Naturalistic Paganism
Category: Practice
Happy Darwin Day!
Happy Darwin Day! This commemorates the birthday of the one who contributed the theory of natural selection to our understanding of evolution, Charles Darwin.
Read MoreNaturalistic Paganism’s Spectral Challenge – Part Two: Calling the Specters by Émile Wayne
We cannot continue to live in ignorance of each other’s stories, or fail to hear the wailing of each other’s specters. What other specters haunt our landscape, our shared social and ecological flesh? Who struggles most under the weight of these legacies? Might this practice of listening to specters reshape our collective relationships to each other and the land? A whole haunted history is implicated in our traumatically fractured, complex present.
Read MoreRevolutionary Ideas for Imbolc, by Renee Lehnen
Like simplicity and socialism, Paganism, Naturalism, and Humanism, are also very old, very good ideas. They offer us spiritual sustenance and inspire courage to try old and new ideas as we dig ourselves out of a planet-sized pile of our own night soil. I think afternoon skaters and readers of Humanistic Paganism know that already. Have a blessed Imbolc!
Read MoreStarstuff, Contemplating: The Darkest Day, 20 Years Later
I had no way of knowing that I would remember the next moment for my entire life.
Read MoreNaturalistic Paganism’s Spectral Challenge – Part One: A Haunted Landscape, by Emile Wayne
If we wish to be re-bodied, made subjects, and called-into-being through our relationship to place, we must do so with the knowledge that the land holds the memory of suffering bodies, of exploitation, dispossession, abuse, lynching, poverty, and a whole host of other specters, all of which arose out of the wounds that are our collective history. We must be ready to listen to the voices of the specters haunting the land and our histories, even if those voices call out to some of us in rebuke.
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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