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The idea of "God" as servitor / egregore

19:14 / 17.05.04

I'm trying to finish writing a book of sorts, and in the prologue I want to introduce the idea of God as a creation due to the intense mental energy of millions of people projecting massive amounts of thought-energy into the astral(?) plane, which then manifests as a living form (mental thoughts=physical forms), etc. This form then being somewhat bound to the group that created it. This seems to fit the definition of egregore the best, but I'm not sure. I'm trying to figure out if a being created with that type of energy is a servitor or egregore or something else completely. I realize this is by no means an original idea, but I want to present it as succinctly as I can to set up the rest of the book. If I could get help clarifying what I'm trying to say or a finger in the right direction I'd be grateful. Also, I'm sure another author (Carroll? Hine?) has dealt with this subject in detail, any links/titles/articles out there?

19:46 / 17.05.04

I think it may actually be a loa, though there's probably a more western-based version of the same idea.

Phex: Dorset Doom

19:51 / 17.05.04

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought a Loa was an aspect of God, similar to the Hindi deities, which, though there are over six million of them, together form Brahman, the Hindu supreme being.

trouser the trouserian

20:51 / 17.05.04

Link here to On the magical egregore which you might find of use.

...idea of God as a creation due to the intense mental energy of millions of people projecting massive amounts of thought-energy into the astral(?) plane, which then manifests as a living form (mental thoughts=physical forms), etc. This form then being somewhat bound to the group that created it.

There's been a few threads in this forum discussing this argument in some detail. Personally, I think it's a rather simplistic explanation of how 'gods' come about.

21:05 / 17.05.04

It's also just as much a step of faith as saying that there are beings known as gods which exist regardless of empowerment by human beings. The most I can comfortably say is that I sometimes encounter beings that behave as though they are spirits or gods, and I choose to forge relationships with them or not on a case by case basis. Anything else is getting into the realm of creating faith based models for understanding, and none of those models contain any more or less truth than the others (although I sometimes get the impression that people like their gods nice and domesticated, shaping their models accordingly).