Reformation Recipe Part Two

A lot of the material in this blog is making a subtle argument that the Gods are real.

The current gods of the West are the gods of a clockwork, deist Universe. I've given a couple examples in my posts: the History God and the Disembodied Math god. The western priests are the technocrats and academics of its institutions of government and higher learning. These gods of the west are kept in the holy of holies. They're secret gods who can only be entreated by the priests who've gone through the appropriate initiation ceremonies.

The next gods are, in fact, the ancient gods of an animist universe. Entities that live in symbiosis, or in some cases parasitism with man and nature. In a living, conscious universe, the gods can be bargained with, fought against, or praised and entreated. There's nothing resembling the priesthood of the Catholic church, or the academics and technocrats of today in such a world. In such a world, a Shaman, maybe your next door neighbor, or someone from your town can help reach across to such an entity.

Perhaps people are going full circle, back to their roots. In the case of European people in the Americas, maybe you will have more in common with pre-settlement Native Americans, than you do with your Empire citizen ancestors.

When the gods are everywhere and anyone can talk to them, then what's the authority of a politician or a technocrat worth? The old gods were gods of places, of plains, forests, mountains, and were the gods of the people of those places.

I think they're back, and their world's a decentralized world.