Submitted 2 weeks ago by x4740N@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
What do you call the belief that God’s are just higher beings on other planes of existence while not believing in manmade organised dogmatic religons?
First and foremost that’s personal spirituality. There’s also a new age thing about starseeds aka reincarnated souls from other planets which this loosely reminds me of. Also kinda reminds me of this video I saw the other day.
It loosely reminds everyone of everything because “other planes of existence” is an all-encompassing meaningless term.
Just about every religion or fiction fits this, because they can–and do-- say “oh but it’s in oThEr pLaNeS oF eXiStEnCe!”. Which is a silly excuse because just about only concrete property that “other plane of existence” implies is that things on beings on it can’t affect things or beings on this plane of existence, so any theory (as in “has to make useful, verifiable predictions”) involving interactions between planes of existence is kind of dead on arrival.
It loosely reminds everyone of everything because “other planes of existence” is an all-encompassing meaningless term.
It is to those who can’t sense them. Spirituality sounds like delusion if you haven’t had the neccessary experiences that allow you to understand what faith even means. I’m fully aware of that. I used to be strictly atheist.
if there's higher dimensions they're still part of the universe as I know it, they're just not in the parts I can perceive. There's very little useful speculation I can do in relation to the parts I can't perceive. Apparently this is called "existence monism," so this would be one of the other things in the Wikipedia theology tree. personally I would classify it as a type of Monolatry.
wouldnt another dimension be seperate from the universe, but not reality.
I mean we've already accepted that we don't know how big the universe is. The way physics has been going lately the universe might actually be bigger than reality.
A religion or cult. It’s still theism.
I’m heard and read that Abrahamic religions don’t have a place for their gods to hang out but the rest they hang out in the Meta Divine Realm
Religion with more up to date pop culture buzzwords.
They aren’t gods, just manifestations who cast them self into the next high dimension.
They have noticed us, yet.
I call it a (wo…)manmade organised dogmatic religion. Sure, it might be just with a member of one (which is kinda cool and all and probably makes the organizing part a little bit easier) but it’s still kind of the same thing…
But seriously, it really depends on the details on such belief. It might be anything from harmless cope to superstition to delusion to paranoia. Or a first brave step in escaping a cult–which I would genuinely applaud.
I don’t know but now I’m wondering, do the Greek gods qualify?
greeks seem to have a hierarchy. thier are demigods lower than gods, gods are lower titans, and lower than primordial beings(aka personification of aspect of the universe)
Are gods lower then titans? The gods are the offspring of them and overthrow them.
common sense.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I like a lot of interpretations here, and while not strictly non religious, Gnosticism is more reverence of the knowledge rather than the institutions, worth looking into if you’re theocurious en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism