If you’re feeling cynical about people and their errors and foolishness, a place to go to buttress your mood is Wikipedia’s List of Cognitive Biases. It describes more than 150 ways in which our thinking systematically deviates from objective observation and…
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Category: Brock Haussamen, Cosmos, evolution, Gaia/Earth, Latest Posts, life, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Science and Religion, wonder
Tags: earth religion, nature religion, Peter Berger, Sacred Canopy, science and god, science and religion
Horseshoe crabs, after half a billion years, still crowd the beach. (delaware-surf-fishing.com) The story of biological evolution recounts the ways that most plants and animals have changed over time as small bodily variations improved their odds of survival. But what…
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Category: Brock Haussamen, Cosmos, evolution, Gaia/Earth, Latest Posts, life, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Science and Religion, wonder
Tags: earth religion, nature religion, Peter Berger, Sacred Canopy, science and god, science and religion
Herbal Medicine has merit, there is ample evidence and tests on herbal medicine performing better than a placebo and working as an effective treatment. It is clearly Medicine, so why has it been lumped into the ‘Alternative’ category here?
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This book is an important philosophical and spiritual resource for all those currently working towards racial justice, especially for those who do so outside the frameworks of specific religious traditions.
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Category: Death and Life, Emile Wayne, Gaia/Earth, Gender Issues, intellect, Latest Posts, meaning, naturalistic pagan, nature, Paganism, Practice, practice, Responsibility, Science and Religion, uncategorized
If we lived in a truly Earth-honoring society, I wouldn’t have to do this. If our society cherished our planet as source and sustainer of life, the Equinox would be surely be more widely known and celebrated as a sort of secular holy day. But we don’t live in such a society, to our impoverishment and peril. And that’s why we need to nourish a revolutionary spirit. And that’s why I make a point to celebrate the Equinox. And that’s why I took the day off.
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