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- These are some key ideas behind the ancient religion called ‘Pantheism.’ It is a religion which holds the belief that we belong to the universe, and the Earth is a sacred part of the universe and something we belong to. There is no spiritual being who we can’t see but yet answers our prayers and watches over us and who the Earth belongs to - according to Pantheists. Instead, they understand that the universe itself is natural, existing, yet powerful beyond our imagination - and we belong to it. We belong to the nature of the Earth around us, because we are a part of it, it grew us not the other way round. 

Personally, I’m not of any particular religion, however I relate massively to the key ideas of this one. This is what my project has been inspired by and based off - the idea that we belong to the Earth and as much as we may stray from it (technology etc) we will still belong fully to mother nature; when we die our bodies become a part of the soil again and we will become the food for nature - it will get nutrients and energy from our body, just like when we are alive we get nutrients and energy from nature. In my eyes, this is simply the natural circle of life. Nature is a whole, in which we are part of as well as all living organisms, instead of it being built up of separate components. Humans are nature as much as a tree is nature or as much as a fly is nature. Everything connects and works and grows and functions this way - the circle of life. No matter how many technologies we can invent - whether we ever can build a time machine or walk on mars - nature will always over power us. The universe is nature and that can over power anything humans create, whether that be by natural disasters on Earth, or natural disasters in space, e.g a black hole, a comet hitting into Earth etc. Nature is something that we know is real, existing, and will continue to last forever, and us as humans are just a small part of it.