why I am not a Hindoo

[Doug Millison]

Eckhart's creation-centered, contemplative Christianity was not in its time
(Eckhart was formally charged with heresy and posthumously condemned by Pope
John XXII) nor is it now in the mainstream of Christianity, which indeed, in
some ways (theology is complex, of course) posits a God over here and
creation over there. Eckhart's is a panentheistic Christianity; panentheism,
very simply put, is the belief that everything is a part of God, everything
is animated by God's Spirit.  This kind of mystical Christianity was
systematically and ruthlessly suppressed by the the Church in the Middle
Ages.  Pynchon's vision, then, of a living earth, which is very clear in GR,
comes out of a Christian tradition that can be seen as another example of a
"preterite" worldview that the System (incarnated in this instance in the
orthodox Church) marginalizes, overlooks, suppresses.  Panentheistic
Christianity also has some affinities with Eastern religion, especially the
Hindu and Buddhist traditions that view the universe as the visible,
tangible expression of God;  Eckhart's mysticism is in many ways similar to
the non-dual mysticism in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions.

Thomas Eckhardt:
The mystics are of interest here, yes, but Meister Eckhart and
Jakob Boehme to my knowledge were never part of the mainstream of
Christianity.