Naturalistic Paganism
Category: No-Nonsense Paganism
No Nonsense Paganism: It’s Fall When It Feels Like Fall
Pagan rituals can be performed in response to our experience of world around us, rather than an assigned time of a calendar.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: Cultural Appropriation in Pagan Ritual
In lieu of pulling haphazardly from other peoples’ religions, I think we Pagans would be better served by focusing on the connection to that experience which is common to both contemporary and ancient pagans (as well as many non-Pagans): the experience of communion with the more-than-human, wild, natural world.*
Read MoreNo Nonsense Paganism: Lughna-say-what?
This August 1st, forget everything you have learned about Celtic myths and the agricultural customs of 18th century English peasants. Forget even the word “Lughnasadh”. Instead, go outside. Look. Listen. Breathe in and breathe out. Bend down and touch the earth. And ask what the world is speaking to you.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: Keep It Simple
One of the radical ideas running through this series is the notion that a pagan ritual can be–and should be–simple. The complexification of a ritual does not deepen the experience of the ritual, and in fact has the tendency to make it more spiritually shallow.
Read MoreNo Nonsense Paganism: The baby and the bathwater
One of my perennial concerns is why liberal and naturalistic religion often seems to lack transformative power. I think at least part of the reason for this is because of its ambivalent attitude toward ritual.
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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