Discourse of the Stranger

Holy moly, we've made it! This week, Bee and AL wrap up a whole year of transmissions, which started way back in January with Exodus and took us through the Gospel of Mary.  It's been quite the year at DOTS and we're so grateful for all of your support! Stay tuned for an announcement about what to expect moving forward, and until next time, keep up the good work! Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

DIVINE SPARK co-founders Jason and Price return to the Pod to talk with Bee about a whole host of topics. They touch on how their relationship with Gnosticism has developed while working on this project, how it has shaped their current worldview and, of course, a little bit about the Gospel of Mary and more!  Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Bee is wrapping up the sixth and seventh Forms of Wrath from the Gospel of Mary--The Foolish Wisdom of the Flesh and the Wisdom of the Wrathful Person--with a bit of personal reflection! It's been a long journey through the 7 Forms of Wrath and hopefully this exploration has equipped us all for the lifelong process of meeting them and our Selves in the growth spiral. CW: Discussion of Disordered Eating Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Happy Halloweekend from all of us here at DOTS! We're excited to bring you this conversation with mystic, writer and seeker Anon Omous, who generously shares his gnostic life experience with Bee as a follow up to the Excitement of Death from the Gospel of Mary. You're not going to want to miss hearing about the vision that changed his life, and much, much more! You can support Anon's work by buying his book "Revelations On Interstellar Highway 10" at his website asteroxrising.com . Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Bee's getting spooky this week with the 4th and 5th Forms of Wrath--the Excitement of Death and the Kingdom of the Flesh! Floating around in the soup are the “Deadly Sins” of Gluttony and Lust, martyrdom and other examples of welcoming an honorable death, and how Stoicism defines passions.  Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

We welcome back to the pod one of our favorite guests, Christian. This episode, he joins Bee deep in the Soup to touch on the last couple episodes about Desire and Ignorance… and go down a few new rabbit holes along the way!  Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Welcome back to Part 2 of the last episode on Desire, plus the 3rd Form of Wrath--Ignorance. Bee explores how these two powers are intrinsically linked not just in Gnosticism, but in Buddhism as well. Buckle up for a ride through myth, religion and neuroscience! Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Bee and AL are back this week with a different kind of episode for a different kind of a week. First, Bee shares some updates from her personal life and travels, before diving into the second of the 7 forms of Wrath: Desire. Due to said personal life, Bee is breaking this episode up into 2 parts, so today takes a look at Desire through the lens of Yaldaboath, Adam, Eve and the extremely violent legislature being passed in Texas. The next episode will dig into Desire through other, less upsetting lenses, as well as the 3rd form of Wrath, so stay tuned for Part 2, and take good care of yourself until then. Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Bee is back with another amazing guest for this Connecting the DOTS episode. This week, Bee speaks with Kara Mandel, a multidisciplinary artist and yogi living in Australia. They dive right into the soup for a conversation inspired by our last episode on Darkness and the Gospel of Mary.  Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Welcome to a brand new series of episodes, inspired by the Gospel of Mary! We loved her so much we thought we'd hang out for a while and dig into the 7 Forms of Wrath (as illustrated in Chapter 8 of the Gospel) that try and tempt the Soul away from its path to gnosis. Up first is Darkness. Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Bee was back on Twitch last weekend and this time she was joined by author and fellow podcast host Lisa Quigley to continue the discussion of the Gospel of Peter! Check out Lisa's podcast, Ladies of the Fright, and follow her on Instagram to keep up to date with all of her latest work @creativity.witch.   Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Bee is back and flying solo this week to wrap up our series on Yeshua with the Revelation of Peter, an almost canonical Testament that covers the very beginnings of Christian outreach, community-building and the warping of Yeshua's teachings. After all, there's a reason it wasn't  accepted into the official Bible… This episode will be discussed on our next DOTS Livestream on Twitch, taking place next Sunday 7/18 at 11AM EST with guest Lisa Quigley! We hope you'll tune in! Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Huzzah! This week heralds the return of writer, poet and tarot reader Sophie Strand, whose fictional work centers Miriam of Bethanny, also known as Mary Magdalene, also known as our DOTS Lady of the Hour! Bee and Sophie really swim around in the Magdalene soup, and Sophie offers fascinating teachings and historical reframes around Mary's life and position in Yeshua's life. Other tangents include the memory (or lack there of) of caterpillars, some musings on Human Design and when the soul enters the body, and the human body's process of sloughing off cells every 7 years. We're so grateful to Sophie for offering so much time and knowledge to our explorations, and hope you enjoy the ride! Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Greetings, Seekers! This week, Bee and AL are digging into the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, a text that was once widely circulated, before being destroyed and suppressed for hundreds of years. It's a fascinating tale that shares vastly different characterizations of Yeshua, Mary and the Disciples, and poses major questions about why this text was kept from the history books for so long. Plus, a tie in to Western Hermetic Magick and the theory of aeons! You're not going to want to miss this one! Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

