What are we talking about, when we talk about God? There’s no doubt that something has been lost with the pervasive decline of religion in the modern world. Society is fractured. We lack a shared framework. We’re tired of trying to work everything out. It’s easier just to avoid thinking at all.
Which is in some ways the point of religion – to avoid having to reinvent the wheel when it comes to purpose and morality. In its absence, we are adrift.
Here at the Hidden Power Podcast one thing has been clear all along: we need to put the Biosphere at the centre of our governance models, and as Lynne White proposed over Fifty years ago – religion may be the key. What is a governance model, if not the prioritising of what is important?
In this episode, Ed sets out various ideas about God, laying them against the Biosphere like a series of well-formed suits.
Talking points:
- Context of this episode: nature in its maternal aspect
- What are we talking about when we talk about God
- Some theologies – Scott Littleton, Monotheism, Carl Jung
- Worship is for the Worshipper
- Gods as forces of nature, as the highest thing
- Explanation – God vs Science
- God as unifying moral compass
- The symbol of human value
- Spirit – team spirit
- Faith – God as purpose, God as love
- Accountability – God, People
- Communication – the golden rule and the biosphere
- God the fixer and the prime minister of Australia
- Deism vs Pantheism
- What is God? Why can’t He be the biosphere?
Links:
Carl Jung – read by Alan Watts, shortly after Jung’s passing in 1961 (YouTube)
Accountability buddies (NY Times)
A workable version of pantheism (podcast):
Water and God (The Compass – podcast)
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