Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by

many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your
teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been
handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis,
when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the
good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha

Tenet 1. HUMAN NATURE

Humans are animals, in an absolute sense; ultimately nothing more yet we are nonetheless divine.
Organismic Philosophy seeks in great part to explore this *natural divinity* to its core and to declare it
sovereign over all things.
It should be understood when it is said that 'humans are animals', that there is more to it than simply
that, though it is ultimately a true statement. We are animals, but those humans who are able to live
in purposeful harmony with life and creation, according to organismic principles, become 'Animals
Ennobled'.
This is in fact the ultimate purpose of our philosophy: to assist humanity in coming to terms with its
own true nature: to help us see ourselves clearly as an undistorted reflection and instead of rejecting that nature, opening the way to embrace and invite that nature into being at one with itself.
Relevant Quotes:
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised
animal thoughts.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape
Tenet 2. MORAL AUTHORITY
Moral authority is unattributed to a disembodied 'higher force'. Our moral conscience is considered a
natural potential within all people. The basis for morality within Biotheism is derived from concepts of
natural expediency; the value of health being innately understood by all organisms. This applies not
only to the individual organism, but also to the communities with which each is interdependent. Ethical behavior essentially can be seen as an expression of how best to develop and sustain the so
called good-life, as responsible homo sapiens upon planet Earth.
We believe that systems of moral guidance, to be valid, by necessity must rest upon a core foundation of a reverence for and understanding of life. Healthy life. THRIVING LIFE each species according to its own ancient and unique biological heritage.
If there is one central moral imperative for our existence it is to thrive (and let thrive).
Relevant Quote:
Valuable or good is all that which contributes to the greater unfolding of man's specific faculties and
furthers life. Negative or bad is everything that strangles life and paralyzes man's activeness. All
norms of the great humanist religions like Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, or Islam or the great humanist philosophers from the pre-Socratics to contemporary thinkers are the specific elaboration of
this general principle of values.Erich Fromm
Tenet 3. LEGITIMATE SCIENCE
Organismic Philosophy upholds that a moral or reverent sensibility plays a crucial role in the development of the rational sciences acting as a metaphorical anchor which defines the values, goals and
parameters by which science itself progresses. Without a valid moral foundation (and concurrent aesthetic sensibility) it has been observed time and again that science can and will be abused or utilized
for the purposes of subjugation, violence and hegemony.
In all cases, justifiable scientific inquiry and practice must be guided by a moral sentiment which defines its intentions as specifically beneficial to Life, biodiversity and the longevity of Earth's biosphere
itself. We already are witnessing the threat to our planet, not to mention our own viability as a
species, that lack of this concept's prevalence exerts.
Is science valid if it is being used to recklessly expedite the consumption of Earth's natural resources?
Is it socially and culturally legitimate for science to be used as a means to more effectively harm, kill
and subjugate our fellow creatures (human and non-human)? We hold that it is not. The science of
death, exploitation and efficient consumption has advanced enough to last to the end of our species.
Relevant Quotes:

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
Nikola Tesla
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives - the disastrous by-product of the scientific and technical
mentality. Nostra culpa.
Albert Einstein
Tenet 4. THE SPLIT PSYCHE
Or, The Organismic Self and The Principled Analytic Animal
Humans are both intuitive and rational, temporal and atemporal. A system which ignores one or the
other of these perspectives cannot reflect the true nature of the balanced human being.
We designate this integrated duality, or split of the Persona as the split between the semantic, rational
'Analytic Mind' and the pre-semantic, original 'Animal Mind or Animal Self'. The Organismic Self
then is the undifferentiated self which integrates both the Animal Self and Analytic Mind into one synchronized and harmonious whole, with both components understanding their proper place and natural
role, functioning as a working unity.
Those in a state of natural internal balance between these two basic psychic components come to
manifest a more healthy and limber 'Persona', which is the inverse corollary of the less healthy and
more rigid ego.
When the Analytic Mind understands both its great power and its subservient role in relationship to
the Animal Self, then one is at the beginning of becoming a principled being, or Principled Analytic
Animal' according to Organismic Philosophy.
Tenet 5. THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
The ultimate nature of the universe is not material or spiritual (nor is it, taken in whole, simply energy
and physics equations), it is Organismic.
Galaxies, stars and solar systems do not just appear and disappear. They are born, they develop,
and they grow and die like organisms, often reproducing parts of themselves which go on to form new
galaxies, stars and solar systems. Everywhere around us we are in a constant process of change, of
*evolution*. For the Biotheist, evolution is not a theory in question, it is the true nature of all things.
Where there is no evolution, there can be no movement, no change, *no life* at all.
Relevant Quote:
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort and ignore. That is that Nature is some kind of minded entity. That Nature is not simply
the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized
lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of
mind.

Terence McKenna
Tenet 6. MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY
or The Unbroken Chain of Humanitys Genetic and Memetic Legacy
How old are we? By simply asking the question with a we, the answer becomes clear we are the
age of our oldest ancestors. We should consider ourselves lucky. Of all those who entered the great
lottery of natural selection, we are the ones who have made it, who survived in an unbroken, neverending chain since the original conception of life occurred within the primordial soup over 3.7 billion
years ago. *That* is our biological age. When we reproduce, our life, intermingled with another like
us, does not end it continues to live on.
But we are not only our genes... We are our teachings, our stories, our traditions, our shared experience and passed down ambitions. We are our childhoods and the lessons learned and stored within
our psyche since that time. We receive, and pass along a memetic legacy as well as genetic, and
thus, an adopted child becomes our true son or daughter. Family has come to be based more importantly upon our shared beliefs than our shared ethnicity or genetics. And because of this, our voices,
personas and our values live on within each living being who ends up being touched by our lives.
Beyond this, Organismic Philosophy recognizes one further aspect of our immortality: Our indelible
connection to the infinite Ground of Being or Ever Present Origin. We believe that the very core of
our psyche is anchored, and in fact founded upon this central universal awareness. Essentially, we do
not arise from darkness into light, then return to darkness again at death. Just the opposite: We come
from, and return to light, which is at the center of our nature. In this regard it can be said that we are
forever alive within the endless and beginningless NOW.
Relevant Quote:
"The psyche is not of today; its ancestry goes back many millions of years. Individual consciousness
is only the flower and the fruit of a season, sprung from the perennial rhizome beneath the earth; and
it would find itself in better accord with the truth if it took the existence of the rhizome into its calculations. The root matter is the mother of all things.
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in
the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground only lasts a single summer. Then it withers
away an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something that lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What we see is blossom, is fruit...which
passes....the rhizome remains."
Carl Jung, (Prologue: Memories, Dreams, Reflections).
Tenet 7. THE NATURE OF TRUTH and the Four Sources of Truth
What is the Truth of a thing? It seems the answer could vary for as many beings or persons that you
ask.
Within Organismic Philosophy there is no disagreement that the ultimate truth out there, the Ding an

sich as Kant would describe it, is just that something out there beyond (or before') our senses.
We can infer that this reality is organismic, yet it is nonetheless essentially unknowable to us in an absolute sense.
What we *can know*, and what constitutes for us living beings truth is what our senses communicate
to us, and what our human experience and intelligence reveal to us. Therefore, all true human understanding hinges upon an assumption of knowability, expressly limited by our nature as finite, subjective organic entities.
Fortunately, its not that big of a problem that the thing in itself (the ultimate truth of a thing) is not
fully knowable to us, because we simultaneously and automatically assume we really have no
choice but to assume that we have sufficient information on which to act when the critical time
comes for us to make important decisions about things. Yet whether we know, believe, trust, or
have faith in our decisions, ultimately we are basing our subjective action on the best assumption of
truth that we have at our disposal at that moment.
So, knowing something, and the truth are not really knowing or truth, per se. Truth more accurately
could be described as what supplies us with sufficient conviction to respond to a given situation with
confidence. Truth therefore, as humans perceive it, really comes down to a question of A) Personal
vs. External Authority and B) Rational vs. Irrational Reasoning or Disposition.
Based on this distinction, we perceive Truth in OPBT as arising from these basic categories:
1) BELIEF
Based on Personal Authority (Direct Experience of Truth) Irrational. Synonyms: Intuition, Insight, Gnosis
2) KNOWLEDGE
Based on Personal Authority (Direct Experience of Truth)
Rational. Observation, Calculation and Reflexive Reasoning
3) FAITH
Based on External Authority (Indirect Awareness of Truth)
Irrational. Metaphysical, Revealed, Supernatural.
4.) TRUST
Based on External Authority (Indirect Awareness of Truth)
Rational: Institutional, Secular, Utilitarian.
Importantly, no one quadrant stands out in our perspective as uniquely superior to another. The unteaching of OPBT emphasizes as always the dynamic integration between supposed polar opposites. And though we like to think we favor as much direct personal experience and authority for each
individual as possible, we also recognize that humanity will always need quality institutions of public
trust and faith; the foundation of the culture and society we aspire to are our responsibility to properly
cultivate and are ignored or dismissed at our peril.
Related quotes:
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function

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TENET 8. THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

Organismic Philosophy not only accepts and endorses the theory of evolution, it states that evolution
is the most accurate word (far more telling than reality) to simply describe all of existence. God manifest ISthe process of evolution. The Wheel of Samsara in Hindu philosophy is very real, but it does
not exist as an abstract or transcendent system on some other plane. It is on this planet, at this time
it is the history of our biosphere, and it is our gene pool our cells splitting and converging and
trading combinations in the thrashing waters of our fecund earth.

