Unitarian Panpsychist Prayer
Universal Principle,
Who goes by many names & all names & no names, who is all genders & no genders, who is eternal of eternities, who is infinity of infinites, who is all things & some things & no things & void, who is in any being at any time, who is present in all worlds, both real & imagined, help me this day to be my truest and most whole self, help me this day to come into righter relationship with all beings, especially those close to me. Help me be of service to others, Universal Principle, & help me [act or be or blank] in right relation to myself, also. Great One, may I choose rightly of your endless intentions & possibilities for me. Who is All Faces & All Places & All N-Dimensional Spaces, Blessed Be. May I always remember, I am also Holy.
Background / Context to Why, When and How I Wrote the Prayer
While at treatment when I was
– [2024 note: my first time as an inpatient, first year I began to get serious about recovery from drinking issues, 2016] –
– [2024 note: I was situated in a house designated ‘dual diagnosis’, not purely psychiatric or substance or process addiction. eating disorders were also handled at this place], –
reading Nicotine Anonymous, and pondering that Higher Power had always been a bit of a nebulous philosophical concept for me, I decided that in order to ask to be free of nicotine, I needed to craft a prayer of my own
– [2024 note: There is endless discussion in 12-step recovery groups of how exactly to frame the Higher Power so that it is your higher power (inclusive of atheists/agnostics/materialists). 12 step groups are not the only kind of addiction recovery mutual-aid groups, and there are plenty of ways you can differ with the 12 step approach and still engage with them, but the various 12 step organizations are not themselves communities of religion, sect, cult, dogma, or rigid belief system]. –
Reaction was very good on sharing. Our house dialectical behavioral therapy coach called it ‘rad’, and an Episcopal chaplain there [2024: as a patient] in our house called it ‘theologically sound’. Reaction was also good at treatment open mic. The wording is quite particular.
[2024 note: in case it matters or anyone is curious or confused, this was in fact written by a heterosexual cisgender white man, then 31-32, now 40 years old. I consider my statement of faith or absence thereof as best represented by “syncretic/mutable/undefined/unfixed-day-to-day” ]
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