21. PANTHEISM Nature, Universe, Science And Religion The Universe is divine and Nature is sacred. The history, theory and practice of pantheism. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

22. Apologetics In The New Age: A Christian Critique Of Pantheism Book Review Apologetics in the New Age A Christian Critique of pantheism. http://www.csj.org/pub_csj/csjbookreview/csjbkrev92apologetics.htm

NEW! Conferences and Workshops - Click Here Bookstore Journal ... Donate ICSA resources about psychological manipulation, cultic groups, sects, and new religious movements. Cultic Studies Journal Apologetics in the New Age: A christian Critique of Pantheism Psychological Manipulation and Society Cultic Studies Journal Psychological Manipulation and Society Vol. 9, No. 2, 1992 Apologetics in the New Age: A Christian Critique of Pantheism David K. Clark and Norman L. Geisler. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1990, 254 pages. Reviewer: The Rev. Richard L. Dowhower The truth claims of new religious movements and psychotechnologies have been essentially ignored in public by the anti-cult movement in its initial decade and a half. Persons of varied theologies and shared goodwill aimed their counterattacks at the human-rights-violating practices of the cults. Fraud, deception, denial of informed consent, ritual abuse, involuntary servitude, economic exploitation, sexual abuse, mistreatment of children, and other forms of religious malpractice provided the focus. But in the privacy of deprogramming and exit counseling sessions, the incongruities and self-contradictions of cult truth claims played an important role in the discrediting of the groups and their gurus. Truth claims were a potent issue.

23. Pantheism A Religion For All pantheism writings, definitions, FAQs and quotes. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

24. Pantheist.Net - Universal Pantheist Society Embrace Universal pantheism What is pantheism? pantheism holds that the cosmos, taken or conceived of as a whole, is synonymous with God. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

25. Pantheist Association For Nature Home Page 7/30/03 PAN Commentaries "pantheism and Cross-Cultural Harmony" and "Internet in the Service of pantheism" http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

26. Pantheism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia An oftcited feature of pantheism is that each individual human, being part of Naturalistic pantheism believes in an unconscious, non-sentient universe, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

Pantheism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pantheism Greek pan = all and Theos = God) literally means " God is All " and "All is God". It is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. More detailed definitions tend to emphasize the idea that natural law existence and/or the universe (the sum total of all that is was and shall be) is represented or personified in the theological principle of 'God'. Contents History Varieties of pantheism Methods of explanation Debate ... edit History The term "pantheist" — of which the word "pantheism" is a variation — was purportedly first used by Irish writer John Toland in his work, Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist . However, the concept has been discussed as far back as the time of the philosophers of Ancient Greece . Some, such as Heraclites , debated whether the entire substance of the universe was a force of logic, of thought in constant state of transformation. edit Varieties of pantheism This article distinguishes between two divergent groups of pantheists: Classical pantheism , which is expressed in the immanent God of Kabalistic Judaism Advaita Vedanta Sanatana Dharma , and Monism , generally viewing God in a personal manner.

27. The Pantheist Index An extensive listing of resources around the Web relating to pantheism. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

28. Naturalistic Pantheism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Naturalistic pantheism is a form of pantheism which holds that the universe, Adherents feel Naturalistic pantheism might best be understood through the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_Pantheism

Naturalistic Pantheism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Naturalistic Pantheism is a form of Pantheism which holds that the universe, although un conscious and non- sentient as a whole, is a meaningful focus for human spirituality . Accordingly, Nature is seen as being " God " only in a non-traditional, impersonal sense. Contents Adherents Criticism and response Semantics Mysticism ... edit Adherents Adherents feel Naturalistic Pantheism might best be understood through the teachings of Spinoza and Taoism historically, and the Universal Pantheist Society (UPS) and World Pantheist Movement (WPM) today. Although the UPS is the older of the two, it has seen decreased activity in recent years. The WPM (founded by former UPS vice-president Paul Harrison ), on the other hand, has expanded more considerably due to its promotion of 'Scientific Pantheism', which many critics claim is essentially no more than " atheism for nature lovers." This charge seems to stem from the fact that 'scientific pantheism' is not only naturalistic , but avowedly materialistic as well, with little tolerance for any reference to traditional theological concepts. Despite a history of controversy ignited by the WPM's appearance as a sect within the UPS and its eventual secession from that organization, the WPM approach has met with some acceptance, even while critics claim it may not actually constitute any strict or authentic or

