Spirituality for Living

Gnosis is the concept “as within so without”. Also connected with the concept “as above so below“. That knowledge of self, is knowledge of the principle that originated you.
It is connected to astrology. Astrology could be considered a Gnostic tool. Hermetic philosophy is primarily Gnostic in its premises and the principle even emerges in quantum [...]

Divination is not foolishness. It’s just encoded intuitions about life. You get from divination the wisdom you bring to it. It is not a pointless exercise because the gnosis is there. When the student is ready the master appears.
When you have the ears to hear and the eyes to see then divination works. When you [...]

What’s my religion, if I have one? Officially I don’t, or perhaps in the strictest sense of the word religion I do. I adopt a Gnostic view and see the spirit and the universe as one, however you choose to characterize these principles. I see neither a reason to anthropomorphize divinity, nor to view it [...]

It would likely be very helpful for westerners to study Confucianism, but many western thinkers decry the eastern fusion of intuition and logic. To the western mind logic is good, but intuition is bad.  To my observation, logic being given primacy has created some down right deranged policies and beliefs.
It’s too bad the Greeks made this [...]

Find what you want. Then acting on that what would you do? Then do that.
Do you wonder what else you should do? Wondering like that is doubt. Doubt is the opposite of hope. Hope guides, doubt bars the way. Look at it from a ‘what can I do right now’ point of view, even if [...]

Satanism is more complex than people see it and it has had a long history. The Knights Templar were accused of it and many factions of Christianity were dismissed as Satanism including most if not all Gnostic Christianity. So there have been different nested groups that contribute their belief systems to modern Satanism. Even Catholicism [...]

Satanism is a descriptor some people have applied to other beliefs versus a belief itself? It has evolved and some have accepted the related ideas. Basic teachings of Satanism are:

Ecstatic practices
Self acceptance
Embracing both the darkness and the light in life

The most public Satanic church is in fact almost atheistic. It acknowledges human need for religion [...]

What is the difference between Luciferianism and Satanism? Actually there are a few different traditions that get called Satanism. As a whole the Satanism that scares people is a creation of the Catholic church. A counter cultural movement that arose from second sons being forced into the clergy and resenting it. Luciferianism stems from the [...]

Tantra is seen as dark, especially among the Ophites. A Tantric practicing Gnostic Christian sect for who the serpent was both eros and wisdom. Thus sex became separate from religion in Christianity. Most of the sexual beliefs in Christianity came well after the time of Christ. He did not teach them himself, and he even [...]

When I give my talks I tend to just go with the flow of inspiration, regrettably it means I sometimes “leave no trace”, even in my own mind.
I like the format of these discussions, going with the flow. It gives all a chance to talk and is more interactive. People learn by doing, not by [...]

Christ was a living person? Well, this is where people get confused. Christ isn’t a name, and even old Gnostics saw the messiah as a spirit. Swedenborgian Christianity believes that the prophecy is already fulfilled, but Christ was socially a title. Even King Herod who was King of the Jews bore the title Christ. Though [...]

Scientologists are selling the second hand insight, and require their parishioners to sign many legally binding forms before they can receive services. Their insights aren’t bogus, and in fact I encourage people myself to rephrase any insight they understand from another source. If it’s yours, it’s yours. Even in Christianity the Bible says that the [...]

The concept of the Demiurge is actually more broad than might be assumed. For most, belief system in the beginning was chaos. A formless or hyper ordered state beyond human comprehension, and the divine being, the first consciousness, tends to dwell in or arise from this.
Now in an effort to understand the consciousnesses that proceeded, [...]

The word promise is abused and overused. The only true promise is merely a recognition of what is already a spiritual reality and an affirmation of it.
You promise, and believe what you already know? Yes, and promises can be real.
Example; If you are traveling along a trail that is dependant on a bridge along its [...]

Not all moments are “good” moments, we learn from “bad” moments as well.  Mother Teresa, as an example, was a nun.  A member of her order. She had all the background and was well versed in her faiths teachings. Her bottom line was in how she lived her life. Her life was very modest and [...]

Obstacles cease to be obstacles and become simply a part of the terrain as we become more aware. You won’t bemoan the wall when you see the door, and often times especially in the case of sculptors they say they don’t know what they are going to shape until they do.
Is there not an aspect [...]

The atheist views lack centralization or a strong professing membership for more reasons than intellectual cowardice, I think. I think though that atheism serves a useful purpose. We constructed Gods in a search for God, and found much about man. If we deconstruct Gods in a search for the truth, the principle that guides all [...]

Sort of like Indian mysticism, the Druid recognized that spirituality isn’t a single path. They acknowledged three. The Druid, as we know the word, who was the keeper of observances, and the village Sage. The Ovate who was more like the Native American Shaman, seeker of spirits and signs, and psychopomp, or spirit guide to the [...]

It’s hard to say much that’s absolute about Druid creed, because as part of their creed they were not absolutist thinkers. The culture the Druids would be most like is the Magi, and they would often later be called Magi in Latin records of them. They were rationalists, but not materialists.
Before the advent of empirical [...]

The Druids were not a dogmatic people, and it would be entirely reasonable, if you see gnosis in nature, to adopt the Druid name. You would not dishonour the ancestors having no static doctrine, and gaining wisdom from observances of nature, and keeping of human history. To declare yourself a Druid is merely to say [...]