Naturalistic Paganism
Now is your chance – just a few spots left open for the Suntree Retreat!
Join us for a LIVE gathering of Atheopagans (a type of Naturalistic Pagan) at the magnificent La Foret retreat center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, May 13-16, 2022!
Presented by The Atheopagan Society, this 3-day, 3-night retreat will feature workshops, rituals and lots of socializing time in beautiful spaces and around the fire. The facility includes a magnificent meeting space, the Ponderosa Lodge; a fire circle; a beautiful labyrinth and more. There will even be a full eclipse of the Moon at the retreat on Sunday night!
The May Cross-Quarter (Vernal Equitherm or Beltane) is less than two weeks away! + online celebrations
The Vernal Equitherm (Beltane) is coming! What could possibly be a better metaphor for Beltane that literally the world’s largest species of Arum flower, with a striking connection to Samhain, which is the flipside of Beltane?? That flower only blooms about once a decade, yet, by wonderful coincidence for Beltane, an indoor specimen here in Michigan just bloomed! Though this is a rare, endangered, tropical plant, there are a number of them at indoor locations. Seeing a blooming one live (and helping efforts to save them) fits well on a Naturalistic Pagan bucketlist!
New Pagan Music! Our Inspiring Pagan Revival Gains Another Voice – Bog Bodies!
Music is an compelling part of nearly any spirituality, and as Pagans, we have a connection to the deep and moving body of Pagan music. John Halstead’s posts of music for each Sabbat help us fill this need. In addition to that, now, another invigorating source of music arrives – with the release of three new songs (“The Regime”, “Firelighters”, and “Dead are Dancing”) for their upcoming album “Reclaim the Ritual”, here are Bog Bodies!
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Can We Talk About the R-Word?, by Bart Everson
The philosopher Alain de Botton once noted that, “religions merit our attention for their sheer conceptual ambition.” But what is a religion anyhow? We all seem to have different ideas. I was raised in a doctrinally and politically conservative denomination of Christianity. This basic worldview informed the earliest formative years of my life, and that’s what I understood religion to be.
I was fascinated by the idea that other religions would necessitate other worldviews, that the world might look very different if I’d been raised in a different tradition, and this simple truism proved the undoing of my childhood faith. After that, I considered myself to be an atheist; I had no religion, because of course atheists aren’t religious. Right?
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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