29. Star Trek Theology: Gene Roddenberry's Pantheism. Roddenberry's pantheism and religion in Star Trek. http://members.aol.com/heraklit1/startrek.htm

The real Star Trek theology: Gene Roddenberry's pantheism. A history of pantheism and scientific pantheism by Paul Harrison. Are you a pantheist? Find out now at Scientific Pantheism. I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe. The starship Excelsior Gene Roddenberry, the legendary creator of Star Trek, was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1921. He studied law, then switched to aeronautical engineering and trained as a pilot. In 1941 he volunteered for the US Army Air Corps, and won medals for bombing missions from Guadalcanal. After the war he became a pilot for Pan Am. After seeing television for the first time, he decided to become a TV writer, but when he found no openings, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department and rose to sergeant. He wrote TV scripts in his spare time, then went freelance. He was the chief writer for several TV series before launching Star Trek in 1966. Roddenberry became anti-religious at an early age. As a youth he attended Baptist church, but it was not till he was sixteen that he began to pay any real attention to what the sermons were saying: I remember complete astonishment because what they were talking about were things that were just crazy. It was Communion time where you eat this wafer and you are eating the body of Christ and drinking His blood. My first impression was "Jesus Christ, this is a bunch of cannibals they've put me down among . . . I guess from that time it was clear to me that religion as largely nonsense, was largely magical, superstitious things. [Alexander pp 36- 37.]

30. CONSERVANCY OF THE PHOENIX - THE GATEWAY PAGE Pantheist Nature A nonprofit Panthist philosophy nature conservancy. The philosophical foundation maybe found in the _QUOTATION_Point of Origin_QUOTATION_ document http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

31. Elessacar.com - "Being The Faith And Beliefs Of One Gwynarion Elessacar, America Reverend Gwynn Elessacar invites you to join him in investigating the ancient and modern spiritual paths of paganism, pantheism and the way of the warrior, as well as his relationship with the Morrighan (Morrigan, Morrigu). http://www.elessacar.com/

/******************************************************************************************* Script to detect browser version and then write the appropriate link stylesheet to the page. *******************************************************************************************/ Reverend Gwynarion Elessacar invites you to join him in investigating the ancient and modern spiritual paths of paganism pantheism and the way of the warrior , as well as his relationship with the Morrighan crooked liar Information on the Morrighan warriors , battle sexuality and more. Her symbols are the raven/crow and the spear. ( crooked liar Site News Every person out there who identifies them self as a pagan has a different view on what we, as a community, should be doing to educate the public at large and to fight for our rights. At one end of the spectrum you have the Asatruar who'd like to take up their axes, fortify their walls, and tell the Religious Right "Nuts." At the other end you've got the White-light Fluffy-bunny Wiccans/Pagans who believe very sincerely that if we are calm and loving then we can educate our enemies and make them love and accept us. And of course, as with everything else in the Pagan universe you have every shade of grey in between. Though not a follower of the Norse gods I am a cantankerous and non-pacifistic individual. While I believe that education is necessary, I am not an educator. While I believe that most people are fair and open-minded, I know that there are those who are not. I'll leave our communities' teachers to teaching while I take up my sword and spear, and stand between them and those who would deny us our rights, deprive us of our freedoms or harm those we love. That is the

32. Pantheism A description of pantheism, and some common forms. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

33. Spinoza: The First Modern Pantheist. Outline of pantheism in Spinoza's philosophy. http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/spinoza.htm

