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'n Internasionale WhatsApp-veiling open vanoggend ná die voltooiing van die uitmergelende RMB Brandberg Backyard Ultra-marathon die afgelope naweek op Uis. Die wedloop se eksklusiewe WhatsApp-bewaringsveiling sal wêreldwye skenkers mobiliseer om broodnodige fondse vir bewaringsgroepe in die voorste linie in te samel. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die organiseerder, Nico Scholtz, gesels:

Die Namibiese Natuurstigting, in samewerking met Oxford-universiteit doen 'n opname oor olifante onder kommersiële boere in die Kunene-streek. Onder belang is kostes en voordele sowel as boere se sienings oor die diere en hulle bestuur. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die stigting se hoof van navorsing professor Morgan Hauptfleisch gepraat.

Brent-ru-olie verhandel tans in die omgewing van 90 Amerikaanse dollar per vat. Ná die skerp prysstyging wat deur hernude spanning tussen die VSA en Iran in die Straat van Hormuz veroorsaak is, verwag ekonome dat pryse verder sal styg. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die ekonoom Dawie Klopper gepraat, wat meen dat die prys die vlak van 90 dollar per vat kan bereik indien die situasie verder eskaleer.

Die regering se kernkraggesprekke met China het skerp kritiek ontlok van plaaslike energiekenner Harald Schütt. Tydens president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah se staatsbesoek aan China het sy gepleit vir nouer samewerking en tegnologie-oordrag vir binnelandse uraan-waardetoevoeging. Schütt waarsku dat die ontwikkeling van kernkrag 'n finansieel riskante en onnodige pad is. Hy beklemtoon dat die land eerder sy volop en goedkoper hernubare energiebronne, soos son- en windenergie, ten volle moet ontgin. Schütt het met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gepraat oor die risiko dat kernkrag-ontwikkeling nasionale soewereiniteit kan bedreig.

Die nuwe voertuigmark het in Junie veerkragtig gebly, met sterk groei in beide passasiers- en kommersiële voertuie, wat die jaar-tot-datum verkope van 7 849 eenhede tot die hoogste vlak sedert 2019 gebring het. Navorsingsontleder by IJG Securities, Kari Rossouw, vertel aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus dat ten spyte van stygende inflasie en verhoogde brandstofkoste, die onderliggende verbruikers- en sakevraag robuust gebly het. Julie se brandstofprysverlagings behoort 'n mate van verligting in bekostigbaarheidsdruk bring.

Die vyfde jaarlikse RMB Brandberg Backyard Ultra het ten einde geloop ná 'n suksesvolle naweek by die Brandberg-ruskamp op Uis. André Ross het weer gewen en sodoende vir die vyfde keer die eerste plek behou. Die uithouwedloop het deelnemers uitgedaag om elke uur 'n roete van 6,706 kilometer te voltooi totdat slegs een hardloper oorbly. Deelnemers het 'n dagroete met 'n hoogteverskil van 81 meter aangedurf voordat hulle oorgeskakel het na 'n platter nagroete met 'n hoogteverskil van 64 meter. Angelique Peake van die geleentheid se hoofborg, RMB Namibia, het met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gepraat:

Inwoners van informele nedersettings in Windhoek – veral in gebiede soos Goreangab en Havana – neem toenemend die reg in eie hande in reaksie op 'n toename in gewapende rooftogte en inbrake. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het gesels met Shaun Gariseb, 'n gemeenskapsaktivis en woordvoerder van die Khomas Residents and Ratepayers' Association, wat sê inwoners is gefrustreerd oor stadige reaksietye van die polisie, strate sonder straatligte en 'n gebrek aan munisipale ondersteuning.

Die staatsbestuur-kundige Pius Dunaiski sê die onlangse oproep van IPC-leier Panduleni Itula dat president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah moet oorweeg om die parlement te ontbind, het 'n kritieke nasionale debat weer laat opvlam. Hy waarsku dat die voortdurende parlementêre dooiepunt op dieper uitdagings in staatsbestuur dui. Dit volg nadat die huidige parlement in 16 maande slegs een wetsontwerp, die begroting, goedgekeur en deurgevoer het. In 'n gesprek met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus sê Dunaiski dat die Namibiese politiek 'n era van groter politieke mededinging betree het.

Plastiekbesoedeling eis slagoffers langs Namibië se kus, selfs waar die strande skoon lyk. Ocean Conservation Namibia sê hulle het teen die einde van Junie 265 Kaapse pelsrobbe gered wat in plastiek en ander mariene rommel verstrengel was, met die meeste van die slagoffers nuuskierige robwelpies van minder as 'n jaar oud. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die organisasie se Naude Dreyer gepraat vir meer:

Die Namibiese langasem, André Ross, het die 2026 RMB Brandberg Backyard Ultra op Uis vir die vyfde agtereenvolgende keer gewen - dié keer met ‘n rekord van 26 loepe van 6,7km elk in net meer as 24 uur. Kosmos 94.1 se Yanna Smith het met hom oor die wedloop en sy naaste teenstander, Kim Sonntag van Suid-Afrika, gesels:

Die lewensomstandighede van Namibië se gemarginaliseerde gemeenskappe is weer in die kollig nadat nuwe sensusdata volgehoue gapings in toegang tot basiese dienste en ekonomiese geleenthede aan die lig gebring het. Die Namibiese Statistieke-agentskap het bevind dat byna 70 persent van huishoudings geen toiletgeriewe het nie, minder as 'n derde elektrisiteit het, en minder as die helfte staatmaak op 'n salaris as hul hoofbron van inkomste. Maar, terwyl die syfers wydverspreide ontbering blootlê, het Kosmos 94.1 Nuus met die omgewings- en menseregte-aktivis van International Rivers, Hans-Christian Mahnke, gesels, wat waarsku dat die groepering van alle gemarginaliseerde gemeenskappe die risiko loop om die verskillende uitdagings waarmee elke gemeenskap te kampe het, te verbloem.

Brent-ruolie verhandel rondom 88 Amerikaanse dollar per vat, aangevuur deur toenemende vyandelikhede tussen die VSA en Iran oor die Straat van Hormuz. Ekonome is verdeeld oor die langtermyn-impak hiervan. Terwyl die onmiddellike ineenstorting van die wapenstilstand 'n swaar risikopremie in energiemarkte ingespuit het, sê Kara van den Heever, 'n beleggingsontleder by Momentum, daar is nog geen rede tot paniek nie. Sy het met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gepraat:

Spoed was Vrydagaand vermoedelik die oorsaak van ‘n ernstige motorongeluk wat die aandag van die Copps 94.1-span in Windhoek geverg het. Hulle moes ook ingryp by ‘n voorval van gesinsgeweld waarin ‘n senior burger betrokke was. Kosmos 94.1 se Francois Lottering was op sy pos en doen verslag van die toneel:

Die Lewendehawe- en Lewendehawe-produkteraad het onlangs 'n prysbelyning aangekondig vir die sentrale veeartsenylaboratorium. Vir Namibië om lewendehawe en -produkte te kan uitvoer, moet die produkte aan sekere gesondheidsregulasies en vereistes voldoen. Vir gesondheidsdoeleindes word die vleis by die veeartsenylaboratorium getoets, en lewendehawe moet ook aan verskeie vereistes voldoen. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met dr. Anja Boshoff, die raad se uitvoerende hoof van vleisstandaarde gepraat, wat verduidelik waarom die prysbelyning belangrik is.

