Nondual Panpsychism and Panentheism: Pratyabhijñā Śaivism, Rāmakṛṣṇa, and Vivekānanda
Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy April 1, 2026 J.m. Fritzman
Nondual Panpsychism is a metaphysical view that everything is a cognitive system and reality is neither one nor two. The article develops its panentheistic implications, explaining how finite cognitive systems emerge from a cosmic cognitive system. It rejects Sri Ramakrishna's hard theological determinism and instead endorses the theological libertarianism of Pratyabhijñā Śaivism and Swami Vivekananda. While māyā is central to Vivekananda's panentheism, the article argues he cannot account for it. God's essence is to manifest, making the cosmos real. God transcends the cosmos by not being determined by it, pervades it by creatively responding, and manifests as the despised and rejected, explaining why God does not laugh at some jokes.