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Why have societies evolved in their conceptualization of God from nature to a separate individual?

As humanity shifted from a life of shared existence to one of ownership and hierarchy, we transformed the divine from the essence of nature into a distant, judgmental father, reflecting our own need for control.

— Osho
According to Osho, as tribes lived without property or fathers, they experienced godliness immanently in trees, rivers, and oceans. With agriculture came private property, fixed families, and patriarchal power crystallizing into kings. Humanity then projected this new authority outward, reshaping immanent sacredness into a separate, father-like God—an owner-judge mirroring social control and diminishing sensitivity.

When people started owning land and families centered on fathers, they imagined God like a big father-king outside nature instead of the living life all around.

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