Guyus Seralius

@guyus_seralius from The Universe

I should first explain that I base all my views on what the universe has taught me so far, on all that I have learned from classrooms, books, magazines, television, family and friends, along with all my own personal life experiences and many hours of deep contemplation. For instance, the scientific discovery that matter and energy cannot be created nor destroyed has helped me conclude that the universe has always existed and always will. I have a huge amount of respect and appreciation for science and the scientific method and believe it is one of the best approaches to predicting and understanding the world. However, I also have a huge amount of respect and appreciation for philosophical thought which aims to be rooted in logic and reason and can help us to responsibly leap beyond the scientific data so as not to become lost in the numbers and the details. I hope to share all my philosophical discoveries with others, so they may see it as I see it. The universe is a remarkable, awesome thing! _______________________________________________________________________________________ My views can best be described as a branch or subset of pantheism; the view that the entire universe is God or that which is the constant causation of our existence. It is also a form of dialectic or dualistic monism, which is the view that all of reality is ultimately a unified whole but must express itself in dualistic terms (often depicted by the Yin-Yang symbol) like two sides of the same coin. My views have often been compared to those of Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Alan Watts, and Eckhart Tolle. Growing up, I was greatly influenced, in passing, by Eastern philosophy and became interested in many of the classic Greek philosophers. So some of my views are similar, but not limited to, Plato’s Ideal Forms, Emmerson’s law of compensation, the scientific law of conservation, and Eastern views like the law of attraction, reincarnation, karma, and Buddha’s middle way. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 'Panmeism' is a word I created to express my own personal tailored views of pantheism. The term literally means ‘all me’ or all is me. At its core, it expresses the view that each can view him or herself to be the entire universe, an infinite system of positive and negative forces that has always existed and always will, because it requires the whole universe in order to exist (in order for anything to exist), and because it is all, ultimately, connected into a single concert. You are the summation of all things, you are that single cosmic concert. Nothing can exist outside the All, nor be independent of it. All things are ultimately interconnected, all is one, and the universe, overall, is ultimately balanced. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I am under the impression that the universe is an infinite system, which has always existed and always will, and that each of us can consider him or herself to be at the apex of that infinite and forever system. I believe this infinite and forever system, which I often call “The Forever All,” is required in order for any of us to exist. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I strongly believe there is a profound meaning and purpose to it all and an inherent goodness, which can never be destroyed. Unfortunately, I believe there is also an inherent darkness, which too can never be destroyed. There can’t be one without the other. But, ultimately, these two forces remain conserved and balanced. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I’ve come to realize that neither science nor religion, independent of the other, can provide a satisfactory explanation to our existence and the existence of the world. I believe ultimate truth will arise only when the scientific thinkers join hands with the spiritual thinkers. Yes, the world can be viewed as a mechanical thing, but at the same time, it is an awesome, divine thing, which ultimately goes beyond full understanding. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I understand that many of my fellow pantheists may not share this view of the self as the universe or that the universe is eternal, that it has always existed and always will. This is to be expected and respected, for we pantheists have a wide range of views that may often vary under the broad umbrella term of pantheism, so no hard feelings if you don't share in my personal version of pantheism, which I call panmeism. You are still my fellow pantheists! ________________________________________________________________________________________ I also believe we have reached a critical point in our history when the ideal society can be truly realized if we can all just learn to work together. Now is the time to permanently throw out the out-dated idea “It’s every man for himself,” and instead adopt the much more compassionate slogan, “All for one and one for all.” Therefore, I invite all thinkers, spiritual and/or scientific to read my essays here at pantheism.com and to eventually visit my personal blog site at guyus.wordpress.com along with view some of my pantheistic YouTube videos at www.youtube.com/guyusseralius _______________________________________________________________________________________ Also check out my Facebook at www.facebook.com/guyus.seralius (and feel free to send me a Friend Request) as well as my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/panmeism _______________________________________________________________________________________ Enjoy! ________________________________________________________________________________________ Guyus Seralius

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Leonard Ren of COOKEVILLE posted an update in the Schools of Pantheism group Agnostic Pantheism October 26, 2017 @ 2:53 pm

You can’t be agnostic and pantheist anymore than you can be agnostic and christian or agnostic and muslim. I am a pantheist and i believe that there are NO supernatural beings or higher power above, behind, or below the universe. The universe already is that higher power and that’s what pantheists believe by definition. You can’t be a pantheist…[Read more]
Leonard Ren of COOKEVILLE posted an update in the Schools of Pantheism group Scientific Pantheism October 26, 2017 @ 2:48 pm

