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| holistic idea of the universe. As this is the case, one has to wonder to what degree our ideas about Gaj are useful to us. Do our metaphors for Gaj serve us, or do we serve the metaphors, giving credence by our religious practice to the idea that the universe is fragmented rather than organically, subatomically, and consciously unified?
That the universe may indeed be far more unified than the West has previously allowed will be considered in Chapter 3. However, whether such a proposition can ever be empirically proven (that is, whether we can ever step outside of the universe sufficiently to read the writing on the door and thereby have it confirmed that the universe supports a pantheistic worldview), the fact remains that human beings and human societies will always harbour worldviews. We will always have ideas about Gaj. My intention here is to suggest the grounds upon which we may be able to arrive at new, truly pantheistic metaphors for Gaj, metaphors that hold the potential to renovate religious thought (both Western and Eastern) in the interest of arriving at spiritual thinking consistent with our highest ideals as we have so often expressed them. NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE 1 These are the names for the “One God” worshipped by Christians, Muslims, and Jews respectively. The mono theistic religions all derive from the Torah (which comprises the first five books of the Old Testament), with the Jews |
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