Word: pantheism
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From where does the idea of a world of likes come? In part from a belief in universal brotherhood (a belief that is parodied, however, when one pretends that the ideal already exists). In part from a trendy ecological pantheism with its misty notions of the oneness of those sharing this lonely planet. In part from the Enlightenment belief in a universal human nature, a slippery modern creation that for all its universality manages in every age to take on a decidedly middle-class look. For the mirror-image fantasy derives above all from the coziness of middle-class life...
...security from Cyprian. He gives her that and more. He guides her education in Latin and Greek and arms her with orthodoxy: "This beauty all around us modern man mistakes for God," he tells her on a drive through the countryside. He denounces the love of nature as pantheism, "a particularly American error," and goes on to warn Felicitas that she will come to know the rottenness...
...Great Church of Nature" as it is seen in Adams' photographs: the experience has become culturally impossible. That has also worked to Adams' advantage. By now, his photographs of lakes, boulders, aspens and beetling crags have come to look like icons, the cult images of America's vestigial pantheism...
...individualism and converge at the "Omega Point" with the Omega -God. Instead of God's creation at the beginning of time, Teilhard emphasized instead his ongoing and future creative activity. To orthodox critics, this vision destroyed the distinction between man and nature, and veered perilously close to pantheism...
...discontents. Gnomic and unpolitical, ER is part of the new solipsism and characteristic of a lot of people who, disillusioned by the radical politics in the '60s, withdrew into the various styles of the "personal growth" movement. Reich's version is a kind of Peter Pantheism in which he offers his own autobiography as a guide to a never-never land. Natural beauty and loving friends heal the troubled soul there, and such things as lust, jealousy, guilt and evil hardly seem to exist...