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[Dead Ideas] “Self-mummification I: Buddhist Mummies of Japan”, by B. T. Newberg
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That’s right: *self*-mummification, mummifying yourself through a special 3000-day diet and regimen of spiritual exercises which will lead to your death but, if you do it correctly, will mummify your body and make you a sokushinbutsu or “Buddha in the Flesh.” I witnessed many of these mummies personally while living in Japan. This is their story.
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“Getting to Naturalism the Long Way Around” by Christopher Stanley
With the new year, we are starting a new series called, “What Naturalism Means to Me”. It is an opportunity for our readers, like you, to share what Naturalism means for you. We are looking for essays between 1000-3000 words. Send your submissions to humanisticpaganism[at]gmail[dot]com.
What “naturalism” means to me is kind of complicated. Well, except that it’s not. It’s actually very simple. But its simplicity is deeply obfuscated by most of the ways that we think about things. So much so that I often have a hard time thinking about it clearly myself. So before I can meaningfully tell you what naturalism means to me, we’ll need to take a look at just what we mean by “nature” to begin with.
MoonCourt: Goddess Ceremonial Space by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
MoonCourt is dedicated ceremonial space created for the celebration of Her Creativity, as this manifests in the Seasonal Moments, which are holy days of Earth, points of transition marking Earth’s orbit around our mother Sun. MoonCourt as it has been named, is sacred space for celebrating Earth’s everyday sacred journey, our everyday pilgrimage – where we actually are. It is a Goddess safe space where She may be spoken and announced in all Her beauty and power. MoonCourt is the emergent home of PaGaian Cosmology.
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How Our Brains Often Get Things Wrong, by Brock Haussamen
What Does “Naturalism” Mean to You?
Many of us here at HumanisticPaganism.com and our sister sites, like NaturalPagans.com, Atheopaganism, and NaturalPagan.org, identify as Religious Naturalists or Spiritual Naturalists. “Naturalism” is a term many of us use to distinguish ourselves from other Pagans. Although several of us have attempted to define the term over the years, it remains confusing to many people, Pagans and non-Pagans alike.
With the new year, we are starting a new series called, “What Naturalism Means to Me”. It is an opportunity for our readers, like you, to share what Naturalism means for you. We are looking for essays between 1000-3000 words. Send your submissions to humanisticpaganism[at]gmail[dot]com.
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