ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the work of two daring souls who have drunk at the Gnostic well. It explores Gnostic spiritual philosophy in the light of these modern thinkers with the intention of presenting the ancient Gnostic myth in the language of modernity. Transpersonal psychology challenges the privileged epistemological hegemony enjoyed by the traditional research methods and what would normally be the accepted approach for a work such as this, that is, conventional "bookish" research. It argues that the normally accepted approaches to research are not the only ways of acquiring knowledge on a given subject and are, by no means, the best. Gnostic spiritual philosophy coincides with much of the essence of the early proto-Christianity prior to the latter's hijacking by Constantine and its group and its subsequent institutionalisation into a means of mass mind control.
