According to Armstrong, Sawyer asserts that the form of Perennialism espoused through the mid-20th century by Huxley, Houston Smith, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell, “rather than being a ‘new’ form of perennialism…is what the classic perennialists themselves had in mind.”
The relationship between avocado and flesh, or avocado and pit, is an example of non-duality. (What’s less immediately clear but just as true is the non-dual relationship between flesh and pit, because of their shared “avocadoness.”) It doesn’t mean the flesh doesn’t exist or the pit is an illusion — it simply means they don’t exist independent of their “interbeing” with and within avocado.
I don’t see what is so hard or controversial about observing that the telos or purpose of the universe is to grow purpose like a garden grows crops. We won’t find the purpose by digging into the ground, but nothing at all could grow without that ground. It should also be clear that the crops are not separate from the ground — they are extensions of it in a very real sense — and so the garden is not two things, ground and crops, fused into one. It is one thing that is all of a piece.
The negation of something is not the same as the assertion of its ubiquity. Imagine two identical rooms; one of them is completely full of oxygen, and the other is completely empty of it. You have to spend ten minutes enclosed in one of them. Does it make a difference which one you choose?
WAVING LAYERS OF SOUL This is something I’ve been wanting to write for a long time, but I wasn’t sure how to present it to the public. Dream interpretation? Statement of faith? Visionary insight? Nugget of truth from the collective subconscious? Jungian symbolism? Wishful thinking fantasy? I suspect it involves a little of all these, […]
In most monotheistic traditions, it is understood that God is not a being, not a physical object to be detected with the senses, but the ground of all being, a unified Spirit behind the many detectable things. But then specific claims are made about that Spirit, such as its gender, preferences for human clothing and […]
“One objective truth” doesn’t exist in a human language. As soon as you put Truth into words, it becomes subjective, and the sooner you understand that, the sooner you can embrace the intersubjective Reality that pantheism points us toward…which includes a small dose of omnism.
This article came to my attention via Poffo Ortiz, founder of Biopantheism and a close friend of Not Two. “Evidence for Pantheism,” by Jay N. Forrest of the Spiritual Naturalist Society, is one of the best thesis statements I’ve seen on the matter, as much for the careful steps he makes in developing the argument as […]
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