#Jean-Yves Leloup

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“The first form is darkness; the second is desire; the third is ignorance; the fourth is zeal for death; the fifth is the realm of the flesh; the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the flesh; the seventh is is the wisdom of the wrathful person. These are the seven powers of wrath.”

- Mary 9:18 - 25, The gospel of Mary Magdalene

The “powers” “sins” or “demons of the ego. Meggan Watterson, Author of “Mary Magdalene revealed” believes these are the seven demons that Jesus expelled from Mary, referred to in Luke 8:2.

Mary’s Gospel is an ascent narrative as it describes the path navigated to liberate the soul during life. Mary is regarded as the first apostle because she followed in Jesus’s footsteps and witnessed his death and resurrection. The Gospel reveals the wisdom that Christ gave only Mary, and features her telling the Disciples what they spoke of.

The powers are the states we humans embody through life, that keep us stuck, and separated from God. They are regarded as sins only by their nature of adultery. I interpret this as betraying God. They are what makes us human. Christ was both equal parts human and divine, he went on this journey to ascend, and shared his wisdom with Mary.

Then Peter said to him, “You have been explaining every topic to us, tell us one thing. What is the sin of the world?” The Saviour replied “There is no such thing as sin; rather you yourselves are what produces sin when you act in accordance with the nature of adultery, which is called ‘sin’. For this reason, the Good came among you, persuing (the Good) which belongs to every nature.”

- Mary 3:1 - 5

Radical, huh? No wonder this gospel was hidden underground for safety, and not considered canon. Discovered in Egypt in the late 1896, written in Coptic and said to have been written in the second century, before the bible was complied in the third century. There are three known copies found. It’s a gnostic text and is part of the Berlin Codex.

Meet the Demons: a deep dive

When someone says they’re “facing their demons” these are what I think of. If it’s our humanness that makes us sin, then are we inherently sinful? I’m not sure I agree with that. We’re humans, that isn’t wrong or shameful. This is what the Gospel is telling us. These “demons” are parts of our identity we shed when we become more like Jesus. It’s not a infinite state we’re always in. We’re not God. We return to ourselves every time we return to God. We become more like Christ when we return to God. Our Salvation is within us all along.

Learning about these powers made me feel seen, humble and grateful to not be alone. This perspective allows me to see my behaviour and allows me to confess and forgive and pray. I’m less likely to judge others, and it gives me hope on my journey of faith.

Darkness

- hopeless, lack of faith, despair, depression, heaviness, trapped, stuck, loneliness

Desire

- clinging, craving, attachment, not accepting what you have and how things are, wishing for things to be different, greed, insecurity, lack

Ignorance

- lack of awareness, voluntary ignoring, small mindedness, unconscious state we fall into and act from. not indicating to the deficient of character or intelligence, ignorance can save us (only handle so much at once, freeze response, disassociation- not moral failing)

Zeal/Craving for Death

- not necessarily suicide, but gluttony. Making choices that neglect and endanger the health of others or ourselves. Extremes of pleasure that harm body. Destruction and hurt to ourselves. Soul is forgotten.

Realm of Flesh

- enslavement to physical body, when we fully identify with body and forget we are more than that, a soul, not just a physical body with needs. Relates to lust and greed when we put our temporary gratification over someone else’s. Forcing physical needs on someone who dost not consent.

Foolish wisdom of Flesh/False peace of flesh

- sloth. Patterns of inaction, lead to not wanting to do anything. Procrastination, fear, reluctance to Change, stagnation, would rather suffer than accept the reality and make a change.

Wisdom of Wrathful Person

- anger is healing, responsibility to not hurt others with it. Not see others as worthy of disrespect, worthy of harm and pain.

Isn’t the power that is harmful, but the presence of the power and absence of the soul.

I live my life based on the Bible, The Gospel of Thomas, Philip and Mary, and the Love Ethic described in bell hooks book ‘all about love’

God Bless <33

[dandanjean]

Méditer à coeur ouvert

Méditer à cœur ouvert permet en effet de regarder autrement tout ce qui nous entoure. Lorsque nous regardons une pierre, une fleur, un arbre, un papillon, une fourmi, un être humain, nous les regardons avec une attention aimante. Les poètes sont de grands méditants, car ils savent justement regarder les choses les plus ordinaires avec un regard neuf, émerveillé, attentif au petit détail qui nous…

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“Non esiste un atteggiamento giusto, esistono solo atteggiamenti adattati.” – Jean-Yves Leloup

Spunti di riflessione.

Ogni situazione richiede una risposta unica: l’elasticità mentale è una qualità fondamentale. Invece di cercare un unico modo “giusto” di comportarsi, è più utile sviluppare la capacità di leggere il contesto e rispondere in modo appropriato.

