March 19, 2005: Gnostics and Archons - John Lash

Author and teacher John Lash joins Art Bell to discuss Gnostics, Nag Hammadi texts, and Archons after a first-hour conversation with Whitley Strieber about the rapture. Strieber traces the rapture's origins to 19th-century theologians John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Schofield. They discuss how this belief system functions as a collective death wish, with adherents opposing environmental stewardship because intervening might delay the end times. Strieber warns that methane trapped beneath the ocean floor and in Arctic permafrost poses a catastrophic threat if released by warming temperatures.

From Belgium, Lash presents his research into the Gnostic texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. He explains that ancient pagan seers described two types of alien beings called Archons, corresponding to what modern researchers identify as reptilian and grey entities. According to Lash, the Gnostics possessed a sophisticated cosmology that recognized millions of galaxies and understood the distinction between the organic Earth and the inorganic solar system.

Lash describes the Archons as an inorganic species born from a plasmatic surge from the galactic core during the early formation of the solar system. He explains that the Gnostics warned these beings operate primarily through mental intrusion, using simulation and telepathy to manipulate human perception. Their chief motivation, according to the ancient texts, is envy of humanity's capacity for innovation, emotion, and creativity, and they feed on human fear.