I was going to suggest in this post that Betsy appears to have a rather (small "g") gnostic approach to spirituality, but if anyone were to do a search on the adjective, they would run across the proper noun (big "G") Gnostic. And I don't have the time or the interest to delve so deeply into the subject to describe why "gnostic" is a generally self-generated benign approach to knowing oneself and one's god through that self-knowledge, but "Gnostic" is a pretty rocky outcrop to find oneself upon in a religious sense. This page has a relatively brief examination of the differences that I perceive but am not going to try to describe myself.

As you can guess, I've been doing some poking around in definitions, looking for a snap shot of various religions. I started with "gnostic" and found a goldmine of interesting and scholarly information at Metareligion (this link takes you to the "about us" page). This is the Gnosticism page.

Interesting, by the way, how some of these religiously-tinged words have such different meanings. Catholic/cathoic, Gnostic/gnostic. It is easier to look these up in a dictionary than it is on the web, because the fluidity of the links takes you to sites where you have to spend a lot of time determining the spin of the web master before you accept their definitions. In some things, Webster on paper is a real good starting place.

SRS