Naturalism and the Gods, featured at Humanistic Paganism

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series naturalistic polytheism

A little while ago I was asked to contribute an article on naturalistic polytheism to the blog/online zine Humanistic Paganism. To day my short essay Naturalism and the Gods has gone live. I will shortly be adding it as a static page under religious naturalism. In the meantime head over the Humanistic Paganism, read my article, and check out all of the other writings available there. Humanistic Paganism offers a unique and refreshing naturalist take on modern paganism.

UPDATE: this essay is now included as part of the Religious Naturalism pages under Naturalistic Polytheism.

 

Bioregional Dreaming

In an attempt to sooth myself and distract myself during a particularly bad day of anxiety and emotional flashbacks I began going through my old documents and re-organizing them. Upon doing so, I found this lost essay which i believe was ment to be a blog post but never saw the light of day. I have no idea when I wrote it, but here it is now:

I’ve been thinking about dreams and I have been thinking about narratives. what do the two have in common?

I’ve heard it say that dreams are our subconscious acting out when we sleep. I do believe that many dreams are just that, dreams. But not all dreams are that simple to dismiss. As a animist I feel that there are many layers to our existence; in fact, I make no distinction between the physical and the metaphysical and spiritual. This in turn applies to my dreams. (more…)

Life is Love, a nice idea but . . .

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Published on: May 5, 2012

I spent all day writing the following essay in response to Heather Awen’s “Animist Unified Field Theory.” It was meant for my new glossary section. However, after discussing the idea more with Heather, and contemplating why I thought life is love, I have completely changed my mind. I have had to set this sacred cow free. I no longer think life is love and believe the ideal is unrealistic. But, some might find my train of thought on the topic interesting.  (more…)

Biosagap: The Life-Love Paradox – scratch that

In Heather Awen’s “Animist Unified Field Theory” she approaches the paradox of life in an animist context. That of harmony in a world where life is sustained by sacrificing life through the simple act of eating. In short, an animist cannot escape eating someone and being eaten by someone. Towards the end she states:

this is where i do disagree with glen at postpagan. life is not love.  but he has never explained what that love means to him and i know from conversations that his idea of what love is may be different than most people.  (hint to glen to expand in his blog.  heh heh heh.)

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eomagap: self-love for the postpagan soul

As she often does, Heather Awen has inspired me once again. In her post, “Morning Devotions Go Weird: Thank Me” she speaks of how she practices gratitude to the living-world during her morning devotions. On this occasion she does a very important thing, she begins to direct her gratitude to her self. She writes:

This post has been merged into the glossary

Growing pains

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Published on: April 24, 2012

So, moving this blog to the new domain ha not been as easy as I would have liked. For whatever reason, I cannot get my images to show on anything and in a final fit of frustration, I removed all links to media. I hope to restore some of it in the future. Secondly, I can no longer use custom backgrounds and headers which destroys my theme layout.  Please be patient with me as work out these issues.

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