The pursuit of the knowing experience that is Gnosis is not an intellectual pursuit. It is necessary to find a higher faculty with which to apprehend reality. It’s like facing a wall in utter darkness and using all concentration to pierce it. Or like reaching behind you in the dark trying to find your pillow. It helps if you have a question to which you passionately need to find the answer. Build up a great wall of doubt and face it. Focusing your mind to one point will help you. Explaining what happens in the Experience is impossible. This is why some teachers insist on no reliance on words. If I had to use a word, I might call it an implosion. Once this happens you might feel you know all there is to know and yet you know nothing. Your sight changes irrevocably, also your sense of identity. If you think in Christian terms, you might call the Experience miraculous. If you have the Experience on other spiritual paths, you will certainly call it astounding. See? I have used too many words already! (C) 2018 by W.G. Milne
Dang, I was reading about Gnosis, a word I never liked, and then realized why. It was because u said it was a term used by those to ridicule deeper meanings. It wasn’t said in those words, but that is the meaning you indicated. Then, lo and behold, it jumped to another one of your discussions, so I hope my comment is on the correct page. I always wondered deep down why I hate the term Gnosis and mysticism. Now I know.
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Dang, I was reading about Gnosis, a word I never liked, and then realized why. It was because u said it was a term used by those to ridicule deeper meanings. It wasn’t said in those words, but that is the meaning you indicated. Then, lo and behold, it jumped to another one of your discussions, so I hope my comment is on the correct page. I always wondered deep down why I hate the term Gnosis and mysticism. Now I know.