Is Animism Patheistic?

[Shane99X]

Do you believe we are all one?

[heron]

That isnt pantheism.

[Shane99X]

sure it is.

god is everything.

you
me
leaf
rock
star
tree
dust

We are all connected to and are apart of the source which is god which is everything.

what do you think pantheism is?

[heron]

But you asked do you believe WE are all ONE, not if god is everything.

But you are going to get all caught up in labels if you ask if God is
everything. Many would say Goddess is everything, which of the
Earth, She is in everything, but she IS the earth, not everything.

If by God you mean a Divine Spirit, then yes Divine Spirit is everything.

Anima is in everything.

on a molecular level, yes we are all one.

Spirtually, no we arent all one, but we
are part of a whole.

And as to Pantheism, it can also mean belief in
a pantheon(s) of more than one diety.

Pantheism n.
1) A doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena.
2) Belief in and worship of all gods.

Source: The American Heritage¬ Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

pantheism
n 1: worship that admits or tolerates all gods
2: the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God

[TrippinBTM]

I think animism is actually the opposite of pantheism, where each thing is its own spirit. There is the tree spirit, the rock spirit, the dog spirit, and the human spirit. Some forms actually say every object has its own specific spirit, so this one elm tree has a spirit, and that other elm tree has another (sounds more like a soul to me).

But perhaps at the root it is all seen as one thing, or as coming from one thing. I'm not THAT familiar with animism, really, and it's pretty diverse anyways.

[heron]

Thats pretty much what i was getting at too.

THanks for the intellegent opinion Trippin,
I always enjoy what you have to say.

[TrippinBTM]

thank ya, sir, the feeling is mutual :)

[TreeFiddy]

pantheism
n 1: worship that admits or tolerates all gods
i thought this was called henotheism?

[heron]

No, that would be more like a really open minded Christian, like "There is only one god, mine, but if you want to believe in your other gods then I accept that"

[TreeFiddy]

ahh i see

[themnax]

we're all connected. it's not like we're only just one thing. there's all kinds of different things. tangable. nontangable. but we're not completely seperate either. sometimes we can come pretty close to see out of each others eyes, but most of the time, if we try to do that, we're just immagining that we are.

if you have a jar without a lid on it, the air inside of it isn't just the same as the air outside of it. i mean it has an identity of being the air inside THAT jar, but at the same time, since there's no lid on the jar closing it, can you really say precisely and absolutely that the air inside stops and the air outside begins at some absolute one point? do you see what i'm saying? that these things are continuous with each other, and yet there is each having its own idinentity. its own 'beingness'.

so you can say in one sense there is no self and no other, and at the same time there is this having your own intrinsic inclinations some of which you are born with, maybe from another life or lives it that's how it is, and some you develop as you go along in each life or at least this one.

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[TrippinBTM]

^nice metaphor dude, that works really well