Flat Earth; Enclosed Creationism; Conspiracy (Theory), Intuition and Imagination – Part Six:
The stage: One of the many contentions that underline a fundamentalist approach to that of a Gnostic is that spirituality and mysticism are opposed to religion, which is dogma. They feel spirituality and mysticism teach greater truths using analogies. Moreover, it’s through analogies or, to be more precise, the analogies of myths – and the use of those myths in a practical sense. It can be used outside of scholarship while finding meaning in it, alongside its interpretation that can coincide with life. The whole Gnostic view can be based on knowledge and in that knowledge through analogies – which have been around for centuries. During those early times, it often carried through different traditions from Christianity, Kabballah, Judaism, Sufiism, etc. Within those traditions is a shared idea that reality is an illusion. Having made its disassociation with religion similar to that of the New Age’s ‘spiritual but not religious concept. The traditions of various religions best describe their historical facets or contextual background.
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