En-Lightening Up :) Gnosis or No?

Welcome to summer!

My favorite quote from the clip:

“When I’m twisting myself up like a pretzel, what does it have to do with enlightenment?”

Norman Allen says, “Nothin’!”

My body still contains the knowledge it gained over two months working almost daily with Norman. Right now, I can still go through the entire series of exercises as I learned them almost 7 years ago. I say this not only to gloat, which is not satisfying enough, but to demonstrate a simple and profound ‘hidden secret’ that may be of value to anyone reading these words.

Knowledge is a living substance as much as flesh and bone. It could also be described as electrical or chemical in nature, if one is willing to remember that each of these descriptions are nothing more than interpretations, idolatry in the most mechanical sense of the term. Gnosis means living knowledge. Everyone has living knowledge. In a sense, the body itself consists of living knowledge.

Gnosis enlivens all but still hides within its own sanctuary, its own inviolable shrouds and veils. When the curtains open, the Gnosis performs. When the curtains close, the Gnosis reposes. This is what the old wicked wise man of the woods, a very close friend of mine, implied when he told me, over and over, “There is Great Power in Silence.”

And yet, for me at least, the Gnosis demands expression, or more accurately, while the Gnosis finds repose in silence, it equally takes Great Joy in revealing itself at every turn of the wheel and shining out of every dark corner of even the deepest and darkest of hell realms. The candle never goes out, and even when it does, it will go out because you will remember you were looking in the mirror.

a mirror among mirrors

Enjoy.

-Garrett.