Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist

from KidSisyphus

Sharman Apt Russell challenges my abstract and lazy pantheism, as I had hoped, with this hard to categorize book. Reading it, I quickly realized how truly ignorant I am about the environment, how much I take for granted. I enjoy my creature comforts too much, am too distracted to ever comprehend ...

from satyridae

This book is tough for me to review. On the one hand, it was a revelation, an epiphany, a waking to the fact that godless people have labels we can hang upon the numinous. It gave me impetus to pick up the new Gregory Hays translation of Marcus Aurelius. In Russell's book I found several soft h...

from erwinkennythomas

Standing in the Light by Sharman Apt Russell is a true blend of the writer's experiences of nature and spiritual growth. Russell described her life as being a Pantheist, a word coined by John Toland in the 1700s. In beautiful prose she captured the joys of nature especially with bird watching and...

from dasam

A wonderful book, part religious and philosophical history, part biography, part natural history, part spiritual exploration, all woven together in a brilliant tapestry.

from dasam

A wonderful book, part religious and philosophical history, part biography, part natural history, part spiritual exploration, all woven together in a brilliant tapestry.