The World Pantheist Movement (WPM) is an international organization which promotes naturalistic

pantheism Pantheism is the belief that reality, the universe and the cosmos are identical with divinity and a supreme supernatural being or entity, pointing to the universe as being an immanent creator deity still expanding and creating, which has ...

, a philosophy which asserts that spirituality should be centered on nature. Paul Harrison is their founder and president.

External appearance

Its symbol is the spiral as seen in the curves of the nautilus shell which embodies the

Fibonacci series In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted , form a sequence, the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from ...

and the

golden ratio In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities a and b with a > b > 0, where the Greek letter phi ( ...

Beliefs and practice

The WPM uses the term “divine” rather than “god” and states that the universe as a whole is one with

divinity Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.divine< ...

. It has developed a pantheist credo as a guide (not indispensable set of rules for the members) and sees the universe as an everlasting, diverse and self-organized unit. All human beings are part of it and should therefore preserve the nature. The main focus is based on scientific pantheism and a naturalistic approach with reverence to the physical universe, oriented towards environmentalism with respect for human and animal rights.

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* {{official website, https://pantheism.net Pantheist organizations Organizations established in 1999 International religious organizations