Deep Pantheism: Toward a New Transcendentalism

This book broadens our conceptions of the sheer breadth and uncanny depths of nature. It locates the Selving process directly within the one nature that there is—a nature that has no boundary or contour. The highest manifestation of the human psyche, as argued by Otto Rank, is the creation of the artistic personality. The book transcends and transforms current work in the field of religious naturalism, gives pantheism new life over against the more fashionable… (more)

This book broadens our conceptions of the sheer breadth and uncanny depths of nature. It locates the Selving process directly within the one nature that there is—a nature that has no boundary or contour. The highest manifestation of the human psyche, as argued by Otto Rank, is the creation of the artistic personality. The book transcends and transforms current work in the field of religious naturalism, gives pantheism new life over against the more fashionable panentheism, radicalizes and deepens the thought and practice of psychoanalysis with its creation of ordinal psychoanalysis, and creates a whole new way of doing phenomenology called ordinal phenomenology.