A Wannabe Cult Leader Takes Stock

Looking back to find the way forward

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I moved to Prague in 1993, where I studied Gurdjieff and Ouspensky’s esoteric Christianity, texts from the Nag Hammadi Library, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Bible. I was in my late 20s when all of these pieces came together to form what I would later call Chryptianity. I became convinced that I had found a way to unlock the Bible, revealing a…