This week’s Connecting the DOTS features writer, poet and tarot reader Sophie Strand, whose written work focuses on evolving myths and re-rooting Yeshua back into his body and the landscape and environment in which he lived. Bee and Sophie dive into the soup to discuss the excerpt from “The Apocalypse of James,” as well as ecology, queerness in nature, Sophie’s spirituality, and much, much more! We hope you enjoy this episode and that you love Sophie, for she’ll be back for the next CTD episode as well! Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

This week, Bee is in the soup thinking about the Apocalypse of James, with just a hint of the Gospel of Thomas. Join her and AL as they contemplate the perils of the mortal body, a conspiracy theory about Yeshua's familial ties, some corny biblical humor and much, much more! Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

We have a treat for you this week, Seekers!! Last week on Twitch, Bee went live with Price and Jason, the co-founders and Artistic Directors of Divine Spark Media, for a special Connecting the DOTS episode on the origin story of Divine Spark, the Apocalypse of Judas and much, much, more! We do hope that you’ll enjoy this delightful party of an episode and please join us live the next time around by following us at twitch.tv/divinesparkmedia .  Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Welcome to the first in a new series of episodes on Yeshua, colloquially known as Jesus Christ, starting with the Apocalypse of Judas--one of a few Gnostic texts discovered in the 1970s, separate from the Nag Hammadi Library. It’s a text that greatly reframes the Biblical character of Judas… or does it? Join AL and Bee in contextualizing the cultural landscape that Yeshua entered, as well as unpacking some key moments from the text and considering what implications they have for the overall narrative and role of Yeshua. Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

**Content Warning: This episode contains open and frank conversation about depression and addiction after spiritual schisms and suicidal thoughts. If any of that is unsafe or upsetting for you, please do skip this one!** Hi, Bee here! This week, I sat down with a Gnostic Christian named Christian, who is also the first listener to write into the show and come on an episode! Christian shares about his upbringing in the church, the arguments that Intelligent Creationists make against Evolutionary Theory, the study that ultimately changed his mind, and much, much more. It was truly a conversation that I'm grateful to have had and a huge thank you to Christian for sharing his story. I hope you’ll enjoy it!!  Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

Divine Spark stands firmly against ignorance and hate and in solidarity with our AAPI community and listeners.  What’s up, Seekers? Today’s lesson is all about our final Illuminator/Authority figure: Charles Darwin! Join Bee and AL as they dig into Darwin’s fascinating upbringing, which includes a potential career switch from scientist to priest?!, and a ton of rare delicacies that may or may not get your mouth watering! But perhaps the biggest revelation is not Evolution itself, but how Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection, aka Survival of the Fittest, was used to create the ultimate ethical and political dilemma: Eugenics. Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

In the final installment of our adventure with Hildegard of Bingen, Bee and AL dig into a Gnostic adaptation of 10 of the visions detailed in Hildy’s Scivias. Plus, a magical story of synchronicities with Grace McClean and some research into questions posed by a listener about Hildegard’s musical theory and potential links to sex magick!  Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our project on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing the work! THANK YOU!

In the 2nd of 3 episodes on Hildegard of Bingen, Bee sits down with Grace McLean—a musician, singer, actor, writer, composer and much, much more! She is the front woman of the band Grace McLean and Them Apples. Her Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Alice by Heart, Sleep No More and Cyrano. She is also a Writer in Residence at the Lincoln Center Theatre, where she wrote the book, music, lyrics and composed the orchestrations for In the Green, a new musical about our lady of the month: Hildegard of Bingen!You can find more about Grace and her work online at www.gracemclean.com and on Instagram @thatgracemclean !Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform!Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on Reddit and IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

This week, Bee and AL launch the first of 3 episodes about religious mystic, musical composer, writer, herbalist, holistic healer, oppressor of the Cathars, and the Sybil of the Rhine herself: Hlidegard of Bingen! Tune in for a deep dive into this fascinating and complicated historical figure and a sneak peek of our exciting guest for the next Connecting the Dots on Hildy.Thank you so much for listening to DOTS! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform!Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

In this exciting new episode, Bee sits down with one of the Artistic Director of Divine Spark, Jason, to discuss Exodus, cycles of oppression, the mystical and the practical, the truths about freedom as a concept and how best to move forward in terms of government. It’s a conversation that was recorded before the Inauguration in the United States, but one that only gains traction as we move into this new political era where the responsibility does lie with the people to keep pushing the government forward.Thank you so much for coming back to DOTS in the new year! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform!Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

