Here’s a simple short quiz to help you determine whether you are a Pantheist.
If you share these core beliefs then you are a Pantheist:
- The Universe: The Universe (in its entirety) and Nature are worthy of profound awe and respect (i.e. reverence). In other words, you agree to this definition of the Pantheist Universe
- The God: Do not believe in any supernatural God(s). In other words, you agree with this definition of God
- The whole & parts: Accept the Universe as a unified whole. That all individual things within the Universe are interdependent parts in some way.
- The emotions: Hold towards the Universe, a profound sense of awe, reverence and emotions (similar to those theistic believers equate to their God(s)) including a sense of respect, appreciation, wonder, love, acceptance, mystery and gratitude. Read more here
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December 29th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Thanks for your response Ethan,
In my book, I do draw an analogy between the workings of our brains and the galaxy in which we
reside. Both share similar numbers of neurons and stars, each sending electro-magnetic signals out
to their neighbours. My publishers axed the original sub-title for the book “Sun of gOd”, which read:
“Though it may be everything to us, it is just a bright spark in the mind of the Universe.”
The key to it all, and the universal mind/god/whatever is the concept of bottom-up organization,
in which everything, from a molecule of water to a neuron in our brain to the Sun itself, is a part of
the bottom that is subtly steering a greater whole.
And in the book, peppered with terrific quotes, there is one by R.M. Burke which goes:
“..he sees and knows that the cosmos, which to the self-conscious mind seems made up of dead
matter, is in fact far otherwise – is in very truth a living presence. He sees that instead of men being,
as it were, patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance, they are in
reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life.”
I am familiar with Acharya S’s work, having come across it when my book finally came out and
the similarity of titles surfaced. Where we differ is that I spend little time on the history of the
covering-up of ancient solar worship and focus instead upon the implications of living stars, in
the light of modern scientific knowledge.
Gregory Sams, author of “Sun of gOd”