Stranger in a Strange Land

Abstract

In his book The Gnostic Religion author Jonas links Gnosticism with existentialism. Very briefly, this is because it starts from a stark existential experience that can strike any of us and has severely affected many. It is rather like ‘waking up’ and looking round and intensely feeling that I do not belong here. Sometimes this gives us the ancillary sense that the world is somehow wrong. Or, that I am an alien.