Naturalistic Paganism

Category: Contributors


Three Transcendents, part 1: Naturalistic transcendence

– by B. T. Newberg As my wife and I slogged along on our bicycles, generally irritated at each other, suddenly there was a pop.  Her back tire went flat, and we were in the middle of nowhere on a…

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My journey in a nutshell, by Velody Dark

It’s been over 15 years since I was first introduced to Neo-Paganism in the form of Wicca during my teenage years. After spending a few years under the label of Eclectic Pagan I was introduced to Asatru and Heathenry. I…

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A practical way to work your chakras, by Thomas Geddes

All too often I find that nearly everything written about working with chakras seems to focus around the thing of ‘Imagine a spinning ball of (coloured) light opening like a flower‘. To those of us with an agnostic (or atheistic)…

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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…

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What’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,…

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