Re: POLITICS Pantheism was Atheism a Religion? (was White Missionaries' )

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While we're parsing out what a - theist is or isn't to religiosity, the

pantheist http://www.pantheism.net/ hasn't come up. Mikhail Gorbachev is not

defined an atheist there. Think of Russia's science progress.

Non recognition of natural process and law, experience, choice, result, possible

consequence and organized religion's paradigms to me is an individual without a

theism. Anathema comes closer but again definition is confined to religion's

paradigm and does not look at process, experience etc.

a·nath·e·ma

n. pl. a·nath·e·mas

1.. A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.

2.. A vehement denunciation; a curse: " the sound of a witch's anathemas in

some unknown tongue " (iel Hawthorne).

3.. One that is cursed or damned.

4.. One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned: " Essentialisma belief in

natural, immutable sex differencesis anathema to postmodernists, for whom

sexuality itself, along with gender, is a 'social construct' " ( Kaminer).

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[Late Latin anathema, doomed offering, accursed thing, from Greek, from

anatithenai, anathe-, to dedicate : an , ana- + tithenai, to put; see dh- in

Indo-European Roots.]

Wanita

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Wanita Sears wrote:

>While we're parsing out what a - theist is or isn't to religiosity, the

pantheist http://www.pantheism.net/ hasn't come up. Mikhail Gorbachev is not

defined an atheist there. Think of Russia's science progress.

>

Thanks, Wanita. What great company to be in: Carl Sagan,

Hawkings, et al. Yoga may well be pantheistic philosophy, which I had

never considered before. On second thought, after browsing through the

Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by BKS Iyengar, I must conclude

yoga is more of a panentheistic philosophy:

I.25 tatra niratisayam sarvajnabijam

" God is the unexcelled seed of all knowledge. "

And Guruji's commentary to I.26: " He is all and all is He. "

I like an immanent and transcendent God, as I think there is more than

we can see of the universe, since we are bound in space-time

conceptually, yet our equations are not.

Deanna

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I must conclude

> yoga is more of a panentheistic philosophy:

>

> I.25 tatra niratisayam sarvajnabijam

> " God is the unexcelled seed of all knowledge. "

>

> And Guruji's commentary to I.26: " He is all and all is He. "

>

> I like an immanent and transcendent God, as I think there is more

than

> we can see of the universe, since we are bound in space-time

> conceptually, yet our equations are not.

>

> Deanna

As a pantheistic polytheist, I get quite a bit from yoga/Hinduism.

The immanent/transendent, numinous Deity seems to fit me and my

conception of the world better than any other God-concepts I have

found or have found me. The words I wrap around my experiences seem

to be most closely mirrored by the still existing words of Hinduism

and a few in the Germanic/Islandic Sagas.

Connie H.

[Guest guest]

>As a pantheistic polytheist, I get quite a bit from yoga/Hinduism.

>The immanent/transendent, numinous Deity seems to fit me and my

>conception of the world better than any other God-concepts I have

>found or have found me. The words I wrap around my experiences seem

>to be most closely mirrored by the still existing words of Hinduism

>and a few in the Germanic/Islandic Sagas.

>Connie H.

>

Groovy Connie! Most folks get stuck in the view they grow up learning

without ever even considering other possibilities. Yoga often follows

the teachings of Jesus better than the Christian churches, imhe. Oh,

and Eastern psychology is different than Western thought as well - citta

and manas vs. the mind.

Deanna