The term "gnosis" as far as chaos magick is concerned is not the same as Websters definition. Peter Carrol has described it as a state of "no-mind" or nether nether mind. Deepak Chopra and Wayne dyer call this state "the gap" , it is not merely visualizing or a light trance like you experience when alpha waves are the dominate brain wave, it is a distinct and noticeable change in consciousness and if you aren't sure, you weren't there. My best description is that it is like being in a huge cavern or auditorium and it being perfectly quiet, your outer senses will have shut down to the point that you can't hear anything going on around you, the sense of quietness actually occurs because you have quit "thinking" altogether.
The reason this state is so highly sought is that any seed planted in this fertile ground, which is devoid of all other thought, is sure to grow, it's not 'if', it's when. If visualizing, affirmations, and vision boards are the road to manifestation this "place of potential becoming" is the Autobahn. Most people will live their whole life and never see it.
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