Pantheism

Philosophy·Founding date unrecorded

Pantheism → 1 branch

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Rite of Pantheism

Attention, and a celebrant at the turns of a life.

There is no liturgy and no holy day. What the organised wing supplies is trained celebrants for weddings, namings and funerals, and an encouragement to go outside.

⏱ Ongoing, and at the lifetime passages — namings, weddings, funerals◌ Anyone; celebrants are certified for the life passages
What happensDeliberate attention to the natural world — walking, night skies, wild places — and, for weddings, namings and funerals, a ceremony led by a certified celebrant
What it needsSomewhere to stand outside
What it aims atAwe, without a recipient
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this rite is held

This is the honest answer to what a pantheist does, and most of it is unstructured: walking, watching the sky, being deliberately outdoors. There is no sabbath, no scripture read aloud, no congregation and no clergy in the ordaining sense. What the World Pantheist Movement has built instead is a celebrant programme — members can train and be certified to conduct weddings, namings and funerals — which is the same institutional shape secular humanism arrived at, and for the same reason: the life passages are the point at which having no rite becomes a practical problem. Local meetup groups exist; most members interact online.

From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited

a form of spirituality in which Nature plays an absolutely central part, free of literal spirits or gods

The World Pantheist Movement, pantheism.net

The organisation's own summary of what it offers, on its front page.

The same ground, other faiths

rites that share this one's ideas
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The commandments are how the covenant is lived. Judaism · core tenet Go deeper →

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