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No Nonsense Paganism: It’s Fall When It Feels Like Fall
Pagan rituals can be performed in response to our experience of world around us, rather than an assigned time of a calendar.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: Keep It Simple
One of the radical ideas running through this series is the notion that a pagan ritual can be–and should be–simple. The complexification of a ritual does not deepen the experience of the ritual, and in fact has the tendency to make it more spiritually shallow.
Read MoreNo Nonsense Paganism: The baby and the bathwater
One of my perennial concerns is why liberal and naturalistic religion often seems to lack transformative power. I think at least part of the reason for this is because of its ambivalent attitude toward ritual.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: What ritual really does
We don’t use ritual to turn the Wheel of the Year outside of us. But we can use ritual to turn the Wheel inside of us. As the seasons change, we do ritual to acknowledge the change and to prepare ourselves emotionally and mentally for the change.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: Daily Spiritual Practice (part 2)
For me, the goal of daily spiritual practice is the “re-enchantment” of my everyday life, restoring a sense of sacredness to our experience, which has been stripped away by reductionist positivism, consumer capitalism, and transcendental religion.
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