Frank Goad
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Do people who believe in gnosticism believe lucid dreaming helps with spiritual enlightenment?And can help induce out of body experiences.All in the name of God?
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Some interesting literature from New Advent
...The notion of matter being the "deterioration of spirit", in gnostic thought, is a strange, yet interesting concept IMO.
Do people who believe in gnosticism believe lucid dreaming helps with spiritual enlightenment?And can help induce out of body experiences.All in the name of God?
While it (matter) can be said to be the "deterioration of spirit", this deterioration is also the manifestation of "form"...
or what we know as physical reality here.
"spirit" is the "archetypes" of everything that comes into being ( manifests )....
this is why "spirit" is what's REALLY real....eternal, infinite, limitless, etc.
I actually have believed that prior to this thread. Interesting.
...It's kind of like String Theory, where all that we see and touch, is merely a 3-D "projection" or "simulation" of a 9 or 10-D reality from somewhere far away.
I know that's actually quite different, but it seems compatible in some ways.
Actually, you "know" more than you realize...
and a "matrix" is what you are describing...….ever see the movie ?
I have. A good movie.
The first installment of The Matrix was made to intentionally put gnostic thought into mainstream thought.
It was directed by two transgender women sisters who were known "gnostics"...
There is much truth hidden in it, inconspicuously of course.
"Lucid dreaming" is just the ability to be "awake" (conscious) to a certain degree while you are having a dream.
This way you are in control of the dream environment, and it is not in control of you...
The "enlightenment" part comes when you realize that when you go to sleep at night, you are having a literal
out-of-body experience. The "dream state" is just your consciousness leaving your physical body and venturing
into the "astral realm"......which is a meta-physical reality just above this physical one here.
I never knew that. It's interesting, thanks.
I never knew that. It's interesting, thanks.
How does this help a jehovah's witness?Because my current religion is jehovah's witness.
You're welcome.....and I'm pretty sure their target audience was people like you (open minded).
Everybody has to start somewhere. I once considered myself an "Orthodox Judeo Christian" for many years...
You're welcome.....and I'm pretty sure their target audience was people like you (open minded).
Everybody has to start somewhere. I once considered myself an "Orthodox Judeo Christian" for many years...
I believe the angel of light is the fallen embodiment of omniscience. I kind of wonder what the gnostic take on the fallen angel is.
Do people who believe in gnosticism believe lucid dreaming helps with spiritual enlightenment?And can help induce out of body experiences.All in the name of God?