Naturalistic Paganism
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The 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…
Read More[The Dionysian Naturalist] “Dancing with Dionysus: Ecstasy and Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene, Part 3” by Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.
Continued from Part 2 … SACRED JOURNEYS AND THE WESTERN MYSTERY TRADITIONS Through years of deep study of the Western Mystery Traditions I have identified some “base elements” in the “Sacred Journey”, in which earlier paleolithic shamanic practices become “re-articulated”…
Read More[The Dionysian Naturalist] “Dancing with Dionysus: Ecstasy and Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene, Part 2” by Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.
Continued from Part 1 … UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM AND THE GROWTH OF RELIGIOUS NATURALISM It is within the context of Unitarian-Universalism (UU) that I discover Religious Naturalism (RN). Many of the core theologians of RN are based in this denomination, including…
Read More[The Dionysian Naturalist] “Dancing with Dionysus: Ecstasy and Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene, Part 1” by Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.
“A religion, new or old, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reference and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion…
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