Naturalistic Paganism
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Why do we do ritual?
– by B. T. Newberg It’s often claimed that ritual without literal deities or magic must be meaningless. This post aims to explode that idea. Many Pagans say that ritual is beneficial, whether or not deity “exists” or the magic…
Read MoreWhat’s the evidence that anxiety and insecurity turns people to religion?, by Tomas Rees
That’s a question that cropped up recently on the Non-religious and Secular Research Network discussion forum. After I finished composing my response, I thought to myself “That’s a ready-made blog post!”. So here, with a few additions and added explanations,…
Read MoreCan secular nations learn anything from religious ones?
– by B. T. Newberg Are secular nations lost without religious faith? Phil Zuckerman suggests not. Yet the secular may still have something to learn from the religious. The study Zuckerman’s 2009 study, “Atheism, Secularity, and Well-being”, analyzes a host…
Read MoreWhy basic research methodology is important to magical knowledge, by Lupa
Recently on Livejournal I wrote a response to a post someone else wrote about proposed experiments to try to “prove” the objective existence of Otherkin. These experiments ranged from Kirlian photography to try to get pictures of phantom limbs, to…
Read MoreMeditation on the Five +1
– by B. T. Newberg How do we experience our world? …through touch, taste, smell, sound, sight, and introspection. The following meditation grounds a person deeply in these six foundations of experience. One by one, awareness is brought to each…
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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