NET 8. THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

TENET 8. THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

Organismic Philosophy not only accepts and endorses the theory of evolution, it states that evolution
is the most accurate word (far more telling than reality) to simply describe all of existence. God manifest ISthe process of evolution. The Wheel of Samsara in Hindu philosophy is very real, but it does
not exist as an abstract or transcendent system on some other plane. It is on this planet, at this time
it is the history of our biosphere, and it is our gene pool our cells splitting and converging and
trading combinations in the thrashing waters of our fecund earth.

But biological evolution does not occur only within the scope of our genetics. Certainly our genetic
legacy is the source, vector and mechanism by which the other two dimensions of organic evolution
operate, but to understand evolution without acknowledging the unique and separate considerations
which are native to these other two distinct processes does an injustice to all three.
Therefore, to make better sense of, and to speak more clearly regarding our evolutionary legacy, we
feel it is necessary to introduce these new perspectives, which split biological evolution into three
separate, but interdependent processes.
What are the *three* distinct processes of organic evolution?
ENDO-Evolution Relating mainly to the Darwinian dialectic of biological development. Main fields
of study: genetics/phylogenetics/ecology/biology/zoology/anthropology/botany. As stated, this process
is the source and mechanism of the other two offshoots.
Endo-evolution is evolution viewed from the objective perspective.
When most people speak of evolution, endo-evolution is what they are referring to.
INTER-Evolution Relating mainly to Hegels dialectic of reason. Mental, cognitive and informational development. Main fields of study: memetics/linguistics/rational sciences/cultural anthropology/neurology/philosophy/psychology/psychiatry.
Inter-evolution is evolution viewed from the subjective perspective.
From the very beginning of biological evolution on Earth, arguably even before it, mind existed. The
subject (the I) of each life-form, however basic or complex, experiences its life from within. This interior process, though intimately related to the objective evolution of life, cannot be understood by external observation alone, nor can it be properly guided or controlled externally. If anything,
inter-evolution is the evolution of guidance and control by the subject over itself (its objective being
and circumstance). As life evolved, information, in greater and greater levels of organization and sophistication, was being taken in by organisms, recorded (memorized), played back, then utilized to
form new and better reactions and behaviors which aided in their survival. Much of the information
which an organism stores and passes on to its offspring is encoded in its genetics, however, a great
deal of the information an organism encounters, records, mimics and passes on during its life is not
genetically coded information. It is being transmitted through another avenue of information which we
now have a word for: memetics.
Generally speaking, memetics is not understood this way. We think of memes as thought viruses or
todays in vogue notion, a function of language and cultural perception*, not as all systematically
packaged and transmitted (encoded) information experienced and shared between organisms. But
essentially, whether speaking of semantically encoded information (language-based) or non-semanti-

Generally speaking, memetics is not understood this way. We think of memes as thought viruses or
todays in vogue notion, a function of language and cultural perception*, not as all systematically
packaged and transmitted (encoded) information experienced and shared between organisms. But
essentially, whether speaking of semantically encoded information (language-based) or non-semantically coded information, the underlying process is the same.
(Weve had to coin a term for these pre-semantic information exchanges: protomemes which refer
to all non-genetically based, repeated information exchanges made between organisms, whether between ants or bees, in bird song, or through systematically learned and passed along behavior, etc.
As can be inferred, a great number of variances exist in the levels of complexity between different
protomemes, far moreso than we have the space to cover here).

That being said, inter-evolution is not specifically about the study of memes, though the field has
opened up a number of vistas in our ability to understand and more intelligently communicate our
subjective experiences. Memetics is itself yet another attempt at objectively understanding subjective
experience, so in this sense, its relation to mind could be compared the field of ethics and how it relates to the organic experience of morality it covers it, but it is not it.
Inter-evolution is the evolution of mind, and all experiences of it.
*NOTES: Memes shouldn't be assumed, as it is often the case, to simply mimic the behavior of
viruses... this implies that all memes are by nature invasive, parasitic, xenogenic and fairly simple in
terms of behavior and their relative role in our psyches.
Memes are better conceived of as the entire range of mental flora and fauna that inhabit the mindsphere or noosphere. Like the vast array of genetic beings which inhabit the biosphere...so the range
of the contents of the mind vary in accordance with one another.
Memes can be both native and invasive, parasitic and symbiotic, beneficial and carcinogenic... and
just as it is necessary to maintain a healthy 'flora' in the gut in order to achieve optimum digestion/digestive health so too must a healthy 'fauna' be maintained within the mind to achieve optimum
awareness and understanding.

EXO-Evolution Relating mainly to Marxs materialist dialectic. The development of technology.

Main fields of study: engineering/ergonomics/economics/business/manufacturing/temetics.
Exo-evolution is the integration or co-opting of objective existence by the subjective being.
Why consider the development of technology a type of evolution? Is it organic? Much of our technology is not only inorganic, its lethal to organisms. Is the stuff humans make something that has
evolved?
Absolutely. Not only has technology co-evolved with us (and not just by us), it is us, it is a part of our
bodies, just as a turtles shell or a hermit crabs shell is a part of its body. But, you might say... a
hermit crabs shell is not a part of its body! Its a cast-away part of another creatures body, which
proves a double point. Regardless of where it comes from, if its being used for the end purposes of
an organism, it is effectively a part of that organism. A knife is not just a tool, its a metal beak or talon,
a flashlight is night-vision, a book is an external memory holder. All technology has evolved to help us
do things we as organisms want or need done.
Consider a house. We bring food from outside, in through the house walls. We bring it to the storage
and processing center of the home, saving some for later, while converting the rest into easily consumable portions. Waste is collected in a special receptacle, and emitted from the premises on a regular basis. A house is very similar to a living cell, with specialized organelles (rooms, appliances, and
utensils) all serving organic functions. Our technology is us, and we become our technology the more
we use it. It really is a part of our organic evolution, and if were not careful, it could ultimately change
us in unexpected, and potentionally unwanted but irreversible ways.

Again, as in inter-evolution, we can make a distinction between human technology, and technology
used by animals (no plants that we are aware of utilze tools or make nests, form shelters, or construct
shells from found objects), and the line drawn between endo and exo-evolution can in many cases be
difficult to draw (as in a turtle shell, or a spiders web), but those distinctions dont alter the fact that all
technology is indelibly a part of what makes up our organism, whether animal or human.
The study of the development of human technology is generally the focus of engineers more than biologists, but as we move forward in our total understanding, we are forced to accept that our inventions are reliant upon, and should be limited by our biological tolerances and prerogatives. But
because we often lose sight of the deeper connections, we get ourselves into trouble and fall prey to
the technologies which were intended to empower us.
Our intention as a philosophy and worldview is to halt and even reverse this trend.

Meaningful Quotes:
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to
cover the entire surface of Earth.
Lynn Margulis
"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?"
E. O. Wilson
"Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole
universe."
John Polkinghorne
"Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But
among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know."
Richard Dawkins

TENET 9. MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY THE CELLULAR MODEL

From whence did the sexes arise? According to what characteristics and criteria did nature divide us,
and why in such seemingly strange or arbitrary ways? Is there a deeper explanation for the division of
organic duties which leads naturally to gender differentiation? Is the split cosmic and universal (a la
the nature of the gods, Venus vs. Mars etc), or more accurately an aspect of biological expediency?
The questions dont stop here.
Is nature more complete in a state of androgyny? According to the Greeks, as related by Aristophanes in Platos Symposium, humans were once both male *and* female, sharing characteristics of
both sexes fully in one being. These Androgynes became so powerful they ended up challenging the
gods, resulting in their being split in two by Zeus himself, who feared their strength.

Certainly the sexes play complimentary roles, but neither Plato or Aristophanes elaborated much on
what exactly made this union of *differences* not *opposites* into one being with so much potential power.
Some traditions emphasize the separate but equal power of both the feminine and the masculine,
while others emphasize the opposite, stating that one gender deserves higher authority than the
other that one sex is ultimately subordinate to the other in the greater scheme of things. We are familiar with this tradition, because it is at the center of much of the narrative of Western civilization. In
Western cosmology, woman was born of man. Specifically, Eve was born of Adam; she was produced, of all places, from his rib.
Many cultures of the modern world promote a patriarchal centered paradigm. But what if all of these
traditions had it backwards? What if someone claimed it might be more appropriate to say, strangely
enough, that Adam was produced from the rib of Eve?
Well, essentially, we make just such a claim based not on a whim, but upon the model of nature itself. To better illustrate this important distinction, we designed the Cellular Model. This model is of
course metaphorical, not an accurate representation of a cell, because it is intended to convey both
the micro and macro scale at the same time.
Hi-Rez image:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71849282/cellular%20model%205lg.jpg
What is the function of a rib-cage?
It is a protective shield, a hard barrier protecting many of the most vital organs of the body. Thinking
biologically, its really no stretch to say this seems like more of a masculine function than feminine;
being the strong, hard, protective component of life is a natural fit for our conception of the male of
the species. And indeed, this is what our model demonstrates, in spite of the fact that nature offers
numerous examples which seem to set the norm on its head (in ants and bees for instance).
In the general scheme of things, a cell wall performs a similar function to a tribal village wall, or a national state line and the calculus of what is occurring at this intersection with the external, this
perimeter against the potentially threatening, unknown outside world, is essentially at the heart of
what defines masculinity. Keep in mind the perimeter is not only a protective shield, it is also an exploratory party, a confrontation of anything existing within the unknown... perhaps the conquest of
space by the launching of an interplanetary probe, or, the conquest of a neighboring and competitive
tribe and their belongings and even the conquest of our own animal natures, for better or worse.
But in general, the protector, gatekeeper, hunter and provider role defines the core of the masculine
archetype.
Then what is the role of the feminine?
Representing the cell nucleus, the hearth, the campfire, the town/tribal center the essence of the
feminine archetype is about continuity and renewal, as well as senescence and dying, but mainly in
the sense of the former overcoming the latter. While the hunting parties and warriors are out exploring
the perimeter (or as the amoebas pseudopod explores its world), the women, children and elders
process yesterdays bounty, turning raw materials into usable goods. These are not only physical ob-