Spinoza - pantheist A history of pantheism and scientific pantheism by Paul Harrison. Are you a pantheist? Find out now at the Scientific Pantheism site. Nature posters World Pantheism BACK IN PRINT!! The only introduction to pantheist history, theory and practise Elements of Pantheism 2nd Edition Books on Spinoza, Pantheism, Science, Religion etc God is one, that is, only one substance can be granted in the universe. Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in 1632, into a family of Jewish emigrants fleeing persecution in Portugal. He was trained in Talmudic scholarship, but his views soon took unconventional directions which the Jewish community - fearing renewed persecution on charges of atheism - tried to discourage. Spinoza was offered 1000 florins to keep quiet about his views, but refused. At the age of 24, he was summoned before a rabbinical court, and solemnly excommunicated. Spinoza refused all rewards and honours, and gave away to his sister his share of his father's inheritance - keeping only a bedstead for himself. He earned his living as a humble lens-grinder. He died, in February 1677, of consumption, probably aggravated by fine glass dust inhaled at his workbench. His philosophy is summarized in the Ethics , a very abstract work, which openly expresses none of the love of nature that might be expected from someone who identified God with nature. And Spinoza's starting point is not nature or the cosmos, but a purely theoretical definition of God. The work then proceeds to prove its conclusions by a method modelled on geometry, through rigorous definitions, axioms, propositions and corollaries. No doubt in this way Spinoza hoped to build his philosophy on the solidest rock, but the method, as well as some of the arguments and definitions, are often unconvincing.

34. Rudolf Hermann Lotze [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] 19th century German philosopher who criticised the pantheism of Hegel. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/lotze.htm

Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) Metaphysik (Leipsic, 1841); Logik Medizinische Psychologie oder Physiologie der Seele Mikrokosmus. Ideen zur Naturge8chichte und Geschichte der Menschheit (3 vols., 185"4; Eng. transl., 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1885), his principal work; Geschichte der Aesthetik in Deutschland (Munich, 1868); and the unfinished System der Philosophie (vol. i., Logik , Leipsic, 1874; vol. ii., Metaphysik , 1879; Eng. transl. of both, 2 parts, Oxford, 1884). After Lotze's death appeared Diktate , notes from his lectures on the various philosophical disciplines (8 parts, Leipsic, 1882-84; Eng. transl. by G. T. Ladd, Outline , 6 vols., Boston, 1884-1887); also Kleine Schriften (3 vols., Leipsic, 1885-1894). The author of this article is anonymous. The IEP is actively seeking an author who will write a replacement article.

35. Philosophy Links in areas including aesthetics, determinism, epistemology, existentialism, objectivism, pantheism. http://www.reasoned.org/dir/philo.htm

REASONED . ORG Your gateway to wisdom on the web. home philosophy psychology theology ... add url ADVERTISEMENT Search directory entire domain The Web for Philosophy General Personal Aesthetics the nature of beauty, art and music. Determinism cause and effect. Epistemology the nature, scope, and limits of human knowledge. Ethics values, “right” and “wrong”. Existentialism individual existence in an unfathomable universe. Logic study of reasoning and argumentation. Metaphysics the nature of reality and existence. Objectivism objective ethics. Pantheism the interpretation of the universe as “god”. Philosophers specific philosophers. Philosophy of Mind relationship between mind and body. Home Philosophy Psychology Theology ... "Reasoned Spirituality"

36. Beliefnet.com Spinoza and pantheism Ruler86, 2, 8/8/2005 1045 AM. How Do I Know God s Wil. pantheism String Theory corsonjk, 6, 4/4/2005 425 PM http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/discussion_list.asp?boardID=8218

37. Pantheism In The Philippines A description of pantheism and some of the beliefs and aspirations of Pantheists in the Philippines. http://www.geocities.com/pilipinopantheist

PILIPINO PANTHEISM (PANTEISMO NG PILIPINAS) Pantheism is the belief that God is the Universe or Nature. It takes its name from the Greek god of nature, Pan. It can take three forms, Natural Pantheism, that Pan is Nature, a force within the Universe; Spiritual Pantheism, that there is a Universal Spirit that is present in all persons and all things, that our personal spirit is merely part of the Universal Spirit; and Universal Pantheism, that God is the Universe, not a separate creator person, but the totality of existence, with all its organization or order, its mystery and its grandeur. Spiritual Pantheism was present in the Philippines before the Spanish conquest. It was never the major belief that it was over the Pacific Islands, where the Universal Spirit is still revered as Mana in all the Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian languages. Mana controls the destiny of everyone and everything. How important you are, how great a leader or faith healer, is a function of how much Mana you possess. In Pilipino traditional religions, there are layers of divinity, with a supreme creator God at top who is fairly inaccessible and not intimately involved in daily life, major gods below It, then Laon, the Universal Spirit which is present in all creatures, then anito, gods or spirits present in the world and intimately involved in daily life. How widespread the belief in Laon was, how important it was, and how Laon was related to, much of this knowledge was lost during the long domination by the Spanish and the Catholic Church.

