The Bugaboo with Gnosis

Funny thing about gnosis...
  You know, but you don't know.

The magic in gnosis is knowing without the learning.
  The challenge lies in dealing with the 'knowing'.

Usually, we learn our way
  into those things we are to know.

The path to our knowing is littered with
  inspiration, failed attempts and
  occasional ephiphanies.

It is the journey on this path that gives us time
  to move through the emotional and psychological
  changes necessary to assimilate the new knowledge.

Skipping this step is what gives rise to the bugaboo with gnosis.
  The, 'Yeah! I don't have to learn my way to this!' elation
  is immediately followed by the disquieting realization that,
  'I have no idea how to live in this?!'

So it goes.
  There is no fast road to wisdom.
  We must walk through life's experiences
  to become one with the lessons it offers.

So, even when we are gifted with gnosis,
  we find ourselves just a few paces ahead
  of where we might have started on our own.

Only now, we live in the strange world of
  simultaneously knowing 'it'
  and having no idea how to live 'it'.