The Nature of Illusion as it Relates to Pantheism

[Capstone]

So there are prophet-philosophers evangelizing these thoughts?...

I don't care for the term "prophet" (loaded as it is), but there are quite a few pantheists/non-dualistic deist types out there (thanks, in no small part, to certain schools of Hindu and Buddhist thought), as well as at least two notable contemporary philosophers (Horgan and Potrč), pushing similar ideas.

... Is this a full-on religion then?

Not as far as I'm concerned. I choose to see it instead as a multifaceted methodology - a way of understanding and living in accordance to the true nature of 'God', minus many of the trappings commonly associated, fairly or not, with "religion".

 

[Damaged Eagle]

We are the "I's" of God

If "I" am everything I see,
if "all", that is, is really me,
then "you" aren't what you seem to be,
and "we" are purely fantasy.
~~~​

I'll reply to both of you at greater length in the next few days.

*****CHUCKLE*****