Religion

As I see it, geocosmysticism is not a religion. Nor is it "religious". I suppose if a group of us got together and drew up a list of precepts or collected stories to publish as our "sacred scripture", or gathered together regularly for some formal ritual activity, some would call us religious. Actually, the word "geocosmysticism" was derived from "geocosmystic", which was a stab at stamping a label on folks with an ecclectic, ecceentric but identifiable set of spiritual dispositions or beliefs - like myself (see my initial post: "What is GeoCosMysticism").
I used to say "all people are religious". What I meant by that was everyone operates in this world with a set of beliefs, some transmitted to us from parents, family, local and broader culture, formal public and parochial education, peer influence, and some developed through personal experiences of being sensate, embodied beings. We develop attachments to people, ideas and practices, and value some more than others. Some ideas, values, people "matter" more, take on greater "meaning". At some point in our formative years, we recognize that there are matters and meanings that we value, but that appear to be in conflict. There are lots of examples, none of which come to mind at this moment. The process of extracting meaning from a world filled with paradoxes and ambiguities, a universal human process, is what I refered to as "religion".
This individual religious process has, of course, evolved into cultic activity. Human history is shaped in no small part by the influences of certain individuals who have extracted meanings that have galvanized groups into Religions. The lives and teachings of the Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao-Tse and others have been compelling enough to launch national movements and communal practices which have influenced kings and emperors, generals and merchants ... and, as they say, the rest is history.
Geocosmystics see all this history and say, "but what about the rest of the story?" The rest of the story is that all across the planet there have been communities and cultures who have lived without the imperial influence of "religion", who have discovered wisdom and joy and rich meaning by living deeply into their relationship with the Earth and the Cosmos without violently superimposing the human agenda on everything else. This is where we seek meaning and discover what truly matters, together as pilgrims and pioneers of Planetary Peace.