| Home | God? For many people God is a loaded word with a lot of baggage. It seems that man has made God in his own image. I have observed people who believe the Bible to be the only word of God conveniently ignoring the God portrayed in the old testament book of Ezekiel. I certainly wouldn’t want HIM living next door to me. Maybe some of those in the Middle East are taking this God as their model. Even those who believe there is some guiding force in the universe are embarrassed to use the “G” word. That’s why As a Pantheist/Panpsychist I often use the word Mind instead, as I believe God to be pure Consciousness or Mind which permeates the entire universe. Certainly this God is more wonderful and awe-inspiring to me. There are two main types of pantheists; the monistic pantheists and the dualistic panentheists. While pantheists believe all is God panentheists believe God to be an entity apart from the world. To the panentheist pantheism is impossible because the world can’t be all God when God is separate from it. Monistic panpsychism rejects panentheism because of this duality. Since the pantheist believes you and I and the rest of the universe is nothing but God, Panpsychism is compatible with pantheism, as both are monistic. Panpsychism believes the universe and everything in it to be sentient and in some degree conscious. Many panpsychists such as myself believe this sentience or consciousness to be the “Mind of God.” We believe this “Mind” is somehow aware of every other particle in the universe no matter how far they are apart. Even such people as Steven Hawking has used the phrase “the
mind of God,” to indicate what at this time, seems to be beyond
human understanding. |