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Why accept belief?
by Apakhana on Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:58 pm
To me, I have come to the realisation that belief is very, very limiting.
Belief, is NOT knowing in a true esoteric sense (in context of blind-belief w/out experience).
When we come to know, we gain this gnosis/knowledge through our own experience.
Belief limits us to not going past accepting what we belive. It places limits on our ideas and concepts, it places limits on theory (useless as it is anyway), and ultimately it then places limits on what we experience.
We sometimes accept belief out of fear, the fear of not knowing from lack of experience or the fear of the unknown, which is something we can eliminate when we do come to know something in our own esoteric experience.
To truly know, to arrive at truth, to be gnostic in our approach, means to be revolutionary - against nature, against our own ego, against what everyones else tells us is truth when they themselves don't understand what they are talking about.
Does anyone else accept this as a truth beside myself?
Belief, is NOT knowing in a true esoteric sense (in context of blind-belief w/out experience).
When we come to know, we gain this gnosis/knowledge through our own experience.
Belief limits us to not going past accepting what we belive. It places limits on our ideas and concepts, it places limits on theory (useless as it is anyway), and ultimately it then places limits on what we experience.
We sometimes accept belief out of fear, the fear of not knowing from lack of experience or the fear of the unknown, which is something we can eliminate when we do come to know something in our own esoteric experience.
To truly know, to arrive at truth, to be gnostic in our approach, means to be revolutionary - against nature, against our own ego, against what everyones else tells us is truth when they themselves don't understand what they are talking about.
Does anyone else accept this as a truth beside myself?
Re: Why accept belief?
by Admin on Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:07 pm
Apakhana wrote:To me, I have come to the realisation that belief is very, very limiting.
Belief, is NOT knowing in a true esoteric sense (in context of blind-belief w/out experience).
When we come to know, we gain this gnosis/knowledge through our own experience.
Belief limits us to not going past accepting what we belive. It places limits on our ideas and concepts, it places limits on theory (useless as it is anyway), and ultimately it then places limits on what we experience.
We sometimes accept belief out of fear, the fear of not knowing from lack of experience or the fear of the unknown, which is something we can eliminate when we do come to know something in our own esoteric experience.
To truly know, to arrive at truth, to be gnostic in our approach, means to be revolutionary - against nature, against our own ego, against what everyones else tells us is truth when they themselves don't understand what they are talking about.
Does anyone else accept this as a truth beside myself?
Yes, I entirely agree with you. This, in a nutshell, is what GNOSIS is all about ~ KNOWING!
PLU ~ Bob
