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• Universal Pantheist Society - Are You a Pantheist?  (membership application form)
• Pantheism and Earthkeeping 
• God, Humanity & Pantheism  (PDF) by Henry and Dana Lee Thomas. (Adapted from Living Biographies of Great Philosophers, (1941). Clear explanation of Spinoza's view of Pantheism.
  
• God and Belief: The Pantheist Alternative
          by Irv Thomas (5 pp)  (A valuable analysis dispelling the notion that Atheism and Monotheism are the
           only two religious alternatives.)

Best Short Introduction to Pantheism:

• The Pantheist World View (5 pp, 1979; 2013) $1.50, or 99 cent brochure (free for a limited time). Format: ePub,  Kindle, or the Apple iBookstore on iTunes.
  

        (A general discussion of modern Pantheism, elaborating on the three Ways of Knowledge, Devotion, and Works)             Now available on Kindle!

The Pantheist World View” was first published in 1979 to provide a concise and succinct five page summary of the basic vision of life shared by most Pantheists. It was one of the first efforts of the Universal Pantheist Society, which formed in 1975, to help people learn about a way of life combining ancient inspirations with modern scientific understanding. 

Pantheists are persons who derive their fundamental religious experience through their personal relationship with the Universe. They feel that Nature is the ultimate context for human existence, and seek to improve their relationship with the natural world as their fundamental religious responsibility. 

 In universal pantheism, religion is seen as a system of reverent behavior toward the Earth rather than subscription to a particular creed. Because Pantheists identify God with Nature rather than an anthropomorphic being, Pantheists oppose the arrogant world-view of anthropocentrism.

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Philosophy

• Chronological Syllabus: The Relation of Pantheism and Religious Evolution by James Picton
• The Inner Source of Pantheism by Harold Wood

• Modern Pantheism as an Approach to Environmental Ethics

          (reprint from Environmental Ethics, Summer, 1985) 13 pp. by Harold Wood, Jr. (An in-depth, footnoted
          exploration of Pantheism, containing many references to writers who support a modern Pantheism as a
          philosophical/theological basis for ecologically valid ethics.) 

• God and Belief: The Pantheist Alternative - By Irv Thomas - A long-time member explains why both atheism and monotheism are irrelevant concepts that should be abandoned in favor of a religion which honors nature, and teaches us to respect her.
• Pantheism and Panentheism - by Harold Wood
• Humanism and Fundamentalism: How to Survive them Both - by Harold Wood (off-site link, PDF)
• Annotated Pantheist Reading List (1986) 4 pp.

         by Bill Cahalan and Harold Wood. .
         (References to literature in the categories of Religious Experience; Pantheist Temples; Philosophy; Ethics;
          Lifestyles; Historical Pantheism; and Comparative Religion.)

• For a scholarly description of Pantheism and its philosophical development over the centuries, see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Pantheism (last accessed 22 Dec 2021). 
• For how your own version of Pantheism best fits in the galaxy of Nature spirituality and Earth-and-Cosmos based religious ideas, see Bron Taylor's book and website, Dark Green Religion.
• "Ecology as Religion" by Bob Hunter (copyrighted by Greenpeace) 
• "The God of Pantheism" by John Burroughs. 

         (A modern environmentalist and a nineteenth century naturalist share similar viewpoints about Nature and Deity.)

• Sacerdotal and Ceremonial Policy .

         (Outlines guidelines for holding celebratory activities for natural events such as solstices and equinoxes, and
         human life events such as birth, christening, marriage, and death.)

• Should Pantheists be Vegetarian? by Harold Wood 

          (Explores a Pantheist's religious responsibilities toward the things we take from Nature)

• Monism by Ernst Haeckel (4 pp)

         (The biologist who coined the term"ecology" and promoted the teaching of evolution discusses his Pantheist
          religion, that "God and the world are one."

• Anthropocentrism by John Seed (3 pp) 

          (A critical essay describing the disease of human chauvinism, and how to obtain a transformation of
          consciousness embracing biocentrism in its place.)

• Pantheist Ethics for People - by Harold Wood (A brief essay explaining how Pantheist ethics are relevant not only for the natural world but for human relations as well.)
• The Principle of Extended Identity by Silas Goldean.
             (An essay which explains Pantheism as a view which transcends the limited idea of "self" as merely the ego.)

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