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The big White splotch

– by B. T. Newberg Looking over our list of contributors here at HP, we have an imperfect, but not terrible, balance of the sexes: about 1/3 women to 2/3 men.  The GLBT demographic is fairly well-represented.  We’ve also got…

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A naturalistic ritual for the ancestors – Samhain

– by B. T. Newberg The following Samhain ritual is an attempt at developing an order of ritual rooted wholly in naturalistic perspectives.  The language of the script emphasizes non-metaphysical, natural terms and processes.  It’s broad enough to work for…

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The progression of burial and cremation alternatives, by Antal Polony

Are you aware of green burial options?  Antal introduces us to two today: promession and resomation.  – editor Today, our after-death disposition choices in the U.S. are almost exclusively limited to cremation and burial. When most people think of burial,…

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How do you enact a communal meal in ritual?

2012 Thing on Thursday #6 We continue our series of questions on liturgy.  Our poll asked about the most important elements of ritual liturgy, the third most popular element was the communal meal. The breaking of bread together could be…

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Last hum of the cicada: Death in naturalism

– by B. T. Newberg Deep in the mountains of South Korea, a cicada hummed its last.  Walking along the roadside, I saw a spider fall upon it with its venomous mandibles.  Caught in the web, it had no escape,…

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