Sunday, July 22, 2007

Summary of "Is Gnosis and Enlightenment Real?"

Here is a quick summary of the last Dallas Gnostic Meetup:

Six attended. The discussion regarding whether Gnosis is real or not lasted five minutes as Dart made the point none of us would be showing up if we thought to the contrary and we all agreed.

Further, the discussion went, what is it?

Daniel voiced his thoughts on the distinction between transcendance and enlightenment. A lot of what makes these discussions tricky is language and meaning so it was good to have the meaning of transcendance put out there. For more on transcendance look up Emerson who has written several essays on transcendance one of which is "Nature".

Some members of the group were interested in meditation and what it was and how to do it. Daniel, who has a background in Zen and some meditation gave some pointers.

He made a fantastic analogy - one I think I'll use from now on - but it requires pink and white sugar packets ;) Honestly, you had to be there.

At the end of the meetup, we took up Christin's concern about the noise level at the Cafe Brazil and agreed that we should pick a different location.

I'm going to visit a couple of places this upcoming week. One idea put on the table is the Half Price Book store on the 75 in Dallas - the really big one.

There was another place in Garland Stevi recommended but I can't remember. Stevi, maybe you can remind me and I'll go have a looksee.

All suggestions are welcome. Hopefully we'll be meeting in a more quiet atmosphere next time.