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>>18814193
Historians of physics and mathematics, as well as contemporary mathematicians and physicists certainly thought they were in a crisis, probably on the same scale as the replication crisis for social sciences today.

Evans' had a good chapter on this in the Pursuit of Power. There was a contemporary feeling they everything was about to be explained, that humanity was on the cusp of a unified theory of all things and exponential growth. That bit the dust after WWI, and it was a combination of realizing how far knowledge was from being complete, as well as the death of the old political order. TTC has a decent ish coverage of the era.

Also, dismissing all philosophical logic as meaningless probably falls into the category of not staying in your lane.

>>16633798
The Monad emanated it's own Forethought from Itself. The Barbelõ. Through this, many other key aspect of the Monad emerge, including Christ. Each were main concepts of being, held in juxtaposition. Male and female, but not in a biological sense. In a linguistic and metaphysical sense. Read Wittgenstein on language to truly how this extends to reality and being.

One of these emanations, Sophia, Wisdom, conceived it's own idea without the balance of its antipode. This was Yaldaboath.

You cannot conceive the Monad. It is beyond us in all things. Yaldaboath is a fraction of a fraction. Still "God" in the material world he created.

We are partially fractions of the Monad. The best philosophical concept of this is the Hindu idea of Atman. The world of Prakrati is the realm of Yaldaboath. They includes emotion, which is driven by material conditions and the demiurgic law of causality.

But emanations is all it is. Whitehead's cosmology is useful here. Space-time is not a recpeticle/container, it is, definitionally, a series of relationships between events.

Husserl was also correct, phenomenology is the root of all things. However, natural sciences can do not but describe Yaldaboath's limitations on our Atman, an occlusion big you will.

Pic related is another good explainer of being, but just background to the Gnosis.

>>16082275
The courses are really great. I did my undergrad in neuroscience and grad school in statistics.

Mind Body Philosophy was a bunch of the more interesting stuff you learn in survey courses with a ton of links to philosophy and computer science. Probably better than any in person class I had and I went to two prestigious schools.

Redefining Reality is a bit less accessible and focuses on the same sort of "philosophical mysteries of existence" more from the materialist end. So it starts with Aristotle and moves to Newton, then General Relativity, then quantum mechanics, then chaos theory, and then gets back into psychology.

Together it's two college level surveys on conciousness from different angles that I thought were great. I had read A Brief History of Time and the Elegant Universe so the physics was a recap which helped.

I think to get the most out of the Gnostics, or even Jung, it's good to have that scientific and basic philosophical background first. Timaeus is also Plato's most indepth "theology."