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An examination of what other world religions have to offer toward harmonizing relationships between the human and non-human world.

Religion Without Revelation by Julian Huxley, New American Library, 1957.

The author, usually thought of as an atheist, affirms that religion is necessary to mankind, but that it need not be based upon superstition but upon intelligence and can be made compatible with the scientific method.

Original Blessing by Matthew Fox, Inst. for Creation Spirituality, 1984.
This ex-Dominican theologian argues for a Christian spirituality which celebrates passion, playfulness, and ourselves as part of the earth process. He contrasts this "Creation spirituality" with the historically predominant "Fall/Redemption spirituality."

The Upanishads: The Breath of the Eternal ed. by Swami Prabhavananda & Frederick Manchester, New American Library, 1957.
The original texts of Hinduism translated from the Sanskrit, meditate on the unity of self and the All.

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, translated by R.B. Blakney, New American Library, 1955.
The basic text of Taoism, filled with wisdom of the awareness of the Universe of the ancient Chinese.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk, Harper & Row, 1979.
A book about Wicca, or Witchcraft ( not Satanism), the pre-Christian form of paganism practiced by agricultural people of Europe, currently regaining popularity especially in feminist circles.

The Book of the Vision Quest by Steven Foster, Island Press, 1980.
Not merely insights, but "personal transformation" to be achieved in the Wilderness, derived from the fundamentals of Amerindian religion.

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For more information about Pantheism, or questions about this website please contact Harold Wood at ups@pantheist.net Pantheism \Pan"the*ism\, n. [Pan- + theism.]: Any doctrine, philosophy, or religious practice that holds universe [cosmos], taken or conceived of as the totality of forces and/or matter, is synonymous with the theological principle of God.

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