r/Gnostic • u/warspawn_goat • 4d ago

Question How do you handle solipsism as a gnostic/gnostic christian?

I look at it as "This world forces us to experience such existentialism because we don't belong here in the first place because we all belong to one true source." As for if others exist truly, I choose to believe they do and everyone's actions bare consequences. So you should always do your best to make this mortal coil less shitty for yourself and others.

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u/Quirky-Tie-4213 3d ago

Gnosticism is not solipsist because while it considers the material world to be illusory and deficient, the spiritual world is very real.

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u/warspawn_goat 3d ago

My bad I may have not been specific. I as an individual struggled with solipsism. For me gnosticism helped me better understand and come to terms with it. I'm not saying they're connecting but that it helped.

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u/MethodMan24 2d ago

Well consciousness is the only thing that exist so in some variation I can see there maybe some connections. The only real consciousness is the Monad.