jects, but experiences and stories, which are processed into tribal wisdom through mechanisms such
as theater, daily gossip, peer pressure and politics. These are all aspects of the feminine or and domestic sphere.
The masculine is what discovers, identifies and confronts a new thing. Its natural ethic is based upon
reticence, and non-negotiated cooperation.
The feminine is what determines the value and use of a new thing. Its ethic is based upon expression,
and negotiated cooperation.
* * * * *
Like the complexity of life itself, there is so much more to cover here than a short introduction can do
justice to. But we feel that this model conveys a larger truth which can be inferred by its application at
many different levels of magnification, from the atomic, to perhaps the planetary and beyond. Femininity and masculinity are not merely an expression of abstract cosmic or mythological influences, nor
are they simply a reflection of solar/lunar or solar/terran dichotomies, which better describe objectivism and subjectivism, perspectives shared by both genders. Our differences as men and women
are much more based upon our cellular, or organismic foundation.
Importantly, we are not advocating here for an adherence to traditional gender roles, merely a greater
understanding of the purpose of gender within nature. Each human being is a complete and unique
combination of both the masculine and feminine, and no combination is right for all people. It is our
job as individuals to responsibly discover the balance which suits each one of us most ideally, even if
this challenges others conception of what is typical or traditional within our society.
Meaningful quotes:
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to
seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it
lives but they can let it alone.
Russell Hoban
For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and
support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her
individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood,
and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.
Gerda Lerner
Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the
fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty
humble men and women.
David Dewhurst
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must
be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
Rebecca De Mornay

TENET #10. GOD, OMNIUNUM & THE ORGANISMIC PRINCIPLE

So, do we believe in God or not?
Are Biothests some new type of reverent atheists, or another brand of New-Age philosophy with a
general, but unspecified belief in forces within and without us?
Here on Facebook, we often post links and images praising the Goddess, and embrace the invocation of deities from both so called pagan as well as monotheist religions (Abrahamic or otherwise)...
Is the idea ultimately about a universal awaking and raising of awareness on Earth, all giving birth to
a great shift in human consciousness and behavior? A new Pantheism? Western Taoism? Or is it
something else altogether?
The answer is YES... to all of it. But to make everything simpler, well actually answer, No.
A central claim in Biotheism and Organismic Philosophy is that the concept of God, at least in terms
of the general understanding of it, *produces no general understanding*.
God. We hear the word all the time, but what does it really even mean? The answer will be as varied
as the number of humans who are asked (and we wont even be able to ask plants or animals for
their opinions).
Unfortunately, the fact remains that the concept of God* no longer serves adequately the function of
enlightening or engaging a great many people, especially those who tend to identify with a modern,
scientifically oriented mindset this is unfortunate, because without an appreciation and sensibility
of that which is sacred (sorely lacking in secular humanism) the modern condition will surely drive our
species off a cliff of moral and ecological unsustainability.
On these grounds, we believe it is vital that the world be introduced to new terminology which reinvigorates and reinforces the idea itself, by eschewing the use of the term God altogether (at least when
describing our system).
Instead, we have chosen the dual terms of both OMNIUNUM and The Organismic Principle, in
order to represent both the passive and active facets of God, respectively.
*

OMNIUNUM: The All One. Endless, Formless, but All Forms, Timeless but All Times. All beginnings,
yet no beginning, all endings, yet no ending... Forever ONE in OM.
Omniunum is every subject, is the Presence Behind All Presences, the Being Within, Above, and Beyond. Endlessly named, but always the same Being; Omniunum is already recognized in most human
traditions, and is very similarly defined as is "the Brahman" within esoteric Hindu philosophy. In Hinduism, Brahman ( brahman) is "the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world" which
"cannot be exactly defined", but is Sat-cit-nanda (being-consciousness-bliss) and the highest reality.
This concept is also closely associated with Tawhid in Islam, Nirvana in Buddhism, God the Father
in Christianity, Ein Sof in Judaism, Gitche Manitou and Wakan Tanka in American spiritual lore, and
endless other names, including the Divine Ground of Being, der Dinge an sich, or Ever Present
Origin etc.

Importantly, we view Omniunum as the passive, pure potentiality behind all existence the source
aspect of the Higher Being.
As we like to say:
One will not find Omniunum declaring commandments from on high Omniunum is the silence
between the stars.
You may visit the mansion of the Lord, but you will never meet the Master.
Omniunum is not a being given to moods, or a need for vengeance, and jealousy could hardly be
further from His ineffable mind.
Omniunum is also understood esoterically as the dynamic tension between Allness, Oneness &
Noneness The three principles at the core of reality, the dynamic tension between which allows all
other phenomena to occur. This will be discussed in greater depth at a later date.
Omniunum is not *a* being, but all beings are Omniunum.
*

The Organismic Principle: The Active, specific, living, expressive, dynamic engine of activity.
At the center of every process is organization otherwise, its not a process; the process breaks
down as organization breaks down. We name this active, organizing principle of the universe the
Organismic Principle, the centerpiece acting the heart of every process. This principle works at all
levels of reality, from the quantum, to the galactic and beyond. Particularly on the scale of organic life,
we can see that the Organismic Principle is not merely a purely random or mechanical process... it is
subtle, sensitive, uniquely intelligent, inventive, responsive and often passionately intentional. It is
YOU the workings of the inner you.
Is the inner you a random, or purely mechanical aspect of existence? You might say that you are, but
that philosophically limited view is quickly losing its credibility even among advanced scientists and
rational thinkers these days. What most are observing is that systems of intricate synergy and
complexity are self-emergent in the universe. God is truly within, and is constantly seeking to grow, to
unfold outward, to be born into existence, then to give birth to the next incarnation of itself. Innately
self-replicating, infinitely prolific and inventive, the universe is not simply alive, it is truly miraculous
beyond our full ability to express or appreciate, try as we might.
Biotheists do not worship Omniunum. Instead, if we revere anything highest is the Organismic
Principle itself, which is the active, building and disassembling, manifest expression of OMNIUNUMs
ineffable presence. It is Life Itself, or that from which life emerges and originates. Omniunum does not
need or desire for us to worship him as he would simply consider this himself worshipping himself.
However, the Organismic Principle *does* require us to cultivate, nourish and protect it, and bring it
into effective balance within our lives. Love, health, knowledge and power can grow in all of our lives,
but they each require proper balance, care, maintenance and encouragement along the way.
Weve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You cant just accept it and leave it in the
cupboard or just think its going to get on by itself. Youve got to keep watering it. Youve got to really
look after it and nurture it. John Lennon

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call
God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest
said was right. Its just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon
At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines:
First: the phenomenal world of matter and of individualized consciousness the world of things and
animals and men and even gods is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within which all partial
realities have their being, and apart from which they would be non-existent.
Second: human beings are capable not merely of knowing about the Divine Ground by inference;
they can also realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive reasoning. This
immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known.
Third: Humanity possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an eternal Self, which is the
inner human being, the spirit, the spark of divinity within the soul (The Animal Self in OPBT). It is
possible for a human being, if they so desire, to identify with the spirit and therefore with the Divine
Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.
Fourth: A human's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify with one's eternal Self and
so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
(with a few minor alterations to the language)
*

FURTHER NOTES BELOW

Is there a relation to the Tao in the midst of this? And if so, should we consider the above notions to
be a reflection or an inherent Unity, Dualism, or Trinity?
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the answer is all three, but closer to the second, and closest to the first.
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OMNIUNUM is important not so much for its omnipotence (which is necessarily a passive and intrin-

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

OF

BIOTHEISM
AND

ORGANISMIC PHILOSOPHY

Organismic Philosophy upholds that for a belief system to claim any authority or value to society, it must take a
stand somewhere to identify what it does or does not support.
First and foremost, *we support personal choice*, and the ability of individuals to know best what suits their own
organisms if they are allowed the liberty to do so, and the insight to understand themselves. We are each only as
free as our circumstance and our selves allow.
We do not embrace dogma, but we do have a creed, and expectations we place upon ourselves and others, to a
degree. Yes, we actually hope for, strive for and expect our species to ennoble itself.
With that being said, here are
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF BIOTHEISM -and- ORGANISMIC PHILOSOPHY

One might ask: Why are there two different versions of the same commandments? The entire system is dualistic (yet
unified). One perspective is poetic, the other, literal. One is religious in tone, the other secular.

The Ten Commandments of Biotheism, A PREAMBLE:

What follows is neither a revelation, or an invention of its author, rather it is both and something more, for it is no
less than a proclamation of the individual as the true source of revelation.
Moreover, it should be understood that this is not a revision of the original Ten Commandments, as the point of
reference for each (the first, a unilateral and patriarchal code handed down to a chosen people, while here, choice
and potential are placed into the hands of the people) is entirely different. It is the originals universality, directness
and urgency which ours mainly borrows.
Is the name, Commandments then really appropriate? Why not The Ten Suggestions instead? Is some sort of punishment implicit in the word commandment? Indeed, this is so and appropriate. For herein is a warning:
It will be ourselves, born into the lives of our children and their children, that will bear the burden of our misuse of
ourselves, each other and this planet. In a time when our activities have a profound, tangible effect on our reality,
heaven or hell will be no less than the state of the world of tomorrow.

