Why Gnosis?

Common folks often ask why one should pursue knowledge. They don’t see immediate purpose and assume something is useless if it doesn’t serve their petty mundane needs and interests. However a pneumatic knows that behind questions like those underlies a hidden urge to control others – to set a purpose for them or to define what they should or shouldn’t do in their opinion. The real benefit from knowledge however is exactly the opposite because it makes one aware of such stealthy attempts and thus allows the person to choose for oneself.

Our mind is able to recognize the emerging patterns from the kaleidoscopic chaos of experience and then to select some of them as repeating and so predictable to constitute the base of cognition. The mind always seek to divine the ever changing panorama of experience standing on such acquired and/or imposed by environment frameworks of concepts. Thus in its attempts to free itself it actually builds its own prison called “reality”.  The conventional “truths” of common sense are meant to keep us inside.  The fools are content to live in herd serving someone other’s purpose. That is why in every “proper” society existential conformism is considered the norm of being. 

But there is another option – Gnosis! It is for those few who cannot stand to exist in such a way - for those who seek true freedom. Gnosis is the basic experience which underlies every true philosophy. 

Philosophy is the poetry of thought based on feeling the resonance of ideas and concepts and recognizing their intrinsic structural isomorphism. Following the intuition and logic it aligns them in all-pervading metaphors allowing to make sense from different symbolic frames of reference. Philosophy seeks the truth which is not some “objective reality” as totalitarian authority wants us to believe, but that invariance under transformations linking different subjects and sign systems. But now Gnosis is made unavailable to humans and thus modern philosophy becomes no more than blabbering. It resembles a verse composed by machine. Thus in order to glimpse the whole picture again we should re-invent Gnosis. We will search for new paradigm combining the ancient wisdom with modern knowledge.  

The only goal worth of pursuing is freedom. And Knowledge is the mean for it. In this quest “nothing is true and everything is permissible” (Hassan-i Sabbāh).

The Labyrinth has no beginning. But hopefully it has an end. We will follow the logical consecution of thought between intuitive insights - the faint thread of Ariadne (who – let me remind - is also consort of Dionysus!). Prejudices – both old and modern – are not allowed to stay in our way. Because getting out is our primary and only goal.