Contemporary Pagan Philosophy

Table of Contents

1. Paganisms Old and New

2. Nature as Energized Network

1. The Watery Abyss
2. Pagan Protology
3. Isness is Energy
4. Networks
5. The Surpassivity of Nature
6. The Positivities of Nature

3. Patterns of Energy

1. Animism
2. Eidolons are Powerful Universals
3. How Things Instantiate Eidolons
4. Eidolons Strive to Produce their Instances
5. How Eidolons have Directed Skills
6. Freedom and Fate

4. Theologies

1. The Archaic Theology
2. The Modal Realist Theology
3. The Big Powers Theology
4. Religious Experiences
5. Reincarnation and Deification

5. The Arts of Possibility

1. Divination
2. Defining Magic
3. High Magic and Authenticity
4. Spellcasting and Visualization
5. Spells in Low and High Magic

6. Ethics

1. Ethics in the Network
2. Ethics for All Organisms
3. Organisms Compete
4. Organisms Cooperate
5. Human Ethics

7. Practices

1. Theosis and Theurgy
2. Some Types of Theurgy

8. Conclusion

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