The Cellular Cross of OPBT

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF BIOTHEISM

(original version: August 1st, 1996)

1. You shall not contaminate the Earth which nourishes the Bodies of your Brothers and Sisters.
2. You shall not taint the Water which flows through the Blood of your Brothers and Sisters.
3. You shall not pollute the Air which clarifies the Mind of your Brothers and Sisters.
4. You shall not smother the Flame which empowers the Will of your Brothers and Sisters.
5. You shall recognize All Men and Women as your Brothers and Sisters.
6. You shall recognize also the Animals and Plants as your Brothers and Sisters.
7. You shall attend to all the necessities of the Healthy Growth of your Daughters and Sons,
and all those entrusted to your Care.
8. You shall respect the boundaries and codes established, openly and mutually in public
forum, which apply to the public realm.
9. You shall otherwise recognize Yourself Alone to be the Sole Authority and Judge of your
activity in the realm of your Personal Life and Space, as you shall respect the Personal Life
and Space of your Brothers and Sisters.
10. You shall constantly strive for Greater Understanding, Patience, and your Personal Definition of Harmony within Yourself and All Life.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF ORGANISMIC PHILOSOPHY

(This revision: August 22,1997)

1. THRIVE
Love the Earth and the Life that inhabits it. Attend to the needs of Life, the Body, and the Earth.
2. BE KIND
Seek not to impose strife, or mental anguish, but instead at all times attempt to ameliorate it.
3. DO NOT DECEIVE
Do not bear false witness in order to evade personal responsibility or intentionally confound anothers valid search
for the truth.
4. UPHOLD HUMAN DIGNITY
Do not subvert the will (of your brothers or sisters). Let no man or no woman hold dominion over any other, nor
reduce another in order that they may exert control more easily upon them.
5. UPHOLD HUMAN UNIVERSALITY
Recognize All Men and All Women as your brothers and sisters.
6. REVERE ALL HEALTHY LIFE
Recognize also All Animals and Plants as your brothers and sisters.
7. MIND YOUR WARD
Attend carefully to the complete and healthy growth/development of your daughters and sons, as well as all those
entrusted to your care.
8. HEED THE LAW (Respect and participate in the laws established by humanity)
Respect the boundaries and codes established, if done so openly and mutually, which apply to the public space. If
established in secrecy, or contrary to true public and democratic preference, honorably oppose it.
9. GUIDE THYSELF
Recognize yourself to be the sole authority and judge of your actions within the realm of your Personal life and
private space. As well, respect the Personal life and private space of your brothers and sisters, and their authority to
determine what is right for them to engage in within that space.
10. SEEK GREATER HARMONY
Constantly strive for greater understanding, higher perspective, patience and your personal definition of harmony with
yourself and ALL LIFE.

The Ten Commandments of Organismic Philosophy additional notes

1. Love yourself. Know yourself. Love your body, love existence. Nurture the body and the earth.
2. Dont spread negativity through acts of vengeance or cruelty. Cultivate happiness and joy.
3. Seek and promote clarity, minimize confusion, encourage knowledge, education and discovery. Do not interfere in
a valid investigation of the truth, or with others ability to make educated decisions.
4. Empower the will of yourself and others. Encourage the native animal self. Do not oppress. Do not enslave you
fellow beings.
5. Acknowledge the collective human heritage. Promote cultural diversity and indigenous rights. Oppose cultural hegemony.
6. Revere Healthy Life, as it naturally evolved in Earths Biosphere. Observe the universal within the biosphere, humans, plants, animals and the self. Raise ones consciousness about the interconnectedness between all living things.
7. Provide for the healthy development of those dependent on you, neither taking on more responsibility than you
can handle, nor avoiding the assistance of others when needed. Know the difference between providing and over-indulging.
8. Contribute to the establishment of open, responsible and democratic public institutions and government. Heed does
not mean blindly obey, it means become knowledgeable and involved in its creation, and application.
9. Understand that the highest law is your own internal creed. Uphold the individual and the universal right to privacy and personal sovereignty.
10. Seek to improve yourself as well as your relationship with the world and the others within it.

BIOTHEISTIC QUOTES
AND
WEB MEMES

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ORGANISMIC PHILOSOPHY
GLOSSARY

Important terms and theIr defInItIons

We were given no instructions or explanations before we came into this life, and there will be no debriefings or explanations when we leave it... but, in between, we might as well do our best to get the
explanations and definitions right.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------OP/BT 'codifies' reasonable and sustainable thinking and behavior
and this is one of the reasons we feel it is needed. Everything has to
do with codifying/getting the correct code/weeding out the false codes
/understanding code and using it consciously and effectively.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------animals ennobled Humans are, in the final sense merely animals, but those humans who intentionally live in harmony with organismic principles and tenets, become 'Animals Ennobled'. It is exactly when we acknowledge and embrace our inherent animal nature that we attain the potential not
to transcend this nature, but to ennoble it to prepare ourselves to receive the crown of our greater
humanity.
animal self The primary component of human consciousness which is pre-liminal/pre-semantic
and shared, to a greater or lesser degree, with all the other species on the planet meaning is only
that which is consistent with organismic necessity. Synonymous or closely associeted with the unconscious mind/pre-semantic mind/the nagualil/Limbic system of the brain/Subjective Perspective.
analytic acetates Acetates are transparent pages made of cellulose acetate film, which can often
be found in reference books. These pages can have on them any number of interrelated maps, diagrams, illustrations, models or templates. Because of the versatility and usefulness of these pages,
the general term acetate within organismic philiosphy has come to represent any mental model
which a subject projects upon a particular experience. Depending upon their point of reference (a
component of consciousness and perspective), a person may perceive a single experience while flipping among several acetates, each one relevent or valid in and of itself, but uniquely interrelated to
the other acetates layered above and below it, in an order or number particular to the perceiver.
analytic mind The auxiliary component of human consciousness that developed through the interevolutionary process of semantic differentiation, and resulted in a capacity within humanity for empirical reasoning and language use. Conscious Mind/Tonal/Linguistic Mind/Semantic Mind/ Neo
Cortex/Objective are terms often associated with the Analytic Mind. In general, and perhaps especially in Western culture-based societies, the "I" has come to be interpreted primarily, if not completely, as the "the Analytic Mind", or...the semantic, language and rationally based mind.
Biophobia Biophobia can refer to a wide variety of mild to severe aversions to processes and natural phenomena which cause a subject to experience life in what is apparently too much detail. As
with the human body, the world presents itself to our senses on many different layers and scales... the
surface, human-scale layers are the most apparent and familiar on a normal basis. It is when we peel
away these exterior layers that we are sometimes led to see life in unexpected and often startling
ways. This is natural, but a studied and reinforced aversion to these usually hidden aspects of life can
easily become a disabling condition like any other phobia.
Having a instinctual aversion to unpleasant smells and immediate sensations are not necessarily biophobic (as this serves an important survival need), however the many of the ways our society deals
with death and dying is.

Biotheism (Exoteric vs. Esoteric) - The Biotheist relates to meaning through a more metaphorical,
mystical and poetic interpretation of reality. Relationship to Organismic Philosophy: Biotheism refers
to the acknowledgement of truth through holistic/non-reflective avenues, where the onus of proof is
based on direct observation only, not upon reflective reasoning.
Biosphere Though the universe as a whole could be considered one all-encompassing Biosphere,
generally the use of the word refers to all known life, which to us currently is specifically that life which
has originated from, and exists upon Earth. Within Organismic Philosphy, the biosphere is held to be
undeniably sacred it is in fact our reverence for the biosphere, its health, its diversity, its permanence, that defines us as Organismic Philosophers and Biotheists. The biosphere is what bore us,
and is where we shall all return... But the biosphere is not a goddess, no moreso than a tiger or a
eagle is a god. That said, perhaps the biosphere is both God and Goddess at once.
Broadcast To broadcast ones thoughts is to project or transmit them non-locally. Broadcasting
represents the externalizing component of our subjective thoughts, hopes, aspirations.
Within Organismic Philosophy & Biotheism, broadcasting is an analog to prayer, with the intent of implying a more scientifically justifiable means of conveyance. Instead of a stating, I will send you my
thoughts and prayers, a Biotheist may state that he or she will broadcast healing or supportive
thoughts and feelings towards another, or a situation.
Broadcasting, in more scientifically justifiable context, can be understood as A) speaking to the inner
self, and may be seen as simply a means to bridge the semantic/pre-semantic divide in consciousness. B) Literally broadcasting information between individuals. Based on a transceiver (transmitter
and receiver) model, where each individuals electromagnetic field of being can act in this capacity
and as well based on certain observations of action at a distince in quantum theory the notion that
non-localized communication between individuals is possible has been gaining acceptance in many
areas of scientific inquiry.
Catma The Biotheistic obverse or antithesis of dogma. Whereas dogma represents principles of
behavior and action which cannot be questioned or denied, catma represents ideas and actions
which may be highly recommended and encouraged, but ones which are not beyond dispute or which
are understood as compulsory.
The online reference Urbandictionary.com states that Catma is a belief espoused by a relgion
which must be understood by all members of that religion. Although it must be understood, it does not
have to be accepted as truth because proof of the catma may not yet exist or be accepted, or that
proof requires postulates that the adherant to the religion may not presently accept.
Biotheism endorses catmatic positions as a general rule, and does not endorse dogmatic declarations or decrees.
Cellular Cross The Cellular Cross, the official symbol of Biotheism and Organismic Philosophy,
represents both a double infinity, and a zygote in the first stages of cell division. The four separate
rings of the double infinity represent (as a set of pairs) Biotheism/Organismic Philosophy and the
Oganismic Principle/Omniunum.
The Cellular Cross also can be interpreted in a number of other manners. If seen as a two-dimensional representation of a three and four dimensional object, it can be representative of two intersect-

