This is just a new kind of gnosticism with its own esoteric knowledge reserved for the initiated who desire to escape the tangible realities of this fleshy world and ascend to the unsullied heights of theological thought. (nakedpastor.com)
One difficulty has to do with the relationship between the political and revolutionary activism of modern gnosticism and the otherworldliness and political detachment of its ancient variety. (firstthings.com)
The appeal of pantheistic gnosticism was something that Lewis understood and withstood; it lies at the heart of occult «New Age» spirituality, «Deep Ecology,» and a good deal of «Eco-feminism» today. (firstthings.com)