No big collection of links today; just a plug for an awesome gnosis-related blog I found, and some commentary.
What happens when a Gnostic “wakes up”? Things can get a little difficult. You see, when you start fighting the chloroform of creation, the universe starts fighting back. The Archons are loosed. Every attempt to break free is met with a brick wall and an Agent in front of it. You simply can’t break free using brute force. Why? Brute force is a physical thing. Try subtlety. Try assimilation. Try persuasion. Because if you keep fighting the physical world you’re going to end up living a miserable life here, and waking up to the truth, however frightening, is not meant to make you miserable. It’s supposed to set you free. Suffering is another prison.
Source: Henosis Decanus: Musings from a Monadic Mind
This is an issue I’ve been wrestling with a lot lately. As usually seems to happen for me, after the revelation comes I end up seeing confirmation of it everywhere I look. This is probably the best summary of this concept that I’ve come across; I read it and went “YES!”
Throughout my life, when faced with an obstacle, my usual approach has been to assess the opposition, gather my willpower and steamroll over it. For an awakening seeker, this approach only ends in frustration (if not injury or trauma)… as I’ve had to learn. The hard way. Repeatedly. Ow.
Every action has a reaction; all acts of force are met with equal opposing force. Like a chinese finger trap, all effort to pull away are just met with increasing resistance. Who’da thought the universe has a lot more force and resources at its disposal than I do. Oops. 
I’m still in the process of learning how to move and act without force, but it seems a lot of it has to do with the emotional charge underlying our actions. Resolve the internal conflict, which stems from the illusion of need, and there is no external conflict.
The prisoner is held in bondage (no, not the fun kind) by his identity as a “prisoner,” his conflict with his captors, and his idea that he “needs” any change in his available resources or circumstances to be free.
The free and sovereign individual has no conflict and no need of anything — he simply rests securely in his knowledge of who and what he is.
–Palehorse
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