  Second talk on matters esoteric in the space of a week. I must be needing to restore balance to a life given over to coding for a living. Last night Steve Wilson addressed a packed upper room at the Princess Louise in New Oxford Street on the subject of "Living Gnosticism".
This was a meeting of a group called The Secret Chiefs, about which you can read urlLink here (although there isn't a whole lot there - the list of previous talks makes interesting reading, though...). SW's talk was complex and bewildering in parts, but contained interesting revelations: there is apparently an authentic and continuous gnostic sect which traces back to pre-christian times, originating (?
) in what is now northern Iraq - and a good number of them are living in exile just down the road from me, in Catford! They are called the Mandaeans, and they are the people referred to in the Koran as the Sabians. They have an urlLink official site (sluggish to load, most of it in Arabic, but it's there) - or you might keep an eye out on urlLink Google ... 
