#pantheism

[moonhedgegarden]

[wolfhowlwitch]

I normally have dedicated prayers that I do at night, but last night I was so tired that I just started saying goodnight to every god that I worship. and then I started saying goodnight to every other god I could think of. and then I just started saying "goodnight, goodnight, goodnight" because I knew there were gods I was forgetting

[greenhorizonblog]

Nihilists are people who don't spend enough time in nature

[liberationtheology]

"For some time now I have thought of God in more pantheistic terms than I suppose is true of most of my Quaker brothers and sisters. To me, God is something about the universe, something about the depth in each of us.

We’ve never talked about it in the meeting but this difference in thinking doesn’t seem to matter in what we share. We visit the prison in Richmond together, give shelter to runaway teenagers, aid those who are resisting the war. We come together and wait quietly to regain our sense of what lies deepest in us, of the things most important to us. Then when we each of us speak and listen from this condition of mind and heart we somehow understand and are bound together in ways that are healing and empowering.

To me, these are the things that are prayer and revelation and encounter with that which is holy. And when I find something like them beyond the meeting and its membership there too I sense a unity of being. These are the things which, for me, any thought of God must have to do with. How thankful I am that this seems so surely to be true for the others with whom I share the silences, the concerns, the activities of this meeting that I love so well."

Anonymous, 1970 Quaker Faith and Practice 26.75

[cosmicvisitor]

the day you realize the gods aren't up there just to damn and punish you is the day you discover who the gods really are. and what a beautiful day it will be. you've never seen a sunrise quite like it.

[sapeja]

the beautiful forest this morning when I was walking my dog

[homo-beehive]

being a pagan witch with DID is weird as hell tbh

like we kinda. feel what our deities want to say? yk?? feeling words? hard to explain

but the Self Doubt shows up every once in a while and goes “what if that’s not a god. what if that’s an alter” while we’re sitting in bed eating nerds clusters and we put one on the altar bc loki went “hey i want one” and wouldn’t back off

and then there’s the fact that every time. EVERY TIME MY FAMILY COOKS. at least one deity does the “hey. hey can i have some of that wedge salad your mom’s roquefort dressing is bomb” and then i have to find a way to explain away why there’s a little bit of salad i didn’t eat and it looks completely intentional BECAUSE IT IS

deity work is weird as shit. rant over

[ruth-t]

Spirit feels, ego thinks.

How could feelings ever be

wrong when they were

meant to be felt?

[lucaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Watching fantasy high and i had a thought.

I noticed there was an idea about diety and religion kind of baked into the theology of Brendan's world building that made me wonder about religion in real life. And that is the idea that the goal of religious practice is to find The Religion and The Diety that you commit to forever and vice versa. It's baked into the mechanics of how the existence of dieties work. Gods need worshippers to exist, which would motivate them to be possessive and demand loyalty. The no-telling-about-dead-gods law is a good example of this. Gods don't share, and you can't change religions.

The idea kind of stands out because it feels familar. I realized it mirrors how we think of God in western culture. The idea of a jealous, possessive God is very prevalent in our culture maybe even fundamental. When I thought about ancient religions with big pantheons I kind of imagined people would pick one diety to be their diety and specifically only worship them forever even if they believed other gods existed, the way Christians treat the christian God. But I realized that was because my understanding of religious practice comes from a Christian background. God is a jealous God is a Christian/Jewish/Islamic idea.

Realizing that kind of brought it into question. I wondered what an alternative would be like. Maybe a better system for human beings would be to allowed more flexibility. It's natural to move through life and change and evolve. A lot of people might need different things and different times in their life. Maybe you need Jesus at one point but then later in life you need the Tao. Maybe you need the Moon Goddess at one point, but experience something you need permission to rage about.

Using the context of Fantasy High as an analogy, maybe it would make more sense if deities were allowed to actively share. Why couldn't they pass along worshippers who needed more doubt in their life to Cassandra? Why couldn't a God aks if their worshipper needed something different and try to help them find that? (Of course, mechanics come into question here but Im guessing those mechanics happened because of Sir Terry Pratchett. But that's another conversation.)

In the real world I think this is just as relevant. What if expecting one religion to work for a person forever is not a healthy expectation? Maybe there are people who would fit in as Christians forever. But maybe there are a lot of people who don't. What could be possible if we had a concept of flexibility in religious practice and belief? Why do we expect gods to be possessive?

Also makes me wonder. Whose idea was it to create that law in Fantasy High that forces the Gods to compete all the more fiercely? 🤔

[moonhedgegarden]

“Mother Earth, endlessly creating.

Birthing us here, a world so captivating.

Her children of earth, cradled in her embrace.

She nurtures and provides with boundless grace.

Rivers flowing, mountains tall.

Her gifts, abundant for one and all.

In her whispers, warnings grow.

Her plea for peace, endlessly show.”

[greenhorizonblog]

Don't always understand why people are so scared of what might come after death. Cause you already know. It's where you came from. It's where you were before you were born. So, really, it'll be like going home.

[dairedara]

I think people underestimate the spirituality inherent in learning about your surroundings. Read field guides on wildflowers. Listen to local folktales. Watch birds at the park or in your yard. If you find yourself struggling with paganism or religion of any sort, go back to your roots.

[thetempleoftheone]

The Body & Lust

The body is neutral; it is neither good nor evil.

It has features that are appealing because of millions of years of evolution.

These features are meant to attract a mate and perpetuate the species.

Because of this, we experience lust.

But the body is not to blame for lust. Lust, as an organic impulse, is the product of an ancient chain of causation arising within the deep seriality of terrestrial time.

Lust is simply an energy, an aspect of human life meant to perpetuate the species. It is neither good nor evil, it merely is.

When people suffer over lust, they either cling to it because they desire pleasure, or they resist it because they see it as evil or unclean.

When lust presents itself, if we greet it with clarity and mindfulness, we can see that lust is just lust.

It has no power to control us and because it is not evil, we cannot be polluted by the experience of it.

If we descend into the energy of lust and give it dominion, we suffer from endless dissatisfaction in search of more pleasure.

And when we ignorantly run from lust out of disgust or fear we deny the reality of our being and establish harsh moral dualities without any basis.

It is when we greet the energy of lust calmly and mindfully, without judgment or attachment, that it ultimately passes through and away from us. © JM Tiffany

[panatmansam]

[entheognosis]

I think the (American) Indians and most traditional cultures had a much wiser world view, in that they invested every aspect of the world around them – all of nature – animal life, plant life, the landscape itself, with gods, with deity. In other words, everything was divine in some way or another. Pantheism probably led to a much wiser way of life, more capable of surviving over long periods of time. . . . Call me a pantheist. If there is such a thing as divinity . . . then it must exist in everything, and not simply be localized in one supernatural figure beyond time and space. Either everything is divine, or nothing is. All partake of the universal divinity – the scorpion and the pack rat, the June bug and the pismire. Even human beings. All or nothing, now or never, here and now.

Edward Abbey

(Loeffler 1989: 14–15)

art by Mark Henson

[freespiritlilith]

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