Welcome to 2021! Time is a loose construct, but Bee and AL are back and ready to dive back into the soup! This week, Bee and AL discuss the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter that took place on December 21, 2021 before Bee looks at the story of Exodus - its history, discrepancies, how the story changes when filtered through a Gnostic lens, and its impacts on modern times. Thank you so much for coming back to DOTS in the new year! If you like what you hear, please Subscribe and leave us a 5 Star Rating and a Review on your podcast platform!Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

In our last episode of 2020 (new episodes return 1/9/2021!), Bee sits down with Dee - so cute, right? - a Seeker, student and all around brilliant human to talk about our heroes, the realities of body hierarchies in our culture and the very real people who benefit from oppression, as well as the perspective that’s missing throughout history and mythology. It’s a conversation that you’re not going to want to miss!Then, we’re taking a much needed holiday break (and hope you are too!), but we’ll be back on January 9, 2021 with a brand new episode on the book of Exodus!In the meantime, you can support our work by joining our Patreon at www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia , leaving us a 5 Star rating and review on your podcast platform and sharing our work with your quarantine pods by word of mouth or on your socials. Don’t forget to tag us @divinesparkmedia !!! Thank you so much for your support this year, it means the world! See you in 2021!

This week on DOTS, Bee reveals that AL has given her an assignment - to find examples of Illuminators and Authorities throughout history and myth, furthering her study in archetypes, the Monomyth and viewing history through a different lens. This first Illuminator is Siddartha, a young prince who has been kept from truths about the human experience by his (and all of our) first authority figures: his parents! Listen now to hear his journey to becoming a Seeker, as well as Bee’s thoughts on his eventual enlightenment.If you like what you hear, be sure to hit Subscribe, and please Rate and Review to help others find us!Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

Hello fellow Seekers! This week, Bee welcomes musician, world traveler and DOTS listener Riah onto the show to chat Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and how it relates to the journey to gnosis. Riah unpacks the authority of her Mormon upbringing, as well as her travels to discover many types of spirituality around the world.If you like what you hear, be sure to hit Subscribe, and please Rate and Review to help others find us!Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

This week, Bee and AL discuss Plato’s Allegory of the Cave -- if you haven’t heard it since high school, go back and listen to last week’s Special Episode! Bee digs into both Socrates and Plato, giving the latter a bit of a 2020 reframe, and the tradition of oral and written dialogues between Master Teachers and their students. Then, they work through the allegory’s modern day implications, as well as next steps for a post-election America. If you like what you hear, be sure to hit Subscribe, and please Rate and Review to help others find us! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

Bet you’re surprised to see us this week, huh? We’re breaking free from the bonds of our regular schedule to bring you this super special R A D I O  P L A Y in preparation for next week’s episode on  -- you guessed it! -- Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Press play to hear Bee and her friend Jason deliver award-worthy performances of the famed dialogue. Then, come on back next Saturday for Bee’s analysis! Wonder if you’ll be inspired by the same moments!If you like what you hear, be sure to hit Subscribe, and please Rate and Review to help others find us!Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

Welcome back to DOTS! This week, Bee takes the mic solo to speak with Adam, a creator, artist, and longtime friend. Together, they delve into their religious upbringings, their journeys to knowing themselves and coming out as gay and queer, respectively, as well as where they are now when it comes to identity and spirituality.  If you like what you hear, be sure to hit Subscribe, and please Rate and Review to help others find us! Connect with us further online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and consider supporting our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work! THANK YOU!

In today’s lesson, Bee and AL tackle the Gnostic Adam & Eve and how it differs from the Judeo-Christian Genesis story, and Bee digs into Numerology and repeating numbers throughout mythology, the constructs of Death and Desire, and the history of the Patriarchy, Pandora’s infamous box, and much, much more!  Be sure to hit subscribe to not miss an episode and please leave us a review if you like what you hear!Connect with us online at www.divinespark.co, on IG @divinesparkmedia and @beescolnick, and support our work and our artists on Patreon www.patreon.com/divinesparkmedia ! Just $1/month goes a long way to continuing our work!

Bee and AL are joined by Ana, a lifelong student and longtime teacher, to discuss Ana’s upbringing in the Jewish faith, her overall discomfort with religion and how every Savior story is actually just based on the astrological zodiac!

Bee and AL return to introduce Sophia (Wisdom) and Yaldabaoth (Ignorance), the central figures in Gnostic lore, and to set up the crux of all unlearning and relearning work -- the cosmic conflict between Wisdom and Ignorance, of knowing and not knowing.

Bee and AL are joined by Abelard the Bard, a wayward storyteller with an interest in myth, history and legend. Together, they dig into their own personal journeys with Gnosticism, how it can help us understand the nature of humankind, and why it’s so relevant today.

In the first episode of their brand-new podcast, Bee and her teacher AL introduce themselves, as the history and suppression of the Gnostics and their writings, before diving into where it all begins: The One, the totality, the Source of all Creation.