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Waking Up a Gnostic in 300 BC

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  Or whenever in the past...it doesn't really matter what the exact date is.   One brain thought I've had over the past year is based on a passage I read about regarding Phillip K. Dick.  If you are reading this blog, you need to have no introduction to the author… One if his past life memories/dreams was that of being a persecuted Christian Gnostic in the ancient world.  On the run from whatever authority existed at the time, his past life lived in terror for the beliefs his past persona held regarding the Universe. Well, I’m not fortunate enough to be aware of any past lives, let alone have that type of dream.  Still, I wonder what the world would look like to me if I could travel back in time to the ancient Middle East, and hold a Gnostic worldview. What would be familiar to me? Well, I’d still be on Earth; the sun would be above me.  The stars, at night, would most certainly shine more brightly.  The moon would also be a constant monthly cog o...