Linked is the video I made a comment on and I'll copy the comment below it. I'm posting this here as I believe this is the most important inquiry of our times.
As soon as one asserts that 'enlightenment protocols' have physical attributes then the process SHOULD become empirical. Guys...semen is physical! The spine is physical! The brain is physical! So, where are the peer-reviewed studies on the enlightenment process? And why can't a male and female who are practicing such protocols do so under controlled conditions?
But even if I Steelman you guys and concede EVERYTHING you're saying is true...well, how then could anyone KNOW for certain that they are not deceived? That they are not one with the Demiurge rather than one with the unknown God of the Pleroma?
Sorry, there is more than one version of Gnosticism and you guys are espousing one version. You may or may not be right that your nonduality, Kabbalism, Luciferianism is correct, but I don't see how anyone could know for certain let alone that there is nothing more that exists then what THEY think exists. Even further, and just for fun, say you're wrong and my Dualistic version of Gnosis ends up being correct....how could the unknown God of the Pleroma KNOW for certain that it isn't a part of a Russian Doll construct? Got infinite regress?
Furthermore, what's the pragmatic difference between someone who claims enlightenment (say, Theoria Apophasis and Sam Harris) when it comes to our mundane existence here on this earth? To me, there doesn't seem to be any obvious difference that would help in solving who is enlightened and who is not (between the two of them)...Although TA is far more skilled in pejoratives...
Speaking of Mr. Wheeler. Metaphysics and my comment below:
Can disembodied wisdom somehow manifest itself in human bodies on this earth? And if so, in your opinion, how is it different (technically and experientially) from the life-death cycle of reincarnation via agnosis?
Here's for your curious mind: https://youtu.be/mmtLgYVEuJs :P:P:P
There's an interesting parallel between this presentation of counter space and the syzergy idea of Sophia and the Logos in Gnosticism...