Feb 8, 2024
I'm familiar with some of his ideas, although I couldn't get through Redefining the Sacred since it got a little too technical with the science for me.
As I understand them, his views are largely but not entirely consistent with mine. I agree it's important to reflect on emergent properties in nature since that's how we can understood the difference between personhood and animality, together with the existential clash between nature's wildness and our civility and artificiality. Where we differ is in the type of pantheism we advocate. His is more Taoist than mine, I think, more deferential to nature's creativity and not as cosmicist. I wrote about a similar clash of pantheisms in the article below.
