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Researchers at the Sussex University’s Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science in England have created a virtual reality experience that mimics the visual hallucinations induced by LSD or Psilocybin.
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wrote a new post, Pantheism Short Documentary Wins Audience Award November 4, 2017 @ 9:00 am
A new documentary about the “Luminaries of Pantheism” mural in Venice Beach, California has won the “Audience Award” at the Marina Del Rey Film Festival. The annual festival screened over 150 films between October […]
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Bestselling religious studies author and television personality Reza Aslan has written a new book, “God: A Human History”. In it, he promotes an untraditional pantheistic view of God where creation and creator are […]
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wrote a new post, What the “All” in Pantheism Really Means October 14, 2017 @ 9:09 am
Pantheism asserts that all physical things are divine, not that all ideologies and religious beliefs are accurate or true. The “all” in Pantheism denotes all energy/matter… as in, all objects and elements, i.e. […]
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of Nevada City, California created the local Arts & Music group
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wrote a new post, Pew Study Shows Marked Increase in ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ October 5, 2017 @ 4:55 pm
A recent Pew Research Center study showed that Americans are growing increasingly less religious, opting to identify as “Spiritual But Not Religious,” rather than maintaining a single religious ideology. In jus […]
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wrote a new post, Funerals for the Spiritual But Not Religious September 1, 2017 @ 5:10 pm
For hundreds of years, particularly in the West, funerals have been officiated by religious leaders – priests, ministers, rabbis – in pious ceremonies that focused on the passing of the individual. In the last 50 […]
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Ellis Keyes replied
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wrote a new post, Former Dean of Yale Law School Writes About His Modern Form of Pantheism August 19, 2017 @ 10:00 am
The former Dean of Yale Law School, Anthony Kronman, has written a 1,176 page book entitled, “Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan,” describing his own personal philosophy. Kronman is a professor and received both […]
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posted an update August 11, 2017 @ 10:01 pm
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This past week, Mark Zuckerberg said warnings about artificial intelligence — such as those made recently by Elon Musk – were “pretty irresponsible.” In response, Musk tweeted that Zuckerberg’s “unders […]
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wrote a new post, Comedian Jim Carrey Declares, “Everything is God. Everything is Divine” August 4, 2017 @ 11:12 am
In a new video posted online, Comedian Jim Carrey preached to a gang rehabilitation group led by Jesuit Gregory Boyle and stated,
“They talk about omnipresence in church and nobody really thinks about what that m […]
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posted an update July 28, 2017 @ 7:52 pm
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posted an update July 28, 2017 @ 7:51 pm
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wrote a new post, Poll Names Dawkins’ “The Selfish Gene” as the Most Influential Science Book of All Time July 21, 2017 @ 8:00 am
A new public poll conducted by The Royal Society reflects the influence famed evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins has had on our modern zeitgeist. Asked to choose the most influential science book […]
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wrote a new post, 2016 Deadliest Yet for Environmental Defenders July 13, 2017 @ 1:28 pm
According to a new ‘Defenders of The Earth’ report released by Global Witness, 2016 was the deadliest year yet for environmental activists. The report found that an average of almost 4 activists were killed per […]
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wrote a new post, Singer Kesha Declares Her God is Nature July 12, 2017 @ 12:25 am
American singer and songwriter Kesha (Kesha Rose Sebert) is releasing her first single in almost four years, “Prayer,” a spiritual themed song she says is about, “learning to let go and realize that the universe […]
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wrote a new post, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple Reopens June 30, 2017 @ 7:10 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Church Congregation of Oak Park, Illinois has announced that after two years of renovations, it is re-opening Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Unity Temple. Some consider the building to be […]
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wrote a new post, Nature is God June 25, 2017 @ 1:48 pm
We know that Nature is actually responsible for most of what religious people attribute to God- the perpetual creation, formation and maintenance of all Life in the Universe (i.e. the Deistic creative […]
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wrote a new post, The Nature of the Omnia June 25, 2017 @ 9:21 am
There is to be found in Nature, an incredible, all-encompassing life-force or power, which I call the “Omnia” (Latin for ‘all’ or ‘everything’). This word not only denotes all energy/matter in the physical […]
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wrote a new post, Did Nat Geo’s Albert Einstein Biopic Series ‘Genius’ Falsely Suggest Einstein Was a Traditional Theist? June 15, 2017 @ 1:11 am
National Geographic’s biopic series “Genius” about the life of Albert Einstein is receiving positive feedback, according to user reviews from the movie database, IMDB. However, the latest episode, the eighth in a […]
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Reginald replied
PS Here is what I think a particularly good Wikipedia article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein
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Reginald replied
I have to thank you for this quote. It is the best evidence of Einstein’s belief in God I’ve yet come across. I too saw “Genius” recently and was muttering out loud if there was any documentation of Einstein actually saying that only God could have created the universe. I’m not that surprised that there probably is not. But, people not familiar with theology often confuse not believing in a “personal God” with personally not believing in one. Einstein’s quote is a wonderful example of someone quite emphatically believing in God’s existence, but just not in the popular conception of such a belief.
Not accepting the idea of “a personal God” simply means that Einstein did not believe in a man with a long, gray beard in the clouds, busily doling out rewards and punishments for everyone on earth. And Einstein probably also meant that he didn’t believe that Jesus, Buddha or Rama were fully Divine. But his second sentence quickly puts to rest any debate on whether Einstein personally believed in God. “His God” was smart enough to create principles which perform those tasks in a much more reasonable (and efficient?) fashion, as any God that does not play dice with the universe would. In theological terms, this is often referred to as the difference between a God with form, and a God without form. Einstein is stating rather unequivocally that he (personally) believes in the latter. But that God is no less the Primal Cause; omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, than the God with form, i.e. a personal God. And Einstein’s universe which is ruled by those “immutable laws”, which reward good punish evil, seem to be identical with the Law of Karma, with which Einstein was reportedly very familiar.
So, it would seem that professor Einstein was simply more Hindu than Christian, Jewish or Buddhist (seeing as Buddhists don’t accept the traditional idea of God at all) in his cosmology.
So, thanks once again.
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