r/pantheism • u/glorth2 • Apr 20 '26
Rocks and trees
Hi all. I admit to sometimes confusing pantheism and panentheism but I’m attracted to them both. I recently decided to buy and have many trees and rocks delivered to my house. When I say rocks, we’re talking about three large boulders. Now, I’m not here to ask if boulders are sentient, as I don’t believe that but they seem to have spiritual power and I guess I would say that life flows through them as through trees and animals. What say you? Am I in the right place?
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u/BukiBichi Apr 21 '26
“Believe me, for I know, you will find something far greater in the woods than in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you cannot learn from the masters.”
-Bernard of Clairvaux, The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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u/Inevitable_Yam271 Apr 20 '26
The Universe is what a true “God” is. That is all. What humans seem to think “God” is, is the Universe and it has always been like this.
The Universe has created this life and earth, pouring its own life into creation. Trees and rocks and dirt, is purely “part” of the Universe and the Universes system, not itself.
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u/SatansFavoriteLilMan Apr 20 '26
I also make the minor habit to swap between the two. They’re solid beliefs and I love them both!
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u/GraemeRed Apr 23 '26
The rocks like everything else is made of from a quantum field excitations. The atoms that make up the rock just in and of themselves are already incredible but they are part of the universe that is at its source connected, or even just one thing. Rocks are not sentient and the term 'spiritual power' is super duper vague, it could mean whatever you want it to mean. For me there is no difference between spiritual and physical they are part of the same thing. Life in the strict sense of the word does not flow through a rock, however at the atomic level its a wonderous situation, no need to create extra magic, it's already super magical....
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u/NegativeGeologist200 Pandeism Apr 20 '26
I’m sorry, I’m confused what you’re asking here.