the Gnostic mindset

...the Gnostic mindset, once found,
>
> takes hold of the way of thinking,
> and once this begins to grow,
> the Gnostic discovers that Gnosticism is not
> the collection of 1900 year old ideas,
> but the adaptation of the the mindset of
> those who wrote those ideas.
>
> what this does is open up the spiritual
> channels to where they include so many
> options that it becomes the opposite of
> being Fundamentalist to one specific tradition,
> even that of the Gnostic texts themselves.
>
> you get to a stage where you write your
> own myths and you see the same patterns
> of ideas in places you never looked at before,
> not just spiritual traditions like Kabbalah and
> Tarot and Chakras, a world of scriptures open
> up, Buddhist sutras and Hindu upanishads,
> then we weave in ideas from modern films,
> from fiction stories, from a broadening scope
> of inputs and vehicles for expressing the same
> truths.
>
> that is why "Neo-Gnostic" is not a good title
> for those who follow this path today. We are
> not reviving some ancient rituals and clinging to
> dogmatic assertions of how many archons it
> takes to screw up a kosmos. We are living
> psychological experiments of what it means to
> pay attention to What Is and to learn how to
> direct connect in an intuitive way to ride on
> the synchronized patterns of how we all fit
> together. This is "Gnostic" in the purest sense,
> eclectic and fluid, empirical, forgetting more
> than learning, on a quest to see clearly what
> has been distorted by every spiritual tradition
> that has come before us, including that of
> the ancient Gnostics.