Today, we continue our late spring theme, Practice, with Telmaris Greene, who shares her evolving understanding of the role of the placebo effect in ritual practice. Stage one of my life as a witch: I’m looking up spells and rituals furtively, as though…
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Today, we continue our late spring theme, Practice, with Ken Apple, who shares his practice of looking for signs of the “Unseen World” of animals moving through our own. I posted a picture of a rough skinned newt on Facebook….
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Today, we begin our late spring theme, Practice, with DT Strain, director of the Spiritual Naturalist Society, who shares how he learned to “get” ritual as a naturalist, and he asks B. T. to share his understanding in turn. Click above…
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Category: B. T. Newberg, DT Strain, Practice
Tags: atheist pagan, Humanism, meditation, Mythology, naturalistic paganism, practice, religious naturalism, ritual, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, self-knowledge, Spiritual Naturalism
In anticipation of May Day on May 1st and our new semi-seasonal theme, Practice, Bart Everson discusses the connection between spiritual and political desire. Two May Days? International Workers Day is celebrated on the first of May all around the…
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Category: A Pedagogy of Gaia, Bart Everson
Tags: anarchism, Beltane, International Worker's Day, liberation, May Day, Paganism, politics. activism, religion, spirituality, spring
Mnemosyne, whose name means Memory, was the mother of the Muses, therefore the mother of all the ancient arts. It is now well accepted that the poetry attributed to Homer goes back to a time without writing. The gods and…
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