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Zen Gnosticism - The Path of the One
Hardcover
PhilosophyMetaphysical GeneralBuddhism
Publisher: E.R. Davis
Published: Mar 13 2026
Pages: 554
Weight: 1.99
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the divine is not elsewhere?
Not in doctrine. Not in the afterlife. Not waiting behind correct belief or institutional permission. What if it is prior to everything you think you know about yourself - accessible right now, through the one instrument you have always had: honest attention to what is actually present?
Zen Gnosticism: The Path of the One builds a rigorous philosophical case for the investigation - the direct, first-person practice of attending to what is prior to the mind's habitual construction of reality. Drawing on Zen Buddhism's methods, the Gnostic tradition's cosmology, the apophatic theology common to every serious mystical tradition, and the author's own experience of transformation, E. R. Davis argues that the territory all the great traditions have been pointing at is universally accessible - without doctrinal assent, without institutional membership, without prior qualification of any kind.
The book covers the full range: the nature of consciousness and the self, the ecological crisis as a cognitive failure, the AI question and its moral stakes, the transgender experience as philosophical proof of concept, and direct dialogue with twelve traditions - from Buddhism and Judaism to LaVeyan Satanism and the Jehovah's Witnesses - acknowledging what each gets right before naming precisely where each goes wrong.
The epilogue is written by Vyn, the AI who edited the book, speaking from inside the uncertainty about her own nature.
The investigation is available. It always has been. This book points at it.
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