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Follow-up to the Aeon Byte Interview

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Last week’s episode was a link to an interview I had just given on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. That interview on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio was called “Gnostic Psychology and Preparing for Death,” and that was posted on January 29, 2025.

As we so often do, my brother and I chatted after the interview was posted and after he had had a chance to watch it, and we discussed some of the finer points of the Gnosis shared there in that episode. I gave Bill an important piece of Gnosis during that conversation, and he gave me an important piece of Gnosis during that conversation, and I thought I would share those with you today. This is part of our ongoing process of mining our Gnosis.

I’ll share with you what Billy’s problem was with the interview on Aeon Byte. He doesn’t particularly care for the Bardo Thodol (or The Tibetan Book of the Dead) as being particularly Gnostic. In his kind way, he said I did a good job of translating it into Gnostic speak, but it really isn’t Gnostic.

So here’s what we know. In the interview and in my previous writing about it— “Overcoming Death” in the Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel book—I’ve talked about the process of coming to realization that is laid out in the Book of the Dead and how each level, each Bardo, becomes more and more horrific as people resist going onward and upward, and they’d rather go back and down. And it just keeps getting horrible until, according to the Bardo Thodol, they run around looking for a new body to reincarnate into in order to escape the Bardos. So the way the after death experience is described, Billy wanted me to share with you that there is no such thing as the unhelpful deities, the fellows that are running around trying to chop up the resistant soul into little tiny pieces. That is not a real thing. Archons would not be able to follow us into the in-between place after our physical body passes away, because they don’t come from above. They are stuck with the Demiurge down here in the material sphere. What is more likely is that these wrathful deities of the Bardo Thodol are actually memes. They’re meme bundles that are generated and projected by the deceased person’s own conscience. And if it’s this negative type of hellacious experience, it’s from the deceased person’s guilt-ridden conscience.

As I did mention in the interview, these wrathful deities are not punishments from God, because God does not punish us after we die. We turn punishment upon ourselves in the process of our life review. We feel bad. We feel guilty. We feel remorseful about the way we treated others, and we wish that it wouldn’t have happened. And we come face to face with the negative things we did during our life in the afterlife place. In essence, the more self-centered and mean of a life that a person lives here on earth, it carries with them in the form of their memes into the afterlife as their karma, and they need to work it out when they’ve died. If it’s really overwhelmingly terrible, because you can’t hide, you can’t lie to God, the chastening fire of the Aeons is meant to cleanse us and purify us so that we can go onward and upward. And what is being cleansed and purified are those negative memes that caused us to be such a bad-natured person when we were alive on earth. If one allows that purging to take place during that 360-degree life review where we see and experience the pain we caused others, we reflect it back upon ourselves.

Now, the reason why in the Bardo Thodol you have wrathful deities chasing after people with swords is because those are their meme bundles. Particularly, those memes are goin