Vanoggend bied die stil dorpie Uis die uitmergelende vyfde jaarlikse RMB Brandberg Backyard Ultra aan, 'n brutale toets van uithouvermoë waar deelnemers elke uur 'n 6,7-kilometer-lus moet voltooi totdat net een persoon oorbly. Die heeltemal oop wedloop dien as 'n hoë-inset kwalifisering vir die Wêreldkampioenskappe. Mede-stigter van die wedloop, Riana Scholtz, gesels oor die vroue-afdeling met Kosmos 94.1:

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Die RMB Brandberg Backyard Ultra vind môre op Uis plaas en Kosmos 94.1 sal daar wees om jou al die aksie te bring. Atlete moet 6,7 kilometer elke uur voltooi tot net een deelnemer die laaste loep alleen voltooi. Tot dusver was die wenner nog altyd Andre Ross, die man met die langste asem tot dusver. Maar, wat sal môre gebeur? Organiseerder Riana Scholtz.

Na die viering van Wêreld Slangdag gaan bewaringsbewustes voort om bewustheid te skep oor die belangrikheid van die beskerming van die reptiele. Hulle beklemtoon dat, ten spyte van wydverspreide vrese, slegs ongeveer 10 tot 15 persent van die ongeveer 3 900 bekende slangspesies wêreldwyd giftig is. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met slangkenner Fracois Theart gesels, wat verduidelik dat slange natuurlike, kostelose plaagbestryders is. Slange help om knaagdier- en insekbevolkings te reguleer, en speel so 'n belangrike rol in die beskerming van gewasse.

Die maatskaplike welsyn-ministerie herinner begunstigdes wat ouderdomspensioene van beide Suid-Afrika en Namibië ontvang om dringend net een daarvan te kies. Die ministerie se woordvoerder, Lukas Haufiku, het aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gesê dat sommige betalingsvertragings gekoppel is aan begunstigdes wat op beide stelsels geregistreer is. Hy sê diegene wat die plaaslike pensioen wil voortsit, moet dringend weer op die Namibiese stelsel registreer, indien hulle dit nog nie gedoen het nie.

Windhoek se verkeer en die gepaardgaande druk op hoofroetes is in die nuus. Die Stad sê befondsing kort maar, werk duur voort. Plaaslike media berig vanoggend dat die Stad 384 miljoen Namibiese dollar jaarliks benodig om padinfrastruktuur te onderhou. Woordvoerder Lydia Amutenya het laat Donderdagaand met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gepraat.

Verbruikers en bestuurders in Namibië het verskeie klagtes ingedien oor Yango en ander e-taxi-dienste. Kwessies draai hoofsaaklik om ongelisensieerde bedrywighede, voertuigpadwaardigheid en regulatoriese inperkings. Die jongste is dat bestuurders buitengewoon lang roetes neem om “ekstra wag”-fooie by die ooreengekome tarief te voeg. Verbruikerskenner Milton Louw het aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gesê dat dit aangespreek moet word voordat meer bestuurders dit uitbuit.

Die lot van Namibië se hernude poging om die Fishrot-beskuldigde Marén de Klerk uit te lewer, berus steeds by die Suid-Afrikaanse owerhede. De Klerk, die prokureur wat na bewering as die "betaalmeester" van die skandaal opgetree het, het na Suid-Afrika gevlug nadat hy geïmpliseer is. Namibië het sy uitleweringsversoek heringedien nadat 'n vorige aansoek in Junie 2024 deur die Suid-Afrikaanse owerhede teruggetrek is weens tegniese tekortkominge. Woordvoerder van die justisieministerie, Edmund //Khoaseb, het aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus bevestig dat die saak steeds aktief is.

Namibië se ekonomiese vooruitsigte vereis streng fiskale dissipline terwyl die regering voorberei vir heroorweging van die begroting in Oktober. 'n Verslag deur die adviesfirma R&J waarsku dat die land nie in die strik vir hulpbron-ryk lande moet trap deur potensiële olie-inkomste as 'n kitsoplossing te sien nie. Finansiële kenners beklemtoon dat volhoubare ekonomiese groei slegs moontlik sal wees as die staat sy fiskale dissipline behou en openbare besteding streng bestuur. Die besturende direkteur van R&J, Vijay Jha, het met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gepraat oor wat gedoen kan word om ekonomiese groei te verseker.

Die IPC se skadu-landbouminister, Michael Mulunga, het die regering se voortgesette vertragings in die implementering van die Neckartal-besproeiingsprojek bevraagteken. Hy sê dat die multimiljard-dollar-belegging byna tien jaar na die voltooiing daarvan nog nie betekenisvolle landbouproduksie gelewer het nie. In 'n onderhoud met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het Mulunga gesê daar is geen dringendheid nie, ten spyte van hernude verbintenisse om die besproeiingskema aan die gang te kry.

Die Elektrisiteitsbeheerraad sal na verwagting Maandag sy besluit aankondig oor NamPower se aansoek vir 'n gemiddelde verhoging van 8,4 persent in grootmaat-elektrisiteitstariewe vir die 2026/2027-boekjaar. NamPower het ook 'n beroep op die reguleerder gedoen vir hulp om sowat 1 miljard Namibiese dollar in uitstaande skuld van verskeie plaaslike owerhede, asook Angola se staatsbeheerde kragmaatskappy, RNT, in te vorder. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die raad se woordvoerder, Nelson Ashipala gepraat:

Die PDM doen 'n beroep op presidente Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah en Cyril Ramaphosa om die oplossing van die langdurige Oranjerivier-grensgeskil tydens hul bilaterale gesprekke in Suid-Afrika te prioritiseer. Die twee leiers is tans in Pretoria vir die vierde Namibië-Suid-Afrika Binasionale Kommissie. PDM-leier McHenry Venaani sê aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus dat Namibiërs vordering met die kwessie verwag, wat sedert onafhanklikheid onopgelos gebly het, en dring daarop aan dat die regering nie langer optrede kan vertraag nie.

Reaksie word ontvang nadat die Windhoek munisipale raad 'n verhoging van gemiddeld 4 persent in munisipale tariewe vanaf 1 Julie geïmplementeer het, wat dienste soos water, riolering, vullisverwydering en eiendomsbelasting raak. Kritici voer aan dat inwoners gevra word om meer te betaal ten spyte van voortdurende uitdagings met dienslewering. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met Joseph Kauandenge, die leier van die Vereniging vir Plaaslike Belange, of Asoli gepraat, wat sê die verhogings is onaanvaarbaar terwyl baie huishoudings reeds onder finansiële druk verkeer.

