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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
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Extractions: spiritual relationship with Nature Introduction Additional Definitions The God of Pantheism Varieties of Pantheism 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.
Zen Pantheism
A single page stream of conscienceness on the natural world and its living state.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2325/zen.htm

Extractions: Then I thought of earth-brown, inert. "Earth, "I thought, "is not living, "and I kicked at the clods under my feet turned green and put forth leaf and stem and flower and the grain ripened in the ear. I took the ear, ground it, made bread out of it, and ate the bread. And the bread became the very stuff of myself, so that I could not separate that which was me and that which was earth. This which now was me had but a short time before been the clods of earth that I had kicked with my feet. "Surely, "I thought, "there is something that is not living. "I thought of stones. But even with the thought I sensed the stirring in the stone, and I knew that the immovable, changeless stones were changing and moving, flowing no less than rivers, to become the living pith and bone of creatures yet unborn.
Pantheist Association For Nature - Pantheism And The Golden Rule
pantheism similarly heeds the Golden Rule. Pantheists strive to treat others as they wish themselves to be treated, but their warmheartedness spreads beyond
http://home.utm.net/pan/kindness.htm

Extractions: The Golden Rule exemplifies human kindness, cooperation, and reciprocity. Many religions expound the renowned rule in one way or another: Buddhism: A clansman (should) minister to his friends and familiars...by treating them as he treats himself. Christianity: As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. Confucianism: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do unto others. Hinduism: Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty. Judaism: Take heed to thyself, my child, in all thy works; and be discreet in all thy behavior. And what thou thyself hatest, do to no man. Pantheism similarly heeds the Golden Rule. Pantheists strive to treat others as they wish themselves to be treated, but their warmheartedness spreads beyond humankind Pantheists agree with those who extend the Golden Rule to relations with other life forms and the Earth itself. Showing kindness and consideration to other creatures and to the environment is the natural thing to do (interestingly, the word "kind" comes from the Old English word "gecynde" which means "natural").
Pantheism
over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal,supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical
http://skepdic.com/pantheism.html

Extractions: Click to order from Amazon Pantheism is the view that Nature and God are one, that the world is divine. Pantheism is considered to be atheism by those who posit a transcendent and separate source of the world. Thus, many Christian theologians and philosophers consider Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as the philosophy of Spinoza , to be atheistic. See also naturalism and god further reading
Scientific Pantheism
The universe is divine. The awe it produces in us, its force, its change, are for us as worthy of reverence as any god, and better than that our universe
http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/ng/pan/sci-pan.html
A Few Words On Pantheism
A critical examination of the belief and morals behind the universe as god.
http://www.geocities.com/c_ansata/Pan.html

Extractions: THE, controversy between Theism and Pantheism might be presented in an allegorical or dramatic form by supposing a dialogue between two persons in the pit of a theatre at Milan during the performance of a piece. One of them, convinced that he is in Girolamo's renowned marionette-theatre, admires the art by which the director gets up the dolls and guides their movements. "Oh, you are quite mistaken," says the other, "we're in the Teatro della Scala; it is the manager and his troop who are on the stage; they are the persons you see before you; the poet too is taking a part." The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world "God" is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word "world." It comes to the same thing whether you say "the world is God," or "God is the world." But if you start from "God" as something that is given in experience, and has to be explained, and then say, "God is the world," you are affording what is to some extent an explanation, in so far as you are reducing what is unknown to what is partly known ( ignotum per notius ); but it is only a verbal explanation. If, however, you start from what is really given, that is to say, from the world, and say, "the world is God," it is clear that you say nothing, or at least you are explaining what is unknown by what is more unknown.
Universal Pantheist Society - Christianity And Pantheism By Michael W. Fox
Both reincarnation and pantheism (or panentheism from panen-theos, For more information about pantheism, or questions about this website please contact
http://www.pantheist.net/society/christianity_and_pan_fox.html

