This is the last video you’ll EVER need about gnosticism : *REALLY *NO *BS and it might REALLY change your life (just 19 minutes long)

*REALLY *NO *BS

■ I have always claimed that the gnostic branch of Christianity is THE WESTERN VERSION OF THE MEDITATIONAL ART & also offering maps of the human Mind.

■ I absolutely don’t care NEITHER about their cosmologies, sethian or valentinian that aged abysmally bad as long as I am concerned or about the different mystical mumbo-jumbo spun throughout the centuries around the word and the idea *gnosis* NOR their political fight against the pauline theology and against what has become the official religion of the Roman Empire after the 325 imperial ecumenical Council at Nicea. Fight that the Gnostics politically lost anyway when in 367 ce, an order has been given to burn down all the gnostic texts across the Roman Empire.

To be pedantically exact, the Nicene Creed Christianity became the official EXCLUSIVE State Church of the Roman Empire with the EDICT of THESSALONICA promulgated on February 27, 380 by the Emperor Theodosius I (born in 347/ruled from 379 to his death in 395).

■ I however do care about THE ESSENTIAL, meaning THE HEALTHY LAWFUL HUMAN LIVING EXPERIENCE OF GNOSIS.

GNOSIS is a Greek word which simply means KNOWLEDGE.

KNOWLEDGE is mostly of 3 kinds :

1* Memorized facts & information (observed or measured) : SAVOIR

2* Skills or procedural memories : SAVOIR-FAIRE

3* BEING AWARE : SAVOIR-ÊTRE/ÊTRE

NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE GNOSIS (KNOWLEDGE) SPOKEN OF HERE IS BEING AWARE.

That GNOSIS can be defined, for me, as DAWN : Dynamically Aware Witnessing presence Now.

DAWN from moment to moment during all of one’s own life.

●●● DAWN, FOR WHAT ?!!

For the essential.

For being free, what else ?!!

FOR BEING THE ESSENCE, being so one can always have a meta-representation, a double-arrowed awareness of the activities of the mind, especially of the automatic activities of the mind BUT ALSO of THE PRESENCE OF PURE INFINITE AWARENESS.

The automatic activities of the mind are those activities of the mind that have been impressed upon someone by the people having been capable of producing enough EMOTIONS (positive or negative emotions) for gaining an INFLUENCE upon that person. The totality, the unconscious, subconscious and the conscious parts of those ACCUMULATED INFLUENCES constitute one’s own PERSONALITY.

IT IS THAT PART of the mind, the SENSITIVO-COGNITIVE PART of the mind that can be impressed that Aristotle (384 bce-322 bce) called THE TABULA RASA (blank slate). THAT PART CAN BE IMPRESSED FROM THE OUTSIDE and manipulated. That’s the part related to the professional TRAININGS & to the socio-family-political CONDITIONINGS.

What Aristotle (384 bce- 322 bce) called TABULA RASA (blank slate), his teacher Plato (427 bce-347 bce) called DOXA (opinions) made of :

* Eikasia (shadows) I : the senses-perceptions

* Eikasia (shadows) II : the words, images, concepts

* Pistis : Belief or the conventional truth including the social sophistication and the emotional control, the dominant culture that has been absorbed unconsciously, subconsciously and consciously by a given person.

Plato (427 bce-347 bce) being who he was obviously was able of identifying that part of the mind called TABULA RASA by Aristotle (384 bce-322 bce) but Plato gave it another name : DOXA.

Plato also used the metaphor of the Chariot for describing the Mind (Phaedrus dialogue) : the Chariot is the body, the 2 horses are THE SENSITIVO-COGNITIVE PART OF THE MIND, ie THE ARISTOTELIAN TABULA RASA aka THE PLATONIC DOXA.

Where Plato (427 bce-347 bce) RADICALLY DIFFERED from Aristotle (384 bce-322 bce) is that Plato, once identified and named THE AUTOMATIC PARTS OF THE MIND THAT CAN BE SUBJECTED TO TRAINING and CONDITIONING, had afterwards ADAMANTLY insisted on the CHARIOTEER aka EPISTÊMÊ (real Knowledge, Science) made of :

*DIANOIA : Intelligence NOT intellect; intellect is Pistis, NOT Dianoia

*DIALEKTIKÔN : Playful Exploration

*EIDOS : The Timeless Universal Forms ::: BEAUTY : GOODNESS : TRUTH

It is EPISTÊMÊ or real KNOWLEDGE, the CHARIOTEER, who is the master between the interplay of DOXA & EPISTÊMÊ.

EPISTÊMÊ is NOT made by training or conditioning (imposing a given content from the outside, by influences) BUT BY BRINGING FORTH FROM WITHIN (Educare : Education), so it’s not really made but RECOGNIZED, REMEMBERED and it’s exactly WHAT MEDITATION IS.

The Greek word Plato (427 bce-347 bce) used for the meditational art is ANAMNESIS which means REMEMBRANCE or perhaps better worded REMEMBERING.