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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Re: Is atheism a form of spiritual retardation? [Re: whiterasta]
    #973486 - 10/18/02 10:18 PM (21 years, 3 months ago)

My Lady and I are very interested in learning different kinds of personality or typology theories. For example, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Enneagram, Astrology, Color Types, Scheldon's Constitutional Psychology, etc.

I've been making a long study of various schools of religious thought, that were rivals for what eventually became Christianity. Those schools are collectively referred to as Gnostic, and Gnosticism (hence my tag). I have come to realize that I am not a Gnostic, but I have retained certain Gnostic ideas. The main one concerns three types of human beings, typed with regard to their capacity for spirituality. Although I have not agreed with the metaphysics behind the Gnostic definition of the spiritual type, or 'Pneumatic,' it seems evident that there are Pneumatic individuals whose lives are taken up in a greater degree than the other types, by what we call spiritual or transpersonal dimensions of life. Pneumatics can be found in all the world religious traditions, and outside of them (pagan gnostics). Pneuma is Greek for spirit (or air, for that matter: pneumatic, pneumonia).

The intermediate type person was called 'Psychic,' one whose life was characterized by the psyche, which is Greek for soul. This was the life of mind, and all that mind entails. Christians who insisted upon hammering out their salvation with faith and good works, were considered by Pneumatic Christian Gnostics to be of a lesser degree of understanding, yet salvation could be attained by the Christian of 'faith' while the Christian of Gnosis had been privy to spiritual experiences that left a sense of 'assurance' and one of an intrinsic spiritual identity. Psyche is of a different order of being than Spirit, yet everyone has both of these components, though spirit predominates in the Pneumatic, while Psyche predominates in the psychic.

The Sarkic is the third type, sarx meaning 'flesh' in Greek. Such people are almost wholly identified with their bodies, bodily functions and activities, and conceed the psychic or mental dimension only as an extension of their bodies. Today's materialists who consider consciousness to be produced by neural tissue, in conjunction with the rest of the bodily systems, would be considered Sarkic. Spiritual reality is not apparent to the Sarkic person. Descriptions of spiritual dimensions, or the implication for human morality and conduct based on spiritual reality is simply not experienced by the Sarkic, and hence denied as fiction. They do not know, and say as much, making them 'agnostics,' not knowing, as opposed to Gnostics - those who Know [i.e., God].

This is a very old system of psychological theory, and the one which C. G. Jung delved into, brought to the awareness of moderns, and based his own school of psychology on. The ego difficulties are tremendous. Everyone is at odds with each other: Pneumatics accused of elitism and arrogance, Sarkics for being dumb brutes, Psychics for different reasons from the other two camps... Even the perspective which stands back and sees these distinctions falls into the Pneumatic typology. We are what we are, and the relationships that form between the types of people are doomed to a kind of sectarianism. I do not get along with very materialistic people, or very mechanical born-again types. I DO have relationships with other people, but I get closest with those people who have had certain life-changing spiritual experiences, and who chose not to sell-out and forget them, but to spend their lives clarifying and explaining to themselves and others who want to listen and know.


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γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself


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