I believe it is useful then to cast our net wider and read more texts that use the term, even look at attempts at direct definition. The gnostics put more emphasis on personal knowing than on transmitted knowledge.
Gnosis is the knowing itself.
These articles are then of use to us in the consideration of bioregional practice because we can take the ideological impulses into account when we propose changes in behavior. What we are going to do is examine what Conzen and Lewis say about the ideology that drove the carving of certain inscriptions in order to consider the possibilities for re-inscribing. The reasons that first cow does what she does are important to understand. Most importantly, by doing so, we might be able to understand deeply submerged ideological conflicts that are still in play. Just consider, for example, the combination of grid pattern and curving roads on the Davis campus.