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Participatory reverence, by Hypatia’s Girl
“I find it in the endless ebb and flow of seasons, in the waxing and waning of the moon. A reverence and a resonance.” Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will – Dion Fortune My relationship...
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The HPedia: Nature
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. This often...
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Love a Tree Day
Today, May 16th, is Love a Tree Day. Yes, it’s a real holiday (what a great idea, eh?). Check out a list of the five best ways to celebrate Love a Tree Day.
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What do Druid Naturalists do? by White Horse
What exactly is it that a Druid Naturalist does? The following is an article excavated from the Druidic Order of Naturalists, which is unfortunately now defunct (though its website is still...
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The HPedia: Naturalism
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. Naturalism...
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What if the universe doesn’t love you back?
Most naturalists would probably agree that however much you may love the universe, it can’t love you back. And yet, much of our language about it – and perhaps our feelings for it too – are built on...
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World Environment Day
June 5th is World Environment Day, a time to stimulate awareness of the environment and enhance political attention and public action This year’s theme is “Green Economy: Does It Include You?” From...
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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...
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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...
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Naturalism in prehistory?
Were our earliest ancestors naturalistic? Were our earliest human ancestors naturalistic? Some might assume so, reasoning that before the first gods were invented, people must have been naturalistic....
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Matter thinking over mind, by Thomas Schenk
Is it possible that matter is made out of mind? The mind is made of matter! So I’ve been told, and I don’t disagree. But I have to wonder what this really means. What is matter? The keyboard I type...
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World Population Day
July 11th is World Population Day. This event initiated by the United Nations Development Programme was inspired by Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, when world population hit five billion people....
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Emotional Pantheism: Where the logic ends and the feelings start, by Áine Órga
I feel as though the universe is divine. Logically, I am an atheist. Emotionally, I am a pantheist. I am the kind of person who does not really believe in anything unless it can be empirically proven...
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August Cross-quarter
In the Northern Hemisphere, the cross-quarter is celebrated as Lughnasadh (Lughnasa, Lúnasa, Lùnastal, Luanistyn, Lammas). Astronomically, the event falls on the 6th, though some observe the...
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Perseid meteor showers
August 11th-12th is the peak of the Perseid meteor showers this year. Stardate recommends how to get the best viewing: Get away from the glow of city lights and toward the constellation from which the...
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The Wheel of the Year for one Naturalistic Pagan, by Renee B.
So, how exactly does one practice Atheist Paganism? I prefer to call it Naturalistic Paganism, but you can’t very well run from the fact that it’s basis is in atheism for me. This blog will be about...
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Gaia as the Universe, by Áine Órga
“For me, Gaia became the All.” 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...
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A tropical rainforest ontology: In search of a non-reductive naturalism, by...
Cahoone describes a complex non-reductive view of nature which might better be called a “tropical rainforest ontology” Analytical philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote in “A Free Man’s Worship” that the...
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Hidden spirits, by Bryan Beard
This week we feature the photography of Bryan Beard, who also happens to be the artist who drew our tree logo. A long-time photographer of mushrooms, Beard captures the beauty of the ubiquitous but...
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Ancient philosophy meets Darwin: Can science offer a way of life?
In the age of Darwin, what do we still have to learn from philosophers like Socrates or the Buddha? Ancient philosophers differed from those today in one crucial way: For them, philosophy was a way of...
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