Naturalistic Paganism
Category: John Halstead
The Dying God: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
We are doomed to walk the path of the Dying God. We must do so not in the hope of survival or salvation. Our job is not to survive … or even to birth a new world. Our job is to die … to die well, to die-with, to die early and often, to die in such a way that the “ash heap of history” might become the compost pile of the Goddess.
Read MorePaganism Isn’t Where You Think It Is
Martin Buber said spoke of “a quiet devoted relationship with nearby life.” That’s a beautiful description of what I have been seeking in the word “pagan”.
Read MorePaganism Hasn’t Returned (Yet)
Paganism represents a potential challenge to a paradigm which has dominated the West since the ascendance of Christianity, a paradigm which seeks to transcend the natural world and which has driven Western civilization to the brink of collapse. What would it take for paganism to really become a challenge to the Christian paradigm?
Read MoreWalking Barefoot: What Science Is Good For (and What It Isn’t)
Paganism invites us to plunge into matter, to lose ourselves in the sensual experience of the world. But sometimes our big brains get in the way. For me, paganism isn’t an invitation to believe in pseudoscience. It’s an invitation to experience the world without any preconceived notions of what is and isn’t real.
Read MoreAnother Video Review of “Godless Paganism”
Another great review of “Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans”
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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