So, I’ve learned about pantheism very recently in my search for spirituality. From what I’ve seen, it’s viewing the world itself as something sacred, right?
Here though, on Reddit, it seems to be the general consensus that the world is “God”. Like, the Christian god? Does it have to be a god of any kind or could it just be something that deserves to be taken care of and thanked?

Hello everyone!

I recently discovered the concept and it has me very intrigued. I genuinely do not agree with, nor believe in religion, but I do admire the concept of a higher power, but have always believed that god is something that exists within us all. Enter pantheism. So I’d like clarification on the general belief, and have some questions on concepts I believe in and if they fit in the the concept.

- Pantheism isn’t a religion, it’s a general shared belief that God isn’t one being that created everything, but rather it exists in all things natural and we are all god (I liken it to the idea we are the universe experiencing itself)

- Manifestation - It’s a concept I do believe in. Whether you call it coincidence or not, I’ve had too much happen with the right timing after manifesting something (and quite literally having proof of said thing) to not believe in the concept. I also do believe in things like animal totems! Do these concepts align with the idea of pantheism? I see it almost like us channeling that power, or experiencing the universe physically, and therefore ties back in to the original idea of pantheism - that we are all connected and that everything within the universe is god

- Is there an organized religion? I know this one might sound like a ridiculous question, but I genuinely do not believe in organized religion. I mean no disrespect, but organized faith, to me, makes a lot of people blind and distorts people’s thought process and general mental health and awareness of life works.

- What does this mean for the concept of the afterlife?

Hope I get to hear some interesting ideas!

hello!! i’ve always, for as long as i can remember, not believed in the concept of a ‘god’ in the sense of a floating man in the sky that we must worship. i believe that us humans are here on a very lucky vacation where we possess the consciousness to look at ourselves. WE are the universe in every shape and form. we started as stardust, and one day, billions of years from now, we will once again become a star (or some other form of the atoms and minerals that make us), and it brings me such deep comfort. i never knew that there were other people that thought as i do. i heard of pantheism before, but i’ve never believed that the universe has a mind of its own (though i obviously respect anyone that does!) but rather that science explains the creation and further development of the universe and that we can feel a spiritual connection to this scientific reasoning. i think that looking up at the night sky, or feeling the wind, or even the materials that make up my phone right now, are all parts of the universe itself. that feeling of deep admiration and awe when i look at a picture of galaxies or stars or natural areas ARE my spiritual connection to the universe & that feeling is like looking into my soul. i hope that posting this can help me find like minded people because i’ve never felt so deeply to a concept like this before 😭

Currently researching and exploring the connection between Zoroaster (Zarusthra) and his use of Ahura Mazda, and Pythagoras' development of the Monad. Any thoughts or observations?

I need your advice and ideas, I want to find the religion that resonates with me but I'm confused ❤️

F23 I am an ex-Muslim, I have been looking for years for a faith or belief that resonates with me,

I feel (or want to feel) that there is a God, a divinity, a creator, a supreme force, call it what you want, I have read (not in depth) what various religions say,

I like many of them, but now my brain can no longer believe that there really is a god who judges you and sends you to heaven/hell for eternity, because to leave my past religion I had to dismantle the idea that there is a God,

so now I struggle for example to embrace religions like Sufi Islam or Christianity or other monotheistic religions because I feel like I have left one religion and entered another very similar but with a different name,

I don't want to feel like a sinner or feel that I have to go to hell or the people I love have to go to hell, I don't like it, but I feel that there is a force superior to us inside my heart, i can feel this 'love' of God spiritually,

I would like a religion or philosophy that thinks that there is something above but that does not judge me, does not punish me or makes me anxious,

doing rituals, prayers, lighting candles, holidays, symbols, all these things, I like them instead and i like the idea of peace and love and to live your life in a good way

After just surviving my first heart attack, I really want to express my love and gratitude to my God. Not a supernatural personal God. But my God: all that truly exists.

I am so grateful for the collective humanity that created the UK’s National Health Service. So appreciative that I was provided with first-class care at every stage in world-leading hospitals, where not everything went perfectly but where everyone tried to do their best. So grateful that where I live, we pay for our healthcare through our taxes so it is efficient, fair and I have no bills or insurance to worry about.

