For example I might believe full force that Xenu sent little aliens down
here and if that's what I'm convinced is accurate, then I'm a Scientologist regardless of if I attend a church or participate in any
established organization directly.
Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play
here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when Form is imposed upon matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony
established a priori by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,» by a wholly immanent process of self -
organization.