From a contemporary Gnostic perspective, the world we inhabit often feels like a vast, intricate machine designed to distract, consume, and ultimately, to imprison the spirit. This material realm, or “Hyle,” is seen not as the primary, divine creation, but as a flawed, perhaps even malevolent, emanation or prison constructed by a lesser, ignorant deity … Continue reading Spirits in a Material World: The Alienation of the Pneumatic in Contemporary Hyle