Thats like really just religion with extra steps.

Personally i prefer the term spiritual. But this concept of god as the way the universe is rather then a person has even been held by established catholics where god the persona is a symbol for the masses.

Many people forget that the centralized church in rome is an umbrella organisation for many different schools/philosophys/flavors/interpretations of Christianity.

For example the last pope was a jesuit. The first of this order to become pope and the main reason he did not wear the lavish clothes.