Is anyone interested in discussing how scientific pantheism and atheism are polar opposites! And that we should stop presenting them as compatible.
- Paul Harrison replied
  
  Paul Harrison replied December 20, 2017 @ 5:43 pm
  
  Atheism (in current usage) = disbelief in a creator God or other type of supernatural god.
  Scientific pantheism does not believe in those things. Ergo it is compatible with atheism – ie you can be an atheist and also a scientific pantheist.
  However, that does not mean it is identical with or equivalent to atheism.
  Atheism is simply a negative,…[Read more]
Rey Theriault of Freeport posted an update in the Heightened Awareness group Psychedelic Studies October 25, 2017 @ 4:29 pm

There’s a new research chemical that I came across the other day. The effects were mind blowing. I felt a connection to the universe in a way that I’ve never felt possible.
Nicole C. Scott of The Universe created the international Schools of Pantheism group Pantheist Spirituality July 11, 2017 @ 10:46 am
Pip Norman Denham of Glasgow, United Kingdom posted an update in the Philosophical Discussions group The ’God’ Word July 8, 2017 @ 8:23 am

The Source and Fullfilment of all that is?
Rebecca Koske of South Hadley posted an update in the Environmental Action group Ocean Patrol June 19, 2017 @ 12:14 pm

Hello! It seems like there are lots of members in this group but no discussion is happening. What are people here for? Is each of us trying to do something to educate other people about what is happening to the oceans, are we actively involved in this science necessary to slow the pollution or reverse it? I’m currently in school studying…[Read more]
- Perry Rod replied
  
  Perry Rod replied June 25, 2017 @ 4:58 pm
  
  still working on it… glad you’re here though!
Callum Cooper of The Universe created the international Arts & Music group Didgeridoo April 27, 2017 @ 8:35 am
Poffo Ortiz of Portland, Oregon posted an update in the Schools of Pantheism group Omnideism March 2, 2017 @ 4:23 am

one of my first video interviews with Chandler…
Poffo Ortiz of Portland, Oregon posted an update in the Schools of Pantheism group Omnideism March 2, 2017 @ 4:20 am
Robert E. Fawley of Cincinnati posted an update in the Arts & Music group Photography March 1, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

The bending of light, fog creates.
- Connie Cuellar replied
  
  Connie Cuellar replied January 15, 2018 @ 3:39 pm
  
  Very nice effect.
Robert E. Fawley of Cincinnati posted an update in the Philosophical Discussions group The ’God’ Word March 1, 2017 @ 4:25 pm

I do not use the word \”God\”, I rather use \”god\” or \”divine\” depending on who I am talking to, I do it because it is much easier for most people to understand. Everything is a being and that being is divine.
Rich Blegen of Denver, Colorado posted an update in the Schools of Pantheism group Scientific Pantheism February 6, 2017 @ 1:19 pm

That sounds like a great description for scientific and naturalistic pantheism. It definitely resonates with me. 🙂
Waldo Noesta of Punta Gorda, Florida posted an update in the Writing & Poetry group United Writers February 4, 2017 @ 7:43 pm

Hey folks, my revamped website is back up and running in full. Read articles, essays, and poetry pertaining to Pantheism and other elements of “spirituality for the Next Age” at Not Two

http://www.nondualmedia.org
Waldo Noesta of Punta Gorda, Florida posted an update in the Books & Reading group Pantheism Book Club February 4, 2017 @ 7:40 pm

Hey folks, my revamped website is back up and running in full. Read articles, essays, and poetry pertaining to Pantheism and other elements of “global spirituality for the Next Age” at Not Two

http://www.nondualmedia.org
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied February 6, 2017 @ 3:02 pm
  
  Congratulations…one raised silhouette-chalice to you!
Charles Beebe of The Universe created the international Schools of Pantheism group Scientific Pantheism February 2, 2017 @ 5:25 pm
- Paul Harrison replied
  Paul Harrison replied February 2, 2017 @ 7:32 pm
  
  Thanks Charles. I changed the description and clicked save, but it did not show the change.
  Here’s my new description, please could you get it in there. Thanks.
  Scientific pantheism is a strongly naturalistic approach to pantheism, which encourages deep reverence for Nature and the wider Universe, caring for nature and the planet, promoting human…[Read more]
  Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied February 6, 2017 @ 3:12 pm
  
