Naturalistic Paganism

HP Pride: Meet Trellia

HP Pride is a new monthly column where we interview members of the Humanistic Paganism community and other like-minded friends. One or more interviews will be published every month. If you are not a “Big Name Pagan”, or if you have never written online before, all the better! We want to hear from everyone! If you’d like to be interviewed, just click this link and follow the instructionsToday we are interviewing Trellia.  Read More

The Human Animal, by Paula Barkmeier

We encourage our readers to use these Mid-Month Meditations as an opportunity to take a short break from everything else. Rather than treating these posts the way you would any other post, set aside 10 minutes someplace quiet and semi-private to have an experience. Take a minute to relax first. After looking at the art below, take a few minutes to let the experience sink in. If it feels right, leave a comment.


When I caught sight of the work of Paula Barkmeier at a recent art fair, I knew the HP community would be interested. Her human-animal hybrids suggest something many of us feel but can’t easily express: our essential oneness with nature.

But there is also a certain tension: beautiful as they are, these hybrids also feel alien, occasionally even monstrous. Can we ever fully accept our animal nature? – B. T. Newberg Read More

PaGaian Cosmology Meditations CDs

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My name is Glenys Livingstone, and I am the author of PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion (Lincoln NE: iUniverse 2005)

For over two decades I have been teaching and celebrating Earth’s sacred annual cycle, and for each Seasonal Moment in the preparation classes there has been an experiential meditation evolving – that I have shared with my students: it is a potent creative process, an eco-psychology, when the whole cycle is tasted … it is a geo-therapy (thanks to cosmologist Brian Swimme and geologian Thomas Berry for that term) that can heal and whole and create. Participating in the sacred process of the Wheel of the Year, celebrating GaiaEarth’s creativity is a Poiesis – the making of a world, and these meditations have enabled a taste and experience of this magical process for participants, including myself.

It is time now to share it further – especially for those around the globe who would like to have participated in the PaGaian seasonal ceremonies, and/or the ceremonial preparation classes over the years, who may like to taste it now – and in one’s own space, and perhaps with others. My creation of the CDs is for any who desire, and perhaps already have, deep conversation with the Mother, our sacred place of being – the meditations will meet a person at whatever self appointed place. In these times of deep change, a return to sacred ceremony seems more necessary – medicinal, even urgent – for the wholing of each and all, for the remembering of who and where we are. Read More

“Why Are So Many Women Embracing Vesta & Contemporary Paganism?” by Debra Macleod

The rediscovery of ancient faiths like Vesta, as well as other pre-Christian polytheistic belief systems, has been skyrocketing for years now.  And while both men and women are embracing these, I’d like to focus here on why women are doing so. Read More

Sign “A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment”

(“Thinking Like a Mountain” by Robert Bateman)

In this time of accelerating environmental change, many of us feel a sense of urgency to help transform humanity’s relationship with the Earth.  This sense of urgency is what drew together a large group of diverse Pagans, including Pagan leaders, authors, artists, and bloggers from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia to draft “A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment.”  The working group included several members of the Humanistic Paganism community.  In honor of Earth Day, the statement has been published at ecopagan.com where you can add your signature. The statement represents the beginning of a conversation, not the final word. Join us in our call to all people to rise to this historic moment in order to protect all life on Earth by signing the statement. You can sign on your own behalf or on behalf of a group or organization.
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