Extractions: Join In a Nietzcheian sense, we have a choice Dionysian or Apollonian, to either celebrate or control and dominate the forces, powers, and potentialities of Nature. There is no compromise. To believe that it is possible to celebrate domination and enjoy control is a profane, selfish rationalization, the antithesis of reverent celebration, ecstatic enjoyment and freedom. As creatures of reason and emotion, with the power of creative and destructive dominion over the world, our ancestors elaborated various cults and religions that reflected their world view - - and the conflicting world views of the times. Thus we find the Dionysian, Dianic, Druidic, and Wicca Nature-centered cults that see the significance of all created things and therefore revere them. By contrast, the human-centered cults of Industrialism, Materialism, Scientism, and Christian patriarchy see only human-utility in all created things and therefore exploit them. Yet Christianity partially grew out of earlier Nature-religions. This was inevitable because adherents of the latter could never accept the former if there were not some acceptable beliefs, such as animals and Nature being part of God's creation and therefore worthy of respect because they are His and only ours in trust, to steward with compassion and to "dress and keep" the Edenic garden of Nature, the biosphere we call Earth.
Pantheism
pantheism is the doctrine that the universe conceived of as a whole is The noun pantheism was first used a few years later by one of Toland s opponents.
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Extractions: Pantheism is the doctrine that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and, conversely, that there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are manifested in the existing universe. The cognate doctrine of panentheism asserts that God includes the universe as a part though not the whole of his being. The adjective pantheist was coined by the rationalist freethinker John Toland in his book Socinianism Truly Stated The noun pantheism was first used a few years later by one of Toland's opponents. K.C.F. Krause introduced the term panentheism in 1828 as a designation for his own philosophy. Both of these terms have been applied retrospectively to aspects of numerous philosophical traditions, both Eastern and Western. There are several discernible types of Pantheism, ranging from those that attribute consciousness to nature as a whole (panpsychism) to those that interpret the world as merely an appearance and ultimately unreal (acosmic pantheism), and from the rational Neoplatonic, or emanationistic, strain to the intuitive, mystical strain. A mingling of these types characterizes Hindu and Buddhist doctrines; pantheism of one form or another is deeply rooted in the Vedas, the Upanisads, and the Bhagavadgita. Numerous Greek philosophers, notably Xenophanes, Heracleitus, Anaxagoras, Plato, Plotinus, and the proponents of Stoicism, contributed to the foundations of Western pantheism.
Pantheism
If you love nature, if you see divinity in all things, then you could do with reading up on pantheism. Where the universe is equated with God;
http://www.dpjs.co.uk/pan.html

Extractions: Description, Justification, Philosophies Satanism index page By Vexen Crabtree 2000 Jan 03 Read / Write comments Paul Harrison is the founder and president of the World Pantheist Movement. He lives in Hampstead, London, making it a bit more relevant to this site. This page is here to describe what is my second favorite religion after Satanism; although I toyed with the idea of being a Pantheist I have found that I cannot. This page is a quick description of Pantheism and a comparison to it's beliefs and to that of Satanism. Sources I was a member of and a small time contributor to the WPM mailing list. My other source of information is " Pantheism " by Paul Harrison. Born 1919. "Canadian atmospheric chemist, inventor and environmental theorist. An independent scientist who lives in Cornwall [England], Lovelock cooperated with NASA in their space programme, advising on ways of looking for life on Mars. Lovelock's influence on the green movement stems from his portrayal of the Earth's biosphere as a complex, self-regulating, living 'being', which he named Gaia (at the suggestion of the novelist William Golding). Although the Gaia hypothesis extends the ecological idea by applying it to the Eart as an ecosystem and offers a holistic approach to nature, Lovelock supports technology and industrialization and is an opponent of 'back to nature' mysticism and ideas such as Earth worship. His major writings include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979) and The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of our Living Earth
Metaphysics: Pantheism
pantheism Discussion of Philosophy, Metaphysics quotes on pantheism (Heraclitus, Lao Tzu, Spinoza, Albert Einstein, etc.) The Metaphysics of Space and
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/pantheism.htm

Extractions: Email About this website (Sept. 2005) : This website is 2 years old, has 300 pages, and gets about 20,000 page visits a day . Its main function is to show that the most simple solution for describing physical reality, the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) in Space, does actually work (the problems have been caused by the 'Particle' conception of matter in 'Space-Time', as Einstein realised). Now we realise that most people are not into physics, philosophy or metaphysics. However, most people do care about the world that we live in, and the future world that we are creating for our children. And it is pretty obvious that truth and reality (those much abused terms) are the two most important subjects for Humanity to understand if we are to build a better world. Our aim is to get these various WSM subject pages in the top ten in Google so that this knowledge of the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) is at least known and considered. To achieve this we really need your help to add links to this website . If we can convince just 1% of people (100 people a day) to donate 5 minutes of their time to help then we will easily succeed in achieving this over the next year or so (as most of our pages currently rank in the top 50 in Google for relevant search terms).
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The Universe is divine and Nature is sacred. The history, theory and practice of pantheism.
http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/index.htm
Theology, Pantheism Spinoza: Discussion Metaphysics Of Pantheism, Spinoza Quotes
Theology, pantheism, Spinoza Discussion of the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Spinoza s pantheism All is One (Nature, God) All is Space and (Wave) Motion
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Theology-Pantheism-Spinoza.htm

