT that is in us! It is that we are the SEEING, the bringING forth!

2. Christopher Warnock
   July 12, 2017 @ 9:21 pm

   This is saying 70 from the Gospel of Thomas, a 1st-2nd century CE gnostic text from the Nag Hammadi Library. Here is the Lambdin translation, (70) Jesus said, “That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves. That which you do not have within you will kill you if you do not have it within you.”

3. Joyce
   July 12, 2017 @ 9:42 pm

   This is my favorite quote from Thomas’s Gospel. Has been since I read it 20 years ago. Thank you for posting it! And thank you to Chris for the exact translation which I had not read or seen before.

   With love and gratitude again and again

   Joyce