38. World Religions: Comparative Analysis Surveys some basic inconsistencies in pantheism. http://www.comparativereligion.com/pantheism.html

Critical considerations regarding pantheist religions and philosophies We will now proceed to evaluate how the first three criteria mentioned in the previous file are fulfilled by a pantheistic view of life. The classic example of pantheist philosophy was stated by the Upanishads (7th to 5th century BC) and then developed by the Hindu philosopher Shankara to become the well-known Advaita Vedanta philosophy. 1) Internal consistency of Hindu pantheism As mentioned in a previous file on the Vedantic view on liberation , it is claimed that the unity atman -Brahman is perfectly attained during the last level of meditation, called turiya . The Mandukya Upanishad (12), considered by Shankara to express the quintessence of Vedanta philosophy, ends with the following verse: The fourth state has cognizance of neither what is inside nor what is outside, nor of both together: it is not a mass of wisdom, it is not wise nor yet unwise. It is unseen; there can be no commerce with it; it is impalpable, has no characteristics, unthinkable; it cannot be designated. Its essence is its firm conviction of the oneness of itself; it causes the phenomenal world to cease; it is tranquil and mild, devoid of duality. Such do they consider this fourth to be. He is the Self; he it is who should be known. (Translated by R.C. Zaehner, in Mysticism - Sacred and Profane, p. 154) This passage emphasizes the necessity for transcending any duality in order to know Brahman (the Self). However, there is a logical contradiction between these two elements. When transcending any duality, nothing can be known anymore, because the elementary duality between knower (subject) and known (object) is obliterated. Duality is essential for any type of epistemological process. When the subject is

39. Pantheism A description of pantheism, and some common forms. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PANTHEISM.html

Pantheism Pantheism is the philosophy that everything is God (pan="everything" theos="God") or that the universe and nature are divine Pantheism is distinguished from panentheism, which holds that God is in everything, but also transcends the Universe. Strict pantheism is not a theism. It does not believe in a transcendent or personal God who is the creator of the universe and the judge of humans. Many pantheists feel the word "God" is too loaded with these connotations and never use the word in their own practice - though they may use it to simplify, or to explain things to theists. Pantheism has often been accused of atheism , and not just because it rejects the idea of a personal creator God. Strict or naturalistic pantheism believes that the Universe either originated itself out of nothing, or has existed forever. Modern scientific pantheism is materialistic. It believes that design in the universe can be fully accounted for by principles of evolution and self-organization . It does not believe in separate spirits or survival of the soul after death. Pantheists concerned about personal immortality seek it in realistic ways - through children, deeds, works, and the memories of the living.

40. What Is Pantheism? - Pantheist Association For Nature What is pantheism Definition of pantheism - a religion that kindles a sunbright spiritual relationship with Nature - by the Pantheist Association for http://home.utm.net/pan/whatis.html

@import "pan.css"; Pantheism is a religion that kindles a sunbright spiritual relationship with Nature Introduction Additional Definitions The God of Pantheism Varieties of Pantheism Introduction The word Pantheism comes from two Greek words "pan" = all + "theos" = god . In Pantheism, "all is god." Many Pantheists define "god" as Nature and its creative forces . God and Nature are one in the same. In contrast, many Monotheists (from "mono" = one+ "theos" = god) define "god" as a supernatural individual. God and Nature are separated. To identify god with Nature, rather than with a hallowed personage, seems odd to those unfamiliar with Pantheism. But actually Monotheism is less common than Pantheism in the history of religion. For tens of thousands of years, humans viewed the Earth as a sacred place with divinity everywhere. Religious scholar Denise Carmody notes "The oldest God is nature...in the beginning, human beings sensed that their habitat was sacred. With twists and turns and numberless permutations, they played out this primal intuition." Modern Pantheism revivifies our species' gene-deep intuition that the Earth is indeed holy. Divinity infuses the world, the skies, the seas, the rocks, the trees, the animals, and ourselves. Pantheism gives perspective to all we do and instills a reverence for Nature which can help reverse the ecological crises of our times.

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