Paul Harrison: Elements of Pantheism

 I really wanted to get on board with this.  Something about me is tired of the search, and just wants a label to hang my hat on.  I've tried everything, as is clear, and will continue to.  But pantheism, at least as described here, just isn't it.  Perhaps Harrison's term "panentheism" is close, but still not right.  The word that occurs to me is "toothless".  This approach to the divine is almost meaningless, if technically accurate.  I don't want to give up and simply exist, although there are definite arguments to be made for that.  I want my interaction with whatever is bigger than me to be reciprocal.  I don't merely want to know about it, I want to interact with it in a meaningful way.  And so I continue to search for the path that leads me there.  Perhaps that search is the only meaningful interaticion that is possible.  Perhaps not.