Heresy

Our perceptions, our understandings, our “wisdom,” as well as human willful ignorance, crowd following, ideology, and so forth are all products of Human Awareness.
Gnosis, whether you approach it simply as “literal knowledge,” or as Divine Self Knowledge, or as “Knowledge in Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel” or as “talking to “god/dess” or as Personal Insight (UPG) is likewise a product of that awareness. One might suggest that it is awareness of that awareness.
Human Awareness is a constantly evolving phenomenon, just as human beings constantly evolve. Therefore, Gnosis is not a “completed” state of “perfection.” It is a state of constant change and flux. However, on a occult level, one can posit an even more interesting phenomenon: Interactive Awareness or the “group mind.”
Nothing can interact with anything else without changing what it interacts with, and being changed by that interaction. When a group mind phenomenon encounters another awareness, the two interact, especially if the gateways to gnosis are successfully pointed at, and the new awareness becomes attached to the existing group awareness. You can give all sorts of names and titles both to the group awareness and to the interaction but it is at this point that a fundamental fallacy arises in understanding: The fallacy that the interaction will change the new awareness to conform with the old. As you can see from the preceding, this is not possible in Gnostic terms.
When a new awareness simply conforms, it subsumes itself to the ideas and ideologies of the dominant awareness in the group – its leaders. This is not a process of heightening awareness and freedom of learning and expression. It is rather a process of ideological enslavement and emotional codependency that we like to call “politics,” “established clerical religion,” and “fundamentalism.”
On the other hand, when a new awareness achieves some measure of Gnosis in contact with a Gnostic group mind phenomenon, both the new awareness and the older group awareness are changed – forced to evolve and adapt – by the interaction. Conformity is neither possible, nor desirable, since both forces must continue to evolve in order to remain living entities.
Now a bit of heretical idea for you to have some fun with: Neither “orthodoxy” nor “orthopraxy” are possible or desirable within a gnosis-provoking stream of consciousness. They are, in practice, indistinguishable from each other and they are nothing more than attempts at enforced conformity via static repetition. The only thing within successfully provoked gnosis that can be seen as “static” at all is the awareness of Time as the “eternal now.” However, as a couple of astute practitioners have opined, this “eternal now” is not actually static because it compasses and includes all possible change. Hence we hear the description of “whirling without motion.”
Now to the most fun bit: The above is an Idea. It is the beginning of an understanding. It is not “final” or “perfect” in any way.
Tempus fugit e flux et aeternas,
Trystn