Naturalistic Paganism
Category: Contributors
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…
Read MoreA 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)…
Read MoreWhy 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…
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
