
The Summer Solstice is known in Contemporary Paganism as Litha or Midsummer, as in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Nichols (2009) calls this a time when bonfires are lit, people may leap through the fires, and the young stay up all…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg There are at least two people inside each of us: There is the rational, deliberate, conscious mind. It’s the one you can feel or even hear working when you puzzle out a tough math problem….
Read More(This is a brief excerpt from my book, The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy: Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy, published by Karnac and available for order online now.) Plato has a fine saying, that he who would discourse of…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg Most naturalists would probably agree that however much you may love the universe, it can’t love you back. And yet, much of our language about it – and perhaps our feelings for it too –…
Read MoreYesterday’s article, entitled “What Do Druid Naturalists Do?”, explored the activities of the recently-defunct Druidic Order of Naturlists (DON). This follow-up article draws insight from DON’s twilight, in order to build a better community for the future. Sadly, since I…
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