  Sorry about that, Paul. There was a bug on the Group Details page, which has now been fixed. I went ahead and added your text to the description from the backend, but that does not have the option to notify everyone of the change. If you would still like to notify them, just make a small edit to the new text yourself, check the box to notify…[Read more]
Guyus Seralius of The Universe posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS January 14, 2017 @ 7:19 pm

I think I figured out the problem. I tried to copy and paste one of my WordPress articles including its YouTube video link and for some reason it didn’t like that. Once I deleted the video, which did show up in the editor by the way, and manually “Add Media” and paste in the link and so forth, then it worked. I also noticed your site’s player…[Read more]
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 16, 2017 @ 10:30 am
  
  Thanks, @guyus_seralius! I’m looking into this…
Guyus Seralius of The Universe posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS January 14, 2017 @ 6:54 pm

I just tried to post my first article and I keep getting a 403 Forbidden page which also reads \”A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site.\” Does anyone know why?
- Charles Beebe replied
  Charles Beebe replied January 16, 2017 @ 11:37 am
  
  Hi Guyus, it turns out the 403 you got was due to our firewall. I think I have fixed this; I temporarily set the firewall to ‘learn’ that shared Youtube videos are acceptable as inline links within posts. When you get a chance, I would appreciate it if you could post another article with a Youtube video in it and see if you avoid the 403 response.…[Read more]
  Guyus Seralius replied
  
  Guyus Seralius replied January 16, 2017 @ 11:48 am
  
  I will definitely be happy to try those experiments very soon, likely today, so thanks for letting me know what all you discovered, tried, and fixed!
  
  Guyus Seralius replied
  
  Guyus Seralius replied January 16, 2017 @ 2:58 pm
  
  I tried posting another article as a test (copying and pasting one of my WordPress essays which included images and a YouTube video) and I still got the 403 error, but as soon as I removed the video that does show up in the editor your site uses, then it posted okay. I also did confirm that I could simply paste in a link for a YouTube video…[Read more]
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 17, 2017 @ 10:43 am
  
  Thanks, Guyus. I don’t know what’s different either…when I put the firewall in ‘learning mode’, I did manually add the link, so maybe that’s different somehow from copy-pasting a previous WP post with the links already inline. To my mind, it shouldn’t make any difference, but obviously it does somehow. Out of curiosity, did you copy paste from…[Read more]
Anna Lowell of McCall, Idaho posted an update in the Schools of Pantheism group Biotheism January 8, 2017 @ 7:17 am

Of course I had to find you up in this crazy computer land! Howdy howdy!
Anna Lowell of McCall posted an update in the Books & Reading group Pantheism Book Club January 2, 2017 @ 7:06 pm

Im currently beginning to read \’Belief Without Borders\’ by Mercadante. A book about the \’spiritual but not religious\’. Pretty objective considering it\’s written by a christian (although a spritual wanderer at heart).
- R. Mark Ellis replied
  
  R. Mark Ellis replied January 2, 2017 @ 7:52 pm
  
  Well, here’s a comment. I couldn’t find a “reply” button, so hopefully this meets what you are looking for
- Charles Beebe replied
  Charles Beebe replied January 4, 2017 @ 11:24 am
  
  Hi @ellisd and @anna_lowell! Right now, you “Comment” on an original post (1st level response to a post) and “Reply” to the Comments (2nd and lower level responses). The wording may change, but at this point, you did it as ‘correctly’ as it gets! 🙂
  Anna de Omnia replied
  
  Anna de Omnia replied January 4, 2017 @ 11:42 am
  
  @charles_beebe…practicing 🙂 also, Mark and I were noting that once a ‘comment’ notification shows up in the top right, you can click on it and view them, but after you click on them then your list of notifications goes away. So i just had to navigate back to this page to make this comment. When i just went to send you a personal email, i…[Read more]
  
  Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 4, 2017 @ 12:03 pm
  
  Hi Anna, you can actually get back to your old notifications, it’s just obscured. Basically, the notification marker goes away after you have read the message, but if you hover over the space to the right of the messages icon in the upper right, it will say “No new notifications.” If you click those words, it takes you to your notifications…[Read more]
Perry Rod of Las Vegas posted an update in the Beta Testing group Beta Testing – BUGS December 27, 2016 @ 11:39 pm

* Uploading avatar in “create a group” still has that confusing issue of having both a “Crop/Set” button and a “Finish” button which would lead many to miss the Crop/Set button and just hit Finish. Crop/Set button should just replace Finish button and should probably be accompanied by a “cancel” button so they can try a different picture…[Read more]
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 10, 2017 @ 2:11 pm
  
