Naturalistic Paganism

Category: Columns


[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “Honoring the Past, Living in the Present, Shaping the Future” by Bart Everson

To dismiss Earth-based religious perspectives, as too backward-looking, too regressive, or too fixated on the past, is to deny one of our best avenues for true progress. But if we cling to our modern modes of existence, we guarantee a bleak future for succeeding generations.

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The Wheel of Evolution: Litha

At Litha, the power of the sun reaches its maximum. Litha therefore signifies the prime of life, the climax of cosmic complexity.

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[Rotting Silver] “A Book of Charms” by B. T. Newberg

If there is one thing that has always drawn me to Paganism, it is the embrace of nature as both beauty and bitch. Rotting Silver is a column devoted to this Earth in all its tarnished radiance: poetry, prose, and parables of ugliness alloyed with joy.

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[Starstuff, Contemplating] “Celebrating the Sun on Summer Solstice” by Heather and Jon Cleland-Host

On Solstice, we celebrate both the amazingness of the fragility and impossibility of Life and the overwhelming joy of the Life all around us. This is it! Isn’t it AMAZING?!

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HP Pride: Meet Trellia

“I’ve come to discover that many Pagans feel the same as me — they have a deep yearning to venerate something unseen within nature, although they’re not sure what the nature of that thing is. They also desire to connect somehow with their ancestors and bring back the ‘old ways.'”

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