Radical Pantheism

‘Ordering is God’

The world is GOD in analogue

Pantheism secularises the divine

Essays on Pantheism The Standard God Model of Pan’theism Introduction Simple overview What is the God Pan? Who is a pantheist? The crux of pantheism The pantheist’s belief about the world Pantheism, the distributed network view of creation Death and the Pantheist The Pantheist’s response to system’s failure The Pantheist’s ‘good’ Pantheism versus henotheism The pantheist’s purpose Seeing up the arse of God The Pantheist and his dream machine Pantheism & the Upanishads Exiting the ‘Dark night of the soul’ The pantheist’s fundamental a-morality Of G.O.D. and the gods God isn’t merciful The Pantheist’s heaven The pantheist’s spirituality No free lunch GOD is worshipped in the temple End of story Tat tvam asi More essays

In a nutshell The (mono-)theist^1 defines God as one particular^2 order.^3 Subject to that order^4 she emerges in everyday reality as its actual object. The pantheist^5 defines GOD as one self-ordering^6 process. Subject to that ordering process she emerges in everyday reality as its actual object. The henotheist’s God/order platform is closed (source).^7 The pantheist’s GOD/ORDER platform is open (source).^8 Since both the MY ONE GOD henotheist and the ONE GOD as each individual one pantheist emerge as local elaborations of their respective Gods-as-orders-as-platforms^9 both operate as local apps of their orders-as-platforms, hence as (local) gods.^10 The essays are in sequence, i.e. from naïve generalisation to smart because detailed analysis. The really interesting but rather unpleasant (for henotheists) bits emerge from the middle onwards. Later version © 2018 by Victor Langheld

God as dung beetle 1. More specifically described as henotheist, meaning someone who believes in (because imprinted/programmed with) the notion of ‘only my (or our) ONE God’. Henotheism serves the survival needs of the rapacious self-serving (i.e. ‘taking’) infant. 2. Here ‘particular’ means: a specifically limited and so predictable selection (of attributes-as-rules). 3. For ‘order’ read: a (i.e. one = monist acting as monopolist) series of constraints, thus rules. The henotheist (i.e. the ‘only my one God’ believer) experiences that particular order as external, i.e. transcendent. 4. Update ‘order’ to mean: a (i.e. any) singular rules platform (i.e. a fractal) that permits multiple actual, meaning real and identifiable, elaborations. 5. For ‘pantheist’ read: an adult (because de=programmed) individual who believes in the notion of ONE GOD-as-unlimited-identifiable-realities-generating-platform. Pantheism serves the survival needs of the mature, ‘other’-serving (i.e. the ‘giving’) adult. 6. Hence unspecified (i.e. open source) because non-selective, hence unlimited, thus unpredictable. 7. Closed (source) platforms, hence monist (hence infantile) order systems like Christianity, Islam or Buddhism, generate singular local actualities (i.e. as monopolies that operate as totalitarian (i.e. illiberal) capitalist (i.e. asset = power concentrating) autocracies. 8. Open (source) platforms, i.e. mature adult order systems, generate multiple (i.e. indefinite numbers of) local peer actualities. They operate as liberal socialist (i.e. distributed asset = power, hence peer group) democracies. 9. i.e. as basic, i.e. one down or substrate, thus substantive order elaboration (operating) systems. 10. In other words, since all (i.e. as aggregate of each and every one) actualities, i.e. all identifiable realities (to wit, the gods), operate as actual local elaborations-cum-applications of their respective ordering platforms (to wit, of (my) God/order or GOD/Ordering (as such)), they are not basically different from their platforms (as fractals).