Mind’s Travail

The purpose of this essay is to map out the perspective ecstatic naturalism and its corollary theology deep pantheism. Ecstatic begins ends with fissuring between nature naturing (nature perennially creating itself alone) natured (the innumerable orders world). Nature pulsating potencies could also be named: der Wille (Schopenhauer), firstness (Peirce), transcendental psychoid (Jung), creativity (Whitehead). Deep Pantheism rejects theism, a fully transcendent deity, panentheism, deity both in beyond nature. “deep” my form pantheism refers otherness unfathomable depths unconscious theism entailed that gods goddesses, finitely located, are archetypal images. symbol Great Mother premier locus for grounding enveloping human psyche. travail mind involves fitful precarious transitions finite embedded within emergence an awareness human, cultural, collective, natural modes via naturing.