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Dualism Didn't Make Sense

Even as a child I remember thinking that I, as well as all the plants and animals, were what went to make up Nature. Even though our family went to church on Sundays I never thought it logical that God was way out there in Heaven. None of our various ministers seem to have the foggiest notion of where Heaven was. My mother was an agnostic and admitted it didn't make sense to her either. I didn't know it but I was a Pantheist and if someone had tried to explain Panentheism to me I wouldn't have liked having God way out here somewhere. I used to play in a rain-forest on an island where we owned about 100 acres, and it sure seemed to me God would like "The Island" better than being out in empty space.

When I was about 17 I was asked to sing at a Truth convention. This was one of the New Thought religions and I discovered they didn't think God was "way out" there either. They said we were all God. I liked this idea because now God and I and The Island were all One. It felt comforting to know God had been playing with me on The Island. Many years later I began to realize that this Oneness extended to the most remote galaxy and down into the smallest sub-atomic particle and all were sentient. This Panpsychism is a lot to chew on and I haven't totally digested it yet but it sure tastes good.

For more on "The Island" see: You Can't Go Home Again in Other Articles