(August 17, 2023 at 1:43 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(August 17, 2023 at 1:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Some varieties of paganism don’t require interventionist supernatural forces, but view the non-natural world as existing side-by-side with the natural one (the pages of a book analogy). In these views, supernatural forces are not interventionist, but immanent.
Even more to the point, nature intervenes, and the sacred is immanent. Gods, even for those who believe in them, tend not to be supernatural. A god isn't over nature or in nature and beyond nature. It -is- nature. When a god blows, that's the wind at work.
If we detect anything that is super natural the "super-" prefix instantly drops away and it is added to the set of natural things.
In the same way, if we detect something in a parallel universe the "parallel" cancels out and it is instantly considered part of this universe.
