Within Panosophy, as the transdisciplinary Unified Relationships Theory and Theory of Everything, Gnostic psychology is the primary specialist science on which all other sciences are based, including physics, biology, and neuroscience. For we cannot understand how the brain works, for instance, until we have thoroughly mapped the Cosmic Psyche, which is inaccessible to our physical senses.

In Buddhism, Prajñā denotes the first two steps in the Eightfold path, completed last, as ‘perfect view’ and ‘perfect resolve’.

Importing this word into Panosophy, Prajñā is essentially cognate with Gnosis, where a Holoramic view of the Totality of Existence is realized through Samādhi, steps six, seven, and eight in the path that constitutes the last of the Four Noble Truths, corresponding to Collumination.

What does it mean to know? When I was in infant school, I learned that 7 × 8 = 56 and in primary school, I learned to play the recorder. Then in secondary school, I discovered in a chemistry experiment that the melting point of naphthalene is about 80° and I played the violin in the school orchestra.

In The Concept of Mind in 1949, Gilbert Ryle distinguished these two ways of knowing: as the facts we know and the skills we know how to perform; we ‘know that’ and we ‘know how’.

One who realizes union with the Divine in Nonduality by means of logic and discrimination, practicing jñāna-yoga.

Inner knowing of the Divine, as Gnosis, with the same root.