Pondering whether non-theism can be improved by incorporating pantheism.
Various aspects of reality seem weird and mysterious: quantum mechanics, consciousness, mind, information, energy, entropy, time, force, quantum fields and the standard model, special and general relativity, the fact of reality itself.
I accept all these as physical, rejecting the notion of a supernatural or spiritual realm apart from the physical. In other words, the physical universe(s) are all that exist. All these weird and mysterious things are physical, part of physicality.
But when we experience awe and wonder and amazement about it all, shouldn't that feeling be considered an expression of something divine, something sacred? How to add-in this aspect to physicality?
Pondering whether pantheism answers the question. By calling everything God or divinity or whatever, suddenly all the weird and mysterious stuff is explained without invoking the supernatural. This, because God is, by definition, weird and mysterious.
Except that this doesn't explain anything at all. Better to call the weird and mysterious stuff weird and mysterious and leave it at that.
Various aspects of reality seem weird and mysterious: quantum mechanics, consciousness, mind, information, energy, entropy, time, force, quantum fields and the standard model, special and general relativity, the fact of reality itself.
I accept all these as physical, rejecting the notion of a supernatural or spiritual realm apart from the physical. In other words, the physical universe(s) are all that exist. All these weird and mysterious things are physical, part of physicality.
But when we experience awe and wonder and amazement about it all, shouldn't that feeling be considered an expression of something divine, something sacred? How to add-in this aspect to physicality?
Pondering whether pantheism answers the question. By calling everything God or divinity or whatever, suddenly all the weird and mysterious stuff is explained without invoking the supernatural. This, because God is, by definition, weird and mysterious.
Except that this doesn't explain anything at all. Better to call the weird and mysterious stuff weird and mysterious and leave it at that.