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?
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Category: John Halstead, Latest Posts
Tags: ascent narrative, atheism, Christianity, devotion, Douthat, immanence, Natural Pagans, pagan temptation, Paganism, transcendence, worship
Three steps toward creating a naturalistic devotional practice toward the earth.
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Category: John Halstead, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, The Naturalistic Pagan Toolbox
Tags: adoration, devotion, humility, libations, love, naturalistic paganism, offerings, otherness, praise, religious naturalism, transcendence, veneration, worship
Even under the influence of the narcotic draught, of which songs of all primitive men and peoples speak, or with the potent coming of spring that penetrates all nature with joy, these Dionysian emotions awake, and as they grow in…
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Category: emotion, humanism, John Halstead, Paganism, ritual
Tags: adoration, devotionalism, Dionysian, group ritual, letting go, life, metaphor, nature, poetry, rationality, revelry, ritual, veneration, worship
Naturalistic Paganism
