Jeremy Puma > Quotes

“what you do unto even the least of humanity you do unto the Christ within because what you do unto even the least of humanity you do to yourself.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“What I eventually realized is that if, indeed, ‘conspiracies’ exist (and I still maintain that the most powerful conspiracy is the confederacy between power, money and stupidity), and even if the political scene is designed as a control system to keep the lower classes supporting the upper classes, there’s not a whole lot that I can do about it.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“This principle is the Great Androgynous CHRISTOS, the perfected Son/Daughter of the Limitless Light as God the Father.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“The only way to understand the LIMITLESS LIGHT is by BECOMING the Limitless Light, in its entirety, and since we are in the WORLD OF FORMS, we can’t do that. The World of Forms, where we live, is limited by things like time and space.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“They build a Prison of Black Iron, the World of Forms, and weave beautiful and appealing illusions within its walls. The illusions stupefy Adam and Eve, who lose sight of their gnosis and perpetuate the race of humanity within the confines of the Black Iron Prison.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“When discussing generalization in relation to cause and effect, if we begin using this perceived cause and effect for value judgments, we do things like start wars, initiate pogroms and start political parties, all of which are as detrimental to our continued survival as Ogg’s berry.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“We do the same thing when we are overly self-critical: “I wish I weren’t so fat/short/tall/dumb.” These are all aspects of the counterfeit spirit, not the essential Self.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“to paraphrase Philip Dick, those who fight the Empire are doomed to become the Empire. Instead, what if we were all to simply practice kindness, to spend what little political influence we have on making it easier for people to be kind to one another? Isn’t”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“So, when you’re comparing yourself to someone else, you’re really only comparing yourself to your false image of that person, and when that happens, you’re starting to tickle the fancy of the archons!”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“The Gnostic Way works for me, because it gives me a reason for everything that happens (i.e. the default state of the World of Forms is imperfection, the Archons screw stuff up, the proper application of Wisdom and Reason helps deal with the Archons), and gives me a way to react to it (be really skeptical of everything, be nice to other people as much as possible, be bone-shakingly honest about everything). Some days are wretched and stressful and nasty, but if I live this philosophy and make sure it’s always on in the background, that’s OK.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Most people are pretty okay. Sometimes they get involved in stupid stuff, but it’s the stuff that’s stupid, not the person.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Your self- comparisons to that guy aren’t going to make you rich or famous or house-ier, and whether you think you’re better than someone won’t change their behavior one bit.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“One of the worst things you can do is compare yourself with other people– that’s one way the archons can really get you! It’s very easy to do, but it’s almost always a bad idea; you’re the one your self-image impacts, so what do those people matter?”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“1. Life is imperfection. 2.      The origin of imperfection is separation from the Fullness of the Pleroma (the realms of Perfection). 3. It’s possible to reconnect to the Pleroma. 4.      Reconnection to the Pleroma is possible via this Way, the cultivation of gnosis. There’s a story that goes along with this, similar to other religious stories. It has to do with the fall from grace of Sophia, or Wisdom, an aspect of Divinity, and her production of a being called the Demiurge, a misguided oaf of a deity who ended up creating our universe, but who didn’t do a very good job. It’s kind of a theory of “Unintelligent Design.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“It doesn’t, of course, mean you get to be an obnoxious jerk, or that you can stop putting up with their nonsense. Your toe will still hurt when you kick something hard. You’ll still catch that cold, and your computer will still crash at the most inopportune moment. You can’t escape that, not while you’re still living in this World of Forms. However, it does mean that you can be comfortably skeptical. You can realize that it’s all a bunch of tricks, and you can get out from underneath that Kenomic Worldview and start recognizing the illusion. You can start to recognize that there is a lot of total bullshit out there, and you don’t have to feel bad or guilty or wrong for calling it out as bullshit. That’s GNOSIS, people, and it can be yours for FREE!”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Regardless of the tradition, the idea is that as we accumulate experiences during life, we also accumulate roadblocks to the Pleromic worldview in the form of an aggregate of accidents. Let’s think of this aggregate as a False Self, or, as the Sethians might have had it, a Counterfeit Spirit. This doppelganger is the way we present ourselves to the World of Forms, as determined by the World of Forms.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“I want to repeat that: It’s a huge mistake to think that any single organization (“the Church,” “Government,” “The X Political Party”) is Demiurgic or Archonic.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Remember, the Limitless Light is differentiating itself until it has experienced all of the potentialities that it contains. This means that the process of metempsychosis allows the Limitless Light to experience each of its aspects as a single consciousness. There is only one consciousness—it’s the one you are experiencing right now, as you read this. It’s also the consciousness that I’m experiencing right now as I type this. This is the Limitless Light learning about itself, and it literally means that everyone is everyone else. I might be reborn as you, you might be reborn as me. Gnosis is the personal realization and experience of this fact. This is a huge secret that I’ve just let you in on.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Truly, fear is the power [of the Rulers]. So if you are going to be afraid of what is about to come upon you, it will engulf you.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Some Gnostics are totally atheistic, and see the whole thing as a myth describing psychological processes (one of my friends doesn’t believe that Jesus even existed, a position called “mythicism,” with which I personally disagree).”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“What it means is that individuals should be judged solely on their own merits, keeping in mind that all we can ever really perceive of a person is his or her doppelganger.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“can this error in understanding be corrected by simply generalizing in the other direction? Absolutely not, and this is the problem with the “Lipstick Liberal” approach, which condemns, on the one hand, discrimination against minorities (generalities) while turning a blind eye to specific egregious instances of abuse or idiocy (vide the whole “Mohammed Cartoon” fiasco).”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“They are, instead, the impermanent things that impede one’s ability to experience the psychospiritual state we call “dwelling in gnosis.” They’re the roadblock on the path to self-knowledge, and through mindful contemplation on them, one doesn’t discover that there is no self, but instead discovers that essential spark of the Universal Self that exists under the surface of the World of Forms.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Accept that you will be cut off, that jerks are out there who are asshole drivers.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“Of course, there is no indication within Sethian thought that the Self doesn’t exist. Indeed, the Archons involved in the creation and perception of the ephemeral world serve to occlude the Self at their center.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“We call THE OBSERVER “GOD, the FATHER,” and we call THE OBSERVED ”BARBELO, the MOTHER.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“If we all blinked out of existence ten minutes from now, would you be satisfied with the life you’ve led? What would you regret not having done?”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“The goal of each one of us is to break free of the Black Iron Prison and have as many valid experiences as possible. This breaking free is what we refer to as gnosis.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“What I eventually realized is that if, indeed, ‘conspiracies’ exist (and I still maintain that the most powerful conspiracy is the confederacy between power, money and stupidity), and even if the political scene is designed as a control system to keep the lower classes supporting the upper classes, there’s not a whole lot that I can do about it. The”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic

“What it means is that we should see the cause of the problems politics generates as the intersection of the individual Counterfeit Spirit and the Archonic Power that is “Politics.”
― Jeremy Puma, How to Think Like a Gnostic