Pandemonium

We ended our "Pantheologies" course with a bacchanal. Inspired by the cave shrines of Pan, we transformed the tame whiteboards of our classroom into something entirely different. Initially, one wall was to be about pan and the facing wall about theos, but someone had the 

idea to project a yule log onto the theos wall, and when we noticed it reflect in the pan wall, someone else turned the lights down ... and we were in Lascaux and outer space and in the presence of angels and demons with Pan and Schrödinger's cat and Margulis' blue-green algae 

and the Shekinah and the tree of life . Initially, each student claimed a marker pen, a turf and a topic but as time went on the creativity continued to flow and mix, an explosion of ideas and intra-actions worthy of the "pluralistic pantheism" we'd been reading about.

Leaving the room and then returning, with the lights on, to discover what they had co-created, all were astonished: what a range and variety of gifts students bring to a class, if they have occasion to share it! We filmed a "guided tour" and then erased it together. Cathartic!