Naturalistic Paganism
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The Earth, The Gods, and the Soul by Brendan Myers, a review by John Halstead
Brendan Myers’s book The Earth, The Gods, and the Soul is like candy for a philosophy lover like me. If philo-sophy is the “love of wisdom”, then I am a lover of the lover of wisdom, a philo-philosophe. And a book…
Read MoreStages of (My) Faith, a review by John Halstead
Understanding James Fowler’s stages of human spiritual development helped me make peace with my religious past and also gave me an inkling of what I wanted to move toward spiritually.
Read MoreLooking back, Looking forward, by John Halstead
Officially, my job as managing editor does not start until next Sunday, but I’m very excited, and I wanted to give you a preview of what’s to come. Looking back But before I do, I want to look back briefly….
Read MoreA tropical rainforest ontology: In search of a non-reductive naturalism, by John Halstead
Analytical philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote in “A Free Man’s Worship” that the world which science presents to us is purposeless and void of meaning, and our lives are nothing but the “outcome of accidental collocations of atoms.” Similarly, Steven Weinberg…
Read MorePagan ritual as an encounter with depth, Part 2, by John Halstead
In Part 1, I discussed how I try to create ritual that is an expression of the unconscious. Today, I will explain how I try to maintain the connection to the unconscious after the ritual is created. The routinization of…
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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