Our “Gnostic within” is our intuitive inner guide that first appeared as Gnosticism, “secret, inner knowing” following Jesus’ execution in the first century CE. Intuition has been with us always but was taken to be “the voice of God” early on. Plato (428-348 BCE) and others after him up to Carl Jung, and others after him are responsible for our understanding “the voice of God within” is a part of our own psychic makeup, the “how” of which has yet to be nailed down. Yet inner knowing is an experience common to us all, and giving it a central place in our process of deciding, choosing, doing provides us with an inner voice to confer with in making our way through the world. Developing our relationship with our inner Knower, whether we think of her as our Gnostic within or as Psyche/Tao, is an aid in finding guidance/direction on our path through the sea, and one we would do well to cultivate in knowing what’s what and what’s called for here, now, day to day.
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