[juliesandothings]

several 2010 era synths used to create electronic music published in "Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers" from the Design Museum - Philharmonie de Paris, edited by Jean-Yves Leloup, Gemma Curtain and Maria McLintock

[au-jardin-de-mon-coeur]

Chaque matin,

cherche l'étincelle, l'éclat,

qui allume en toi le jour.

Jean-Yves Leloup

[realfactsnlogic]

tag game tag game

Tagged by @incorrectgoddessgang​

Last song: “Disco Baby” by Ayesha Erotica

Last movie: V for Vendetta 

Currently watching: Video essays on Youtube.

Currently reading: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean-Yves Leloup. But I’m supposed to be reading a work manual...

Last thing researched for writing purposes: 

"A lot” vs. “alot” because I was helping a friend with their fanfic and we were debating on how it’s correctly spelt. (To save you the look-up, ‘alot’ isn’t a thing despite how nice it may look to some eyes. I mean it when I say ‘some’.)

As for 9 people to tag...

@capsajcin​ / @cipherbunz​ / @flamingoink / @jubilantjumbalaya​ / @photondoesstuff​ / @s1lly-sold1er​ / @snail-speed / @spacechild85 / @thehappynoodle !​​

[coolvieilledentelle]

Il est bon d'être deux, dans ce monde inhospitalier... De s'accompagner sur la route, d'être attentifs l'un à l'autre, tendres l'un pour l'autre, de s'accorder des attentions mutuelles. D'être prêts à partager douceurs et labeurs.

Catherine Bensaid & Jean Yves Leloup- (Qui aime quand je t’aime)

[jbfalcon]

Amamos tão pouco e tão mal,

Com uma metade

Ou até mesmo com um quarto de nós mesmos.

E amamos, no outro,

Alguns pedaços escolhidos,

Os mais conhecidos,

Aqueles que nos causam menos medo.

É tão raro amarmos alguém por inteiro,

Com aquilo que nos agrada

E com aquilo que não nos agrada.

É tão raro sermos amados por inteiro,

Com nossas cavidades

de sombra,

Com nossos dorsos de luz.

Jean-Yves Leloup

[santmat]

“I left the world with the aid of another world; a design was erased, by virtue of a higher design. Henceforth I travel toward Repose, where time rests in the Eternity of Time; I go now into Silence.’ Having said all this, Mary became silent, for it was in silence that the Teacher spoke to her.” — “The Gospel of Mary Magdalene”, Jean-Yves Leloup, #Gnostic #GnosticGospels #GospelOfMaryMagdalene

[annacswenson]

~ It requires a higher love to free oneself from a lower love. By the same token, it takes a higher and vaster representation of the world to free oneself from a lower one. Scientific progress itself depends on this. ~

—Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

[acollectionofpotentialdrawings]

Research Notes

Artists to research:

Marina Abramovic

Joseph Beuys

Chris Burden

David Critchley  

Nan Goldin

Hilma af Klint

Bruce Nauman  

Barnett Newman

Nam June Paik  

Mark Rothko

Martha Rosler

Richard Serra

David Wojnarowicz

Research Interests:

Psychology of, neuroscience of, philosophy of, psychedelics and, the religious experience

Religious Studies, specifically arguments for the existence of God

The Sublime/The Divine/The Vast etc.  

Psychology of Trauma/Generational Trauma

Ritual and Performance Art

Sadomasochism and Endurance

Sensory Deprivation

Hallucinations and Schizophrenia/Bipolar Disorder

Catatonia, excited and stupor  

Ecstasy

Political Philosophy

Protest Art

Western Philosophy vs. Eastern Philosophy

Kundalini Yoga and Tantric Sexuality/Energy orgasms  

The Gnostic Gospels

Religions of the Book vs. Eastern Religions, esp. Hinduism and Taosim

Taichi Ch’uan and Taosim

Bible History

Existentialism & English and Russian literature

Horror and horror film theory

Meditation and Mindfulness

Art Education

Books:

Alberti, Leon Battista, On Painting.  London: Penguin Books, 1972.  

Allegra, John M., The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East

Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space.  New York: Peguin Books, 1964.  

Barthes, Roland, Mythologies.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

Bryant, Edwin F., The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. New York: North Point Press, 2009.

Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus.  New York: Vintage Books, 1955.    

Cavendish, Richard, The Black Arts.  New York: Tarcher Perigee, 2017.  

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Eliade, Mircea, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.  Orlando, Austin, New York, San Diego, Toronto, London: Harcourt, Inc., 1957.

Elkins, James, Why Art Cannot Be Taught  

Foucault, Michel, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.  

Foucoult, Michel, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1-3

Furlons, Monica, Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics. Shambala: Boston, 1996.

Girardot, N.J., Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism. Berkley: University of California Press, 1983.  

Hedges, Chris, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.  New York: Anchor Books, 2003.  

Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Kentridge, William, Six Drawing Lessons

Kierkegarrd, Soren, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin.

