Naturalistic Paganism

[Pagan in Place] “Year’s End: An Invitation to Daily Practice”, By Anna Walther

If you would be radical, the first step you take every morning must be a return to your own heart. You must not look at the evils of the world and recoil into passivity or aggression. You must seek the common root of things with your every breath.”   Read More

“Plants as Aliens”, by Brock Haussamen

Plants are so familiar to us that we don’t see them very well. We look at them and think about them according mostly to how we use them—for food and beauty. To shift our perspective, I’ll look at plants as if they were strangers from another planet, as plant-aliens. Making them weirder may make them more vivid.

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A Call to the Humanistic Pagan Community: Please help Glen Gordon

My friend and fellow Humanistic Pagan contributor, Glen Gordon, has asked the HP community for help.

Glen is struggling with health issues and other personal issues that make it imperative for his emotional and psychological health that he relocate as soon as possible. Glen needs $600 for a deposit on a new apartment. Since he will be moving with little more than the clothes on his back, Glen also needs money to furnish the apartment, like a bed and kitchen supplies.

This is an opportunity for us to show the kind of community we are.  It is an opportunity for us to help take care of one of our own.  This year, HP did not do a funding drive.  I would ask that what money you might have contributed to HP go to Glen this year.

For those of you who know me, but not Glen, I can personally vouch for you. For those of you who know Glen, he needs no one to vouch for him. Glen has struggled with these problems for a long time without asking for our help, and what he has asked for is very modest in comparison to his needs.

If you are able, please help him.  Click this link to go to contribute.

The Wheel of the Year in Stone by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.

My ancestors built great circles of stones that represented their perception of real time and space – cosmic calendars. They went to great lengths and detail to get it right. It was obviously very important to them to have the stones of a particular kind, in the right positions according to position of the Sun at different times of the year, and then to celebrate within it. [See Martin Brennan, The Stones of Time, 1994.]

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Living in Dark Days, by Mark Green [an Atheopagan Life]

One thing most Pagan theists have that Atheopagans do not is a belief that their gods care about Earthly matters. Read More