ing and revolving toruses, a universal symbol of the cyclical nature of all living systems.
Cellular model The Cellular Model is intended to illustrate an essential pattern and relationship
found within nature specifically that which exists between a cells nucleus and its cell wall, or
perimeter. The model is not intended to represent an actual cell, but instead acts ymbolic structure
which can be superimposed upon many correlated
endo-evolution Biological evolution relating to the physical/cellular devolpment of all life forms,
expressed through the basic imperatives of natural growth and reproduction. The vector of endo-evolution is genetics. Endo-evolution represents the Darwinian dialectic of the evolution of our physical
embodiment.
exo-evolution That aspect of evolution which is augmentative to the organism through the integration of external tools and technology into an organisms life habits. While spiderwebs, carapaces,
shells, horns and other grown/extruded non-living materials represent forms of pre-exo-evolutionary
processes, it is only when an organism utizes materials and methods that have not arisen from its
own organism that the term exo-evolution can be properly applied. In this sense, a hermit crab
adopting a mullusks shell is a form of proto-exo-evolution, as is caddisfly larvas case (being a mix of
its own secretions and small stones), whereas most birds nests, and other intentionally crafted tools
are examples of fully formed exo-evolutionary devices. See Tool use by animals on Wikipedia.
the floatilla of survival Anti-Dominionism. The Unteaching of OP/BT seeks most importantly to
keep the raft or "floatilla" of sustainable life, sustainable civilization safely afloat, (out of reach of)c.l.m.
upon the dangerous seas of random probability and unfortunate outcomes. Our purpose is to provide
a viable alternative to unscrupulous, unscientific, ill-starred memes, which will only land us on rocky
shores or over the edge of the known world. That is only OP/BT's purpose- to keep the raft afloat, As
for the rest of it- what happens up on top of the raft, that...OP/BT states, is for each of us to decide as
we live this life.
Gods territory God's Territory is all that is not human territory... Specifically all unspoiled pristine
wilderness without signs of human occupation or contamination. When we lose all wilderness, all of
God's Territory, we lose our most precious asset. A large part of OP/BTs mission is to return much of
what has become humanitys territory back to what should rightfully be Gods Territory.
The concept of holiness within OPBT is [generally considered] that which contains no impurities, and
[specifically] that which promotes most ideally the healthy growth of life in general. Holiness can exist
within as an attribute of clear and undistorted, lucid awareness, but even more intrinsic is the idea of
holy places where nature has retained its pristine state, and where the lifeforms belonging to it are
able to thrive in their most ideal setting; Where evolution and life can proceed unhindered by the introduction of chemicals or interference foreign and destructive to life.
(the) Great Unteaching The Great Unteaching is the combined philosophical and theological synthesis of both Organismic Philosophy *and* Biotheism, representing a dual approach to a unified and
balanced philosophy of life and our role as human animals within it. The Great Unteaching does not
seek to replace or simply append itself to one's current belief system... Rather the intention is to give
each person the necessary tools and empowerment necessary to adjust, restructure, and modify their
unique ideological programming as required by each individual's specific requirements.
(the) holographic model of self Atman=Brahman...The Organismic self is Omniunum. Awareness of self is the self-same reality that unifies all existence into the oneness of OMNIUNUM. Like

true holograms which retain a full image on small fragments, we are each an infinite singularity representing the higher truth.
honorary patrons/matrons OPBT equivalent of saints (often in a secular capacity) or paragons of
organismic vitue and awareness. Matrons and patrons are noted not only for being great contributors
to the human endeavor, but are in part
hyper Categorical faculty Builder of the Analytic Mind, the namer, the generalizer Adam, a toddler
learning new words (defintion incomplete)
Inter-evolution The evolution of the mind/semantics/cognition/reason. The vector of inter-evolution is memetics. Representing the Hegelian dialectic of reason. (definition incomplete)
See Animal Culture on Wikipedia for more on this topic.
Intercendence Biotheism unteaches that true transcendence is not an escape from the 'illusion' of
material manifestation. Intercendence in Biotheism is a transcendence of 'one's own illusions' and a
discovery of the ultimate truth of awaking within and through necessary instrument of our bodily incarnations, and the value of appreciating the impetus to live our organic lives impeccably for the sake of
all life including, of course, our very own.
macro-memes, or meme-sets vmemes mainframes Memes as they are currently understood
represent isolated ideas and concepts which self-replicate and pass from individual to individual in a
fashion similar to viruses... and in general the assumption is that the effect of memes is quite limited
to the overall ontology or set or conceptions of each individual. However, many concepts are merely
subsets of a much larger set of assuptions or socially ingrained ontology.
the magic set The 'Hand of God' behind seemingly improbable realities everywhere surrounding
us: we are the product not of a divine mind*, but of the intrinsic fact that if all possible variable sets
are presented (as would occur in primordial proto biological chemical soup found on Earth so many
eons ago), one of these sets must provide the "key" needed to progress to the next stage of productive evolutionary development. Some of these "key sets", like the chemical composition of carbon
based polynucleotides, have truly "magical" properties and lead to great and potentially rapid advancements in evolution once formed and propagated.
metareligion A meta-religion is concerned with all of the life/death mysteries and metaphysical
quandaries of traditional religion, but instead of cloaking its teachings (in OPBT, known as unteachings) in mystery, sanctimony or dogma, it deals with these issues conscientiously, humanistically and
scientifically. A meta religion is designed to allow one to experience science morally and intuitively,
and to approach belief with all their faculties including reason. Meta-religion sees the sacred in all
(definition incomplete)
mindsphere Essentially synonymous term within OPBT for the Collective Unconscious... while
ample discussion has been offered on whats final definition of the Collective Unconscious mean
(definition incomplete)
omniunum "All One", The Unified Whole, The Eternal. All beginning yet no beginning All endings
yet no endings in OM. Also understood as the dynamic tension between allness, oneness & noneness The three principles at the core of reality. The dynamic tension between that which allows all
other phenomena.

organismic Burden Biotheistic version of "sin" (definition incomplete)

organismic Logic Most of the Animal-self's logic is absolutely valid if we consider its strategizing
based along the lines of survival, in terms of how to pursue a mate, pursue quarry, migrate, attain social status, find the best food and shelter, how to raise young, how to fulfill life's developmental prerogatives- This is organismic logic. It may not be rational, but it is logical. Ideally as reasoning
humans we use rational methods, to achieve irrational ends.
To speak of seeking happiness as an end for humanity, or even as a basic condiseration of our life...
(as is predicated in the phrase, for life, Liberty and Happiness) is to actually do a disservice to what
that happiness ulitmately entails. For happiness is not an end in of itself, but a reaction to having any
of our true basic needs met, which can be a fairly complex organic reality far beyond simply one
making themselves happy.
organismic philosophy The rational, philosophical, positivist and scientific facet of the Great Unteaching (definition incomplete)
organismic potential What the billions of years of evolution have brought to the present individual...Being the best we can be" is an organismic obligation or duty when one considers all that their
ancestors had to go through to have arrived in the present and brought you into being.
organismic principle- Best understood as the life-force manifested ...It is LIFE-ITSELF, but also represents the template or basis for what is the true purpose of life. Omniunum fulfilled. The Organismic
Priniple, in spite of its technical name, is the highest representation of God manifest
organismic self The natural true and divine self, OMNIUNUM aware of itself in a healthy body,
the core self behind all Persona. The true-self, or the 'organismic-self' or 'integrated-self'- is understood consciously by one's Persona as something very real, very present truly, who we are in the
fullest sense of the word yet this is understood silently. It cannot be fully 'known' or encapsulated in
either rational analysis or as an ephemeral ecstatic experience. It IS OMNIUNUM, the infinite ground
of being, yet also just another human animal.
pandoras Box Within the rational framework of Organismic Philosophy, the concept of Pandoras
Box was intended to be an afterthought, a potential subject for derisive conjecture about the noncausal nature of certain phenomena such as omens, synchronicities and fate.
pernicious antithesis/organismic anathama OP/BT term and definition for 'evil'. What is evil?
Water is good it is one of the most basic necessities of all life as we know it. But too much water is
a flood, and too little is a drought. Frozen water can can be deadly, so can boiling water. Water is still
a good thing, but its reality presents some inherent evils. Human norms of health, safety, and acclimatization
people Whispering (definition incomplete)
persona Within Organismic Philosophy and Biotheism, the Persona is defined as the healthy
corollary or couterpart of the less healthy 'ego'.
Whereas the ego is centered on the question of what I am (a singular conception), the persona is
centered upon the question of what I might be (any number of things).

Persona is non-stratified and consciously kept flexible, allowing the individual to switch easily between various roles and perspectives.
The persona can be more or less integrated or more or less authentic. Like the ego, it is a fusion of
the two main components of the self, the "Analytic Mind" (the semantic, rational mind) and the "Animal Self" (the pre-semantic/ original mind). When these two components are integrated and coexisting in harmonious balance, we observe this as a tendency in the direction of positive persona, but at
these two components compete or remain separated, we observe this as a tendency toward negative
ego. Just as the unintegrated Jungian Shadow leads to any number of neurosis, those who refuse to
accept and embrace their animal nature/base, will be precisely those who tend to succumb to the
more precarious aspects of that nature.
Like ego, persona is essential as it determines makes tangible our sense of self, and may be alternately compared to the ego, the soul, the atman or the tonal (when referring to the individual Persona
as opposed to the social persona, which is a function of ego).
point of assembly The point of assembly is what structures all of our senses into a coherent
worldview, a coherent perspective. It takes all of our external sensory imput and weaves it into what
we call "reality". The theatre, or holodeck, or the mechanism which allows this within the mind. We
are not living inside the locus where initial input occurs, what we experience is inside the point of assembly.
principled analytic animal A description of the realized and actuated human being. Principles
act as a fulcrum or axis uniting the (definition incomplete)
proto-memes When we speak of memes, we tend to assume that these memes represent
thought packets, or an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.
Meme[s] act...as...unit[s] for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from
one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a
mimicked theme (from the Wiki on memes). However, packets of replicable information are manifest
within many organisms, beyond the human. We should consider that throughout all phases evolution,
replicable information semantic or not in essence rides upon its genetic bearer from organism
to organism and is be passed along from one generation to the next (or even sometimes from one
species to another) through a wholly different mechanism than the genetic which acts as a vector for
this information.
Proto-memes represent the memetic information which is transmitted by any species on a pre-cognitive, and pre-thought (i.e. non semantic) level. Many bird songs are passed along only through the
parent teaching its young by example. As organisms evolve, the capacity and range of this taught information increases, until we reach the human level in which much of our internal content is by necessity passed along outside of a genetic line.
Proto-memes are currently being studied within the field of Animal Culture, and are understood as
any behavior which must be taught/learned/imitated to be inhereted.
rational Irrationality Through ones own rational, empirical and positivist observation, the Organismic Philosopher arrives at the conclusion that human beings cannot avoid being believers of one
sort or another. It is staking a moral claim when one decides that any one thing is more right in all
cases then another. Similarly, many other apparently "irrational" claims arise by the use of nothing

other than pure rationality.

