Pragmatic Deep Ecology

Mystics may experience God, but still not know what he thinks and wants of them.  On the other hand, with the Self, the ego-mind is part of it and so instead of having God tell us what he thinks and wants of us (which can happen in dream and trance, though usually in cryptic symbolic form), we must work out, ourselves, as best we can, what he must think and want of us. God is the sort of God who must exist, to rescue us from ourselves, and Nature from us.  If we had no such God at hand, we would have to invent him (Voltaire), figure out what kind of God he must be, what is needed.  And then we must accept, 'choose to believe', the best model of him we can surmise and the essential "over-beliefs" that accompany it.  And then we must 'as-if' this God into being in our minds, hoping that this effort is rewarded with a reply, help from 'the other side', having tried to open ourselves to his influence, his 'invasions'.  And in return for his help, we must strive to fulfill his demands of us. And so, Selfhood emerges in the interaction, and man and Nature may yet be saved.

The Self encompasses both ego and Unconscious(/Nature/God)-- no Self, then, without the involvement of both (i.e., no detached ego), because the Self is Unconscious/Nature/God become self-aware in ego-consciousness.  So we must rely on thought plus intuitive knowledge, creative 'genius', supplied by the Unconscious, in working out the mind of God.  A mystic may have absolute beliefs due to or affirmed by his experiences of the sacred, but those less gifted must settle for a pragmatic belief, which actually might be prompted by God though we remain unaware of it, as in the monist worldview of Deep Ecology ego-mind and Eco-mind are a continuum, so what is of me and what is of God?  It may not much matter which, if the resulting behavior is the same: acting to save the Biosphere and ourselves.