Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind.

I'm your host Thomas Mekonki.

Thank you so much for joining. Today I want to explore a passage from the Gospel of Thomas with you.

To some, this text will be familiar.

To others, it will be brand new.

What is the Gospel of Thomas?

This is a text that was discovered among other texts in what's sometimes

called the Nag Hammadi texts or library or codex. A group of texts that was unearthed in a place

outside of the town Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945.

This discovery of ancient texts was significant because it shed a lot of light on the diversity of thinking

in the early Christian movement, followers of the way, followers of Yeshua, of the Christ, and voices

that were silenced over time by orthodoxy, by the way that the tradition took shape.

People have a lot of opinions about this text. I would recommend, as we enter into this

text, from a contemplative perspective, rather than getting involved in like, is this an early

text that it happened like at the same time that the synoptic gospels did?

Is it reliable? Is it trustworthy?

Or, you know, was it a later superimposition over the tradition, you know, so-called Gnostic takes on Christianity that are less authentic?

Those are all really important historical and scholarly questions, to be sure.

But for our purposes here, on One Heart, One Mind, I am interested in contemplation, opening the eye of contemplation,

deepening our relationship with the divine, recognizing

who we are at the deepest level, sons and daughters of the living one, we might say.

And to explore this territory deeply, the thinking mind, as you've heard me talk about in other

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