The Way of Gnosis

That sense of alienation, of apartness from society, time, and place: What if it's not you? What if the Sacred is itself in exile?

In this six-week course, we will find guidance in past and present traditions of gnosis: of seeing through life, society, and self to the sources of our consciousness. Within those depths we encounter dreams, archetypes, bright shards of myth, ancient lore, and our intimate connections to the world itself, and perhaps to something more.

Our map will be the Silver Tree of Gnosis with roots reaching back from ancient Egyptian lore to Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Islamic gnosis, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Jungian psychology, terrapsychology, and Depth Philosophy. This will not be an academic excursion, but a search for images, ideas, and practices that speak to us.

We will meet weekly via Zoom starting Nov. 1st at 10 am Pacific. Each session will be an hour and a half and include discussion and various exercises to deepen into gnosis. We will record the sessions.

When the world as we know it feels heavy and difficult, sometimes we gain strength by expanding and reenchanting our worldview.