  I changed the wording of the ‘Finish’ button to ‘Finish Creating Group’. We really need both, since a group creator has the right to skip adding an avatar in step 3. If they use the default avatar instead of uploading an image, the ‘Crop/Set’ button never appears. I have modified the text to be more clear about these two options (default vs.…[Read more]
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Paul Harrison replied December 20, 2017 @ 5:43 pm

Atheism (in current usage) = disbelief in a creator God or other type of supernatural god.
Scientific pantheism does not believe in those things. Ergo it is compatible with atheism – ie you can be an atheist and also a scientific pantheist.
However, that does not mean it is identical with or equivalent to atheism.
Atheism is simply a negative,…[Read more]

Paul Harrison replied
Paul Harrison replied February 2, 2017 @ 7:32 pm

Thanks Charles. I changed the description and clicked save, but it did not show the change.
Here’s my new description, please could you get it in there. Thanks.
Scientific pantheism is a strongly naturalistic approach to pantheism, which encourages deep reverence for Nature and the wider Universe, caring for nature and the planet, promoting human…[Read more]
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied February 6, 2017 @ 3:12 pm
  
  Sorry about that, Paul. There was a bug on the Group Details page, which has now been fixed. I went ahead and added your text to the description from the backend, but that does not have the option to notify everyone of the change. If you would still like to notify them, just make a small edit to the new text yourself, check the box to notify…[Read more]

Charles Beebe replied
Charles Beebe replied January 16, 2017 @ 11:37 am

Hi Guyus, it turns out the 403 you got was due to our firewall. I think I have fixed this; I temporarily set the firewall to ‘learn’ that shared Youtube videos are acceptable as inline links within posts. When you get a chance, I would appreciate it if you could post another article with a Youtube video in it and see if you avoid the 403 response.…[Read more]
- Guyus Seralius replied
  
  Guyus Seralius replied January 16, 2017 @ 11:48 am
  
  I will definitely be happy to try those experiments very soon, likely today, so thanks for letting me know what all you discovered, tried, and fixed!
- Guyus Seralius replied
  
  Guyus Seralius replied January 16, 2017 @ 2:58 pm
  
  I tried posting another article as a test (copying and pasting one of my WordPress essays which included images and a YouTube video) and I still got the 403 error, but as soon as I removed the video that does show up in the editor your site uses, then it posted okay. I also did confirm that I could simply paste in a link for a YouTube video…[Read more]
Charles Beebe replied

Charles Beebe replied January 17, 2017 @ 10:43 am

Thanks, Guyus. I don’t know what’s different either…when I put the firewall in ‘learning mode’, I did manually add the link, so maybe that’s different somehow from copy-pasting a previous WP post with the links already inline. To my mind, it shouldn’t make any difference, but obviously it does somehow. Out of curiosity, did you copy paste from…[Read more]

R. Mark Ellis replied

R. Mark Ellis replied January 2, 2017 @ 7:52 pm

Well, here’s a comment. I couldn’t find a “reply” button, so hopefully this meets what you are looking for
Charles Beebe replied
Charles Beebe replied January 4, 2017 @ 11:24 am

Hi @ellisd and @anna_lowell! Right now, you “Comment” on an original post (1st level response to a post) and “Reply” to the Comments (2nd and lower level responses). The wording may change, but at this point, you did it as ‘correctly’ as it gets! 🙂
- Anna de Omnia replied
  
  Anna de Omnia replied January 4, 2017 @ 11:42 am
  
  @charles_beebe…practicing 🙂 also, Mark and I were noting that once a ‘comment’ notification shows up in the top right, you can click on it and view them, but after you click on them then your list of notifications goes away. So i just had to navigate back to this page to make this comment. When i just went to send you a personal email, i…[Read more]
- Charles Beebe replied
  
  Charles Beebe replied January 4, 2017 @ 12:03 pm
  
  Hi Anna, you can actually get back to your old notifications, it’s just obscured. Basically, the notification marker goes away after you have read the message, but if you hover over the space to the right of the messages icon in the upper right, it will say “No new notifications.” If you click those words, it takes you to your notifications…[Read more]

Charles Beebe replied

Charles Beebe replied January 10, 2017 @ 2:11 pm

I changed the wording of the ‘Finish’ button to ‘Finish Creating Group’. We really need both, since a group creator has the right to skip adding an avatar in step 3. If they use the default avatar instead of uploading an image, the ‘Crop/Set’ button never appears. I have modified the text to be more clear about these two options (default vs.…[Read more]

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