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Jeffrey Burke Satinover (born September 4, 1947) is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and physicist.He is known for books on a number of controversial topics in physics and neuroscience, and on religion, but especially for his writing and public-policy efforts relating to homosexuality, same-sex marriage and the ex-gay movement.
The pneumatics ("spiritual", from Greek πνεῦμα, "spirit") were, in Gnosticism, the highest order of humans, the other two orders being psychics and hylics ("matter"). A pneumatic saw themselves as escaping the doom of the material world via the transcendent knowledge of Sophia 's Divine Spark from inner revelation coming from the highest ...
Page from the Gospel of Judas Mandaean Beth Manda in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among early Christian sects.
He is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [277] James Lovelock (1919–2022): British scientist, environmentalist and futurologist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis. [385]
The study of gnosis itself covers a number of subjects, which include magic, noetics, gnostic logic, and logical gnosticism, among others. [12] Gnosology has also been used, particularly by James Hutchison Stirling , [ 10 ] to render Johann Gottlieb Fichte 's term for his own version of transcendental idealism , Wissenschaftslehre , meaning ...
Gnosticism in modern times (or Neo-Gnosticism) includes a variety of contemporary religious movements, stemming from Gnostic ideas and systems from ancient Roman society. Gnosticism is an ancient name for a variety of religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieux in the first and second century CE.
A closely related category is mystical experience with psychotic features, proposed by David Lukoff in 1985. [12]A first episode of mystical psychosis is often very frightening, confusing and distressing, particularly because it is an unfamiliar experience.
Scientology is also, according to a number of religious scholars, a form of gnosticism, which would make it hard to reconcile with Roman Catholicism and other denominations that regard gnosticism as a heresy. [30] New religious movement scholar Douglas E. Cowan compares the basic auditing session in Scientology to the Roman Catholic confessional.