Journey to Light

There are others out there, like me, who ask the question: “there must be more to life than this?” There are days when we wake up and wonder: “is this all there is; is this as good as it gets?” By “this” I mean the day-to-day grind (which we do for years and years) of getting up, chasing work, getting paid (sometimes insane amounts of money), coming home, and doing it all again the next day, and the next, and the next… The reward we take from this grind comes when we get some “down time” and we spend our money on meaningless things, like a new mobile phone, or a bigger television, or a new car, or an overseas holiday. But we still feel “empty”, and wonder where and when the “more than this” will kick in. Somewhere along the way into our adulthood, we become lost in the pursuit of a “better life” for me. It’s always about me and how I can get ahead in my job and my life – recognised, rewarded, promoted, wealthy, successful, and important. In the process, we lose sight of what matters. W...

This world loves labels. For some reason we relate to and understand the world when it is neatly divided into labels. To many, I am labelled a Christian. If that is because I believe Jesus Christ existed and brought an important message to humanity, then, yes, I am a Christian. If it’s because, in my past I attended church regularly, then, no, that is incorrect. Church attendance does not make me Christian. If you really want to label me, please call me a Gnostic. That still makes me Christian because I believe in Jesus Christ, but it also makes me much more. Before we continue, please know that I am not indoctrinated as a Gnostic – no body (like a church) has ordained me in formal ceremony (like baptism or confirmation) to be a Gnostic. I am a Gnostic because I personally choose it in the continuous pursuit of enlightenment (which I have yet to fully attain). As I wear the label “Gnostic”, I must establish a definition so that others can understand what I am. To me this is very amusin...

There are some things in human history that have been lost to us forever. For example, imagine what we might have access to if the great library in Alexandria had not been destroyed. Even sadder than this is the history that is still accessible to us but being “lost” to humanity because the vast majority of people nowadays just can’t be bothered to investigate it. Existing in plain sight, if we can be bothered to look, is something so important that it shakes our spiritual foundations to the core. It reveals what we have come to accept as “God”, and it shows that we need to re-examine our belief system. In my book Transcendence , I write about the emergence of “God” in antiquity and how humans (especially of the Judaeo-Christian belief system) came to label or syncretise “God” from multiple deities in the Sumerian pantheon of gods. From the Sumerian pantheon of gods, one in particular – Marduk – came to be dominant. He is the son of the god Enki (aka Ea), nephew of the god Enlil (aka E...