Naturalistic Paganism
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Sacred Springs, Part 1 by Anna Walther
Last summer I swam in Barton Springs, a spring-fed pool in the heart of downtown Austin. Native Americans have a vital, ritualistic relationship with the spring waters. The precise role the springs held in pre-Columbian indigenous spirituality is lost to time and conquest. I can take inspiration and guidance from Native American ways of relating to the Land, but must make my own practices and prayers.
Read MoreGodless Paganism Book Review by Gangleri
And since I always tend to take sides with the underdog: of course I recommend this book! No matter how far some of the ideas posed here stand from my own, everybody has to walk his/her own path, come to his/her own conclusions and if these are different from my own, that is actually a good thing. So, whether you consider yourself ‘theistic’ (like myself) or not and whether you are pagan or not (or of whatever kind) here we have a book to get a bit of a feel of other people’s ideas.
Read MoreThe Naturalistic Pagan Toolbox: “Spiritual Naturalist Drumming” by DT Strain
As the famous jazz musician John Coltrane said, “All a musician can do is get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws”. Drumming, like any practice, may not be for everyone, but it is this very real and very natural enhanced perception that makes drumming a potential source of spiritual transformation.
Read MoreIt’s Easy to be Pagan in the Wild, by Lupa Greenwolf
It’s easy to be pagan in the wild. It’s easy to find the heart of a nature-based pagan path when you’re immersed in a quiet forest or secluded desert highway. Connecting with the divine is a simpler act when your breath catches at the sight of a graceful doe or soaring raptor. But what about deep within cities, with graffiti-tinged cement and stinking hot asphalt under the burning summer sun? Where is the sacred in a clearcut, or a landfill, or a mountaintop mine?
Read MoreLate Spring Theme: Challenges!
In Deep Time, late spring can span the time from the Cambrian to the early Mesozoic – a time during which life moved onto land, including, belatedly, our vertebrate Ancestors. Surviving on land required many deadly challenges to be overcome. Similarly, our lives…
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