Kommunale boere in die Kunene-streek sê hulle word bemoedig deur die omgewingministerie se verbintenis om die groeiende mens-dier konflik rondom die Etosha Nasionale Park aan te spreek. Na 'n belanghebbendevergadering hierdie week het die uitvoerende lid van die Otjikaambuti-boerevereniging, German Kavetu-Muzuma, aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gesê die ministerie het boere gemagtig om leeus wat 'n onmiddellike bedreiging vir vee inhou, dood te maak.

Meer as 430 werknemers van Etosha Fishing Corporation het weer eens 'n petisie by die landbouministerie ingedien vir die onmiddellike vrystelling van sardynkwotas, en gesê dat voortgesette vertragings hul lewensbestaan bedreig. Die werkers beskuldig die regering daarvan dat hulle nie 'n verbintenis van Junie vanjaar nagekom het om die toekennings binne drie dae te finaliseer nie, en voer aan dat vinniger kwotatoekennings vereis word. Adjunk-sekretaris-generaal van die Mynbou-, Metaal- en Maritieme Werkersunie, Leonard Armas, het met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gepraat:

Dit is die naweek die vyfde RMB Brandberg Backyard Ultra, die uiters gewilde ultra-marathon waar deelnemers elke uur 'n loep van 6,7 kilometer moet voltooi tot net een deelnemer oorbly. Kosmos 94.1 saai ook Saterdag regstreeks vanaf Uis uit om jou op hoogte te hou. Organiseerder Riana Scholtz sê daar is vanjaar 'n rekord-aantal inskrywings.

Die landbouministerie en die Namibiese Nasionale Boere-unie finaliseer tans planne vir 'n veeprysgelykmakingsfonds wat in 2024 deur die kabinet goedgekeur is, wat daarop gemik is om beesboere in die noordelike kommunale gebiede te ondersteun. Die ministerie sê die fonds is nodig omdat slegs 15 persent van beeste in die noordelike kommunale gebiede formeel bemark word. Landboukundige Wallie Roux sê egter aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus dat die inisiatief nie nuut is nie, en dat die regeringsinisiatief nie die werklikheid van beesboerdery noord van die rooilyn in ag neem nie. Hy verduidelik:

Die Namibiese Revolusionêre Vervoer- en Vervaardigingsunie, Naretu, het sy steun uitgespreek vir pogings om vrywillige bloedskenkings in die vervoersektor te bevorder, maar trek die streep wanneer dit kom by vragmotorbestuurders wat moet bloed skenk terwyl hulle op die pad is. Dit kom nadat die Walvisbaai-korridorgroep en die Bloedoortappingsdiens 'n ooreenkoms onderteken het om vrywillige skenkings in die vervoersektor aan te help. In 'n onderhoud met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus sê die unie se algemene sekretaris, Petersen Kambinda, dat die herstel van energie na bloedskenking tyd en rus verg.

Die Lewendehawe- en Lewendehaweprodukteraad het wysigings aan sy handelspermitstelsel aangekondig om streeksbemarking en handelsfasilitering te verbeter. Die standaardbedryfsprosedures is aangepas om eienaarskapveranderinge van beheerde produkte in geregistreerde fasiliteite toe te laat. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die raad se waarnemende uitvoerende hoof van handel en bemarking, Ace Mutelo, gepraat.

Die regering het bevestig dat die oorskot van 84 Namibiërs geïdentifiseer is wat in gevangenisskap in Suid-Afrika oorlede en begrawe is. 'n Hoëvlak Namibiese afvaardiging was vir vyf dae in Kaapstad om 'n historiese sending van stapel stuur om die oorskot van twee bevrydingshelde, Simon Petrus Nilenge en Festus Nehale, meer as 50 jaar na hul dood te repatrieer. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met Swapo-veteraan Nahas Angula gepraat.

Die parlement het vir sy middeljaar-reses verdaag sonder om enige van die sewe wetsontwerpe wat voor hom is, deur te voer. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het reaksie by die LPM-woordvoerder Lifalaza Simataa gekry. Na sy mening kan nie net opposisiepartye die skuld vir die vertragings kry nie. Hy meen daar is tans 'n interne magstryd in Swapo.

Namibië is op koers vir 'n rekord witmielie-oes van ongeveer 111 000 ton vanjaar, maar kommer groei oor of die land genoeg stoorkapasiteit het om dit te hanteer. Die voorsitter van die Akkerbouprodusentevereniging, Gernot Eggert, het aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gesê dat invoerbeheer en witmielie-prysregulering noodsaaklik bly om produsente te beskerm, maar waarsku dat die stelsel gereeld hersien moet word om te verseker dat die hele waardeketting volhoubaar bly.

Jean-Louis gesels met Dylan Alexander van United Padel Namibia oor die Tiger Wheel & Tyre Namibia & Kosmos 94.1 Padel League wat op 3 Augustus plaasvind. Hulle bespreek hoe die liga werk, hoe spanne kan inskryf en waarom padel een van die wêreld se vinnigste groeiende sportsoorte geword het. Ontdek wat deelnemers en toeskouers kan verwag by hierdie opwindende sportgeleentheid.

Die voortdurende konflik tussen leeus en boere in die Kunene-streek bly 'n groeiende bron van kommer, met bewaringsbewustes wat waarsku dat daar geen kitsoplossing is nie. Die Namibian Lion Trust sê 'n kombinasie van kwynende prooidiere na jare van droogte en swak veebestuur dra by tot die toename in aanvalle op plaasdiere. Die Trust se direkteur, Tammy Hoth-Hanssen, vertel Kosmos 94.1 Nuus dat sterk leeubestande krale 'n opsie is, maar hulle is baie duur en instandhouding ontbreek.

Namfisa het 'n ondersoek begin nadat pensioenarisse en gesinne sowat 250 miljoen Namibiese dollar verloor het nadat die finansiële firma Wealth Management Solutions die fondse in die buiteland belê het. Woordvoerder Victoria Raimond het aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gesê dat Namfisa nou onder Fima, wat op 1 Mei in werking getree het, breër magte het. Sy het die publiek versoek om te verseker dat enige finansiële tussenganger wat hulle gebruik, onder Fima geregistreer is.

Die hoofkwartiere van die Cheetah Conservation Fund op Otjiwarongo is amptelik deur Indië se International Big Cat Alliance aangewys as 'n wêreldsentrum van uitnemendheid vir jagluiperdbewaring. Dit is ook 'n erkende sentrum van uitnemendheid vir hondsdolheid-bestryding deur die Global Alliance for Rabies Control. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met dr. Laurie Marker, die fonds se uitvoerende direkteur gepraat.

