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Gnosis
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Many esotericists and gnostics took the perceived metaphysical statements about the gods and archetypes and internalized them into the individual psyche, thus psychologizing them. Alchemy was done this way too, and the alchemical process comes to symbolize instead an inner, progressive realization of godhood.
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― Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film
― Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film
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Society’s members are psychically pressured into defining ‘true’ and ‘right’ based not on personal experience or direct gnosis (inner knowing), but on what the creators of social discourse put forward as ‘true’ and ‘right’—in other words, what to believe in—even in the absence of genuine logic or compelling evidence.
This situation leads—almost inevitably, it would seem—to the creation of a certain kind of top-down, pyramidal structure that controls society, culture and, given enough free rein,
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― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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Discussion and commentary of the Gnostic writings of Luis Varady.
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The Gnosis Book Club is an innovative initiative by a group of young people to help st Lucia’s y…more
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