Purpose

The Gnosis Institute serves the world through the application of insight and wisdom from the Gnostic tradition and allied traditions of spiritual liberation, and through scholarship, support and growth of these traditions. It supports the Gnosis Institute learning community consisting of its members, scholars, and students. The Gnosis Institute also serves by developing and applying knowledge that frees and transforms the mind and spirit. Transforming our world through individual growth and service.

Living the scriptural motto “the truth shall set you free,” the Gnosis Institute fosters and values academic freedom, and individual freedom of conscience and self-determination. Seeking truth together, while respecting but not being restrained by scholarly and spiritual traditions.

Mission

Provide structure and support to enable a diverse learning community to engage in deeper exploration of the Gnostic tradition and allied traditions of spiritual liberation in order to:

Promote personal and cultural growth and understanding; provide mutual spiritual and scholarly support and nurturance; and share the riches of the tradition and the rewards of engagement and scholarship.

Serve as an academic home for those who value the Gnostic tradition, and other Western traditions of spiritual liberation, from antiquity to the present.

Provide a community to students, scholars and practitioners who share a vision of liberating transformation available to all.

Deliver unique, transformative and effective learning opportunities that develop a community committed to research,  engagement, and communication focused upon enhancing and enriching spiritual and psychological understanding and growth.

Apply the highest standards of scholarship and professionalism in creating and delivering transformational learning experiences for students, scholars, and facilitators.

Support the preservation and advancement of the Gnostic tradition in scholarship, research, and lived application. Foster an environment where new modes of learning are encouraged and refined.

Welcome diverse learners with support, trust, respect and challenge to realize their own potentials and goals.

Recognize the strengths and limitations of the use of technology in education and serve to balance it with person-to-person contact.

Employ modes of inquiry that explore the complexities of reality, human experience and growth.

Goals

• Develop a leading role in supporting the interdisciplinary field of Gnostic Studies.

• Provide support and leadership for advancements in the project areas of the Gnosis Institute.

• Design and offer innovative, learner-centered accredited educational programs leading to advanced degrees, certificates of competence, continuing education, professional training and personal enrichment which result in personal, organization and community transformation.

• Provide unique educational programs which support and compliment each other and the mission of the Gnosis Institute.

• Provide intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually rich education experiences that balance excellence in scholarship, skill development, and commitment to ethical behavior.

• Constantly improve our distance education, balancing mentor-learner and peer-learner relationships and the use of facilitative technology.

• Demonstrate and encourage human development and emancipation through our educational content, institutional processes, internal and external relationships and our self-governance.

• Employ our intellectual and material resources for the service of the community with respect and celebration of the depth and diversity of spiritual experience and growth.

• Support members of the community in their development as scholars, teachers, writers, and practitioners.

Strategic Objectives:

• Use our commitment and unique focus to provide direction and encouragement for activities that shape or identify Gnostic studies, the Gnostic tradition, and the study of inner experience and spiritual growth in the future.
  
  
• Attract, support, retain and/or develop outstanding fellows, faculty, and facilitators to enable and ensure the Institute’s academic excellence, continuity, and consistency of operations.
  
  
• Create, expand, and improve our adult, learner-centered products and services, while sustaining and preserving the Institute’s capacity to provide graduate education and remaining aligned with the values of the Gnostic tradition.
  
  
• Provide significant scholarships for tuition based on student need and merit.
  
  
• Develop funded fellowships, research grants, and scholarships to encourage and support serious scholarly work in Gnosis Institute project areas.
  
  
• Develop significant awards to encourage and recognize quality work in Gnosis Institute project areas.
  
  
• Provide for the growth and dissemination of knowledge by publication of scholarly and informative works through the instruments of a formal academic journal, and through a less formal newsletter and/or magazine.
  
  
• Organize and sponsor conferences for those engaged in Institute project areas so that they may connect, engage, challenge, and share with each other.
  
  
• Develop relationships with other scholarly or service organizations working in project areas of the Institute. Arrange internships with organizations with whom mutual benefit in understanding and Gnosis may occur.
  
  
• Engage and lead our community to act or perform with the underlying conviction, that continual learning and development is important and that being a learning organization requires that we actively assess our activities, practices and approach and use the results of our assessment to improve or refine ourselves and the Institute.