Mysticismistic

To be a pantheist means to think that the universe has a certain consciousness and awareness of itself. That consciousness cannot be understood to a degree which might credibly be used by people to formulate an ideal or perfect morality for obvious reasons. Every tale used to illustrate ideal morality is flawed because it takes place within the constraint of human understanding. That is why there inevitably comes a situation where one must implicitly and explicitly yield one's logic and understanding to the notion that there is a plan in place.

In my life I have seen people who claimed they could 'speak in tongues,' which is to say they believed they were channeling the voice of god when the spattered and carried on. Peculiarly, they always seemed to be speaking in jumbled English. Clearly, I was unmoved, but they (and others) weren't. Some believed the "speakers" were channeling holy spirits or angels, and were actually speaking in a language used in heaven.

I choose to believe that I have a personal consciousness and what one might call "free will." I find it intuitive that I possess a separate consciousness than the rest of the universe, in an existence of infinite possibilities, and that by doing so I may increase the likelihood of such a reality to within a reasonably 'sane' degree of certainty for an earth-primate writing about itself some time about 4,540,000,000 years after the formation of the planet. That is to say I have faith in this belief.

Since all matter is made of energy, and energy can neither be created nor destroyed, we are interwoven with the existence of the earth and the sun. This planet has characteristics of which a character (or deity) might be extrapolated. The spirit of any one of these characters is either the demonstration of a consciousness or a consciousness itself. Life has characters. Humanity has a character. Cultures have characters. People are subject to their character.

Each unique item in the universe informs the whole simply by ever having existed.

There is a difference of opinion among certain world leaders today about the propriety of sensibilities that are violently intolerant of theoretical challenges to certain men's understandings of the consciousness of the universe (or the one above that if you're a panatheist). I can only say that the closer men get to allowing themselves to speak for god the more the god for whom they speak begins to resemble their own proprieties and sensibilities.

For millenia the character of cultures has been marked with the general notion that the culture's ideals, shared commonly by all within it, represent the intentions of the consciousness of the universe. However, the process of decoupling humanity's destiny with old cultures who've created god in their own image doesn't mean ceasing to appreciate the diversity of thought produced by people in our time here.