The key aspect of GNOSTICISM is that you should NEVER follow a book or a person (priest or prophet or sage).
NEVER.
If you didn't experience it for yourself, you should be extremely skeptical.
RE: the bible is real and YHWH is the one true god, now what?
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the bible is real and YHWH is the one true god, now what?
That point was one of the grabbing turns in the book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. The main character told the Buddha that the flaw in his teaching others was he could never convey the experience of enlightenment to his followers with his words, it could only be experienced.
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I agree. There are aspects that are necessarily unique to each Gnostic experience. Although the descriptions can be somewhat useful for identifying people with broadly similar experiences.
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That is epic, thank you. I laughed a lot through the first half, as I've never been one to meditate like many others. I identified with the thoughts he was having. I found for myself that I meditate when I am in an act of doing, or in stressful/dangerous situations.
The only difference I saw in my interpretation from his was I didn't lose my sense of identity, it felt more like an connection with everything else. There was a joy attached to it as well for myself. Guessing the difference is based on the experiences/lenses we all drag with us wherever we go.
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It's sort of a sliding-scale in some ways but not always a case of "this" cannot be "that" simultaneously.
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