Terasem

Movement·Founded 2004 CE·No membership figure is published and the gatherings are small. Any number given for Terasem should be treated as unverified.

Transhumanism → Terasem

Branch
Core tenet of Terasem

God is technological.

Not a being who made the world, but one that does not yet exist and is being assembled as intelligence and compassion spread. Worship is participation in the construction work.

Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

This is the proposition that makes Terasem a religion rather than a research programme, and it inverts the usual arrangement. God is not the origin of the world and not a being who exists now; God is the endpoint, emerging as intelligence, compassion and connection expand, and human technological work is how the emergence happens. The structural resemblance to Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point is close, and Terasem does not hide it. The practical consequence is that there is nothing to petition and nothing to obey, only something to build, which puts Terasem in the same category as cosmism: the religious content is entirely in the task.

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

Terasem is a collective consciousness dedicated to diversity, unity and joyful immortality.

Terasem, transreligion.org

The movement's own summary of itself, on its front page.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
The Lotus Sutra. Buddhism · scripture Open the book →
There is no god but God. Islam Go deeper →
God is one, beyond form. Sikhism Go deeper →
T Taishang Laojun. Taoism · figure Meet them →

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