It's about leaving belief behind; gnosis means knowledge, or understanding.
Recently, with the researcher Linda LaScola, he published "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind," a book of interviews with clergypeople who have lost their faith.
Whether we are able to abolish these deeply embedded ideas for ourselves depends on how far we are able to leave belief behind and instead engage deeply, dispassionately and fearlessly with the evidence.
It is true that religion has its limitations, some of which can be harmful (divisive dogma, antiquated rituals, abuses of authority), but the longing of the soul for union with the Divine transcends formal religious boundaries and leaves belief systems in the dust.
At five his father died, and his mother remarried to a doctor in Ghent, whose political beliefs left an impression on the young Masereel.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, complained of Ms. Kagan's "strong commitment to far left ideological beliefs," while Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the panel, accused Ms. Kagan of giving testimony that was "at best inaccurate and at worst intellectually dishonest" on the recruitment issue.
To "those who find it inadequate or unsatisfying that the science teacher should leave student belief aside," suggest Smith and Siegel [2004], there may be some "comfort in realizing that belief typically follows understanding, and that, when it doesn't, that disconnect is usually the result of strongly held convictions that science by itself cannot undermine or adequately address".
Well, pretty much where it leaves religious belief -- not nearly as thoroughly marginalized as its adherents contend.
They are arousing a huge public interest, leaving the belief that some people aren't sensitive to HIV infection.
However, in contrast to lateralized effects found in recent imaging studies on belief reasoning, with right TPJ selectively activated in false belief [14] and belief attribution during moral judgments [30], and the findings from lesion studies implicating left TPJ in belief reasoning [17], [18], our results showed bilateral TPJ activation in both cooperation and deception conditions.
