What does the CAW teach about God?
Caw embraces the theology of pantheism, as we experience what has been called “God,” as an immanent quality inherently manifest in every living Being, from a single cell to an entire planet–and likely the universe itself. We define Divinity as the highest level of aware consciousness accessible to each living being, manifesting itself in the self actualization of that Being. Divinity is a function of emergent evolution. Thus, every man, woman, tree, cat, snake, flower or grasshopper IS “God.” We express this is the phrase, “Thou Art God,” which was used by Robert Heinlein in his germinal novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, but may also be found in the Bible (Psalms 82:6; John 10:34), and in much basic thinking of Hinduism and Buddhism. At the macrocosmic level, we recognize that the entire Earth is a vast living Entity: Mother Earth, Mother Nature, The Goddess. We also recognize that groups of living Beings organized into various ecosystems may manifest psychically as a single collecti
