Orientation
Guides
Short essays for the questions people type, plus handheld paths if you arrived with a habit rather than a vocabulary. They are maps, not a second syllabus. The ordered curriculum is Map of the Work. When a paragraph would become someone else’s book, we send you there.
I want to change
Never heard of Gnosis? Start with what you want to change. Plain English first, then a first week, then credited sources.
I want to stop watching porn
Stop watching porn, stop masturbating to lust, stop feeding images — a clear action path, then Glorian and Chicago Gnosis. Spiritual psychology, not a clinic.
I want to quit smoking weed
Cannabis, craving, and the wish to feel different — handheld steps, then intoxicant-ego sources.
I want to stop drinking alcohol
Alcohol, craving, and a hard medical line — then temperance and intoxicant-ego sources.
I want to stop exploding
Anger, ego, and a week of noticing the heat before speech — then Glorian and Chicago Gnosis.
I want to sleep better
Rest, a notebook, and a quiet first week — then dream yoga without chasing visions.
I want to simplify my money so I can practice
Bills, leftover, one buffer — ducks in a row so there is room for the Work.
Orientation essays
What is Gnosis?
The word, the two living streams, and why labels matter before you pick a teacher.
How to start studying Gnostic teachings
Orientation before PDFs — a sober first week and two rooms worth bookmarking.
Gnostic meditation and inner practices
The eight-limb Raja Yoga path first — then the companion rooms on this map.
What is the Nag Hammadi library?
The 1945 find, a first tractate, and why this shelf is not the same classroom as practical Gnosis.
Inner work: habits, ego, and spiritual psychology
Watching habits without feeding them — with a clear line between inner work and treatment.
Pornography, lust, and spiritual practice
Lust-I, mental prostitution, brahmacharya, and a credited outbound curriculum. Spiritual psychology, not a clinic.
Déjà vu, return, and recurrence
The flicker of already-seen: conflict in memory research, then Practical Gnosis on a life that repeats.