Ultimately, if the rationalist is honest enough with him/herself, it becomes apparent that we are essentially irrational beings with a very powerful tool at our disposal (reason/rationalism itself), one which
humanity has been largely without up until the last few centuries.
radical reasonableness Simply another way of stating: Everything in Moderation, including
Moderation. (definition incomplete)
re-evolution Within OPBT the notion that revolution inevitably must be sudden or violent, accompanied by social unrest and cultural upheaval is rejected. Constructive revolution, with positive and
lasting consequences for humanity generally does *not* come with violent upheaval, which instead
has a tendency to perpetuate numerous cultural backlashes and evolutionary backsliding. Widespread, lasting change generally appears through what seem to be subtle cultural shifts arising from
the irrepressible historical exigency of an era. When large numbers of people make small, almost unnoticable changes to their daily behavior, systemic and permanant change can take place.
resolved dichotomy What history requires is that union of so-called 'opposites', which will restore a fundamental harmony that the prevailing macro-memes have been denying the world for so
long. A large part of the failure here is in the idea of Manichean opposites. We take it for granted that
a whole, natural life incorporates the balance of masculine and feminine, but somehow though we
have learned the distinction between these polarities, we have forgotten the essential complementary
nature these two halves represent... Similarly, the majority of dichotomies are mutually arising polarities of a naturally unified whole, the oppositional component of their relationship having been overemphasized over the more fundamental unity that lies underneath, inextricably tying the two together.
the rhizome Or, The Perennial Rhizome. The chain or series of branches of the gene-pool to
which our lives are connected. We are in essence only, "this season's flourish" the root, branch
or trunk is the true life-form (also can be substituted with the term mycelium).
As quoted by Carl Jung, 'The psyche is not of today; its ancestry goes back many millions of years.
Individual consciousness is only the flower and the fruit of a season, sprung from the perennial rhizome beneath the earth; and it would find itself in better accord with the truth if it took the existence of
the rhizome into its calculations. The root matter is the mother of all things.
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in
the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground only lasts a single summer. Then it withers
away an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something that lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What we see is blossom, is fruit...which
passes....the rhizome remains (Prologue: Memories, Dreams, Reflections).
scion Or officially, Scion of the Organismic Principle. All of those who have transplanted or
grafted themselves onto the life-imbuing "rootstock" of OP/BT. Adherents.
Those born by parents who are both scions are not scions. No-one may consider themselves a scion
of the organismic principle (what a believer, follower, devotee, of OP/BT is called) until they take it
upon themselves to learn the fundamentals and then initiate themselves through their own ritual. An
act of personally inspired dedication must proceed induction.

sCosh An acronym for: Sustainable, Compassionate, Organic, Socially Responsible and Healthy.
Scosh is the Biotheistic equivalent to a Kosher or Halal standard for diet and dietary guidelines which
are espoused and endorsed within our community. While Scosh standards do not necessarily conform to certain ritual activities, or dogmatic restrictions and rules for dietary choices, they do adhere to
a basic set of considerations which the scion should adhere to out of their personal respect for themselves, the greater biosphere, and all the organisms which contribute to their nutrition and health.
The Scosh stardard is implemented though a scale of higher and lower Scosh color-coded grading,
from Green to Red, with Green being 100% Scosh, and Red being !00% non-Scosh (the complete
scale being Green/Blue/Yellow/Orange/Red). Scosh standards do encourage certain life-style
choices over others, but leave the final implementation up to each person to suit their particular preferences and circumstances. Vegetarianism is encouraged, but not obligatory, as responsible and
compassionate rearing and harvesting of animal food sources is not only possible, it is in certain
cases ideal for many people, and perhaps counter-intuitively for the animals themselves. Because of the very complex nature of this issue, a full explanation of all considerations of the Scosh
standard cannot be detailed in this glossary.
super-subjectivism Within Organismic Philosophy, subjectivism is accepted as the inescabable
default of human awareness, whereas objectivism is understood as an abstract projection of the subjective, which seeks to (falsely) place the subject one step above or outside their own awareness. Of
course this feat is not possible (Super-Subjectivist: One who believes in objectivism but realizes
there can be no such thing)
superliminal Subliminal refers to stimuli below the consciousness, while supraliminal represents
stimuli above the threshhold of consciousness/things too big to see, too obvious to point out, the elephants in the room
super: meaning right in the middle of consciousness, propaganda, force-fed, repetition (definition incomplete)
(the) Unteaching See (The) Great Unteaching
Word/thought pollution Just as the bioshere is able to be effected and contaminated by toxic
chemicals and byproducts, the mindsphere
(the) Worm mind The core organic mind inherited from our most ancient living ancestors.
To Know ourselves truly as 'humans', we should keep in mind that our 'humanity' is but a sliver of our
evolutionary heritage, if taken in full since the beginnings of our biological development. Therefore,
before we can fully understand the human mind, we must come to better understand the Primate
Mind, (and before that,) the Mammalian Mind (and before that,) the Reptilian Mind ... the Amphibian
Mind ... the Fish Mind ... the Worm Mind ... the Cellular Mind ... the Molecular Mind... the
Atomic Mind ... the Quantum Mind ... The Universal Mind

UnIversaL prInCIpLes

FURTHER
MEANINGFUL
QUOTATIONS

Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences
himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a
thinking person with a feeling of humility.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to
whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead:
his eyes are closed.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
There are two ways to live your life one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a
miracle.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see
in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature in its beauty.
It is better for people to be like the beasts...they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what
they are doing while they are doing it.
The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more
beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and
dehumanization of our lives - the disastrous by-product of the scientific and technical mentality. Nostra culpa.
I believe in Spinozas God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns
himself with the fates and actions of human beings.

VOLTAIRE
To worship God and to leave every other man free to worship Him in his own way; to love ones neighbor, enlightening them if one can and pitying those who remain in error; to dimiss as immaterial all questions that would have
given us no trouble if no importance had been attached to them- this is my religion, it is worth all your systems and
symbols.

HERBERT SPENCER
The supposed supernatural sanction of right conduct do not, if rejected, leave a blank. There exist Natural
Sanctions no less pre-emptory, and covering a much wider field- Acceptance of the doctrine of organic evolution
determines certain ethical conceptions. The highest conduct is that which conduces to the greatest length, breadth
and completeness of life. Herbert Spencer
*As quoted by Will Durant in The Story of Philosophy p.385- The entire paragraph, starting with The new morality
must be built upon biology

WILLIAM JAMES
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
Religion. . . makes easy and felicitous what in any case is necessary; and if it be the only agency that can accomplish this result, its vital importance as a human faculty stands vindicated beyond dispute. It becomes an essential
organ of our life, performing a function which no other portion of our nature can so successfully fulfill.
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or
by thought. When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed
there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable in their lives. The theories which Religion generates, being
thus variable, are secondary; and if you wish to grasp her essence, you must look to the feelings and the conduct as
being the more constant elements. It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries
on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop-lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be
regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on. This seems to me
the first conclusion which we are entitled to draw from the phenomena we have passed in review.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these
internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the
civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true
men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

ROBERT ANTON WILSON

Every model we make tells us how our mind works as much as it tells us about the universe. These are just human
symbolic games: the universe itself is bigger than any of our models; ergo, any model we make doesnt describe the
universe, it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them werent even mammals.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in
all the fables of the Church.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe
outside is inside.
The Grail is the womb of the beloved.
I coined the term irrational rationalism because those people claim to be rationalists, but theyre governed by such
a heavy body of taboos. Theyre so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic...I got tired satirizing fundamentalist Christianity... I decided to satirize fundamentalist materialism for a change,
because the two are equally comical... The materialist fundamentalists are funnier than the Christian fundamentalists,
because they think theyre rational! ...Theyre never skeptical about anything except the things they have a prejudice
against. None of them ever says anything skeptical about the AMA, or about anything in establishment science or
any entrenched dogma. Theyre only skeptical about new ideas that frighten them.
BOB MARLEY
Got to put aside them segregation, yeah! Got to put aside them organization; Got to put aside them denomination.
Or there will, there will never be no love at all; I mean there will never be no love at all.
(Got to build our love) So build our love (on one foundation) On one foundation; (Got to build our love) Come, let
us build our love (on one foundation) On one solid foundation. [repeat]
Got to come together We are birds of a feather; We got to come together, Cause we are birds of a feather; Got
to come together Cause we are birds of a feather; Or there will never be no love at all - There will never be - yeah,
yeah! - no love at all.
We also got to realize we are one people, yeah! Got to realize that we are one people, yeah! We got to realize
we are one people, Or there will never be no love at all - There will never, never, never be no love at all.
Got to build our love on one foundation [repeat]
From the song, One Foundation
If you know what life is worth, You will look for yours on earth:
Were sick and tired of your ism-schism game, die and go to heaven in Jesus name, Lord We know when we understand, Almighty God is a living man! You can fool some people sometimes, but you cant fool all the people all
the time. So now that we see the light, we gonna stand up for our rights, Yeah!
From the song, Get Up, Stand Up
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind.
From the song, Redemption Song

