Panentheism with a deist twist

A review of "The Panendeism Treatise. Panendeism: Its Past, Its Present, Its Future" 

This is a short pamphlet about “panendeism”, the faith of the small Panendeist Organization. Panendeism is an attempt to fuse panentheism and deism. It could also be seen as a sub-set of the former, namely panentheism with a deist twist (there are, after all, different kinds of panentheism). The similarities with deism include a rejection of all prophets or established churches, and the claim that God can only be known through science and reason. The similarity with panentheism is the idea that the world is sacred since it's "in" God, while God is larger/greater than the world.

The Panendeist Organization lays strong emphasis on Einstein and various quantum physicists, claiming (perhaps correctly) that many of them believed that some kind of God or divine force was ultimately behind the universe (they reference Ken Wilber's “Quantum Questions” on this point). Thus, science is believed to have proven panendeism. More concretely, the authors of this e-book reject meditation, mysticism and other techniques aiming at contact or merger with God. Instead, they simply propose an ethical life in the here and now, with a liberal-environmentalist spin.

I admit that I didn't find this pamphlet particularly exciting, but I'm presumably a panentheist without a deist twist, so perhaps that explains it. That, and the fact that they don't mention Bigfoot!