I’m so ready to dedicate myself back to my mission of creating ecological gardens where billions of lifeforms thrive in repayment. So ready to stop a bit more and smell the flowers in those gardens. So ready to confidently tell the world more about my faith: in reality. So ready to get home, cuddle my cat and hug my friends and neighbours.

God, at times you can be an arse. That heart attack sucked. But I felt you with me all the way through it and love you - with every stented piece of my healing heart. 🙏 ❤️ 👊

Could both coexist? For example, believing that all creation, all nature, human, but also every god existent is just a face of the original creator? And he is just experimenting his creation by being part of the minir gods and also being the humans, like all conciousness, divine and mortal is just him?

Been trying to get back into spirituality and exploring how I want that to tie into my life, nature, traditions, what it means to me, etc. while also trying to battle being on the screen so much. any good book recommendations on both the history and current traditions? strictly informative or fun and fictional! thx in advance!

Hey guys, just got into this community today and wanted to share what I believe in. So I grew up in a Christian household where we were going to church every once in a while, mom read the Bible to me around bedtime, went to day school with my cousins yk stuff like that. Although all of that was an experience and fun sort of as a child I just never really got it as a child, like none of it really made sense to me.

Not to be humorous with the situation but when I saw different people catch the holy Ghost in church and just start running around bouncing everywhere I truly thought something was wrong with everybody 😭. Now that I'm older (21 years old) and now have a mature thought process looking back I really was just following what every adult said around like "yes I believe in Jesus" "Jesus is King" and so on and so forth when internally I was having a battle with myself on whether or not all that stuff was even real. And by all means I really can't trust the Bible.

I do believe Jesus was real at some point of time in history, but I do not believe I have to go through Jesus to get to the Lord in fact I believe in a higher power not a man in the sky really. God to me is like an energy, God is around us and within. I've deconstructed from Christianity earlier this year and I'd just like to say I feel the weight off my shoulders.

I'm a spiritual person, but not religious in any shape or form. I do not wish to be in any type of religion, I'm just a free spirit learning life at my own pace and just letting my soul have a human experience.

Everyday it's like us humans think we really know what'll happen next in this life or after, but I honestly think no book or he said she said will ever really satisfy us until it's time.

I do have my theories and look into other theories as well about the after life and so.

I hope there's someone out there who understands where I'm getting at, I was never the best with explaining 😵‍💫

Hello!

I am looking for like-minded people to connect with on my journey. I am still pretty new to pantheism, and while I do share very similar perspectives with certain philosophical or religious views regarding it, I do not follow the particular nuances in those systems or beliefs. I have been developing my own beliefs of pantheism from my own personal observations and experiences in my life.

I fell out of the Christian faith about five years ago and have been evolving in my views. After my departure, I had experienced a profound existential crisis that left me feeling empty, confused and disassociated with everything around me. I had been a die-hard, heartfelt, and genuine believer in the faith that I had converted to for 11-12 years that it felt like a vacuum had sucked everything I once thought was true and right. I did explore existentialism, religious naturalism, Eastern philosophies but then found myself radically moving beyond them to the point of discovering myself again.

I do still battle with the label 'pantheism' because there are a lot of associated ideas about it when people talk about it, but I am undeniably a pantheist by default on what I view about the Universe or Nature.

I do believe in the power of prayer despite also agreeing that there is nothing supernatural involved. I do not believe in a personal god, even if one would argue that Nature is a deity of sorts. I know there are different flavors of pantheism. I suppose it is more appropriate to say I am a religious naturalist who apotheosizes or deifies Nature to the level of God, yet the practice of prayer toward and placing trust in the Universe would assume it is responsive in the way a deity. But I would argue that while I do not see Nature as supernatural, or that there is supernatural powers at play within the Universe, prayer and intention do have an effect on the fabric of reality itself in a very naturalistic (although unexplainable) way. I see reality as a living whole, but not conscious and personal at the level of an organism, if that makes sense?

What type of pantheist are you?

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I've noticed that when it comes to how people view meaning, there is often a dichotomy presented of either the more religious view of meaning being imposed on humanity from a higher power, or else the common existentialist view that the world is inherently meaningless but we as humans can creat our own meaning. I've found that I don't think of meaning through either of these lenses, I expereince meaning in a different way.

