Thanks for your interest.
but are you averse to all forms of supernaturalism?
Yes.
I do not mind building various fictitious scenarios when one is examining issues and seeks an ideal position.
I have worked with many engineers and take all concepts to infinity/super normal situation to create a proof of concept.
the transcending of ordinary human thought,
What Gnosis is is not transcending human thought. It is accessing or engaging our right brain hemisphere by activating our pineal gland through meditation the way mystics and gurus say they do.
I think that it is just us finding what Freud and Jung called our Father/Mother Complex.
We, as humans, cannot transcend human thinking and actions. Apotheosis, when I use the word, usually remove the divine reference as divine is a label that can only be given to a person and only an overinflated ego will apply it to ones self.
a very definite type of supernaturalism is both presented and promoted.
As stated above, the Father Complex is not easily accessible but once found is obviously not supernatural.
Any version of god that we might invent can only be found in our minds. This is ancient wisdom that Christianity has forgotten. If you look at the creation painting at the Vatican, you can easily see that god is overlaid on our right brain hemisphere and the same esoteric notion is what the Egyptian eye shows.
The Jesus I see in scriptures, not the Roman one, clearly shows this Gnostic Christian way of thinking and advisdes us to use him as our mantra to do what he did.
Here is the real way to salvation that Jesus taught.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Allan Watts explain those quotes in detail.
Jesus knew that the church would want to dissuade us from following his lead as it frees us from religious control and makes us our own best judge of all things. He gave the following warning to those like most religionists who would try to dissuade those who, like me, are perpetual seeker and have not, like most Christians, become idol worshipers of a genocidal son murdering moral monster while thinking him good.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Regards
DL
