Mandaeans

Ravenna Dame on The Return of Sophia

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 15, 2026

Aeon Byte host Miguel Conner welcomes Ravenna 'Raven' Dame, a self-described 'Gnostic witch' who says she began channeling the Gnostic goddess Sophia after activating her third eye in February, following a stillbirth in 2024. Raven claims Sophia split her soul into many vessels to survive a war waged by 'the fallen' led by her son, the Demiurge, and has been asleep for 3,500 years. She describes herbal protocols she says were channeled from the gods, which Conner credits with improving his arterial disease, and the two promote a 'Tree of Life' AI app meant to guide users through spiritual awakening.

Dr. Ray Taylor on Why the Essenes and Therapeutae Never Existed

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 10, 2026

Independent researcher Dr. Ray Taylor argues that the Essenes and Therapeutae were scholarly inventions designed to tie Jesus and John the Baptist safely to Judaism, and that the Dead Sea Scrolls are a modern hoax. He claims the historical Jesus belonged to a Gnostic-leaning 'river' tradition of baptizing sects such as the Mandaeans, Nasoraeans and Simonians, not to a temple-based Judaism. Guest Graham Pong adds his own theory that Judaism itself was a Hellenistic-era construction, rooted in the Septuagint and shaped by the Hasmonean and Seleucid power struggles.

Alex Rivera on Baphomet, Cathar Prophecy & the Infinity Working

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 27, 2026

Occult researcher Alex Rivera walks through his books, including The Baphomet co-written with the late Tracy Twyman, framing them as stages of an alchemical Great Work. He traces the Baphomet from the heresy charges against the Knights Templar through the Austrian orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall and Eliphas Levi, and links it to Gnostic, Sufi and Hermetic currents. Along the way he weighs whether Templar artifacts in the British Museum reveal a hidden Gnostic religion that later resurfaced in Freemasonry.