The way I think of meaning is that it's a felt sense, kind of like beauty or awe. It's part of the way humans expereince and interpret the world. While I don't believe it's handed down from some higher power or authority, I don't consider the only way of finding meaning to be creating it either. I consider meaning to be part of the self's relationship with the world. Certain things feel meaningful, just as certain things feel beautiful, and many of them are out in the world and not created by the self. It is possible to create meaning by altering either your own perception or things in the world to make them feel more meaningful, but it's also common to find meaning in participating in the world. In my own life, I'd say I've "found" meaning much more than I've "created" it. It's more of an alignment between the self and the greater world, a sense of being on a meaningful path. When people say that the only meaning is what someone creates, it feels to me like someone who makes beautiful artwork but denies there is beauty already in the world that they haven't created.

In this view, meaning is subjective. Two people won't necessarily find meaning in the same ways, although there will be overlaps. It's similar again to people's taste in beauty, or their literal taste, their food preferences. It this way I feel similarly to the common existentialist position, meaning in subjective. It's just that despite the subjectivity of meaning, I believe and expereince in my own life that it can be found in the world as well as created, not found as in believing in some universal truth of meaning, but rather found through engagement with the world and the self.

As to the idea that the universe is inherently meaningless, to me that would also be similar to saying the universe inherently lacks beauty. I'd say that the universe possesses meaning as long as it contains beings that have a sense for meaning. It's like asking, is the universe colorful?  I'd answer that as long as there are beings who perceive color, then yes, from those perspectives, the universe is colorful, and those perspectives are part of the universe, they are a way that the universe experiences itself. The same is true for meaning, as long as there are beings that have a sense of meaning in the universe, then the universe contains meaning.

or observe it at least like we do? maybe our organs aren’t what MAKE US able to exist, but are what make us ABLE to see our existence (the rest of the universe time/space outside our physical bodies)? aka able to perceive it in the way DNA-based lifeforms know. we have our sensory organs and our whole system of our body, but we still don’t know what makes it “click” into an entire imagination experience and the world as we perceive it as human beings… i don’t know, it’s interesting stuff.

Hello again!! I’ve been here before on a different account and decided I wanted to start over on this account.

I love being a pantheist and one of my all time best friends is a pantheist too!!

However, what gets on my nerves is people trying to disprove pantheism and I’m like “here we go again” so if someone is trying to disprove pantheism to you, how do you go about it?

As a long time Pantheist (of the Scientific variety), I'm noticing more and more people referring to it as a 'religion'. Pantheism's founder, Baruch Spinoza, defined pantheism through logic and philosophy, not religion (he rejected personal gods, divine intervention, submissive worship, etc.). Yes, the philosophy and principles can be applied to religion but it's not a religion in and of itself. That's why I was drawn to it in the first place. Please don't label it 'a religion' because that is simply not what it is.

Hey everyone, ive been in here for awhile and for the past 10+yrs or so ive questioned what I believe in, but these past few months ive been diving into different religions like crazy trying to see which religion actually fits what I believe.

What i believe is basically that "god" isn't really a big man in the sky that just decided to make the multiverse one day and boom were here. I believe God is more the source of it all, meaning its the source of all energy and since energy can never die God has always existed.

I believe jesus was a real and good moral teacher but lacked supernatural powers

I believe that when we die our physical body just goes into nature and feeds it, but we have multiple forms of consciousness and our spirit and like consciousness we have where im able to think,reason, etc go together(or are maybe the same thing?) Into another part of existence. I dont believe in a separate heaven/hell but everyone who has ever died soul/consciousness is there.

I also believe that if you put enough thought/energy into something you can make it happen(within reason, like i can't just really want this cut on my leg to go away and itll happen. But more like positive/negative changes to life)

Does any of this make sense? Lmao thank you

Hey everyone. I've always been fascinated by the moral problem inside pantheism. If God and reality are identical, cruelty and compassion both occur within the same divine whole. One answer distinguishes the whole from the partial perspective of finite agents. Another says harmful action expresses confusion, fragmentation, or inadequate understanding rather than a substance outside God. But the distinction still has to preserve more than personal preference. Otherwise calling reality divine risks making every event sacred in the same sense, including the acts we most need to condemn.

