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June Solstice

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…

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The HPedia: Meditation

Your help is needed!  Please critique this entry from the HPedia: An encyclopedia of key concepts in Naturalistic Paganism.  Please leave your constructive criticism in the comments below. Meditation can mean many things, no doubt due largely to the vast…

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Conscious or unconscious: Which is the real you?

– 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….

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The HPedia: Divination

Your help is needed!  Please critique this entry from the HPedia: An encyclopedia of key concepts in Naturalistic Paganism.  Please leave your constructive criticism in the comments below. Divination is a way of discovering meaning through special ritual methods.  Such…

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The view from above: A Stoic meditative practice, by Donald Robertson

(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…

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