Wêreldwye oliepryse styg weer namate hernude konflik in die Midde-Ooste die energiemarkte ontstel. Nadat gevegte hervat het, met gerapporteerde aanvalle in die Straat van Hormuz en Amerikaanse vergelding, hang Brent-ru-olie weer rondom 85 Amerikaanse dollar per vat rond. Vir Namibië kon die tydsberekening nie slegter wees nie, net nadat motoriste 'n welkome brandstofprysverlaging ontvang het. Ekonoom Almandro Jansen sê aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus dat daar nuwe druk opbou voor die brandstofpryshersiening vir Augustus.

Reaksie word steeds ontvang oor die parlement se jongste reses, met kritiek wat toeneem dat wetgewers weereens verrigtinge onderbreek het terwyl belangrike wetgewing onvoltooid bly. Die parlement het op 10 Julie verdaag en sal eers op 1 September hervat, met verskeie belangrike wetsontwerpe nog nie gefinaliseer nie. Opposisiepartye sê hulle sal nie wetgewing ondersteun wat sonder voldoende ondersoek deurgejaag word nie. IPC-hoofsweep Rodrick Likando sê aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus dat dit die hoofrede vir die vertragings is.

Meer inligting is bekend oor die soektog na die 15-jarige Erwin Bezuidenhout, wat na bewering selfdood op 2 Julie by Platz am Meer in Swakopmund gepleeg het deur in die see te spring om te verdrink. Dinsdag was 'n skopgraaf gebruik om rotse van die breekwater te verwyder, maar die winkelsentrum se eienaar het dit stopgesit. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met Marthin Muyenga van Monarch Lifeguards, wat die soektog lei, gepraat.

Meer inligting is bekend oor die soektog na die 15-jarige Erwin Bezuidenhout, wat na bewering selfdood op 2 Julie by Platz am Meer in Swakopmund gepleeg het deur in die see te spring om te verdrink. Dinsdag was 'n skopgraaf gebruik om rotse van die breekwater te verwyder, maar die winkelsentrum se eienaar het dit stopgesit. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met Marthin Muyenga van Monarch Lifeguards, wat die soektog lei, gepraat.

Kommunale boere in die Kunene-streek vra vir dringende ingryping na 'n toename in leeu-aanvalle op vee naby Etosha Nasionale Park. Boere in die dorpe Oromauua en Otjokavare, in die landelike kiesafdelings Sesfontein en Opuwo, sê hulle het sedert Januarie vanjaar sowat 40 beeste en meer as 100 bokke en skape aan leeus verloor. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met die uitvoerende lid van die Otjikaambuti Boerevereniging, German Kavetu-Muzuma, gepraat wat sê belanghebbendes vergader vandag om 'n blywende oplossing te probeer vind.

Namibië het te kampe met voedseltekorte en wanvoeding reg oor die land. Die Voedings- en Voedselsekerheidsalliansie van Namibië se senior voedingskundige, Carmen Letlhagoje, het in April Viëtnam besoek om sekere praktyke daar waar te neem, spesifiek voedingkundige veldtogte. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met Letlhagoje gepraat oor wat Namibië kan doen om voedselsekerheid te verbeter.

