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What if the deepest spiritual error is not ignorance, but the urge to escape?

Any Exit is Jahn Hooks' sharp, mystical, and unexpectedly funny critique of body-hating spirituality - from ancient Gnosticism to its modern descendants in conspiracy culture, disembodied wellness, secret-knowledge elitism, and anxiety-driven escape theology.

This is not a book against gnosis.

It is a defense of true gnosis: the direct knowing of God that enters the bones, softens the breath, humbles the mind, and returns the soul to love.

But Gnosticism is something else. It is the old temptation to look at the body, the earth, the senses, history, suffering, and creation itself and say: this whole place must be a mistake.

Hooks answers with the scandal at the center of Christianity:

The Word became flesh.

Not metaphorically.
Not as a costume.
Not as a spiritual projection.

Flesh.

Drawing from Scripture, the Church Fathers, Augustine, Irenaeus, the Gospel of John, resurrection theology, breathwork, comedy, and lived contemplative practice, Any Exit argues that salvation is not evacuation. The body is not packaging. Creation is not a crime scene. Matter is not the enemy of God.

The modern soul keeps looking for "any exit" - out of the body, out of responsibility, out of pain, out of the present moment, out of the world. But Christ does not enter the locked room to show the disciples a door. He shows them His wounds and says, "Peace be with you."

This book is for readers who have felt the ache beneath spiritual seeking. For Christians tired of shallow religion but unwilling to trade incarnation for cosmic contempt. For mystics who want depth without disappearing into fog. For anyone who has ever suspected that the escape hatch may not be the same thing as freedom.

Part theology, part roast, part contemplative medicine, Any Exit is a call back to the center:

Into the body.
Into the breath.
Into repentance.
Into mercy.
Into the Living God who did not abandon matter, but entered it.

You do not have to get out.

You have to come home.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Any Exit
• Podnázev: The Anxiety of Gnosticism and How We Become The Demiurge
• Autor: Jahn Hooks
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 66
• EAN: 9798183891188
• ID: 53005982
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 76 g
• Rozměry: 203 × 127 × 3 mm
• Datum vydání: 23. June 2026

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