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the universe taking the call from inside the house instead of phoning it in.
means The idea that the divine, or some animating principle, exists within and throughout the material world rather than standing apart from it.
from From Latin 'immanere,' to remain or dwell within — built from 'in-' (in) plus 'manere' (to stay, the same root behind 'mansion' and 'permanent'). The word entered philosophical and theological English to mark a careful contrast with 'transcendence' (from 'transcendere,' to climb beyond): one God stays home, the other steps outside. Worth not confusing with 'imminence,' from 'imminere' (to overhang, to loom) — that one is about what's about to happen, not what's already inside.
- vs transcendence
- God down here, not up there
- latin root
- means remaining or dwelling within
- spinoza's bet
- nature and the divine are one substance
- deleuze loved it
- a flat plane with no outside
- theology fight
- sparked centuries of heresy charges
spinoza's ethics — 17th century philosophy where god/nature is immanent in all things, not transcendent
deleuze's rhizome — 20th century concept of immanent multiplicities without hierarchical roots or centers
pantheism — religious belief that the divine is immanent in nature, present everywhere at once