Bart Everson | Naturalistic Paganism

Music for the Wheel of the Year

Posted on December 4, 2015 by NaturalisticPaganism

Our own Bart Everson has put together eight music playlists for you enjoy for each station on the Wheel of the Year. Enjoy!

[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “Fleeting Visions” by Bart Everson

Posted on November 27, 2015 by NaturalisticPaganism

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If I said that I saw visions, would you be alarmed? Frankly, I’d have some concerns if I heard a statement like that. I might worry about the person’s mental health. I might question their sanity and stability. At the…

[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “The P-Word” by Bart Everson

Posted on October 21, 2015 by NaturalisticPaganism

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I call myself Pagan because wild nature is awesome, and I experience Earth as sacred, and I realize I don’t have a well-delineated self separate from the planetary ecosystem. I call myself Pagan because I think honoring the ancestors is a good idea, and I feel a connection to antiquity, and I like mythology. I call myself Pagan because dancing under the moon is my kind of religion, and a purely rational approach to life is deadening.

[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “Awakening to Gaia” by Bart Everson

Posted on September 27, 2015 by NaturalisticPaganism

To awaken to Gaia is to recognize our interconnectedness, our radical interdependence, our participation in the web of life. To awaken to Gaia is to recognize other animals and plants as our distant cousins, to recognize that our kinship extends even to rocks, to the sea, to the atmosphere. To awaken to Gaia is to recognize these realities, to become more fully alive, alert, aware, involved, and mindful. To awaken to Gaia is to wake up from the zombiefied slumber of American-style consumerism, to come alive to what it means to be a social primate in the 21st century. Awakening to Gaia means awakening to oneself, to one’s own potential, to one’s own responsibilities.