Your mind might be muddled with problems stemming from work or your social life. Do not attribute the thoughts with any value, simply say “thinking” and let them fade away, returning your awareness to your spot and moving on.

we fall under the spell of these Archonic powers that reside within and without of us, unable to live fully in the present moment because our head is full of the chattering of the Rulers of the World of Forms.

There's the Experiencer (the Spiritual Seed– Humanity) which is trapped within the World of Forms. Then, there's the Experienced– Truth, or The Father, or The Limitless Light or what have you. Gnosis is the intersection of the two, a combination of the Logos, or Word, and Sophia, or Wisdom, and Epiphany, or Awakening.

The Mind, on the other hand, was the Divine Nous, nous being the word for mind.[20] It was the transcendent quality that granted Reason to the earnest seeker, the producer of the Forethought of God.

Anti-intellectualism is still incredibly prevalent in all manner of mystical traditions, though usually under the banner of anti-episteme. Why read books when you can take ayahuasca? Why go to school to learn about something when people who never went to school can teach you just as well? Why do we need the connection to Nous provided by the

the universe consists of living information which is collected by the Rational Soul through the medium of the heart and the brain. As it collects this information, it processes it, and if one has the connection to the Nous, this information is passed along to God.

all humans are intrinsically involved with the redemption of the imperfection.

self redemption helps the process of Universal Redemption. The processes mirror one another; what happens to the Kosmos at large also happens

Confusing one’s “Self” with any one of the skandhas, or any combination thereof, is the root cause of desire and suffering in the world. At the same time, consciously and mindfully focusing upon and contemplating the impermanence of the skandhas can bring the practitioner to the experience of Nirvana through the elimination of self-ness: