Kickstarter underway for Essays From the Universe Experiencing Itself

 

Our Kickstarter is underway for our next collection: Essays From the Universe Experiencing Itself.

This is unlike any of our previous collections, as it is not explicitly about Pandeism (though it is explicitly about many other things).

Pandeism: An Anthology of the Creative Mind -- title page

Pandeism: An Anthology of the Creative Mind is coming soon....

Here is the title page:

Authors who have written or released materials for this book include an outstanding group of contributors to a variety of areas of philosophical thought (alphabetically, by surname):

• Jimmy "Ninja" Chaikong (musician and mixed martial artist, Texas)

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• Chris Fisher (Stoic philosopher, United States)

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• Walter Hehl (physicist, Germany)

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• William C. Lane (lawyer and philosopher, United States)

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• Knujon Mapson (Pandeist theologian, United States)

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• Michael Minogue (student submission, Illinois)

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• Amy Perry (transcendental poet, United States)

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• Roger Price (Jewish scholar, Illinois)

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• Varadaraja V. Raman (physicist, India/New York)

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• John Ross, Jr. (professor of communications, Illinois)

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• Scott Somerville (student submission, Canada)

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• E.L. Sudworth (author of "Creation in Stasis")

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• Max Bernhard Weinstein (physicist, Germany; translation by Deborah Moss)

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• Julian West (mythohistorian, Illinois)

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• Jayson X (World Union of Deists, United States)

Is Reality a Simulation?

Our brilliant friend Antonin Tuynman has recently put together a quite masterfully assembled anthology of articles on the question of Simulation Hypothesis -- the proposition that our Universe is in fact possibly simply a simulation being run on the system of somebody else's Universe.  With contributions from Dante Rosati, Tim Gross, Knuje Mapson, Eva Deli, Alex Vikoulov, Donald King, Sean Byrne, Dirk Bruere, Matt Swayne and, naturally, Antonin Tuynman -- it is available in print form via Lulu.com, and in electronic form via Amazon.com.

And here is the first page of the Pandeism chapter -- which chapter actually covers a great deal of ground beyond Pandeism -- love to see how it plays out across the printed page!!

Pandeism: An Anthology, Volume II, coming together!!

This is just a mockup cover for Pandeism: An Anthology, Volume II, but the whole will come to fruition (with a real cover) soon enough!! We have in hand fifteen quite amazing pieces, ready to edit and arrange into the final whole!!

One of the central themes being explored in this book will be the multiple-sided connection between Pandeism and human creativity. Additionally, new comparative pieces for this book include examinations of Pandeism from the viewpoints of Judaism and Stoicism.

Pandeism: An Anthology; page 23....

The 2017 Pandeism Collegiate Writing Competition

The 2017 Pandeism Collegiate Writing Competition is now underway. This competition is open to all persons who are undergraduate and graduate collegiate students of philosophy, theology, religious studies, social sciences, arts, literature, applied sciences, or comparable disciplines, at any time during the period during which the contest is being held.
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Students who wish to enter this competition must submit an article presenting original thought in exploring implications of the modern theological theory of Pandeism (pantheistic Deism, belief in a Creator wholly becoming our Universe, proposed to be discernible by application of logic and reason). Papers written for course credit are acceptable. Submissions do not need to take a position in favor of or opposed to Pandeism as a theory, but must present original thought about its relative possibility, relation to other areas of theology, or implications for areas such as epistemology, ethics and morality, or science. Submissions must be a minimum of 3,000 words and a maximum of 6,000 words. Only one (1) article may be submitted by each student.

The deadline to enter the contest is Friday, June 9, 2017, at 5:00 PM PST (8:00 PM EST). Articles may be submitted at any time prior to this deadline, but no submissions will be reviewed until after the deadline has passed. Submissions must be sent by email to Pandeism.Anthology@gmail.com, as Microsoft Word documents attached to an email identifying the name of the applicant, electronic and telephonic means of contacting the applicant, and the college or university attended by the applicant. There are no fees or other conditions for entry.
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Students who wish to enter this competition must submit an article presenting original thought in exploring implications of the modern theological theory of Pandeism (pantheistic Deism, belief in a Creator wholly becoming our Universe, proposed to be discernible by application of logic and reason). Papers written for course credit are acceptable. Submissions do not need to take a position in favor of or opposed to Pandeism as a theory, but must present original thought about its relative possibility, relation to other areas of theology, or implications for areas such as epistemology, ethics and morality, or science. Submissions must be a minimum of 3,000 words and a maximum of 6,000 words. Only one (1) article may be submitted by each student.

The deadline to enter the contest is Friday, June 9, 2017, at 5:00 PM PST (8:00 PM EST). Articles may be submitted at any time prior to this deadline, but no submissions will be reviewed until after the deadline has passed. Submissions must be sent by email to Pandeism.Anthology@gmail.com, as Microsoft Word documents attached to an email identifying the name of the applicant, electronic and telephonic means of contacting the applicant, and the college or university attended by the applicant. There are no fees or other conditions for entry.

One (1) grand prize winner will be honored by:

• publication of the winning article in Pandeism: An Anthology, Volume II, a collection of articles by leading authors in various fields, to be published by John Hunt Publishing Ltd, forthcoming in 2018;
• two (2) print copies of Pandeism: An Anthology, Volume II containing the winning submission; and
• a monetary prize in the amount of $250, to be conveyed in the form of an Amazon.com gift card.

Transmission of the prize may be provided electronically or by mail. The winner will be contacted to determine their preferred method of delivery.

Entrants, as a condition of entry, grant Sponsors a perpetual right to republish any submission, in whole or part, and release Sponsors, any prize provider in this contest, and any related entities from liability for damages of any kind sustained through participation in this contest and/or use of any prize. Entrants, as a condition of entry, further authorize Sponsors to republish their submission, in print or electronically. However, entrants retain ownership of their submission for all other purposes, and may republish them in any other venue or manner, at any time.

Sponsors will judge all entries, and the decisions of the judges are final. The judges may choose no grand prize winner for the competition if they find no submission that, in their estimation, merits this award. The winning entry will be announced Friday, July 7, 2017 on this website, and winners will be contacted directly through the email address that they have provided.

In addition to the grand prize winner, other submissions of high quality may be honored by publication in Pandeism: An Anthology, Volume II, as space permits. Competition sponsors may additionally choose to publish any submissions as part of a future anthology, or as part of a wholly electronic supplement to this or another printed publication.

Inquiries with respect to this contest may be directed to Pandeism.Anthology@gmail.com, or to the Twitter Pandeism account, @Pandeism.

Pandeism: An Anthology, around the world!!

Map of Pandeism: An Anthology shipping destinations.

To this date, copies of Pandeism: An Anthology have now shipped to, and been received by, dozens of our contributors and supporters around the world -- to more than forty cities, in eight countries, on three continents!! We have heard confirmation from recipients in widespread and diverse places, and so we expect that every contributor slated to receive one, and who provided their information, has by now received their designated book(s), inscribed with a message from editor Knujon Mapson.

A gathering for supporters and authors is tentatively planned for early December (probably the 9th/10th) in Los Angeles, California. Our literary agent will be traveling there in that period, and so will organize the event. Details about this and other such things will come -- and who knows, you may even choose to plan your own such event!!

Blessings!!

Pandeism: An Anthology -- forthcoming in January 2017!!

Pandeism: An Anthology is a collection of articles by more than a dozen authors, from all over the world, presenting diverse viewpoints on the theological theory of Pandeism. This theory seeks to reconcile aspects of Pantheism and Deism, proposing as a logical possibility that we are all part of a Creator which became our Universe to experience existence through our lives. This theory is proposed to be a more elegant and parsimonious model than theistic faiths, with implications argued to be more conducive to claiming the title of a "religion of peace."

This anthology is the first of its kind -- though Pandeism has been identified in philosophies going back thousands of years, was first identified as a formal theological category over 150 years ago, and has been touched on by dozens of writers, it has not itself been the subject of a book dedicated to examining it for over a hundred years. It is important to note that though all of these articles are in some way or another about Pandeism, they are not all advocating of the theory -- indeed, we as compilers as well as writers have taken the unusual step of intently soliciting and receiving commitments from Atheist and Theist authors offering their critical views on Pandeism.

Our Authors

Authors who have committed articles to this book include an outstanding group of contributors to a variety of areas of philosophical thought:

• Michael Arnheim (barrister and Deist, United Kingdom)

• Robert G. Brown (physicist and philosopher, United States)

• Dan Dana (Atheist writer, United States)

• Alan Dawe (author of the award-winning "The God Franchise," New Zealand)

• Orlando Alcántara Fernández (Christian poet, Dominican Republic)

• Ismaili Gnosis (Muslim Neoplatonist philosopher)

• Zoltan Istvan (Transhumanist author, United States)

• Bernardo Kastrup (computer scientist and philosopher of consciousness, Netherlands)

• William C. Lane (lawyer and philosopher, United States)

• Raphael Lataster (religious studies scholar, Australia)

• Knujon Mapson (Pandeist theologian, United States)

• Poffo Ortiz (Biopantheist author and artist, United States)

• Anthony Peake (author and lecturer on consciousness, United Kingdom)

• Amy Perry (transcendental poet, United States)

• Sushma Sahajpal (Hindu interfaith educator, United Kingdom)

This Anthology will be published in January 2017 -- we look forward to it, and hope you will as well!!