JOHN LENNON
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Weve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You cant just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or
just think its going to get on by itself. Youve got to keep watering it. Youve got to really look after it and nurture
it.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. Its just that
the translations have gone wrong.
Youre just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. Youve got to get down to your own God in
your own temple. Its all down to you, mate.
Imagine theres no heaven, Its easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky.
Imagine all the people, living for today...
Imagine theres no countries, It isnt hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too.
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope some day youll join us,
And the world will be as one.
From the song, Imagine

JIM MORRISON
The body tries to tell the truth. But, its usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it
can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up
your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Were getting tired of waiting around, Waiting around with our heads to the ground. I hear a very
gentle sound. What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered
and ripped her and bit her; Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn, and tied her with fences and dragged her
down. I hear a very gentle sound; With your ear down to the ground
From the song, When the Musics Over

JOHN MUIR
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial
world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds,
but in others they overmaster everything.

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and,
instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.
Even so, God cannot save them from fools.
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed
like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and
however covered by cares and duties
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
In Gods wildness lies the hope of the world.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal
and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no
traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present
or future, but instead exalting the simple laws of common sense or of super-sense if you prefer determining form by
way of the nature of materials...
Frank Lloyd Wright, from An Organic Architecture, 1939
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the days work. I follow in building
the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native
character to everyone and married to the ground.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he cant see at least ten years ahead,
dont call him an architect.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always
meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

ANTONI GAUD
The architect of the future will build imitating Nature, for it is the most rational, long-lasting and economical of all
methods.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Copiers do
not collaborate. Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature; the other books are
taken from it, and in them there are the mistakes and misinterpretations of men.

NIKOLA TESLA
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the
broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one anothers point of view... The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed
by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of
others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange
of thought and intercourse.
Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties
cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a
friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter
which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each
of us is only part of a whole?
For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a
means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one
way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Metaphysical proofs are, however, not the
only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this idea. Science, too, recognizes this connectedness of
separate individuals, though not quite in the same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a constellation are one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally confirmed in times to come, when our
means and methods for investigating psychical and other states and phenomena shall have been brought to great
perfection. Still more: this one human being lives on and on. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and
pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.

TERENCE McKENNA
We have numerous, extremely nave assumptions built into our thinking, and our most venerable explanatory engines, such as science, happen also to be our oldest explanatory engines, and therefore they have built into them the
most nave and unexamined assumptions.
...[W]hat is lacking is the clear vision of what should be done... What needs to be done is that fundamental, ontological conceptions of reality need to be redone. We need a new language, and to have a new language we must
have a new reality... A new reality will generate a new language, a new language will fix a new reality, and make
it part of this reality.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future, and no longer casting
blame outward on institutions or hierarchies of responsibility and control, but by realizing the opportunities here, the
responsibilities here, and the two may never be congruent again, and the salvation of your immortal soul may depend on what you do with the opportunity.
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to supress, distort and ignore. That is that Nature is some kind of minded entity. That Nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through
electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But
it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander
across the room and look at the thermostat.
I think what has happened-because of psychedelics on one level and quantum physics on another - is that the program of rationally understanding nature has at last been pushed so far that we have reached the irrational core of
nature herself.
I think People are in love with the journey. People love seeking answers. But if you were to suggest to them that the
time of seeking is over and that the chore is now to face the answer, now thats more of a challenge!
DESMOND MORRIS
There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape selfnamed Homo sapiens.
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal
amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
The pleasant irony is that the more fully a man gives himself up to totally irrational thought processes during parts
of his working life, the more brutally objective and lucid he can be at other times. It is as if one half of the brain
writes poetry and the other half dictates business letters, and if one half is ignored it becomes restless and fouls up
the other. If they are both allowed to function fully, they both benefit...

...Perhaps the time will come when we will give up the folly of separating sub-adults into the imaginitive and the
analytical -- artists or scientists -- and encourage them to be both at once.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatterd: Whatever sooths our Pride, and tends to exalt our Species
above the rest of the Creation, we are pleasd with and easily believe, when ungrateful Truths shall be with the utmost Indignation rejected. What! bring ourselves down to an Equality with the Beasts of the Field! with the meanest
part of the Creation! Tis insufferable! But, (to use a Piece of common Sense) our Geese are but Geese tho we may
think em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is,
through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon
our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and
loves to see us happy.

The art of concluding from experience and observation consists in evaluating probabilities, in estimating if they are
high or numerous enough to constitute proof. This type of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than one
might think. It demands a great sagacity generally above the power of common people. The success of charlatans,
sorcerors, and alchemistsand all those who abuse public credulityis founded on errors in this type of calculation.

ALDOUS HUXLEY
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made
the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from:
either a number of national, militarized totalitarianisms, having as their root the terror of the atomic bomb and as
their consequence the destruction of civilization (or, if the warfare is limited, the perpetuation of militarism); or else
one supra-national totalitarianism, called into existence by the social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress in general and the atomic revolution in particular, and developing, under the need for efficiency and stability...
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Theres only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thats your own self.
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning
that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the
village and in the country around it.
It is only in the act of contemplation when words and even personality are transcended, that the pure state of the
Perennial Philosophy can actually be known. The records left by those who have known it in this way make it abundantly clear that all of them, whether Hindu, Buddhist, Hebrew, Taoist, Christian, or Mohammedan, were attempting
to describe the same essentially indescribable Fact.
At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines:
First: the phenomenal world of matter and of individualized consciousness the world of things and animals and
men and even gods is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within which all partial realities have their being, and
apart from which they would be non-existent.
Second: human beings are capable not merely of knowing about the Divine Ground by inference; they can also realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower
with that which is known.
Third: man possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an eternal Self, which is the inner man, the spirit, the
spark of divinity within the soul. It is possible for a man, if he so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the Divine Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.
Fourth: mans life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to
unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
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The second doctrine of the Perennial Philosophy that it is possible to know the Divine Ground by a direct intuition higher than discursive reasoning is to be found in all the great religions of the world. A philosopher who is

content merely to know about the ultimate Reality theoretically and by hearsay is compared by Buddha to a
herdsman of other mens cows. Mohammed uses an even homelier barnyard metaphor. For him the philosopher who
has not realized his metaphysics is just an ass bearing a load of books. Christian, Hindu, Taoist teachers wrote no
less emphatically about the absurd pretensions of mere learning and analytic reasoning.
I have tried to show that the Perennial Philosophy and its ethical corollaries constitute a Highest Common Factor,
present in all the major religions of the world. To affirm this truth has never been more imperatively necessary than at
the present time. There will never be enduring peace unless and until human beings come to accept a philosophy of
life more adequate to the cosmic and psychological facts than the insane idolatries of nationalism and the advertising
mans apocalyptic faith in Progress towards a mechanized New Jerusalem... But happily there is the Highest Common
Factor of all religions, the Perennial Philosophy which has always and everywhere been the metaphysical system of
prophets, saints and sages. It is perfectly possible for people to remain good Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or Moslems and yet to be united in full agreement on the basic doctrines of the Perennial Philosophy.
OPBT Notes:
Though we are in almost full accord with the above set of senitments, Biotheism and Organismic Philosophy has a
few nuanced adjustments to the language with which it is expressed in order for it to be truly accurate to our vision.
First Doctrine: The inclusion of gods here seems unusual, since we are referring to physical things and beings. However, gods in this case seems to represent either our own beliefs (part of our mental function), or forces of nature
which we hold in reverence, which we express through the metaphor of gods. I do not think he is arguing for the
objective existence of gods.
Second Doctrine: No changes needed. This doctrine is reflected perfectly in our Four Sources of Truth model, (Organismic Philosophy Tenet 8).
Third Doctrine: Re: Man possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an eternal Self
Here we agree, but with a minor change of language. The phenomenal ego in OPBT would be the Analytic Mind,
or the semantic, cognitive mind. The eternal Self, is the Animal Mind in OPBT, and though no animal is itself
eternal, the Animal Self, being identical with the eternal ground, IS eternal. The Animal Self is a holographic micro
expression of the whole universe on the macro scale. When Huxley states that this eternal self is the inner man, the
spirit, the spark of divinity within the soul this is exactly as we see it. Spirit or the ineffible, magical (i.e. completely
non-rational) experience of hyper-reality, is indeed none other than the direct (unreflected) experience of the Animal
Self.
Re: It is possible for a man, if he so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the Divine Ground,
which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.
We would rephrase this as, It is possible for a human, if he or she so desires, to identify him or herself with the Animal Self and therefore with the Divine Ground, which is of the same or like spirit with Nature.

ALEX GREY
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my
supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of
Liberation.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All
beings and things are residents in your awareness.
Create perfection wherever you go with your awareness. That is why this teaching is admired by artists they sense
the correctness of the response to life as creative. Life is infinite creative play. Enjoyment and participation in this
creative play is the artists profound joy. We co-author every moment with universal creativity.
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits
are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them--these nature spirits who call us here--sealing our fate
with each other, celebrating our love.
Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is
the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being. We are
constantly drawing the line between love and not love enter into the Non-duality Zone, and all judgements dissolve in the Vast Expanse.
Experience yourself as the Source and appreciate every moment as perfection. Sunrise--Sunset. Thank you, Thank
you, Creator, profound unstoppable connectedness of all beings, pattern to everything, most radical no-thing, the
Vast Expanse.

ALAN WATTS
There is obviously a place in life for a religious attitude for awe and astonishment at existence. That is also a basis
for respect for existence. We dont have much of it in this culture, even though we call it materialistic... Today we
are of course bent on the total destruction of material and its conversion into junk and poisonous gasses. This is of
course not a materialistic culture because it has no respect for material. And respect is in turn based on wonder.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word water is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play,
who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and
lives in a world of illusion.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and
all there is.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the
ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god?
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. What we really are is,
first of all, the whole of our body. And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between
outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Obviously a body requires air,
and the air must be within a certain temperature range. The body also requires certain kinds of nutrition. So in order
to occur the body must be on a mild and nutritive planet with just enough oxygen in the atmosphere spinning regularly around in a harmonious and rhythmical way near a certain kind of warm star... That arrangement is just as
essential to the existence of my body as my heart, my lungs, and my brain. So to describe myself in a scientific way,

I must also describe my surroundings, which is a clumsy way getting around to the realization that you are the entire
universe. However we do not normally feel that way because we have constructed in thought an abstract idea of our
self.
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance,
pretending not to trust their own judgment.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or
implausible. When we look through our telescopes and microscopes, or when we just look at nature, we have a
problem. Somehow the idea of God we get from the holy scriptures doesnt seem to fit the world around us, just as
you wouldnt ascribe a composition by Stravinsky to Bach. The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or
synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Its hard to conceive of the author of one
as the author of the other.
Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I.
And the more you become aware of the unknown self if you become aware of it the more you realize that it
is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky
Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great
telescopes. You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, Why, thats me! And in knowing that, you know that you never die. You are the eternal thing that comes and goes that appears now as John
Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown and so it goes, forever and ever and ever.
We are at war between consciousness and nature... It is ourself against ourselves.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know Gods lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.

ALBERT CAMUS
When the meaning of life has been suppressed, there still remains life
You will never be happy if you keep searching for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you keep looking for the meaning of life without living it.
One of the temptations of an artist is to believe himself solitary ...But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in
the same rank
One can reject all history and yet accept the world of the sea and the stars.
Mans greatness... lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only
one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in
eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

FRANCIS BACON
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has
observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the
rule.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument.
To say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood... is to affirm
that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man by a light.
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth mans mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth mens mind about
to religion.

ERNST HAECKEL
There is surely no subject of scientific investigation touching man more closely, or in the knowledge of which he is
more deeply concerned, than the human organism itself; and of all the various branches of the science of man, or anthropology, the history of his natural evolution should excite his highest interest. For it affords a key for the solution
of the greatest of those problems at which human science is striving. The greatest problems with which human science
is occupied the inquiry into the true nature of man, or, as it is called, the question of Mans Place in Nature,
which deals with the past and primitive history, the present condition, and the future of Man are all most directly
and intimately linked to this branch of scientific research, which is called The History of the Evolution of Man.
This divine spark is usually understood to be reason, and is ascribed to man as a mental function distinguishing
him from all irrational animals. Comparative psychology, however, teaches that this frontier-post between man and
beast is altogether untenable. We must either take the idea of reason in its broader sense, in which case it belongs
to the higher Mammals (the Ape, Dog, Elephant, Horse), as much as to the majority of men; or we must conceive it in
its narrower sense, and then it is lacking in the majority of men, as well as in most animals.
The Monistic religion of Nature, which, accordingly, we must consider as the true religion of the Future, will not,
like all Church religions, stand opposed to the rational knowledge of nature, but in perfect harmony with it. And
whereas Church religions are founded on deception and superstition, the religion of Nature will be based upon truth
and knowledge.
Politics is applied biology.

TIMOTHY LEARY
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we
are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities the
political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority
and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform
yourself.

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion
years making this planet a Garden of Eden. An intricate web has been woven, a delicate fabric of chemical-electrical-seed-tissue=organism=species. A dancing, joyous harmony of energy transactions is rooted in the 12 inches of
topsoil which covers the rock / metal / fire / core of this planet.
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same
reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of chaos.

ERICH FROMM
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier
stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
La raison dcoule du mlange de la pense rationnelle et des sentiments. Si les deux fonctions se dissocient, la
pense se dtriore en activit intellectuelle schizode et les sentiments en passions nvrotiques autodestructrices.
The reason rises from the mixture of the rational thought and the feelings. If the two functions dissociate, the thought
worsens in schizoid mental activity and the feelings in neurotic passions
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
To be alive is a dynamic, not a static, concept. Existence and the unfolding of the specific powers of an organism
are one and the same. All organisms have an inherent tendency to actualize their specific potentialities. The aim of
mans life, therefore, is to be understood as the unfolding of his powers according to the laws of nature.
Valuable or good is all that which contributes to the greater unfolding of mans specific faculties and furthers life.
Negative or bad is everything that strangles life and paralyzes mans activeness. All norms of the great humanist
religions like Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, or Islam or the great humanist philosophers from the pre-Socratics to
contemporary thinkers are the specific elaboration of this general principle of values.
There is only one way--taught by the Buddha, by Jesus, by the Stoics, by Master Eckhart--to truly overcome the fear
of dying, and that way is by not hanging onto life, not experiencing life as a possession.
The prophetic concept of peace transcends the realm of human relations; the new harmony is also one between man
and nature. Peace between man and nature is harmony between man and nature. Man is not threatened by nature
and stops striving to dominate it; he becomes natural, and nature becomes human. He and nature cease to be opponents and become one. Man is at home in the natural world, and nature becomes a part of the human world; this
is peace in the prophetic sense. (The Hebrew word for peace, shalom, which could best be translated as completeness, points in the same direction.)

ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life.
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his
life with reverence in order to give it true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the
will to live.
At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give to every will to live the same
reverence for life that he gives to his own.[....] This is the absolute, fundamental principle of ethics, and is a fundamental postulate of thought.
James Brabazon (Author of the Biography of Albert Schweitzer) defined Reverence for Life with the following statement:
Reverence for Life says that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. This is
something that we share with everything else that lives, from elephants to blades of grass and, of course, every
human being. So we are brothers and sisters to all living things, and owe to all of them the same care and respect,
that we wish for ourselves. James Brabazon

FRANCIS OF ASISSI
O Most High, all-powerful, good Lord God, to you belong praise, glory, honour and all blessing.
Be praised, my Lord, for all your creation and especially for our Brother Sun, who brings us the day and the light; he
is strong and shines magnificently. O Lord, we think of you when we look at him.
Be praised, my Lord, for Sister Moon, and for the stars which you have set shining and lovely in the heavens.
Be praised, my Lord, for our Brothers Wind and Air and every kind of weather by which you, Lord, uphold life in all
your creatures.
Be praised, my Lord, for Sister Water, who is very useful to us, and humble and precious and pure.
Be praised, my Lord, for Brother Fire, through whom you give us light in the darkness: he is bright and lively and
strong.
Be praised, my Lord, for Sister Earth, our Mother, who nourishes us and sustains us, bringing forth
fruits and vegetables of many kinds and flowers of many colours.
Be praised, my Lord, for those who forgive for love of you; and for those who bear sickness and weakness in peace
and patience you will grant them a crown.
Be praised, my Lord, for our Sister Death, whom we must all face.
I praise and bless you, Lord, and I give thanks to you, and I will serve you in all humility.

QUOTES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and
living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees
thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their
tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not
be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with
extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren,
they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of
the splendour and travail of the earth. Henry Beston, The Outermost House
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they
inhabit time. C. S. Lewis
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false
which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. Arthur Young
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For
as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Pythagoras
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
David Attenborough
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and
living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the
body.Arthur Schopenhauer
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does.
Thats human nature. Noam Chomsky
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are
my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature. Mikhail Gorbachev
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of
symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. Charles Baudelaire
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. Baruch Spinoza
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able
to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. - Carl Sagan

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some
see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature
at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
William Blake
The greatest cathedral of all is nature itself. It simultaneously humbles and pulls up giant emotions that cannot be
fully expressed in mere words. Rodney Cobb
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she
speaks. Richard Feynman
The world can be breathtakingly beautiful and demand awe and inspiration. But what of the uncharted inner territories where Nature also reigns? Cecilia Henle
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of
gold and silver. Martin Luther
Many of the earths habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be
known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is
too late. Dalai Lama
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many
transformations, logically and inevitably. Suzanne Langer
An artist struggles to capture what nature effortlessly creates. Brian M. LaSaga
Mankinds true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards
those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so
fundamental that all others stem from it. Milan Kundera
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or
whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
John Adams, Deist
The heart of Pantheist philosophy is a belief in the sanctity of Nature. This means that we hold reverence for the
inconceivable evolutionary processes that created us; for the unfolding of the stars in the Universe and the life on our
home planet Earth. In short--we put our faith in our Creator--meaning not only all past events and shapes and patterns, but also the now, for Creation is a continuing process and exists within us and around us this very instant.
--Harold W. Wood
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our
needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the
existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.
Peter Singer

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that
it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Natures scheme of evolution.
Arthur Keith
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
Russell Hoban
Normally, Ive found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters Ive
had a chance and the honor to serve with didnt pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.
David Dewhurst
I think the fallacy is to think that Womens Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable.
That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
Christina Hoff Sommers
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced
in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
Rebecca De Mornay
For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but
the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family
was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it
and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead
her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who
would act for her. Gerda Lerner
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be
confused w ith the tree of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche