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Month: June 2017

Reclaiming My Adventure

June 8, 2017 lupa Artwork, Cosmology, Creativity, Health and Healing, Meaning, Nature, Nature Spirituality, Nature Writing, Rites of Passage, Tattoos, The Green Wolf

In 2006, I made a terrible mistake. I got married. Now, marriage itself isn’t a bad idea. But it is when you get married a year after you met the person while on the rebound, and after they pressured you into first taking you… Continue Reading

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Limited Time Offer: Free Tarot of Bones Deck and Book!

June 7, 2017 lupa The Green Wolf, The Tarot of Bones

Hey, folks! Join my Book of the Month club on Patreon, and you can get the Tarot of Bones deck and book for free! Here’s how it works: *Go to http://www.patreon.com/lupagreenwolf *Become my Patron at the $25 Book of the Month level (or the $40… Continue Reading

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3 Reasons to Seek Out Profound Religious Experiences

June 7, 2017 John Halstead ecstatic, experiences, hedonist, hedonistic, mystical, Natural Pagans, spiritual, The Allergic Pagan, transcendence, transcendent, transformative, William James

There are real benefits to seeking out mystical or ecstatic states: They open our minds, they can be transformative, and they feel good.

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I am an atheist when the wind is north-northwest.

June 5, 2017 John Halstead atheism, monotheism, Natural Pagans, polytheism, The Allergic Pagan, Theism

I am an atheist but north by northwest. When the wind is southerly, I know a deity from a deist.

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Cyanobacteria: R-E-S-P-E-C-T by Brock Haussamen

June 5, 2017 HumanisticPaganism Brock Haussamen, Cosmos, Earth religion, evolution, Gaia/Earth, HP, Latest Posts, life, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, nature religion, Peter Berger, Sacred Canopy, science and god, Science and Religion, wonder

We owe cyanobacteria our respect. And they might deserve our fullest gratitude as well if it weren’t for one nasty trait.

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A Dawn Prayer

June 4, 2017 Mark Green Atheopaganism, Midsummer, poetry

Whose warm love flows across the land each day Stirring Life, the world’s magic, arms yearning up, Turning each green leaf to follow. Whose generous balm Upon the skin is love’s touch, ahhhhhh heated fingers soothing, Whose roar boils water from ocean to sky Drawing sweet from salt, becoming rain, snow, river, lake; Whose fervid … Continue reading A Dawn Prayer

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Is Seeking A “Deep Religious Experience” Hedonistic?

June 3, 2017 Rua Lupa Canadian Mutt, Ceremony, Community, Cultures, Customs, Religion, Religious Naturalism, ritual, Rua's Rambles, Seasons & Stardust

My honest personal view on this is that I find that the search for transcendence or ecstasy in order to have a “deep religious experience” is frankly hedonistic – Let me explain why.

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Worshiping the Dark at the Summer Solstice

June 2, 2017 John Halstead balance, dark, dark child, Darkness, light, litha, Natural Pagans, summer solstice, The Allergic Pagan

Neo-Paganism is all about balance. It is about bringing opposites together into harmony. If we celebrate the birth of the Sun Child on the longest night, what else would be celebrate on the longest day but the birth of the Dark Child from his mother, the Goddess of the Sun?

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