Naturalistic Paganism

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Hidden spirits, by Bryan Beard

This week we feature the photography of Bryan Beard, who also happens to be the artist who drew our tree logo. A long-time photographer of mushrooms, Beard captures the beauty of the ubiquitous but virtually unnoticed.

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A 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…

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Gaia as the Universe, by Áine Órga

In developing my own non-theistic or naturalistic spirituality, the issue of deity was one of the most difficult to address. Nothingness As I wrote in my first post, the idea of nothingness – or that which is beyond infinity –…

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Praying to the Goddess as good financial advice, by Thomas Schenk

  The rice planter’s mistake In China, there is a story told about a husband and wife who are rice farmers. They have just finished planting the crop.  The husband, though, is not content just waiting for the crop to…

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The Wheel of the Year for one Naturalistic Pagan, by Renee B.

I prefer to call it Naturalistic Paganism, but you can’t very well run from the fact that it’s basis is in atheism for me. This blog will be about day to day Naturalistic Paganism according to how it fits in…

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