Gnosis

Gnosis (from one of the Greek words for knowledge, γνῶσις) is spiritual knowledge or mystical enlightenment. Within the cultures of the term's provenance (Byzantine and Hellenic) Gnosis was a knowledge or insight into the infinite, divine and uncreated in all and above all, rather than knowledge strictly into the finite, natural or material world. Gnosis is a transcendental as well as mature understanding. It indicates direct spiritual experiential knowledge and intuitive knowledge, mystic rather than that from rational or reasoned thinking. Gnosis itself is obtained through understanding at which one can arrive via inner experience or contemplation such as an internal epiphany of intuition and external epiphany such as the Theophany.  (This important term means direct personal acquaintance rather than mere intellectual knowledge. See: acquaintance –v- description.)

The term intuition is used to describe "thoughts and preferences that come to mind quickly and without much reflection". "The word 'intuition' comes from the Latin word 'intueri', which is often roughly translated as meaning 'to look inside'’ or 'to contemplate'." Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify. For this reason, it has been the subject of study in psychology, as well as a topic of interest in the supernatural.

Inner Knowing

When I was a child, when I tried to explain the various concepts, themes, knowledge and understanding that was associated with my 'near death experiences' I would refer to it as the inner knowing of my inside mind.  This would confuse the adults of my childhood.  In the last decade, I found a scripture that relates to my own childhood expression. 

As a child, I found out at an early age that the outward mind and the hidden inner mind of individuals were not always as one.  In fact, many times there were totally opposite and at odds with one another.
The one theme that ran constant through my childhood expression was the fact that I couldn't utter the same words verbally that had been given to me to know inwardly thought the soul during my 'near death experiences.   In my 'near death experiences' when my spirit was outside of my physical body, the 'inner mind' would be at the helm.  During my encounters with the 'light of Creation' there was a tone which represented the 'silent' and 'unspoken' name of Creation.  It was not a name as much as it was a tone or a vibration that echoed through the inner region of the soul.   It would be pure and without any sort of deception attached to it.  I knew who it was when I heard it echoing within me during any experience.  It was the Creator of my inner soul. 

Yet, when I tried to say this 'name' outside of me in a verbal manner it wouldn't hit the mark of another persons heart as it had done mine.   I also have found a couple of scriptures which echoes the same meaning. 

The English translation of 'lawful' has an ancient root to mean 'impossible.'  This is what I said over and over again as a child.  It was impossible to put words to the actual 'knowing' as it came to me in the out of body experiences of the near death episodes as well as the mystical moments of 'enlightened' messages from within though a intuitive type of psychic transmission.   As I told my Grandfather as a child, I had to talk in riddles.  

I grew tired of the 'riddles' with time and at the age of 8 I was asking for an English word that would have the same 'vibration' as the 'unspeakable' and 'silent' name of Creation.   The moniker I had for the "Greeter" on the other side was the "Albino Man."  (My Mom pinned this nickname on the 'invisible' man I tired to describe.  I said he was shinning white with red eyes. The nickname stuck afterwards.) He came to me with a deal.  He told me that if I could capture the wind and put it in a jar and then convinced someone I had wind in a jar - then he would give me a name to use in the 'world of man.'  I tried but failed to convince anyone I had capture wind in a jar.  He told me this is how it was when it came to 'truth' and with the true name of Creation.  Only the 'Spirit of Creation' had the authority to distribute that name for the sake of truth.  

Which came to my own understanding in childhood.  I could experience 'spirit' directly though my mystical trances associated with the 'near death' experiences and out of body experiences and this lead to a direct acquaintanceship with spirit.  Yet, the minute I tried to put that experience into verbal words to pass onto other people's ears - it became 'descriptive' knowledge rather than 'direct knowledge.'