What Book Should I Give a Strong Pantheist?

Here's a question from Aaron.

Yeah.

Yeah.

As a matter of fact, I do.

Gee, I wonder what would come to mind at this point.

How about story of reality? Because I presume that this book, Conversations with God, which, by the way, strikes me as odd, because pantheism is a view in which God pervades everything, and God is not personal.

So in pantheism, you don't talk with God.

It's not theistic.

I don't know how he solves that problem or what his underlying, this other person's, not Aaron's, but the other person's underlying worldview involves, but it just is odd.

I don't go deep in Eastern religions.

I'm a generalist with a lot of this stuff, but I know pantheism, Francis Schaeffer used to call it everything-ism, because God is in everything.

It's kind of an offshoot of monistic Hinduism, where monism is just simply the idea—and I do talk about this in The Story of Reality as an alternate view.

The Christian view of reality is material and immaterial, you know, physical stuff and nonphysical stuff.

God and souls and angels, whatever, and all the stuff he's created that's physical, okay? And the atheist is a materialist.

It's only physical.

And the—I call it matterism.

And then you have the Eastern mystical view that's monistic.

That's one-ism.

And that's the view that only one thing exists, and this is—it's not matter.

Matter is an illusion.

And this one thing is God, but he's not personal.

It's just God essence kind of thing and pervades everything.

So all of what is, is also God, but only in the sense that...

And maybe this is kind of a coarse, not nasty, but crude illustration, but only in the sense that your dreams last night were you, yours.

They had no concrete separate existence.

Here's a question from Aaron.

Yeah.

Yeah.

As a matter of fact, I do.

Gee, I wonder what would come to mind at this point.

How about story of reality? Because I presume that this book, Conversations with God, which, by the way, strikes me as odd, because pantheism is a view in which God pervades everything, and God is not personal.

So in pantheism, you don't talk with God.

It's not theistic.

I don't know how he solves that problem or what his underlying, this other person's, not Aaron's, but the other person's underlying worldview involves, but it just is odd.

I don't go deep in Eastern religions.

I'm a generalist with a lot of this stuff, but I know pantheism, Francis Schaeffer used to call it everything-ism, because God is in everything.

It's kind of an offshoot of monistic Hinduism, where monism is just simply the idea—and I do talk about this in The Story of Reality as an alternate view.

The Christian view of reality is material and immaterial, you know, physical stuff and nonphysical stuff.

God and souls and angels, whatever, and all the stuff he's created that's physical, okay? And the atheist is a materialist.

It's only physical.

And the—I call it matterism.

And then you have the Eastern mystical view that's monistic.

That's one-ism.

And that's the view that only one thing exists, and this is—it's not matter.

Matter is an illusion.

And this one thing is God, but he's not personal.

It's just God essence kind of thing and pervades everything.

So all of what is, is also God, but only in the sense that...

And maybe this is kind of a coarse, not nasty, but crude illustration, but only in the sense that your dreams last night were you, yours.

They had no concrete separate existence.