This may digress a little bit from the original topic, but on the subject of meditation...
I have read some of this recently:
https://gnosticteachings.org/courses/beginning-here-and-now/3854-beginning-meditation-theory-and-practice.html
I've practiced Goenka Vipassana which deals solely with features of the body as objects of meditation. In this article linked above there is much talk about Samatha and Vipassana. In the section addressing anapanasati (concentration on the breath) the article says:
"There are many different ways that it is taught. Sometimes it is taught to pay attention to certain sensation of the nostrils, the lungs, etc. Again, it’s very good but it also needs to be understood that it is foundational, because from our perspective, we do not want to get locked inside the body. If you are paying attention to the body, you are going to stay there, and that is not a terrible thing, but just know what the practice is going to give you."
Isn't the body a micrcosm of the macrocosm? Can't the entire macrcosm be "found" in the microcosm, in the body? If this is the case, why is it that should not get "locked inside the body?" Wouldn't it be so that the way out of the body is inside of it, if this microcosm-macrocosm conjunction is true?
I am only asking this toward the goal of discerning what form of meditation is (and isn't) best or appropriate for a Gnostic of this tradition to practice daily.
Thanks.