Bryce Ganes

I'm a guy who spends too much time thinking.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

I am wondering to what degree a person must master their lives before they can be said to be "enlightened".

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

I've been reading a lot about dragon symbolism in esoteric work. It's far deeper than I had imagined. What a sublime symbol.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

In Orthodox Christian mythology, it seems that Jesus comes here to save us from God at the direction of God. Why a middle man?

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

Is it about union or expansion of self? It seems to me that these ideas necessarily meet at the back.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

I was just contemplating the idea of personal responsibility in relationship to traditional religion. Not finding it.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

There's a fine line between cultivating the self and mental masterbation and that line is honesty.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

In the past, individuals in Gnostic communities took turns acting as priest. What happened?

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Belief is not who you are, unless it has you rather than you having it.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

It seems imperative that one who claims to be a Gnostic must, perforce, be agnostic.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

It's too often that I've looked to books for answers. Anymore, answers from books have seemed canned... with a plastic-ee smell.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

I remember hearing that one shouldn't "cherry pick" from spiritual philosophies ... Then what's the history of modern religion?

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

Being ignorant is just like being well informed except that when you insist you're correct, you're wrong.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

I want people to stop saying that "religion X is close minded."... people are open or closed, not religions (or political parties).

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

It seems that Gnostics often follow some other practice along side their Gnostic studies (Zen, Hermetics etc.). I wonder about the trends.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

I heard a statistic: there are more adherants of the Jedi religion than there are of gnosticism. Go figure.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

I would be interested to see a study on whether or which types of spiritual practices have adherants with the most stable psyches.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

@instanceshow The Force or the Weirding Way?

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Does anyone else notice that some "skeptics" seem to be just another variety of fundamentalist?

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Not so long ago I heard someone imply that you couldn't be a thelemite AND a buddhist. I'm thinking that person didn't think it through.

[Bryce Ganes @StrangeOasis]

Gnostics are a bunch of dirty heretics, so why the hate toward "small G gnostics"? Who even determines what that means?