In the ancient world, gods and goddesses were honored with gifts. How can a naturalist carry on this tradition today? One way it can be done is through giving to charities. For example, if you want to honor Demeter, goddess…
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Today, we begin our late spring theme, Practice, with DT Strain, director of the Spiritual Naturalist Society, who shares how he learned to “get” ritual as a naturalist, and he asks B. T. to share his understanding in turn. Click above…
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Category: B. T. Newberg, DT Strain, Practice
Tags: atheist pagan, Humanism, meditation, Mythology, naturalistic paganism, practice, religious naturalism, ritual, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, self-knowledge, Spiritual Naturalism
Thing on Thursday #4 At the top of our values poll results was relationship with mythology. This week, let’s dig into that idea. We are not talking about simple falsehoods here, such as the “myth” that money brings happiness. We’re…
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Category: Thing on Thursday
Tags: atheist pagan, atheist wicca, earth religion, Joseph Campbell, Mythology, naturalistic paganism, nature religion, pagan humanism, pagan pantheism, pantheism, religious naturalism, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, spiritual humanism, Spiritual Naturalism, spirituality and religion
photo by B. T. Newberg This week, C Luke Mula challenges us to take a deeper look at the fundamentals. Why are we doing this? What do we hope to get out of it? Through a careful critique of the…
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Category: C Luke Mula
Tags: atheist pagan, atheist wicca, earth religion, Humanistic Paganism, Mythology, naturalistic paganism, nature religion, pagan humanism, pagan pantheism, Paganism, pantheism, religious naturalism, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, spiritual humanism, Spiritual Naturalism, spirituality and religion
image enhanced from original, and posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license – by B. T. Newberg I double-checked my suit pocket: yes, the rings were there. Everything was ready. I just had to take the trash out before…
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Category: B. T. Newberg
Tags: atheist pagan, atheist wicca, divination, earth religion, hawk, Mythology, naturalism, naturalistic paganism, nature religion, pagan humanism, pagan pantheism, pantheism, religious naturalism, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, spiritual humanism, Spiritual Naturalism, spirituality and religion