Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Triple Synthesis

In the last paragraph of Mircea Eliade's three-volume A History of Religious Ideas (1985), he sees an analogy between "the Tibetan religious synthesis" and medieval Hinduism and Christianity in a mutual influence of a traditional religion founded on the idea of the sacred Cosmos and of a salvational religion and of an esoteric tradition.

I wondered if this triple synthesis could apply to modern ecological religion, and I came up with: sacred Cosmos nature-paganism from various world cultures, modern ecological salvationism; that is, the Deep Ecology movement, and Jungianism, its ideology and technique, at least as a starting point.  This amounts to 'the new ecological synthesis', if you will.

I then felt moved to come up with a name for this new religion in my own eormennisch terms: Weowyke (add '-had' instead of '-ism', if you feel it necessary.  Weoh (OEng)= sacred precinct, temple, altar.  And Wyke (Eor)= Biosphere.  So, an approximation of "sacred Cosmos".

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