Today we continue our late-winter theme of “Order and Structure” with Rhys Chisnall’s exploration of the role of theistic language in non-theistic Paganism. This post is also the first article of our new column, De Natura Deorum, where we explore the beliefs of…
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Category: atheism, De Natura Deorum, Order and Structure, Rhys Chisnall
Tags: belief, Craft, death, gods, hard polytheism, Lady, life, literal, Lord, metaphors, nature, symbols, Wicca
Today we continue our late-winter theme of “Order and Structure” with Merlyn, who talks about bridging left-brain rationality and right-brain mysticism. As always, please remember that not all contributors necessarily identify with HumanisticPaganism or share the views expressed elsewhere on this site. One reason I like Wicca…
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Category: belief, Merlyn, Order and Structure
Tags: beliefs, gods, imagination, immanence, left brain, mysticism, naturalism, rationality, right brain, skepticism, supernaturalism, Wicca
In developing my own non-theistic or naturalistic spirituality, the issue of deity was one of the most difficult to address. Nothingness As I wrote in my first post, the idea of nothingness – or that which is beyond infinity –…
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photo by Doug Klembara After posting the question “What does your spiritual practice look like?” to the Naturalistic Pagans email list, I was drawn to Eli’s response. I knew immediately we had to publish it. – B. T. Newberg I…
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Category: Eli Effinger-Weintraub
Tags: atheist pagan, atheist wicca, cycling, earth religion, naturalistic paganism, nature religion, Pagan, pagan humanism, pagan pantheism, pantheism, religious naturalism, ritual, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, spiritual humanism, Spiritual Naturalism, spirituality and religion, Wicca
image enhanced from The Calumny of Apelles, by Botticelli, 1494 – by B. T. Newberg The last post emphasized how critical it is for those neither religious nor secular to make their voices known. Now, here is an opportunity to…
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Category: B. T. Newberg
Tags: atheist pagan, atheist wicca, Buddhism, earth religion, naturalistic paganism, nature religion, pagan humanism, pagan pantheism, Paganism, pantheism, religious naturalism, science and god, science and myth, science and religion, Shamanism, spiritual humanism, Spiritual Naturalism, spirituality and religion, Wicca