Naturalistic Paganism
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No-Nonsense Paganism: Daily Spiritual Practice (part 2)
For me, the goal of daily spiritual practice is the “re-enchantment” of my everyday life, restoring a sense of sacredness to our experience, which has been stripped away by reductionist positivism, consumer capitalism, and transcendental religion.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: Daily Spiritual Practice (part 1)
Let’s talk a little about spiritual discipline.
Read MorePlaylist for the Wheel of the Year: Winter Solstice
Over the years, I have created rituals to celebrate the Wheel of the Year with my wife and children. Music has been an essential part of the experience. Without it, it would be much more difficult to create the sense of sacred time and space and to evoke the experience I desire for each ritual.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: My Winter Ritual
It’s really not a complicated ritual. There’s a a simple but powerful gesture–passing the flame–and a recitation of poem that resonates deeply with me and gestures to something bigger than I can easily explain. And there’s a little deliberate structuring to give it shape. And that’s it.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: Creating a Ritual (part 2)
Ritual is the product of a conscious form applied to unconscious content. The most evocative rituals I have created came from somewhere other than my rational mind. They combined intuitive bodily movements with what W.H. Auden called “privately numinous words”, words that I had read or heard which had a talismanic-like effect on me.
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