Is God the Biosphere? - 3 - The Nature and Meaning of God

The Hidden Power

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

Erasmus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus#The_first_translation

Scott Littleton on God

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity

Carl Jung

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

- read by Alan Watts, shortly after Jung's passing in 1961 (YouTube)

https://youtu.be/15pjQRA80bs

Accountability buddies (NY Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/well/live/habits-health.html

A workable version of pantheism (podcast):

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7w2IJE332ztKAnglGjxohf?si=iFn5qW9eQO68jr-IC150VA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6NOJ6IkTb2GWMj1RpmtnxP

Water and God (The Compass - podcast)

https://www.airr.io/episode/605aae14439f559d6a5c52f0

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