The first in a series of articles where I examine the Spiritual War, Ascension, Metaphysics, and the Simulation through my own personal gnostic lens. — Note on the title: “Through a Scanner Gnostically” represents, in part, an homage to one of my favorite sci-fi authors Phillip K. Dick who wrote the 1977 novel titled A Scanner Darkly, adopted in 2006 for the screen by Richard Linklater and starring Keanu Reeves.