To periodically enjoy the pleasures of life is a fine thing and should be celebrated, and that indeed is an attractive feature of Paganism. The feeling pleasure should be a positive thing and not demonized and be a taboo in society.
Reclaiming My Adventure
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!
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
There are real benefits to seeking out mystical or ecstatic states: They open our minds, they can be transformative, and they feel good.
I am an atheist when the wind is north-northwest.
I am an atheist but north by northwest. When the wind is southerly, I know a deity from a deist.
Cyanobacteria: R-E-S-P-E-C-T by Brock Haussamen
We owe cyanobacteria our respect. And they might deserve our fullest gratitude as well if it weren’t for one nasty trait.
A Dawn Prayer
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?
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.
Worshiping the Dark at the Summer Solstice
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?
What American Gods Tells Us About the Need for Religious Ecstasy
American Gods possibly reflected and probably magnified a dissatisfaction among many Pagans with popular forms of Paganism. And it offered one possible alternative: literal belief in the gods and devotional forms of worship. Popular Paganism was failing to produce the kind deep religious experiences that many of Pagans craved, and devotional polytheism promised to answer that craving. There is a lesson here for Godless Pagans and other Religious Naturalists. If we want our religions to thrive, and if we want to experience the depths that spirituality has to offer, we must find ways to tap into the experience of transcendence and ecstasy.