Book of Logos and Gnosis

The Book of Logos and Gnosis is a Two part book that, though banned by the Governing Council of the City of Sleep is nonetheless one of the most talked about and sought after books in the whole of the Skylines region. The Book is believed to be a part of the fabled Ars Holistica.

In the unlikely event that the Psychonauts ever obtain a copy of the book, they will find that the book is a Shadow Tool and cannot be retained after exiting the current incursion. The Book is a political polemic with a tone and style not dissimilar to the Communist Manifesto, although the content is quite different.

The Book is divided into two sections: Logos and Gnosis

The book of logos is about a new premise. The book of Logos is about What needs to be discarded and what needs to be added in order to fully wake from what it called the dream.

The book advocates giving up:

  • The belief that the skyliners are the kings of the world
  • The belief that the skyliners hold the one right way to live
  • The City of Sleep’s modern method of Agriculture

The Book Challenges the idea that unlimited growth is a good thing, and that unlimited growth is reasonable. It also challenges the idea that the The economy of commodity as the only measure of value.

The Book argues against the idea of charging money for food.

The book argues against the legitimacy of a separate police and judiciary. And advocates against laws imposed by authority.

The belief that there is no one right way to live, although there are wrong ways is strongly argued.

The Book of Gnosis contains ideas and approaches that the author insists must be given up and approaches that must be added if the reader is to ‘understand’ properly.

The second book insists that the reader abandon:

  • The idea of hierarchy
  • The idea of kings
  • The idea of growth as good
  • The idea of consumption as positive
  • The ideal of accumulation

The book argues heavily in favor of the idea of sufficiency: the ideal of having enough and no more.

It also advocates in favor of the idea of stability and the idea of conservation of resources and energy.

The book ends by arguing that the point of life is another idea, the idea of giving back.