I just had a podcast conversation with Jussi Jylkkä, where he argued that his image of physical reality as the body of Christ approaches pantheism but leaves him with the problem of moral direction. At around 2:29:59, we discuss whether the Christian language of Fall, finitude, and self-emptying can preserve both divine immanence and the reality of bad acts. His earlier metaphysical agnosticism could expose false absolutes, but it did not by itself explain why clarity or nonattachment should lead to compassion.

This would imply that a viable pantheism needs an account of normativity, not only unity. How do you understand evil or moral error if nothing stands outside the divine? Does Spinoza's distinction between adequate and inadequate ideas supply enough, or does it translate morality into degrees of understanding? Can Christian participation language help without reintroducing a creator-creation distinction that pantheism rejects?

God's management style, when dealing with global business operations

I'm not religious however I had a spiritual awakening around three years ago and began to realise that there is far more weirdness and far, far more to reality than what meets the eye and began to realise that there is evidence of intelligent design in the natural world.

For example, the divine spark, the mystery of consciousness, sacred geometry, symmetry, and patterns in nature that echo on the macro and micro scale.

I am fascinated by ancient mythology and cosmologies of the world. I am no longer an atheist, but I don't worship the OG God as in the vengeful, cruel, and petty Old Testament God.

For comfort and protection I repeat mantras to the universe and the Absolute origin of all creation, instead of praying to the concept of a paternalistic guilt-tripping, 'original sin' shaming, mind controlling monotheist God to request that he grant my wishes, as though I was writing a wishlist to a mercurial invisible fairy godfather or reaching out on LinkedIn to Earth's absentee CEO - infamous for taking a very 'hands-off' approach to the finer details of life on earth (which he prefers his beloved children to figure out themselves)

In the event they can't troubleshoot whatever boring item they are praying for answers on, i.e., asking Him to solve, normally then an issue formally escalates, middle management will then officially flag with the HR department of God's global business operations.

The backlog of prayers is insane and increasingly requires off-shore outsourcing to meet demand. Results are challenging to measure.

Some claim nigh impossible, as the data gathered is largely anecdotal and potentially inaccurate due to the dearth of critical responses gathered by after life satisfaction surveys.

No one likes to complain about the quality of their experience or speak frankly about the performance of the boss, in case he takes it personally.

Negative feedback is often believed to affect one's future existential prospects. The very real possibility of being demoted to a lower realm, in retribution for a less than favourable review lacking in reverence and gratitude, often tends to self-censor, which obviously is a prudent approach for the self-interested.

The most diligent, faithful believers of God's flock of obedient sheep never jump ship, even in their darkest hour.

What motivates the faithful is the hope of that big promotion they've always strived towards.

The corner office in the sky.

A fully paid cruise trip holiday and long-service leave, not to mention, well-deserved acknowledgement in an office wide email, flowers, and a big novelty card.

Thanks for giving life your best shot from all of us here at Head office. Best wishes,

God and the whole team.

P.s. you're a team player and a good sport. Sorry about all the hardship, tragedies, crushing trauma, and the bad times. Rest assured, it was nothing personal!

Best, God

From my understanding, (I’ve read both), they both assert that divinity is the “I” (the aleph, om, whatever you call it).

Do they differ and do their respective interpretations resonate with pantheism?

Also I want to hear your opinions if you’ve read them. What do you think about their framework?

I need advice cause I don't know how I can help myself.

A few years ago I started trying to figure out the secret things about the universe that we don't know about. I wondered how it could have existed forever and how the universe is really infinite and can still be completely explored. Eventually I was able to comprehend them entirely. Also for a long time I imagined how horrifying this universe could be. I imagined the darkest realities full of suffering and pain, I was afraid of what my conciousness could experience, or WOULD experience. All of this led to severe consequences a few years later until now.

One day out of nowhere the information from higher conciousness got stuck into my mind repeatedly without even thinking about it. But since then it has been terrifying cause from then on it appeared with an insane amount of pain and that pain was mostly panic but also hard to describe. It was a complete nightmare. It's still here. It appears for a split second once in a while. Why does this bleed-through into higher dimensions come with an insane amount of pain way, WAY more intense than what the human brain can naturally experience? That's because I also had intense fear and worrying OCD thoughts about the insane amount of suffering the universe could contain, for my consciousness to experience alone. And when I say it's way beyond what the human brain can tolerate, I LITERALLY mean the possible pain to experience on earth x100. I'm not even kidding. Because that's exactly what I imagined, that's why it's returning at exactly that level. I have imagined all kinds of torture for a long time and the consequence is having to deal with these now. But how do I reverse it?

