world-soul
Cosmos's unifying consciousness
World-soul is a philosophical concept describing a universal spirit or animating principle that pervades and connects all living things in the cosmos.
Found in Platonic philosophy and later Neoplatonism, it posits that the universe itself possesses a kind of consciousness or vital force from which individual souls derive.
The concept recurs across traditions, from ancient Greek thought to Romantic philosophy, where thinkers like Schelling explored the idea of nature as a unified, living whole.
Philosophy emphasizing ideal Forms
- pantheismReality itself is holy
- pneumaGreek vital spirit
- logosBrand identification symbols
- BrahmanSupreme cosmic reality
emanationism · theosophy · Neoplatonism · metaphysics · transcendental · monism · idealism · perennial
Complete system or domain
- cosmosOrderly totality of existence
- GaiaPrimordial earth deity
- celestialOf the sky above
- interstellarBetween celestial bodies
State of sentient awareness
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- vitalityCapacity for spirited existence
- life-forceAnimating spiritual energy
- breathAir taken in
essence · sentience · awareness · animation · vivification · quickening · prana · chi
State of being unified
- wholenessComplete, undivided state
- interconnectionMutual joining of parts
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- synthesisCombining parts into whole
integration · inseparability · symbiosis · coalescence · convergence · totality · undivided · all-pervading
Platonism
Philosophy emphasizing ideal Forms
Brahman · emanationism · theosophy · Neoplatonism · metaphysics · transcendental · monism · idealism · perennial · syncretism
universe
Complete system or domain
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- vitalityCapacity for spirited existence
- life-forceAnimating spiritual energy
breath · essence · sentience · awareness · animation · vivification · quickening · prana · chi · ki
oneness
State of being unified
- wholenessComplete, undivided state
- interconnectionMutual joining of parts
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
synthesis · integration · inseparability · symbiosis · coalescence · convergence · totality · undivided · all-pervading · holism
world-soulatomism
Discrete particles compose everything
pluralism · multiplicity · fragmentation · disunity · particularity
world-soulmechanism
Means by which something operates
materialism · clockwork universe · physicalism · reductionism
soul, world, souls, worldly, worlds, soulful, soulless, otherworldly, underworld