Extractions: Email About this website (Sept. 2005) : This website is 2 years old, has 300 pages, and gets about 20,000 page visits a day . Its main function is to show that the most simple solution for describing physical reality, the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) in Space, does actually work (the problems have been caused by the 'Particle' conception of matter in 'Space-Time', as Einstein realised). Now we realise that most people are not into physics, philosophy or metaphysics. However, most people do care about the world that we live in, and the future world that we are creating for our children. And it is pretty obvious that truth and reality (those much abused terms) are the two most important subjects for Humanity to understand if we are to build a better world. Our aim is to get these various WSM subject pages in the top ten in Google so that this knowledge of the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) is at least known and considered. To achieve this we really need your help to add links to this website . If we can convince just 1% of people (100 people a day) to donate 5 minutes of their time to help then we will easily succeed in achieving this over the next year or so (as most of our pages currently rank in the top 50 in Google for relevant search terms).
Universal Pantheist Society Home Page
An organization devoted to an universal recognition of modern pantheism. pantheism holds that the Universe itself is divine.
http://www.pantheist.net/society/

Extractions: Welcome to The Universal Pantheist Society! Are You a Pantheist? Pantheists are persons who derive their fundamental religious experience through their personal relationship with the Universe. They feel that Nature is the ultimate context for human existence, and seek to improve their relationship with the natural world as their fundamental religious responsibility. Religion is seen as a system of reverent behavior toward the Earth rather than subscription to a particular creed. Because Pantheists identify God with Nature rather than an anthropomorphic being, Pantheists oppose the arrogant world-view of anthropocentrism. This web site contains a collection of materials about Pantheism and Pantheists. About the Universal Pantheist Society Despite a long religious history, dating back beyond Spinoza to the Stoics of ancient Greece and the philosophers of ancient India, there has been no modern organization to represent Pantheists until the formation of the Universal Pantheist Society in 1975. The Universal Pantheist Society is the oldest known organization dedicated to modern and ethical Pantheism. Today, the need for an ethical Pantheism has never been greater. The formation of the Universal Pantheist Society was based on the need to communicate an informed, modern Pantheism, and to provide for sharing among Pantheists.
Religious Movements Homepage: Scientific Pantheism
This Scientific pantheism Page is your gateway to accessing comprehensive web based as well as print resources about the Scientific Pantheists and pantheism
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/SciPanth.html

Extractions: Profile History Beliefs Issues and Controversies ... Bibliography Name: Scientific Pantheism Founder: Paul Harrison is the founder of Scientific Pantheism, but Scientific Pantheism is only one specific version of Pantheism. The term "Pantheist" was first used by John Toland in 1705, but there is no specific founder of Pantheism ( The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Date of Birth: July 10, 1945 Birth Place: Oldham, Lancashire, England. He now resides in Hampstead, North London, UK. Year Founded: 1995, but the e-mail group was not formed until March 1997. Sacred or Revered Texts: There is no sacred text. Cult or Sect: Negative sentiments are typically implied when the concepts "cult" and "sect" are employed in popular discourse. Since the Religious Movements Homepage seeks to promote religious tolerance and appreciation of the positive benefits of pluralism and religious diversity in human cultures, we encourage the use of alternative concepts that do not carry implicit negative stereotypes. For a more detailed discussion of both scholarly and popular usage of the concepts "cult" and "sect," please visit our Conceptualizing "Cult" and "Sect" page, where you will find additional links to related issues.
The Library Of Scientific Pantheism
A library dedicated to Scientific pantheism and rational thought.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5675/

Extractions: art@bvx.ca Pantheism seems to be the natural "religion" for Heretics; if religion it can be called. It is of course, an "Ideology" older than Paganism; and its tenets have been present, in the background, since the beginning of consciousness in mankind. The order of Pantheism I have aligned myself with is "Scientific Pantheism". Not because I have been converted or felt a need to have an affiliation with a religion, but because it reflects MY beliefs. This is MY ideology. Some one was just kind enough to name it for me. Thanks Paul :) Most of its members feel the same way and that is its great appeal. Knowing there are people of like mind out there, is good feeling. Among our numbers are Scientists, Heretics, Pagans, Wicca, Buddhists, Taoists, Atheists, Naturalists, Unitarians, and even Ex-Catholics and Ex-Jews. Are you a "Scientific Pantheist" Find out by visiting these sites: The pages inside contain the thoughts, the art, and the literature of Scientific Pantheists. I Call it the "Think Tank" because I hope we can overcome our former religious pasts, and find some real answers to the questions at hand, through the search for knowledge.
Pantheism Vs Deism
pantheism is not an extension of Deism but the polar opposite of Deism. Where Deism stresses God s trancedence, pantheism stresses his immanence in the
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/pantheism.htm