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Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week was part one of my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union, and he explained to us a bit about who the Gnostic Union is and what they believe in. At the beginning of that episode, I read from the Gnostic Union website their history and mission statement. And my brother Billy called me up and said, “Oh, but there’s a point of their theology that’s all wrong. I know they’re ecumenical and all, but we mustn’t fall into the error of wrong teaching.” And, you know, I totally agree with that concept, not teaching anything that is incorrect or that doesn’t make sense, according to the Gnosticism that I share with you here. And it created a very large discussion between my brother and me. And I don’t even have enough time in this short introduction to go into the point that Bill brought up out of their statement of beliefs. So we’ll wait and we’ll do that when these interviews are all over and that way we can go into depth and give the topic the attention it deserves. You see, the Gnosticism that I share with you here mostly comes from the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi. And the Tripartite Tractate is a very unusual book. It is not a book of mythology. It is not a book of ancient myths concerning angels and demigods and great battles in heaven and so forth. It’s not that kind of book. We think of it as physics. It’s literally a book that describes the cosmology and the cosmogony, that is, how consciousness came to be transmitted from the base state of consciousness that we call the Father or the Source, and all the way downstream into, ultimately, us. We’re sitting here talking and thinking about it. This is pure consciousness we’re talking about. It’s not particularities. You understand? Gnosis itself we think of as that river of consciousness. That’s what gnosis is. So, I often say, if my dog can’t understand the gnosis, it’s not really gnosis—it's a knowledge claim. If a blade of grass or a tree in the forest can’t bask in the gnosis, then it’s not really gnosis. It’s a human knowledge claim. This is the reason why here at Gnostic Insights and on the Gnostic Reformation, we do not dwell in the history of things. We dwell in the understanding or the gnosis itself. The cosmogony and cosmology of Gnosticism that I share with you here is a logical step-by-step rollout of the consciousness of the Father or the Source. It doesn’t really matter what you call it. It’s the base state. It’s the matrix of consciousness itself and how it flows down to us. There are necessary steps described in the Tripartite Tractate for how that consciousness is differentiated and particularized and then rolled down. And how it is that we material beings are different than the ethereal beings. How could that have possibly happened? It’s like that. It’s a logical progression that necessarily comes out of an a priori statement of consciousness as the ground state. That’s quite a bit different than mythologies of how these angels fit in with these gods and goddesses down here on earth and so forth. Because those particularities definitely come out of the mind of humans. They can be inspired. Okay, I’ll give you that. But they are knowledge claims. They’re not necessarily gnosis and because of that they can go wrong. They can be wrong. Whereas starting with this a priori notion of consciousness ending up in us and how does that occur? By what means does that possibly happen? And how is it that we earthlings plug into that illimitable consciousness? That’s a different thing. That’s a description of process. That’s an understanding or a gnosis of what it is that we are part of. 15 steps in Gnostic Cosmology So I’m not knocking the history or the particularities that Bishop Wilson shares with us. But the gnosis that leads you to enlightenment is simply this: We come from the Father [El Elyon] or from the Source or from the Mother-Father or from the Great Mother—whatever you want to call it. We come from that Source, that unlimited well of consciousness and life and power and might and love. And then we will return to that. That’s all you have to know. We come from Above and we return to Above. And with that knowledge, that’s your base state. That’s what the blades of grass and the dogs and the trees all understand. All the rest of the particularities of who and why and how, those are just details being filled in. Some of them out of gnosis, but most of them out of tradition or history. So we’ll be proceeding now into part two of my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union. And later on, we’re going to talk some more about the difference between mythology and the process of gnosis. That is what this podcast specializes in. That’s what my brother Bill and I have parsed out and discovered out of direct mining of the Tripartite Tractate. Our gnosis comes from that and it proceeds in an orderly fashion that doesn’t require any extra research. It’s all about gnosis and what must be. But here, let’s go back to this interview with Brother Wilson. **************************************************************** Cyd: Well, tell me more about your Bible that you wrote. What do you call it? You call it… Bishop Nathan Wilson: I call it The Gnostic Christian Truth Bible. I actually asked one of the older bishops that trained me, Bishop Jason, and he started that. So, I like the name. So, I thought, okay, I want to put Gnostic Christian in there. So, I was going to call it first the Truth Bible. He requested that, but I thought, well, Gnostic Christian makes it less likely for the Catholics to come after me as well, and the Protestants. Many do not like my translations. They are quite upset that I’ve done this, but they don’t put too much light on me. So, it’s best not to give me too much attention, basically. So, the less attention I have, the less people know about this, but which is something unique about mine. I don’t just offer my translations. I offer the original Koine Greek with it, so they can look at the actual text. So, even if my translation, say, could be wrong, they could look straight at that text and go argue with the text that they see, which I also wanted to include for their own reason, and when I included the alternative English, it’s so I might read it one way, but someone else is going to read it another way, and that can teach me something new. I feel, oh, I didn’t understand it like that. So, that’s why I wanted to keep that in there too, and a couple of words I kept in there were Greek. So, I kept Logos. I kept Kosmos, Zoe, Sophia, Archon. Magus. I kept all these words. So, very, very Gnostic, and you won’t find these in the English translations. They have gone out of their ways to censor them. I also kept the word daemon or daimon, daemon, so I did not put that down as demon because that’s not what it means. So, I kept the original Greek context of use, and I also add a Greek, Koine Greek, index in my translation so people can actually look at little snippets of what these words mean. So, I have some things in here. So, this is just on one page on basically all Greek with English meaning. So, there’s Logos, which I explained means God’s word, God’s authority, God’s reasoning, song, and speech, and utterance. So, when you see Christians speak that Jesus is speaking the Word, or in the beginning there was Word, they are doing a disservice to what’s being implied. This is the word of God. Very different, and even the word God we use is very English. I did keep up, but for the English sake of things. So, English people wouldn’t freak out too much on me, and another thing is also a safer mouthful, because this Word means supreme deity, deity of deities, which is very interesting. Otherwise, we would go into a god, which is lesser gods as well. So, we have a pantheon. So, it was very different, like even monotheism would evolve into what we think it is today, but in the ancient past with ancient Jewish people, they did believe in other gods, it’s just they chose to worship one god. So, this would be not the same as monotheism now, where you completely reject them as non-existent. This wasn’t that case. So, they had a very different mind. So I kept Sophia being wisdom. I mentioned this is how this is feminine wisdom, God’s feminine wisdom, coming from the Hebrew word Chokmah. Sometimes those are called Chokmah. So, I kept that in there as Sophia. Zoe, I kept too, meaning basically when you see eternal Zoe, that’s eternal life. So, that’s implying the feminine wisdom again, but also the spiritual benefits one receives with a spiritual relationship with God, or what’s with mine. So, I kept that in there. So, it’s very feminine, and that’s being removed. They would not want you to know that life is Zoe, and there’s other words they could have used for life or soul, but they chose to use the word Zoe, and that’s important. So, I kept that in there. And I’ve also got Megas. I’ve already mentioned that, but Magus comes from—here’s two words that are entwined, but the thing was the church has used a later translation, which would be terrible, but that’s kind of wrong, and this is because the language would evolve over time. It came to words Megus and Magos, which basically would be Magi, and then great and powerful, larger than life. So, Jesus was also called Iesous Magos. So, Jesus the Great, Jesus the Wise, has been censored because of Magus, and they don’t want you to know about Simon Magus. They don’t want you to know anything about Gnosticism. So, this has been censored, and I’ve also put some passages where find this. I kept Daemon in here, or Diamon. Gehenna, I also translated in here. I kept Gehenna. I did not use hell because hell is German. It’s realm of light in German, so it’s a Germanic word. So, I kept the word Gehenna, which is ultimately what we would kind of call hell, but it’s not what people think it is. That’s an evolved tradition. So, Gehenna or even Abaddon, these are two different words, but the same thing. Gehenna was the place where the soul was destroyed or purified. So, the text can translate to eternal punishment, but that’s not strictly bound to it. That’s more would be a later theology bound to that translation where it means period of time. So, it doesn’t necessarily mean all these different things. It’s like the word soma where it’s all about Jesus’ body. It can be living body, dead body, or a carcass, or even the living body of the church, which is more symbolic, but fascinating. I also kept in here a couple words, such as I explained Hades, which is mentioned with Sheol and how that’s separate from Gehenna. I’ve kept Helios, Selene, Astron, or Asterios, as well as Aletheia. These words are very interesting because they are all gods. They’re all Greco-Roman gods. So, the scholars or, I really should say, a Christian apologist, that state there’s no pagan gods in the New Testament—they are entirely wrong. It’s just that they have looked at it in a modern Greek eye instead of looking at an ancient past—they would have seen the gods being mentioned. So that’s very interesting. So when Jesus says that the stars and the sun is falling, he’s not speaking about the sun and stars. He’s speaking about the Helios, the Roman sun god is falling, and the stars and goddesses falling, as well as Selene, the moon, so the moon goddess. That’s the falling of the pagan Roman gods that was subjecting the Jewish people. So very different theology. So theology matters. So we have to look at how people believed back these times. [Jesus speaks of the stars, moon, and sun in Matthew 24:29, Mark 13:25, Luke 21:25. Assigning them as gods and goddesses is Bishop Wilson's interpretation.] The Jewish people did not like the Romans. Not saying that all of them did not. We had some that were pro-Roman. One of the Romans that was involved in the Jewish revolt, fighting against the Jewish people, was Jewish, which is cool. And he was related to Philo of Alexandria. So very interesting. I think he might be his grandson. Cyd: Let me jump in for a second as we’re speaking about gods and the God Above All Gods versus lesser gods. Is it your thought that the God of the Jews of the Old Testament, Jehovah, is a lesser god as opposed to the God Above All Gods? Bishop Nathan Wilson: Yes. Cyd: Okay, so Jehovah is the tribal god of the Old Testament? Bishop Nathan Wilson: Yes, a bit of a mix. So there’s two gods. Well, there’s a couple, if you’ve got to go every single god being mentioned. But what they’re describing is, say, Deuteronomy 32:8, you have El Elyon dividing up the nations according to the Elohim being children of El, and Yahweh received his inheritance from the most high God. So Yahweh was more like a guardian deity, basically. He was a brother of Baal. But some Canaanites believed that Yahweh was Baal. So Yahweh kind of came later after Baal. But the first to worship Yahweh were the Sashu of Yahweh. So they were Canaanite raiders. Hebrew was also a Canaanite language.  [The earliest trace of Yahweh isn't Israelite—it's desert-born. Egyptian inscriptions speak of the “Shasu of YHW,” nomadic peoples on the edges of Canaan, sometimes regarded as raiders. It suggests the name of Yahweh may have emerged out of the wilderness before it was ever claimed by Israel. Even Hebrew itself comes out of the same Canaanite linguistic world.] So I see the views—the ones that were worshipping El would be the ones that would become the Essenes or Jewish mystics. So the Essenes worshipped El. They didn’t worship Yahweh. They viewed Yahweh as a lesser god, which is one reason they challenged the temple, because they viewed, you guys aren’t worshipping God, you’re worshipping the lesser deity, you’re worshipping an angel. And so they rejected the temple. And the priesthood was corrupt. So then you also had the Magharians or Magarites. They were first century BC era Jews. They were proto-Gnostic, so that’s a scholar term. So they were Jewish mystics. They believed that Yahweh was a demiurge and that he was a lieutenant. So not an evil demiurge, but he was ignorant of the most high Father El Elyon, but that’s not a name to them. That was just a title meaning most high God. So they didn’t believe in God with a name, the unknowable Father, they believed was beyond sex as well. So Mother-Father, basically. So beyond all things. Too perfect to interfere with matter. And they believed that the Torah had been corrupted. So that’s fascinating. So that’s a group that we want to talk about. So we had about 25 different versions of Judaism during that time with all different beliefs. So what type of Jew was Jesus? This makes a big, big difference. So not all Jews worshipped Yahweh. Some viewed him as a lesser God and some viewed him as the devil, which is whack. So the only Gnostics or proto-Gnostics would use that word devil at that time. So we have the wisdom of Solomon, which is the first text adored by Christians that they would say, look, this is our Messiah mentioning he’s a dying and rising Messiah calling himself the Son of God and he’s been crucified. So this means that just like our text, he would die a shameful death. But this text mentions that through death, the devil enters the world. So the Pharisees didn’t believe in the devil. The Sadducees didn’t either. But what’s interesting about the Pharisees and Sadducees and the Herodians, which kind of made up both these groups, they were a part of both, just the Herodians mostly supported King Herod. They believed that either King Herod was the Messiah or his family would be, or they belonged to the Sadducees and didn’t believe in a Messiah. So the Sadducees didn’t believe in angels. They didn’t believe in an afterlife. They believed once you were dead, the soul turned to dust. God was too perfect to interfere with humans. So that’s an interesting belief. But we had different subsects of Sadducees that had a different opinion to that. They believed that God did interfere with humans, but we had total free will. So they could interfere with some things, but there was no Messiah. There was no angels. So they believed that a human could be a messenger of God. That was about it. So like Moses. Then you had the Pharisees. They believed that Satan served Yahweh. His job was to test humanity or seduce humanity away from God. So that way mankind had free will. But some Pharisees didn’t believe that. They believed that Satan, Hasatan, was just symbolic for mankind’s inclination towards evil. So they didn’t believe in an evil being. So their belief was that God ordained good and evil, basically, would use evil for his own will. So that’s trippy, very trippy. So the Pharisees had a very different belief. They didn’t believe in the adversary against God. They didn’t believe in fallen angels. Later on, they would take on this belief, borrowing it from mystics and zealots. So funny enough, they would be influenced by Jesus’ teachings, such as saving a life on the Sabbath. The Pharisees would not do that. But to be fair, some Essenes wouldn’t do that either. Some Essenes were very warlike, wanting to join God’s angelic army fighting at the Armageddon of the last days of the world. But these mystics, they are the only groups that believed in fallen angels and believed in a place of punishment. The only groups. And that’s fascinating. So they believed in a physical adversary against God. And these beliefs are carried on in the Christianity with the Armageddon day, or even the belief that God basically allows Satan to do what he wants, but he’s going to conquer over him. That was an Essene belief. They believed that Belial was the adversary against God, a fallen angel, leader of the fallen angels, and God would allow him the sin because he would destroy him in the end. So that was an Essene belief, but not all that belief. Some believed that basically fallen angels chose to rebel against God, so they had free will and that God would overcome them in the end. So that’s different. So we have to look at those beliefs because that makes a big difference in theology as well. And one reason I chose to keep daemon or daimon in the text is because this doesn’t mean Jesus is casting out evil demons, but rather, well, the ghost of the mystic belief of pagan gods were fallen angels. So he’s casting out pagan gods, or he’s just casting out unclean spirits, depending on what the definition of word is, because that daimon or unclean spirit, for instance, isn’t always referenced to a pagan god. It’s just someone who’s died vengeful or angry at God, and is now just a ghost causing haunting. So it depends on how it’s being used. So I kept those words in there. So if the word said unclean spirit, I kept that as unclean spirit. But if it was going into a daimon for a pagan god, basically I’ll keep it as that daimon, so they could choose how they’re going to read it. Because sometimes you’re dealing with two things at once. Sometimes you’re dealing with an unclean spirit, then a pagan god’s being mentioned too. So this archon ruler’s having little other minions subject under him. So we even have an archon ruler being mentioned. So an archon of the daemons, ruler of pagan gods. So other gods had dominions, basically. So they viewed these other gods having their own realms of power, which we also see in the Gnostic text. So I kept all that. I also kept the archon of the synagogue, which is a ruler of the synagogue. So it’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes it’s just political rulers that are mentioned. So an archon of the Gentiles, for instance, is just a ruler of Gentiles, just a politician. I have kept archons in the sense of Yahweh somewhat, I believe, as being the devil. Because in John 8:44, we have Jesus going up to the Pharisees and Sadducees and Herodians who made up the high priesthood. He says, You are of your father, the devil. But if only these Gnostic Jews believed in the devil and their God is Yahweh, who’s he calling devil? And then when the daemons are calling him Son of the most high God, they’re calling him huios, which means son. Huios tou theou tou hypsistou, which is Greek for Son of the most high God. But if you put this in the Hebrew, it’s Son of El Elyon. So this is what the pagan gods are calling him. So the lesser gods. And then he’s also saying that we’re all the children of El Elyon, which is also fascinating. And also the word for son they’re using just means child. It can be male or female. But again, they’re wanting a male audience. So they restricted it, which is a shame. Cyd: How about the word aeon? A E O N. What do you do with that word? You know, in my work with the Tripartite Tractate, it seems to me that most references of aeon in the New Testament translate it as time, a period of time, or the end of the ages, the ages. Whereas I tend to see it always as eternal beings from the ethereal plane. What do you think about that? Bishop Nathan Wilson: I love that. I think that too. I think it’s a mixture of all these things, which is also, I keep, it depends on the context of use. But a lot of times you do see the text that is referring to a higher being, which is beautiful to mention, especially when you’re looking at Gnostic works. But you do see this in the New Testament as well. So you see one text mentioning, for instance, who is this Sophia and this higher power? And that’s how the text can translate too, which is fascinating. So that means who’s this unknown higher power. And then it mentions about the Aeon. And so you see all this sort of stuff being mentioned. Yes, it means an eternal being or an angelic being, but it can also mean eternity or a period of time. So depending on the context of use. So words have power as well. So that’s interesting. So again, how it’s used can make a world of a difference. And it’s interesting when they’re using certain words because there are some times that they could have chosen to use a different word. So when they’ve used a certain word like that, that can change the entire context of meaning. Cyd: Right. Like saying there’s some reference to judgment at the end of the age. And I’m always thinking that it’s judgment from the Aeons when I see that. But I’m not translating from scratch, I’m taking biblical translation, so what do I know? Bishop Nathan Wilson: You’re spot on though. So you’re correct. So it can translate that as well. And we have to realize that we have different versions of Christianity. So that’s certainly appropriate for a first century understanding. Most people are looking at from fourth century. So you’re looking at it from a first century point of view. And so you’re ahead of others in that sort of case, which is beautiful to see. So that’s rare. And I chose to keep that for that reason. So people can have their own conclusions, not having it forced onto them. Cyd: You are very much into the history of things. You’re an historian. I am not at all interested in history per se. I’m always talking about what other people believed in other times. That is not pertinent to our gnosis here and now. So what do you view the purpose of this deep historical knowledge that you have concerning the Jews and the Essenes and whatnot? And is it necessary to go into all of that? Bishop Nathan Wilson: If you want to, I guess, teach from a historical perspective as well as a spiritual one, then yes. But if you want to go for spiritual, you can just go by the heart. There were plenty of spiritual teachers that were illiterate, that could not read, that could not write, and