John Lamb Lash, Archons, ETs, Casteneda, Strieber, Wikipedia...oh my!
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:47 am
Original post: hypatia_alexandria
I notice there is a thread here on what is, and ain't gnostic. Let me say first off that I found that thread helpful. It's because this forum appears to be genuinely seeking to clarify the nature of gnosticism, that I am posting my questions here about a meme currently proliferating online.
John Lamb Lash seems to be everywhere these days, as listeners to shows such as Coast and Whitley Strieber's Dreamland will know, spreading his 'gnostic' message.
Recently he posted some material on Wikipedia's Gnosticism page which the editors deleted. You can read about it here.
On his website Lash discusses the so-called 2012 endtimes, as well as offering his own take on Jesus and Mary Magdalen (he takes their historicity for granted), and there is a lot on his notions of the sacred feminine and sacred sex--one might say, all the usual newagey crowd pulling fare. And his 'ministry' seems to be working because everywhere I look, I see people I have read and respected for a long time, becoming born-again converts to Lash's brand of gnosticism. It's almost spooky.
One of Lash's claims is that the ETs reportedly abducting people are in fact the Archons, which he considers to be interdimensional beings. In this Lash conveniently ignores researchers such as Martin Cannon who in The Controllers ably demonstrates that alien abduction can be explained by the abuses perpetrated on unwitting human guinea pigs by all-too-human 'Project Paperclip' spychiatrists under such historically documented programs as MK Ultra. (Another good resource is Peter Levenda's Sinister Forces.)
In fact until John Lash came along, there was little remaining excuse to keep believing in the woo-woo stuff about alien visitors. (Especially for anyone in the unfortunate position of actually being an abductee/experiencer, and thus in dire need of hard if unpalateable facts. Witness Whitley Strieber'srecent meltdown and heresy purges (banning people who rejected the friendly Space Bros theory) on the "When There Are Witness" [sic] thread on his UnknownCountry board.) Lash speaks of two varieties of Archon-- foetus-like 'Grays', and reptilians. He states that material in the Nag Hammadi codices fully supports this and his other claims. Unfortunately this is something that few, myself included, have the time or scholarly background and resources to verify.
Finally, the kind of thing that makes uneasy about Lash is touched on this interview:
[QUOTE]On the Metahistory bio page, youâ??re called the â??true successor to Mircea Eliadeâ?Â
I notice there is a thread here on what is, and ain't gnostic. Let me say first off that I found that thread helpful. It's because this forum appears to be genuinely seeking to clarify the nature of gnosticism, that I am posting my questions here about a meme currently proliferating online.
John Lamb Lash seems to be everywhere these days, as listeners to shows such as Coast and Whitley Strieber's Dreamland will know, spreading his 'gnostic' message.
Recently he posted some material on Wikipedia's Gnosticism page which the editors deleted. You can read about it here.
On his website Lash discusses the so-called 2012 endtimes, as well as offering his own take on Jesus and Mary Magdalen (he takes their historicity for granted), and there is a lot on his notions of the sacred feminine and sacred sex--one might say, all the usual newagey crowd pulling fare. And his 'ministry' seems to be working because everywhere I look, I see people I have read and respected for a long time, becoming born-again converts to Lash's brand of gnosticism. It's almost spooky.
One of Lash's claims is that the ETs reportedly abducting people are in fact the Archons, which he considers to be interdimensional beings. In this Lash conveniently ignores researchers such as Martin Cannon who in The Controllers ably demonstrates that alien abduction can be explained by the abuses perpetrated on unwitting human guinea pigs by all-too-human 'Project Paperclip' spychiatrists under such historically documented programs as MK Ultra. (Another good resource is Peter Levenda's Sinister Forces.)
In fact until John Lash came along, there was little remaining excuse to keep believing in the woo-woo stuff about alien visitors. (Especially for anyone in the unfortunate position of actually being an abductee/experiencer, and thus in dire need of hard if unpalateable facts. Witness Whitley Strieber'srecent meltdown and heresy purges (banning people who rejected the friendly Space Bros theory) on the "When There Are Witness" [sic] thread on his UnknownCountry board.) Lash speaks of two varieties of Archon-- foetus-like 'Grays', and reptilians. He states that material in the Nag Hammadi codices fully supports this and his other claims. Unfortunately this is something that few, myself included, have the time or scholarly background and resources to verify.
Finally, the kind of thing that makes uneasy about Lash is touched on this interview:
[QUOTE]On the Metahistory bio page, youâ??re called the â??true successor to Mircea Eliadeâ?Â