Before Egypt built its pyramids, the Sumerians had already invented writing, the wheel, organized law, and a cast of mysterious fish-suited sages whose images may still be visible in the vestments of modern priests. This is what the world’s first known civilization left inside the one that followed.
Subsidized land, subsidized power, subsidized tax credits, and a trillion-dollar valuation that stays private no matter who paid for the buildout. Add record burnout and a generation buying dumb phones on purpose, and you get ras-le-bol: the point where people stop arguing and just walk away.
The finale of our Gnostic series: five contemplative practices — stillness, discernment, honest self-witness, sacred attention — for living gnosis daily.
Six months ago I realized AAM’s investment imbalance was about to replay itself in AI. It took me this long to find the courage to say so publicly — and to admit I’m having more fun writing about ancient wisdom instead.
“Holistic” has been absorbed by the wellness industry. “Wholistic” means something older and more demanding — the conscious integration of your whole, on your own terms. Here’s why that distinction matters.
The Gnostics described a world built by a blind craftsman — powerful, self-sustaining,
and completely cut off from the light that inspired it. They were writing in the second century.
They might have been writing about now.
I watched four disruptive technologies reshape our world in forty years. Electric vehicles (EV). Advanced air mobility (AAM). Autonomous systems.
Meta Description: Who was Christ to the Gnostics? Not a sacrifice — an awakener. Discover how gnosis, direct inner knowing, transforms the spiritual path.
Who was Christ to the Gnostics? Not a sacrifice — an awakener. Discover how gnosis, direct inner knowing, transforms the spiritual path.
There is a god who does not know he is not the highest god. The Gnostics called him Yaldabaoth — and the invisible system he built around human consciousness is, they warned, still running.
