Natural Burial Zoom Presentation by Selena Fox, from the Circle Sanctuary September 9th!

Natural burials help our Earth, and are getting more popular every year.  Sadly, you usually can’t predict when you’ll need to know about natural burials, and the time immediately after a loved one’s death is a very tough time to try to get up to speed, so the time to learn is now.  Here’s your chance to learn about them, and to do so from none other than Selena Fox!  Note that this is at 8 pm EDT.

Selena Fox & Circle Sanctuary

Selena Fox is an incredible force in the Pagan community – and elder, activist, founder, sustainer, and so much more, who is one of the people who organized the first Earth Day.  From her Wikipedia page:

Selena Fox is a Wiccan priestess, interfaith minister, environmentalistpagan elder, author, and lecturer in the fields of pagan studies, ecopsychology, and comparative religion.

Fox is a trained counselor and psychotherapist, with a B.S. cum laude in psychology from the College of William & Mary in 1971 and a M.S. in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995, where her thesis was entitled When Goddess is God: Pagans, Recovery, and Alcoholics Anonymous (1995). She has been a member of the American Psychological AssociationAmerican Counseling Association, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and American Academy of Religion.

Fox began leading public pagan rituals in 1971 and has done public education about paganism since 1973, in talks and public media interviews. She has also been mentioned in print publications, including a profile in People Magazine in 1979.

Fox has been active in environmental preservation endeavors since helping to organize the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 and speaks about ecospirituality.

Circle Sanctuary

Fox is the founder of the “Circle Craft” tradition of the Wiccan religion. Along with others, she founded and is the Executive Director of Circle Sanctuary, which is one of America’s oldest Pagan centers and Wiccan churches. Circle Sanctuary is headquartered on its 200-acre Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, founded in 1983. Circle Sanctuary’s quarterly journal, Circle Magazine was first published in 1978 as a newsletter, then as a newspaper in 1980, and in magazine format in 1997. Fox also is the founder of the Pagan Spirit Gathering, one of the oldest Nature Spirituality festivals in the United States.

Fox also founded Circle Cemetery in 1995, which is a 20-acre green cemetery for cremains and full-body interment.

The Earth Based Spirituality Action Team

This will be the monthly meeting of the Earth Based Spirituality Action Team – a collection of Pagans working towards slowing climate change, especially though putting a fair price on carbon emissions.  The facebook event link is here

All are welcome to attend via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89030272698…

or, open the Zoom app and enter the Meeting ID and Passcode:
Meeting ID: 890 3027 2698
Passcode: CCL

You are also welcome to join the non-partisan Citizen’s Lobby Group and the Earth-based Spirituality Action Team.

The Earth Based Spirituality Action Team (a chapter of the Climate Change Lobby – CCL) was announced here on the Naturalistic Paganism blog in 2019.   The CCL may be one of the biggest parts of the multi-pronged effort needed if we are going to significantly slow climate change. Here is a quick overview for those of us not already involved.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a grassroots nonprofit started here in the United States about ten years ago, which has grown into a into a global organization. Everyone — well, almost everyone — acknowledges we have a huge problem with how we humans pump so much carbon into the atmosphere, in industrialized societies. Everyone knows we need to limit these emissions, but how? One solution that has emerged as the most credible is called “carbon fee and dividend.” The idea is you put a price on carbon pollution, collect a fee from the polluters, and then pay that back to the citizens. That puts economic pressure to change the footing of our economy, and helps the common person cope with the changes. It may only be one piece of the puzzle, but it’s a pretty big piece. That’s the solution that Citizens’ Climate Lobby advocates.
 By Jon Cleland Host, a member of the EBSAT.

One Comment on “Natural Burial Zoom Presentation by Selena Fox, from the Circle Sanctuary September 9th!

  1. i am planning on having my entire body donated to science. They might use my organs and the rest of my body for such things as students ” practicing” on me. For me that is the best way to pay forward what I have.