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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.
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.
The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological [1] research institute. It was co-founded in 1973 by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, [2] [3] [4] the sixth man to walk on the Moon, along with investor Paul N. Temple [5] and others interested in purported paranormal phenomena, [1] in order to encourage and conduct research on noetics and human potentials.
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 ...
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.
After Quispel's death, Johannes van Oort collected his works in Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica: Collected Essays of Gilles Quispel (2008). This book including unpublished essays, such as an important paper on Jesus in Islam, in which he argued that the origin of most of the Islamic sayings of Jesus were from Judeo-Christian / Jewish Christian sources (as opposed to Gentile Christians).