they had a beautiful message. So there’s something more powerful that we can receive within that you won’t obtain from books. But ultimately, you can also have wisdom gained from books. It can be a form of worship or a form of connecting with the divine as well. We have many forms of worship or many forms of experience what’s divine or having that intimate moment with what’s divine to reflect and to deepen our purpose. I wanted to know the historical man we call Jesus and ultimately put into practice what he put into practice. So I wanted to look at the history side of things and especially also, what’s another word I would like to use, decondition myself, decondition past beliefs that were harmful, that did not serve me and ultimately not serving others, and also find out that I was wrong about many things, which I wanted to know as well. So what brought me to this was to know the man we call Jesus, Yeshua, or Yehoshua, whichever term you like, whichever name you want to use. So I want to know not just that, but I want to know his practices, what he did with his life, how his first followers lived, how the first Christians lived, and what I could use for my own spiritual path and how I could put that into practice. So that’s why I want to look at the history side of things. I think if you want to put into practice the different techniques of all the many different Gnostics, then you’re going to have to look at some of the history side of things to find those practices. That doesn’t mean that every single practice is necessary for you. So what works for me might not work for others. What works for others might not work for me. So double-edged sword. Cyd: What sort of practices are you referring to? Are these rituals? What’s the practices? Bishop Nathan Wilson: I go into some of the ancient rituals as well. Some of them I might look at the prayers that they would use, the diet they would take, or means of worship. So how they would go about their forms of private practice. So that sort of stuff. And then I might apply it into my own life and see how I can go. There’s still more I’d like to go and check out more. So I’m still studying a couple of some of the ancient practices as well. So from different or religious perspectives as well. And then I can see how I can put it to my own form of use. So I looked at a lot of Jewish Christians, they would do the shema for instance, before their meditations. And I’ll do that as well. [“Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one… You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength…”] They also did breath works back then, which would also induce a sense of intoxication if you want to use, or light headness. And in turn that can also open a new state of reality. So entering the spiritual realm can be a vehicle, if you will, to get there. So to open the mind. And that’s also a practice that’s been used in ancient past. And we can certainly use that today. We have modern practices, say like Wim Hof, that teach breath work in meditation. That’s also useful. So sometimes looking at the past, we do see stuff in today’s world that’s not really new. It’s just being basically reentering this world again, from past knowledge gained of old. And I find that in a lot of Gnostic stuff. When you look at history, you kind of see that Gnostics kind of did a lot of things first, that what we’re doing now that we think is modern, but it’s not. It’s ancient. Cyd: That’s why conventional Christians who read my books, they say, oh, you’re just all new age. And I’m like, no, it’s not new age at all. It’s ancient. Bishop Nathan Wilson: Which is a shame that Christians have been shut off into their own world, which is kind of funny. I actually tell most Christians that they are, in fact, new age, because these beliefs are ancient. And what they are going by is, depending on what version of Christianity, if you’re Protestant, that’s 16th century, I believe. Non-denominal, 18th century. Protestant, 16th century. Catholicism, late second century. Orthodoxy, as we know it now, would be about 14th century. But older Orthodoxy, which would be the split from the Catholic church, is fourth century. So it’s when you go to Gnostic Christians, first century, and we’re really the only groups that are surviving, the Jewish Christians got killed. They ultimately were wiped out or would convert to mainstream Judaism or would become Christian or Islam, they would follow as well. So some would be converted to Muslims, which is also interesting as well. We as Gnostics were also harmed by these other groups, by Catholics, Protestants, Muslims as well. At one point Zoroastrians, but that was only one particular era. And we’ve basically arisen from all that, from that underground, and we’ve still survived, which is fascinating. It’s beautiful that we have. And also the texts that have been rediscovered, this is not accidental. This is all happening for a reason. What’s divine is experiencing itself where it can experience itself and express itself again safely in today’s world. In ancient past, it was dangerous to have diversion after the fourth century, which is a shame because the Catholics would kill those who came before them. They didn’t like that. And they even knew that some of the Gnostics, they had older writings, but they still denied them, which is funny. So it’s why such the hate, which is such a shame. So it goes back to that control of power, my way or the highway, basically. And it was never meant to be like that. It was meant to be very universal. It was meant to be very diverse. The first Christians were Gnostics and Jewish Christians, a mixture between strict law observing Jews and a mixture of Gentiles. And then you had the Jewish mystics that became the Christian mystics, which is fascinating. That was the original groups. And the original groups would argue amongst each other. The strict law observing Jews wanted circumcision, where the mystics said, no, no circumcision of the hearts, let the Gentiles come. That’s fine. So even when we look at the word, say, ethnos, for instance, in the Gospels, when you see kingdom against kingdom, nation against nation, these are the same things. So what they’re actually talking about is Gentile against Gentile and kingdom against kingdom. So the Jewish people didn’t have a kingdom at this stage. It was a mixture of Judea, Galilee and Samaria. So we’re the Samaritans. So that’s also something to take into account, too. So they didn’t like that. They were looking for a messiah to reunify the Jewish people, restore the Jewish faith and make Israel a kingdom again. And so some of them didn’t like the fact that Jesus wasn’t after this, for instance. So they didn’t like some of these teachings. It was a bit different. But if you look at the mystics, they had a very different interpretations. They did believe in a renewal of the Jewish faith, but a renewal back to El Elyon and a rejection of Yahweh. So that’s very different. So when you look at repentance, for Israel to repent, meaning for all of Israel to return back to El Elyon. And if you look at for the Gentiles conversion, that would be referring to not converting to any religion, but converting to God. So God outside religion. So fascinating. So you see all this in the original text. Cyd: And why do you suppose, this might be an unanswerable question, but why do you suppose conventional modern Christians are so, you know, extremely antagonistic towards Gnostic Christians? Is it fear or what? Bishop Nathan Wilson: Well, they’ve been told you're the enemy, basically. And yes, some of it is fear. Fear as well of the unknown. And also because of the need of an opponent. So they believe that they are doing a good thing. And if they don’t do this, they can be punished. So it’s the case of where a victim becomes an abuser. So most Christians have never even heard about Gnostics. It’s only the real ones who are into spiritual warfare, basically, and really full on extremist dogmatic ones that are familiar with, and apologetics. But they are now feeling like they’re losing the battle because more people were interested in Gnosticism and especially interested in other Jewish groups and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as the Nag Hammadi. So they’re realizing their other texts and there’s other options now. And that’s great. And regarding even my translations, one reason I chose to do it that I did, I found out that no modern English Bible translates from one source material. They’re all a mixture of different sources. So we have the Codex Sinaiticus mixed with the Latin Vulgate, mixing with Germanic copies, and then mixing ancient Koine Greek into modern Hebrew, putting it back into Greek. And that’s not good at all. So we’re just changing—we’re swapping chapters because we feel uncomfortable with them. So I was mortified when I was looking at that. And so I realized I couldn’t trust basically my Bible anymore. So I thought, well, I’m making this myself. And then I thought, well, I’m going to release it. Let’s go and share it too and do what they will with it. And it opened a lot of doorways to me, actually. So that’s one reason I wanted to give that out so people can have their own faith in their own interpretation and also believe in the message of Yeshua, bringing people back to the Most High God, to the Unknowable God, the Living Father, the Mother-Father. And we also see the Mother being mentioned in other texts too. It’s just mostly blocked out by mainstream Christianity, which is unfair, unfair to women and unfair to humanity with their approaches. It’s been very violent. So we need to remove that violence because that’s nothing to do with Yeshua’s teachings. He didn’t teach us to go around fighting each other. He said, Those who are for me are with me. They don’t understand his message. They very much follow the Catholic teachings of Paul that they’ve been given. And so they can look at the Gnostic teachings of Paul as well, which are also in there. Paul’s letters, we now know they’re mostly all forgeries. We don’t have any original copies either. They’re all later fourth century and we have some second century fragments. But the oldest reference to Paul is from the Ten Letters of Marcion. And he’s the man who compiled the first Christian Bible. And some people can argue, some people don’t believe he was a Gnostic. Others think he was a Gnostic. I think he was a type of Gnostic because he believed in a demiurge. So he believed that the God of the Jews was Yahweh and not the Supreme God of Jesus. That is a very Gnostic belief. But the thing is, the word Gnostic was given to us by the Catholic church, was a way of separating us and identifying us. But we wear it as a badge of honor because we understand they’re just calling us knowledgeable Christians, which is kind of funny. So language is powerful and the Catholic church certainly forgot it. So because of them, we now use daimon as demon. So they’ve basically demonized Jesus. They’ve demonized the Holy Spirit, which is their greatest sin. And they’ve demonized God and every other God. So they don’t know what damage they’ve done. And that’s not good. So I wanted to reverse that damage and bring people back to what I believe is the message of Yeshua, of Jesus, and to have their own spiritual relationship with God, an individual relationship, which is something that I want to see more of. That’s a very beautiful thing. You can’t define that intimate experience without living it. Cyd: Right, right. Well, that's all we have time for in this episode. We'll pick it up again next week for part three of my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union Church.  I like the way he talks, huh? Until next week, onward and upward and God bless us all.

