The relationship between Gnosticism and transgender is probably connected by the theme of androgyny. The Gnostics did emphasise the idea of God as having masculine and feminine characteristics. There is also a quote in 'The Gospel of St Phillip', which has led to some spectacular over its meaning. It is as follows:The Beast wrote: ↑September 9th, 2022, 11:40 amI had considered the electromagnetic force as fundamental in the structures of the brain. It is a possible mechanism for linking the mind to the brain. It is the electromagnetic involvement in the physiological processes that is responsible for the brain waves. An electromagnetic method of affinity to the Forms. An evolutionary metaphysical embrace. Yet, it is the quantum mechanical connection bringing together the physical phenomena and the mind. It is the mind of the observer complicated by the morphing of new processes and methods which in the words of Frege mean new concepts replacing old concepts. It is like this: If consciousness cannot be measured and it is non-physical then new methods ought to be concepts or/and quantum forces shaping new methods by the habit and in DNA. Actions forging as quantum forces or forces morphing old structures into new ones. Is it by living that we reach the onset of consciousness and of our unlimited potential. The testing of conscious activity has yielded methods like the Zap and Zip so to indulge in the “unpacking” and the integrating information theory assigning the quantifier ᵩ to conscious activity. The latter has determined that consciousness cannot be programmed but needs to arise in the system.JackDaydream wrote: ↑September 8th, 2022, 1:08 pmI haven't read Frege. As far as Jung is concerned, he does speak of the possibility of reincarnation in his autobiography, 'Memories, Dreams and Reflections. However, he is speculating and contemplating just like most of us do at times. The greatest Jungian text on the topic is, 'Many Lives, Many Masters', by Brian Weiss. In working as a hypnotherapist, with no prior thinking on reincarnation, he was working with a woman and uncovered past life. They were not just sketchy memories but really detailed. It certainly made him wonder about the possibility of reincarnation, although he was uncertain whether they were 'real' memories or based on tapping into the collective unconscious.The Beast wrote: ↑September 8th, 2022, 10:08 am Hi.
The idea of rebirth and its belief is being one in congruency with substance dualism. How is the Jungian idea of archetype rebirth compared to the Descartes idea of dualism? In the idea of Descartes, the physical and the mental are two different things connected by the forms. Forms are immaterial and the intellect have an affinity with the Forms. It is what Frege called concepts. Although Jung archetype of rebirth include metempsychosis, reincarnation, resurrection, he was mostly interested in psychological rebirth or individuation by ritual or forum experiences.
Frege: “The behavior of the concept is essentially predicative, even where something is being asserted about it; consequently, it can be replaced there by another concept, never by an object. Thus, the assertion that is made about a concept does not suit an object. Second level concepts, which concept fall under, are essentially different from first-level concepts, which objects fall under. The relation of an object to a first-level concept that it falls under is different from the (admittedly similar) of a first-level to a second-level concept. (To do justice at once to the distinction and to the similarity, we might say: An object falls under a first-level concept; a concept falls within a second level-concept). The distinction of concept and object thus still holds with all its sharpness.”
The main thesis of Frege is that fruitful definitions involve comprehension, and that logic is informative, and comprehension is a part of pure logic. Then:
Second-level concepts are quantifiers.
Zero is a number
Zero is nor the successor of another number
Every number is the successor of another number.
Ex: In modern physics there is an object (Universe) with zero mass and first-level concepts originating second-level concepts (quantifiers).
“Gnostic philosophy joined “Mater Alchimia” and repeats the Gnostic myth of the Nous, who, beholding his reflection in the depths below, plunged down and was swallowed in the embrace of Physis “
Are you proposing a new kind of dualism to account for a female spirit having phenomenal experiences of the male body? 'I propose the philosophy of the transgender dualism'
'Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life.'"
Jess said "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven'.
Some have speculated that this passage is about androgyny but others have seen it as being more about an emphasis on perfectionism, especially in the denial of bodily desires. I am inclined to view it in the second way in the context of the way that Gnosticism had an attitude of disdain for the body.
However, I have also read of some kind of gender deviance within groups in early Christianity. In particular, within the church the tradition of eunuchs involves physical feminisation through the removal of the testicles at puberty. The underlying reason was meant to stop the voice from breaking it into the male vocal range for singing, but it can also be seen as a way of creating physical androgyny.
Aside from Gnosticism some spiritualities have celebrated androgyny. These include some Hindu groups and The North American Indians. There have been sub sections of society celebrating androgyny including the idea of the berdache or a 'third gender'. These have often included people with physical intersex disorders, and people who feel an incongruity between spirit and body, including some whose sense of identity is that of a 'two spirit' person.
It is likely that transgender itself is based on the archetype of the androgyny or hermaphrodite on a symbolic level. This aspect of androgyny is often left out of discussion of transgender issues, in relation to it as having a 'spiritual' or mythical dimension.