Extractions: Pantheism and Deism Just wanted to say that Pantheism isn't just thinking nature is god, it's more the believe that the Universe is god. Believing that people would also be god is not a 'request' for pantheism. And I also need to disappoint you with the fact that Pantheism isn't New Age (at least, in your description of New Age) Also, saying that Pantheism is without reason isn't right as well (I am pantheist because of reason) Overall, Pantheism is the definition of people who believe in that the universe is divine, it's therefore more an extension to Deism. The Netherlands - Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 07:31:33 (PDT) Thanks Atresica. Referring to New Age Religion from http://www.religioustolerance.org/ in their article that listed New Age beliefs: "Pantheism: All that exists is God; God is all that exists. This leads naturally to the concept of the divinity of the individual, that we are all Gods. They do not seek God as revealed in a sacred text or as exists in a remote heaven; they seek God within the self and throughout the entire universe." Pantheism is not an extension of Deism but the polar opposite of Deism. Nobody said a pantheist is without reason but New Age religion is a rejection of reason in favor of "inner feelings" whatever that amounts to. Pantheism goes back to the ancient Greek Stoics and is a forerunner to Deism says Leo Rosten's
Why Am I A Pantheist
Members of the pantheist community state what pantheism means to them.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3547/
Universal Pantheist Society - Socinianism - A Forerunner To Modern Pantheism
Scholars of pantheism may have additional information to share with the Society on this history of how the word pantheism came into being, not forgetting
http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/nov_2000/pantheism.htm

Extractions: The Encyclopedia Britannica (Macro Edition) says the word "Pantheism" first appeared in 1705 in a book by a noted Irish Deist, John Toland entitled "Socinianism Gladly Told." Obviously he must have viewed the reference favorably but why? The same source and most dictionaries say the word "Socinian" comes from the work of two Italian theologians in mid-16th Century named Laelius, and nephew Fausus Socinus, who had concluded that the natural world and God were one and the same; that God was not some imaginary authority the Bible suggests who acts upon all human affairs for moral guidance. We can suppose, as present-day pantheists do, that these two members of the Catholic clergy realized that the agency they had been thought to be God is actually the natural world in its entirety for without it nothing else on planet Earth can exist, not even ideas. It is only logical to suspect that any biological organism is not something man could have created, so it must be God who is said in Genesis 1 by whoever wrote that chapter that: "In the beginning God created the Universe" and all that there is on planet Earth. Or would the universe even have existed? Where the Bible becomes confusing is where it anthropomorphizes God as a thinking human being, ignoring altogether that natural creation is an ongoing, developing process of evolution of all species. Awareness of the fallacy of anthropomorphism since the Age of Enlightenment is a cause of great concern among all theologians today.
Lao Tzu: The Tao Of Reality.
Draws comparisons between pantheism and Taoism.
http://members.aol.com/heraklit1/laotzu.htm

Extractions: Member of GSAnet Banner Swap A history of pantheism by Paul Harrison. Are you a pantheist? Find out at the Scientific Pantheism site. Planetary nebula NGC 6543, shells and jets of gas ejected from the death throes of a star one thousand years ago. Photo: J.P. Harrington and K.J. Borkowski, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA. The Tao te Ching is the oldest scripture of Taoism. It was composed during the warring states period when China descended into a chaos of rival kingdoms, some time between the sixth and the fourth or third centuries BC. It was supposedly written by Lao Tan, a possibly mythical figure, said to have lived till he was 160 or 200 years old. The classical Chinese historian Ssuma Chien says the work was by Li Erh, a custodian of imperial archives from the state of Ch'u in southern China, in the present province of Honan. This was a fertile, well-watered state. "Its people make little exertion, delight in life, and neglect to store anything." Li Erh was no seeker after fame. "The chief aim of his studies was how to keep himself concealed and remain unknown." says Ssuma Chien. Li Erh wrote his ideas only because, as he was heading into retirement, the royal gatekeeper pleaded with him to record his ideas before he disappeared into oblivion. He may have written the book under the pseudonym Lao Tan to avoid attention.
Pantheism
pantheism, the personal feeling that everything is or contains God, and God is everything or However, pantheism never developed into a formal doctrine.
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/pantheism.html

Extractions: Back to Home Page or Contents Page or Past and present beliefs or Index Pantheism P antheism, the personal feeling that everything is or contains God, and God is everything or all. The concept that God is immanent in all things is one of the oldest intuitions found in humankind. However, pantheism never developed into a formal doctrine. The earliest evidence of pantheism is found on Brahmanism, the oldest existing religion, in the Vedas, dating back to 1000 BC. It is associated with the Egyptian religion when Ra Isis and Osiris were identified with all existence. Many philosophical scholars think the great Greek philosopher Parmanides was a pantheist as well as Plotinus, Erigen, and Spinoza. The sentiment or belief in pantheism have predominantly influenced the thoughts and works of many poets, philosophers, mystics, and extremely spiritual people. Notably among pantheistic poets are Goethe, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Emerson. Many modern poets consider pantheism existing in their world-view. A.G.H.

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