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“Just Do It!”: Ritual for Atheists by Mark Green (Naturalistic Pagan Toolbox)
The challenge for atheists who move in the direction of ritual observances is that the atheist/skeptic community lauds the analytical part of the brain, and many atheists are accustomed to living there as much as they can. And that is the exact part of the brain you want largely to turn off during ritual.
Read MorePaganism Hasn’t Returned (Yet)
Paganism represents a potential challenge to a paradigm which has dominated the West since the ascendance of Christianity, a paradigm which seeks to transcend the natural world and which has driven Western civilization to the brink of collapse. What would it take for paganism to really become a challenge to the Christian paradigm?
Read MoreWalking Barefoot: What Science Is Good For (and What It Isn’t)
Paganism invites us to plunge into matter, to lose ourselves in the sensual experience of the world. But sometimes our big brains get in the way. For me, paganism isn’t an invitation to believe in pseudoscience. It’s an invitation to experience the world without any preconceived notions of what is and isn’t real.
Read MoreNaturalistic “Pagan” Books You Won’t Find in the Metaphysical Section
What naturalistic (small-p) pagan books have been an inspiration to you?
Read More[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “School’s Out; Summer’s Here” by Bart Everson
Maybe that’s why I love summer so much. More than any other, it’s the season of liberty. It represents an enduring freedom of the spirit. Sometimes, on the best days, it seems that summer stands outside of the regular flow of time, magical, eternal.
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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