Life's Tricky Questions
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After a 15-year thorough comparative analysis of the world's religions and philosophies, I have been able to distill the qualities of these existential views into 4 basic types:
Naturalistic Reductionism - Atheism falls under this category.
Naturalistic Holism - Pantheism falls under this category.
Mystical Reductionism - Christianity falls under this category.
Mystical Holism - Buddhism falls under this category.
Types of Existential Views, plotted out on a Cartesian Plane.
On the Y-axis, we have the dichotomy of Naturalism vs. Mysticism toward a Materialist existential view or a Spiritual existential view. On the x-axis, we have the dichotomy of a Reductionist view vs. an Holistic view. In this sense, "Holistic" comes from the Greek 'Holos' which means "whole".
Examples of the types:
Naturalist/Reductionist: An Atheist is most likely to hold this view of existence in that they do not believe that there can exist something which is not Natural, and that everything is Reducible into it's basic elements. A person with this kind of view is most likely to interpret any belief in a deity as "the God of the Gaps". Think: Newtonian Physics.
Mystical/Reductionist: This is the most common form of Spiritualism. This view maintains a belief in the Spirit or Soul as a 'thing' which exists independent of the natural universe. This view also tends to think of "God" as an entity much like us. Common examples of this type of belief are found in Christianity and Hinduism, where they view the physical world as Maya (illusion).
Mystical/Holistic: This view upholds the belief in the non-material Spirit, but tends not to believe in an afterlife where the individual retains their identity, but re-joins "God" after physical death. Common examples of this existential view are found in the Krshna Consciousness movement and in Buddhism.
Naturalist/Holistic: The Holistic Naturalist does not believe in the non-material Spirit, nor in any afterlife - however does not rule out the Big Picture Universe to be a living, cognizant being. Since each perspective within the big picture is a piece of the universe observing it's self - that means that all perspectives together are the universe becoming self-aware. This is the Pantheist View. Even though a pantheist uses the term "deity", they are speaking in a very different way from the Christian or the Buddhist.
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