Comments on: Avatar, Yeats, and pantheism as ‘natural magic’ http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/2009/12/28/avatar-yeats-and-pantheism-as-natural-magic/ A scrapbook of thoughts on arts, culture and the Christian life. Sun, 20 May 2012 11:50:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matthew http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/2009/12/28/avatar-yeats-and-pantheism-as-natural-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Matthew Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:06:47 +0000 http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/?p=1570#comment-889 There are a lot of different takes on this. Though none of this is described in scripture for us (special revelation), and such energy connections are difficult or impossible to observe with our own eyes (general revelation), we really can only conjecture about it. And conjecture we have! If you are bent on denying theism of any sort, this is one of the last metaphysical ideas you can still sort-of keep around. Incidentally, I once heard someone speak on how you should not judge pastors or theologians on what they wrote in their youth. Someone else was (wrongly I think) using some pretty shoddy essays that MLK wrote when he was in seminary to attack him. When someone is 39 though, they are much more mature than at 26. My guess is that God-as-energy-field didn't make into much of his later sermons. Don't know though. There are a lot of different takes on this. Though none of this is described in scripture for us (special revelation), and such energy connections are difficult or impossible to observe with our own eyes (general revelation), we really can only conjecture about it. And conjecture we have! If you are bent on denying theism of any sort, this is one of the last metaphysical ideas you can still sort-of keep around.

Incidentally, I once heard someone speak on how you should not judge pastors or theologians on what they wrote in their youth. Someone else was (wrongly I think) using some pretty shoddy essays that MLK wrote when he was in seminary to attack him. When someone is 39 though, they are much more mature than at 26. My guess is that God-as-energy-field didn’t make into much of his later sermons. Don’t know though.

]]> By: Joshua http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/2009/12/28/avatar-yeats-and-pantheism-as-natural-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-887 Joshua Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:11:26 +0000 http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/?p=1570#comment-887 It kind of reminds me or MLK's doctoral thesis at Boston College. MLK argued that God can also be understood as an energy or force in addition to being understood as a person. With this paradigm, God literally becomes life, love, or any other force which moves through the universe. It kind of reminds me or MLK’s doctoral thesis at Boston College. MLK argued that God can also be understood as an energy or force in addition to being understood as a person. With this paradigm, God literally becomes life, love, or any other force which moves through the universe.

]]> By: Matthew http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/2009/12/28/avatar-yeats-and-pantheism-as-natural-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-885 Matthew Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:09:48 +0000 http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/?p=1570#comment-885 Well, that's a new one for me :) I appreciate some of your ideas. I remember thinking when I was a child that the fact that the moon perfectly eclipsed the sun from our perspective had to be a set up. Well, that’s a new one for me :)

I appreciate some of your ideas. I remember thinking when I was a child that the fact that the moon perfectly eclipsed the sun from our perspective had to be a set up.

]]> By: Gregory Sams http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/2009/12/28/avatar-yeats-and-pantheism-as-natural-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Gregory Sams Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:16:49 +0000 http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/?p=1570#comment-884 James Cameron might have created his own scientific explanation of how pantheism works. But even without that, it still makes rational sense once you fit a big missing piece back into the cosmic jigsaw puzzle. This is the conscious Sun, something intuitively recognized by every culture until the Church, not science, forcibly erased it. What brings life to our bodies is energy. Stars make their own energy fields as they release the light of life to the likes of us. Everything from an atom upwards has an energy field. Dive deeper at www.sunofgod.net James Cameron might have created his own scientific explanation of how pantheism works. But even without that, it still makes rational sense once you fit a big missing piece back into the cosmic jigsaw puzzle. This is the conscious Sun, something intuitively recognized by every culture until the Church, not science, forcibly erased it.

What brings life to our bodies is energy. Stars make their own energy fields as they release the light of life to the likes of us. Everything from an atom upwards has an energy field. Dive deeper at http://www.sunofgod.net

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