GNOSIS: ALL ABOUT GNOSIS

EARLY CHRISTIAN GNOSIS - The impact that the life of Jesus had upon history is evidently significant. In his own time, he stirred up profound controversy and was condemned by many religious leaders who believed he was a threat to their traditions. Jesus challenged the common perceptions towards humanity and divinity, inviting the ordinary person to extraordinary possibilities...

GNOSIS RE-EMERGES - Then, in the Egyptian region of Nag Hammadi, in 1945, two brothers were gathering fertilizer for their fields, when they uncovered a large jar of papyrus books. These papers were what later became known as the Nag Hammadi Library...

GNOSIS: SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE - The word gnosis (from the Greek word for knowledge, γνώσις) refers to a form of spiritual knowledge that is more commonly familiar to people as enlightenment...

GNOSIS THROUGH THE AGES - Throughout the ages, the Gnostics have been hunted and persecuted for claiming to be able to directly experience the Divine...

NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES - Throughout history, mysteries of the unknown have been heard, seen and spoken about. There are various theories and explanations to help us understand where we came from, why we're here, and what life is all about...

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES (PART ONE) - Q: Is there ever any chance I won't be able to get back to my physical body after I've been Astral travelling?...

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES (PART TWO) - Q: What's the difference between an out of body experience and astral projection?...

THE PRACTICE OF GNOSIS - And so, despite persecution, censorship, and all other efforts through the ages to destroy Gnosis, it has survived. And that is because it is the very thing that characterizes it that cannot be destroyed...

THE SURVIVAL OF GNOSIS - However, Gnosis itself survived. Small groups of people continued its study, and over the centuries it re-emerged in such forms as that of Medieval Alchemy, very early Freemasonry, and early Rosicrucianism...

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