Kierkegarrd, Soren, Fear and Trembling  

Kierkegarrd, Soren, The Sickness Unto Death.  New York: Penguin Group, 2004.  

Kushner, Lawrence, Honey from the Rock. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1990.  

Laski, Marghanita, Ecstasy in Secular and Religious Experience.  Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tartcher, Inc., 1961.  

Leary, Timothy, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.  Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2002.

Man-ch'ing, Cheng, Master Cheng’s New Method of Taichi Ch’uan Self-Cultivation, Blue Snake Books: Berkley, 1999.  

Martin, David. F., Art and the Religious Experience: the “Language of the Sacred.”

McKirahan Jr., Richard D., Philosophy Before Socrates.  Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1994.  

McNamara, Patrick, The Neuroscience of Religious Experience

McNamara, Patrick, Nightmares: The Science and Solution of Those Frightening Visions during Sleep

Narby, Jeremy, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge.  New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnma, 1998.  

Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity.  New York: Vintage Books, 1988.  

Pagels, Elaine, The Origin of Satan.  New York: First Vintage Books, 1996.  

Pagels, Elaine, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation.  New York, Penguin Group.  

Perl, Eric D., Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Aeropagite.  New York: State University of New York Press, 2007.  

Pinchbeck, Daniel, Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1. India: Oxford University Press, 1940.  

Raicovich, Laura, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

Richards, William A., Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

Rosler, Martha, Decoys and Disruptions.  Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006.  

Sacks, Oliver, Hallucinations.  New York: First Vintage Books, 2012.  

Saunders, Jason L., Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle. New York, London, Tononto, Sydney: The Free Press, 1966.  

Schlain, Leonard, Art & Physics, Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light. New York: Perennial, 2001.  

Solomon, Andrew, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.

Steiner, Rudolph, Colour, East Sussex: Rudolph Steiner Press, 1992.  

Van Der Kolk, M.D., The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.  New York: Penguin Books, 2014.  

Vysheslavtsev, B. P., The Eternal in Russian Philosophy.  Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.  

Winnicott, D. W., The Child, the Family, and the Outside World.  Cambridge: Perseus Publishing, 1964.  

Winnicott, D.W., Playing and Reality.  London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1982.  

Wolynn, Mark, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle.  

Zee, A., Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

[dandanjean]

Méditer avec Dürckheim

Jean-Yves LELOUP évoque la méditation avec Karlfried Graf DÜRCKHEIM. Jean-Yves LELOUP : Méditer avec DÜRCKHEIM

[mujeroso]

"la dimension féminine, angélique ou "orientale" de de la connaissance humaine."

l'Évangile de Marie - Jean-Yves Leloup

[tche-rien]

Et si des premiers "pères de l'église" jusqu'à ceux d'aujourd'hui, au fil de cette histoire racontée encore et encore depuis 2000 ans avec les erreurs (volontaire ?)de traduction de l'Araméen au Copte puis au grec ancien, au latin...il y avait eu une volonté politique de modifier les enseignement du Rabbi Yeshoua, de L'Enseigneur, du Maître Jésus ?

Dans l'Évangile de Marie, Myriam de Magdala, traduit par l'excellentissime helléniste Jean-Yves Leloup on y lit :

Pierre ajouta : « Est-il possible que l’Enseigneur se soit entretenu ainsi, avec une femme, sur des secrets que nous, nous ignorons? Devons-nous changer nos habitudes ; écouter tous cette femme? L’a-t-Il vraiment choisie et préférée à nous ? »

Et tant d'autres secrets qui n'en sont pas vraiment ! Faut juste lire, pas du JUL, hein, avoir le goût de lire, d'écrire, car sans ça tu ne sauras pas réfléchir et si tu ne sais pas réfléchir les faux maîtres et vrais tyrans s'en chargeront à ta place !!!!

Et ça ni les Maîtres, honneurs aux femmes d'abord, Marie/Myriam, Jésus, Bouddhas ne l'auraient souhaité !!!

Respect à toutes les mères de clan, les vraies, sans lesquelles il n'y aurait pas d'onctions sacrées !

[jalonvie]

''Dans le vocabulaire grec, Agapè est un mot nouveau. Ce fut le christianisme qui amena la naissance de ce mot. Il naît un nouveau mot quand naît une nouvelle expérience. Ce fut l’expérience de l’amour gratuit, de l’amour pour rien !''

''Nous produisons des « objets aimants ». Nous demandons à notre enfant l’amour qui nous a manqué.''

Jean Yves Leloup

[afastemsevacas]

somos o que doamos

"Tudo o que não fazemos por amor é tempo perdido. Tudo o que fazemos por amor é a eternidade reencontrada. A única coisa que não nos podem tirar, a única coisa que a morte não pode nos tirar, é aquilo que doamos. O que tivermos dado, nada nem ninguém pode nos tirar. É essa doação que fica de nós mesmos.”

Jean-Yves Leloup