Gnosis is the kind of knowledge you get when you meet God. Truth. Western spiritual traditions are full of mystics who sought this gnosis, this direct experience of the divine. But their teachings— Alchemy, Gnosticism, the Kabbalah, Mysticism, Magic, Sufism, to name but a few—aren’t widely known due to frequent persecution by orthodox religious authorities. What is known tends to make these traditions seem like strange, primitive islands.
Former Whole Earth Review editor Jay Kinney has founded a magazine called Gnosis to help bring western inner traditions back into the light. Westerners in search of spiritual growth and
illumination need not borrow the path from other cultures; we can look in our own back yard. Each issue of Gnosis roots expertly
