Naturalistic Paganism

Category: Contributors


Can 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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Why 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…

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Meditation 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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How can a naturalist emerge in Paganism?

As in the animation above, multiple currents move in the Pagan community, often in seemingly opposite directions. – by B. T. Newberg Tanya Lurhmann, in her anthropological study Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, asks how an otherwise mainstream person can…

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Pagan ritual as an encounter with depth, Part 2, by John Halstead

In Part 1, I discussed how I try to create ritual that is an expression of the unconscious.  Today, I will explain how I try to maintain the connection to the unconscious after the ritual is created. The routinization of…

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