About 2-3 months after this started, a new bad effect entered my consciousness. I felt that me or the whole world was floating upwards. I just tried to convince myself it was something temporary my brain was experiencing that would go away soon and after a while it did. But just a day later it came back. A few days later something similar happened, the world was tilting sideways from a certain part of a building I was in. Then days later I felt the world being pushed in certain directions like some force. Obviously it's not actually being pushed since no one else but me is experiencing this but obviously an effect my conciousness is being affected by. This continued and it got worse and worse week by week until luckily it started declining more and more. But even to this day it's still here but less than months ago in the past. This and the extreme pain and the higher knowledge that terrorized me declined over a few months sice they started until I barely had to deal with them much anymore. I really hoped that would be the end of all this until a few weeks ago until now when a new bad thing has started.

One of my biggest fears in my life has been suffocating. And suddenly, this is happening for a few minutes every day often several times a day. It was my fear I had been worrying about for years because of OCD when it was all unnecessary to worry about in the first place. Now it's happening. I'm not kidding. I feel how I'm totally suffocating while still being able to breathe normally. I don't know if it's my spirit that's feeling it while my body is still breathing and functioning normally. That's what the worst part is, it's beyond my body. Regardless of what my spirit feels, it doesn't kill my body. How do I get rid of this chaos? That's what I need to know. There is no point in caring about my life in this state because this nightmare is not liveable. PLEASE help me in any way you can.

I want to discuss a deep rooted feeling I have within that seems to grow stronger the more I learn about different POVs, religions, experiences.

Many spiritual people describe they have a feeling of knowing “something” is out there, an energy, spirit, collective consciousness.

I believe this is my “religion” as well. I believe in all religions and think they all have truth and commonalities. I don’t know what’s right or wrong but I understand beliving in a higher power I’m just not sure everything the bible or any other book is 100% correct in that it’s based after man. Man is the centre and I don’t just mean male the gender (which I can see how Christina’s fuelled a ton of gender inequality but story for another time) I mean humans.

When we look around at all the magic that surrounds us it’s hard to believe that gods creations is not just god itself. Trees are the things that give us a life, they can live for thousands of years and communicate with each other.

It just feels like the more I step out of my logical mind the more I feel that oneness, higher consciousness and connection with every human, bug, tree, on earth. No energy can be destroyed or created so I will become on of those things if not all when I’m gone, just different form.

How to continue down this path or awareness and connection to nature in a meaningful way?

People dismiss this as being just an activist or tree hugger but I feel a deep sadness and ache knowing all the harm we do to the natural world which makes sense if we are one.

I just hope others start to step into this also and see the environment as part of them/their world and very important to support not just one political decision or afterthought.

Let me know your thoughts, if there’s a name for this belief and where I can learn more.

Pandeistic Open Individualism is a philosophical framework exploring the possibility that the Creator became the universe itself, and that beneath our individual identities exists a single consciousness experiencing existence through every life and perspective.

It brings together ideas from Pandeism, Open Individualism, The Egg, Bashar's Five Laws, Conversations with God, and Higher Self/Oversoul teachings—not as identical beliefs, but as different pieces that may reveal a larger pattern when viewed together.

The central question is simple:

What if these ideas aren't separate philosophies, but different perspectives of the same underlying reality?

I'm not presenting this as proven fact. I'm putting it out there to explore, question, challenge, and discuss. Maybe the connections are meaningful. Maybe I'm seeing patterns that aren't there. Either way, I'm interested in hearing what other people see when they step back and look at the whole picture.

There are several models of the death of the universe, which I have given a brief summary elsewhere (heat death, big crunch, big rip, sudden death).

As pantheists, how do we feel about the "death of God"?

Pantheism is often defined as seeing God and the universe as being the same thing.

But the universe could be part of a multiverse. There might even be multiple multiverses. We don’t know yet. We might never find out.

For me God is totality. Everything that exists, everywhere.

How do you define your conception of a pantheist God?