Naturalistic Paganism
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The Naturalistic Pagan Toolbox: Beyond the Wheel of the Year
In this column, I want to share ideas for religious technologies which we might use or adapt to deepen our Naturalistic Pagan practices. I will be sharing the ideas and experiences of others, as well as some of my own, and I welcome you to send me your ideas for sharing in future posts. If you have discovered a ritual technique which works for you that you would like to add to the Naturalistic Pagan Toolbox, send me an email.
Read MoreThe Light Returns!
Has it awoken your senses as it has mine? Is the returning light stirring you too from winter’s slumber?
Read More[Rotting Silver] “Wine for Dionysos” by B. T. Newberg
As icelets beat my ears and prick my cheeks, The candle fire of Hestia bobs within a glass cup, laying its yellow hands on the offering of wine for Dionysos: three dark bottles in the snow. With a palm-full…
Read MoreThe Sabbath of Water, by Mark Green
The tension there, I feel, is between maintaining traditions—something of great value in instilling rituals with power and continuity—and facing up to what is actually happening in the world in that particular year. I don’t have easy answers for how to bridge that gap, but I suspect it lies in changing the traditions just a little, to better suit the times.
Read More[The Dionysian Naturalist] “Dancing with Dionysus: Ecstasy and Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene, Part 4” by Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.
Continued from Part 3 … DIONYSIAN NATURALISM AND THE QUEST FOR ECSTASY Unitarian-Universalists and Religious Naturalists are both groups of people concerned with infusing reason and science into modern religious life and practice. In social worlds often replete with supernaturalism…
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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