world soul
Earth's animating spirit
World soul is a philosophical concept holding that the universe is animated by a single, unified consciousness or life force—a soul pervading all existence just as an individual soul supposedly pervades a body.
The idea appears in Plato, Neoplatonism, and various mystical traditions.
Also called *anima mundi* (Latin).
Some Romantics believed poetry could tap into the world soul.
Greek philosopher, academy founder
- nousFaculty of rational thought
- logosBrand identification symbols
- pneumaGreek vital spirit
- psycheTotal mental life
metaphysics · archetype · emanation · quintessence · ether · theurgy · Neoplatonism · Stoicism
Sacred nature or nougat-like sweet
- immanenceQuality of residing within
- sacrednessQuality of being holy
- GaiaPrimordial earth deity
- animismSpirits inhabit all things
nature · oneness · theism · omnipresence · holism · monism · theosophy · paganism
Wholeness through cohesion
- interdependenceReciprocal reliance between entities
- webInterwoven filament structure
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- symbiosisInterspecies biological interdependence
entanglement · nexus · tapestry · biosphere · network · harmony · coherence · wholeness
Plato
Greek philosopher, academy founder
psyche · metaphysics · archetype · emanation · quintessence · ether · theurgy · Neoplatonism · Stoicism · perennial
divinity
Sacred nature or nougat-like sweet
- immanenceQuality of residing within
- sacrednessQuality of being holy
- GaiaPrimordial earth deity
animism · nature · oneness · theism · omnipresence · holism · monism · theosophy · paganism · spirit
unity
Wholeness through cohesion
- interdependenceReciprocal reliance between entities
- webInterwoven filament structure
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
symbiosis · entanglement · nexus · tapestry · biosphere · network · harmony · coherence · wholeness · integration
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, wraith
- Greek philosophyAristotle, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Academy
- Hegelian philosophyHegel, dialectics, negation, becoming, thesis-antithesis-synthesis
- Neoplatonismemanation, nous, henosis, the Good, Neoplatonism
- Pantheismdivine immanence, immanence, monism, oneness, universal spirit
- Platonic philosophyforms, ideal forms, nous, logos, anamnesis
world soulmechanism
Means by which something operates
materialism · clockwork universe · physicalism · reductionism · atomism
world soulatomism
Discrete particles compose everything
fragmentation · disconnection · pluralism · radical individualism