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Fri, 11/13/2009 - 23:28
Hey everyone,
In 2006 I was really struggling internally. Not only was I bogged down in depression that seemed to come from nowhere, but also - Nothing in my life meant anything to me anymore. There were people that I cared about sure, but in my heart I constantly felt this indescribable emptyness.
Through someone I knew I found out about The Gnostic Movement and I started attending the free courses so I could learn about myself and hopefully break out of the terrible state I was stuck in...
I was also introduced to a book - The Flight of the Feathered Serpent. As I read through the first few pages I knew I had discovered something very special. I had never read anything like it in my life.
It touched my heart and shook my soul like nothing ever had, and very thankfully, it ignited in me a yearning. For something more than just the veil of this life, for truth, meaning and change.
I was inspired to apply the techniques of Gnosis that I was learning from The Gnostic Movement. As I practiced more intensley I broke out of the negative states I'd been stuck in for so long and discovered something else, peace. As I began to practice, I was able understand Judas's teachings in more depth and this then helped me to practice Gnosis in my life.
I'm really interested to hear if The Flight of the Feathered Serpent (or other Gnostic texts) have helped others to take up and practice Gnosis in there own lives, and what the results have been?
I think it would be a real shame if someone read a book like that and then never made the effort to practice and discover something of what Gnosis has to offer us all.
Thanks for reading
Dean
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 02:20
#2
Hi Dean,
Just wanted to give my strong agreement with the power of the book The Flight of the Feathered Serpent. As you describe "it ignited a yearning". I had that same experience. Nothing really I could explain, cause I had never experienced it before, and like Jon said at some points within the Mayan symbological explanations it did seem too over my head, but the words didn't go to the head, they went to the heart. And it felt good. Gave me strength, and a true "yearning". Something which I'm still incredibly grateful for.
Wed, 11/25/2009 - 15:07
#3
Thank you for sharing, Dean. This book is also very dear and close to my heart... I wonder how much more profound insights everyone will get out of it on a later stages of spiritual development.
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 22:31
#4
Hi Dean and everyone,
Thanks for the post.
Just wanted to share that when I started Gnosis, I saw the book on the website and bought it because the title triggered my curiosity. I read it before even knowing and applying many or most of the Gnostic Practices and for this reason I couldnt really connect it to the Gnostic Teachings.
Despite my ignorance, it touched my heart so deeply, that no other book ever did this to me...
Lilia
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 09:07
#5
Hi all,
I felt this overwhelming peace when I opened the first page. The weirdest of all is the the sense of familiarity. I feel this indiscribable affinity to the book and every single word within it..and more.
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 17:34
#6
Hi everyone,
This website is beautiful. Well done, and thankyou!
I got the book when ordering some others, and put it up with all the other things I was going to get around to doing some time or other.
Finally I picked it up and started reading, and wondered to myself why did I leave it so long? I have read it once, but it seams like one of those books that you could go back to again and again and get something new from it each time.
I read it after I had some knowledge of gnosticism, so it spoke to me strongly, especially the third book. It seams to bring up emotion in me, I want to cry with joy, and I get a feeling in the heart area which sometimes comes when reading other gnostic text or other spiritual practices.
It's like a part of me responds when reading certain words, and this was one of those books.
Jo
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 09:57
#7
Well, I have to write something here about this book too. It was given to me by a fellow gnostic pretty early in my work and I read chapter 1 and thought it was really interesting. Then, I got to chapter 2 and it totally lost me. I skipped to chapter 3 and had the same experience. So, I put it down for quite a while.
Then, I picked it up again in April 2009 and read it on Easter Sunday when I was in the car waiting for someone. It took on a whole new meaning to me and this is the day that I really committed to the work. It was a remarkable day and my life has never been the same since. The changes that started taking place internally and in external circumstances were drastic.
I can attest to the power that this book has. Like all of the books in the Gnostic Movement, it is a magic book. Everytime I go back to it, there is another layer that I discover that had been totally missed the last time I read it.
Fri, 01/22/2010 - 12:14
#8
Thanks everyone for the responses, it's been inspiring to hear the effect that this book has had in other's lives.
Donna that sounds like truly a special Easter Sunday! Perfect time to read teachings from both Jesus and Judas.
I hope through practicing gnosis, we're all able to continue gaining deeper understandings and insights into this incredible text.
Hi Dean,
I can totally relate to your experience. I felt much the same when I first read Flight of the Feathered Serpent a few years ago.
It was like nothing I had read before. As I went on, the meanings got so deep that my mind wanted to complain that it was too confusing, but what was unmistakable was this strong feeling I had about what the message of the book actually was - that Judas' life and role was a very important part of Jesus' teaching. I could tell that there was a great motivation of love within their actions (and the actions of Armando's friend in the first section of the book).
It took me a while for this feeling to convert into my own personal spiritual efforts, but it is a feeling that I will not forget, and hope to cultivate as I continue searching.
Jon