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ARTICLE: Post-Gnosis and the Candor of Nature

So I've been mulling this concept of "Post-Gnosis" around my head these days. It's a pretty simple idea: it takes the basic tenets of classical Gnosticism and places them in the natural world and not some extraterrestrial realm.

The idea being that we've become so denatured as a culture that the real world seems alien to us, when in fact we've become alienated to it.


Of course, the natural world isn't some Platonic ideal of perfection: it's messy and full of death and danger, as well as miracles and awesome beauty. But frankly, the Plato-derived idea of the Pleroma sounds suffocating to me, like some endless housing development of McMansions.


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