Unlocking Ancient Wisdom: Ayahuasca and Gnosticism - The Gospel of Philip Explained with Bas van Os - Lucas Vos Podcast #4

Bas van Os is a husband, father, theologian, and has worked a vast number of jobs ranging from public transportation to economic education

Youtube link (highly recommended for this episode to have the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-LQErskifg&t=9s 

My Ayahuasca experience on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGW8piXqFao&t=456s 

Round 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xk4PwhL_tg&t=33s 

(0:00) Introduction (2:00) How Bas experienced his son wanting to do Ayahuasca (12:00) How the Gospel of Philip connects to my experience (15:15) Deciphering the text (17:03) Spiritual experience and the risk of the spritual ascent (21:55) How to understand demons (22:45) Three dimensions of transformation - Spatial, temporal, spherical (29:10) Psychological dimension (30:10) The Gospel of Philip - Background (34:50) Introducing the text and analayzing 'the first evening' (48:48) The second evening - the need for transformation (51:15) Classical Theism vs. Atheism - What is God? (52:20) Agency and evil of lower gods - cosmic rulers (55:00) What is sacrifice and how does Christianity transform it? (1:00:00) Clothed and fed (1:03:20) Capital T Truth and the image of language