The King in the North daalde af naar het Zuiden, per trein, vanzelfsprekend. Na zijn glansrijke overwinning in Makerfield en de aftocht van Keir Starmer lijkt Andy Burnham zeker van het premierschap. Connor en Lia bespreken het einde van het premierschap van Starmer, de reden achter de onverwacht grote overwinning van Burnham, diens kansen in 'number 10', zijn toekomstplannen en de link met Nederland: zijn vrouw! Lia zit in Montenegro, vandaar dat de aflevering niet altijd klinkt zoals je gewend bent. Over Van Bekhovens Britten In van Bekhovens Britten praten Lia van Bekhoven en Connor Clerx elke week over de grootste nieuwsonderwerpen en de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Van Brexit naar binnenlandse politiek, van de Royals tot de tabloids. Waarom fascineert het VK Nederlanders meer dan zo veel andere Europese landen? Welke rol speelt het vooralsnog Verenigd Koninkrijk in Europa, nu het woord Brexit uit het Britse leven lijkt verbannen, maar de gevolgen van de beslissing om uit de EU te stappen iedere dag duidelijker worden? De Britse monarchie, en daarmee de staat, staat voor grote veranderingen na de dood van Queen Elisabeth en de kroning van haar zoon Charles. De populariteit van het Koningshuis staat op een dieptepunt. Hoe verandert de Britse monarchie onder koning Charles, en welke gevolgen heeft dat voor de Gemenebest? In Van Bekhovens Britten analyseren Lia en Connor een Koninkrijk met tanende welvaart, invloed en macht. De Conservatieve Partij leverde veertien jaar op rij de premier, maar nu heeft Labour onder Keir Starmer de teugels in handen. Hoe ziet het VK er onder Keir Starmer uit? En hoe gaan de ‘gewone’ Britten, voor zover die bestaan, daar mee om? Al deze vragen en meer komen aan bod in Van Bekhovens Britten. Een kritische blik op het Verenigd Koninkrijk, waar het een race tussen Noord-Ierland en Schotland lijkt te worden wie zich het eerst af kan scheiden van het VK. Hoe lang blijft het Koninkrijk verenigd? Na ruim 45 jaar onder de Britten heeft Lia van Bekhoven een unieke kijk op het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Als inwoner, maar zeker geen anglofiel, heeft ze een scherpe blik op het nieuws, de politiek, de monarchie en het dagelijkse leven aan de overkant van de Noordzee. Elke woensdag krijg je een nieuwe podcast over het leven van Van Bekhovens Britten in je podcastapp. Scherpe analyses, diepgang waar op de radio geen tijd voor is en een flinke portie humor. Abonneer en mis geen aflevering. Over Lia Lia van Bekhoven is correspondent Verenigd Koninkrijk voor onder andere BNR Nieuwsradio, VRT, Knack en Elsevier en is regelmatig in talkshows te zien als duider van het nieuws uit het VK. Ze woont sinds 1976 in Londen, en is naast correspondent voor radio, televisie en geschreven media ook auteur van de boeken Mama gaat uit dansen, het erfgoed van Diana, prinses van Wales (1997), Land van de gespleten God, Noord-Ierland en de troubles (2000), In Londen, 9 wandelingen door de Britse hoofdstad (2009) en Klein-Brittannië (2022). Over Connor Connor Clerx is presentator en podcastmaker bij BNR Nieuwsradio. Hij werkt sinds 2017 voor BNR en was voorheen regelmatig te horen in De Ochtendspits, Boekestijn en de Wijk en BNR Breekt. Als podcastmaker werkte hij de afgelopen tijd aan onder andere De Taxi-oorlog, Kuipers en de Kosmos, Splijtstof, Baan door het Brein en Welkom in de AI-Fabriek. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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