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December 2015

December 24, 2015

Celebrations, Rituals and Constructing Meaning in Life

My family emigrated from the former Soviet Union to the US when I was 10,...

December 17, 2015

Bringing Light to (Most of) the Darkness

The Winter Solstice is upon us, and the year is in its darkest phase. In...

December 14, 2015

PODCAST: SN Today #4: Real Life – on the job

Episode 4: How does one apply Spiritual Naturalism to real world problems? Find out in this...

December 10, 2015

Naturalism and the Idea of One Mind

“The Self is the ear of the ear, the eye of the eye. It is...

December 03, 2015

Three Ways to Handle Holiday Stress

It may be the most wonderful time of the year for some people, but for...

December 01, 2015

PODCAST: SN Today #3: Secular Meditation, an interview with Rick Heller

Episode 3: An interview with Rick Heller, author of Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace,...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

The Dusty Altar

Since I was a small child, I have suffered bouts of depression. Most of the...

November 12, 2015

Music Man

Recently I stopped by a music store in town to buy banjo strings. I hadn’t...

November 05, 2015

Loving-kindness as a Spiritual Practice

Every spiritual path begins with a purification stage. In the mystic way of Christianity, we...

November 01, 2015

PODCAST: SN Today #2: The Humble Approach to Knowledge

Episode 2: Naturalists include Humanists, skeptics, Freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, and other rationalists, but how do Spiritual...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

AWESM: Ancient Wisdom for Everyone from Seneca and Marcus #2

Reflection Two: On Pain In 2001, I injured my back lifting a box of books...

October 17, 2015

Get Our Latest Book!

Our latest book is now available! Exploring Spiritual Naturalism, Year 2: An Anthology of Articles from the...

October 15, 2015

Contemplation and Money

“Money, so they say Is the root of all evil today” Pink Floyd lyric Most...

October 08, 2015

Dealing with Death

My father died a few weeks ago. It came as quite a shock. He was...

October 01, 2015

The Recipe for Love

Love is an overused word that has a diverse and varied meaning depending on the...

October 01, 2015

PODCAST: SN Today #1: What is Spiritual Naturalism?

Episode 1: In the first episode of our new podcast by the Spiritual Naturalist Society, we...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

The Marriage of Spirit and Soul

In his book Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, Titus Burkhardt writes of...

September 10, 2015

Oliver Sacks and the Comforts of Metal

I was first aware of Oliver Sacks with the publication in 1985 of his book The...

September 03, 2015

Buddhism and Naturalism

Traditional Buddhism began over 2,500 years ago. It was founded on the metaphysical understandings of...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

On Spirituality & Politics

In many ways, our efforts in the Spiritual Naturalist Society are part of a quest....

August 19, 2015

AWESM: Ancient Wisdom for Everyone from Seneca & Marcus #1

Reflection One: Books and Reading The philosophers, poets, and playwrights of the ancient world, specifically...

August 13, 2015

The Meaning of Life?

The old question What is the Meaning of Life? has become something of a joke — not...

August 06, 2015

Joy in the Journey

We live in a society that is obsessed with getting someplace. It’s all about meeting...

January 2015

January 01, 2015

Spiritual Naturalist Society Launches Annual Funds/Membership Drive

This month, from December 15th to January 15th, we are holding our annual Funds/Membership Drive!...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

How Stoics Treat Jerks

This article by guest-writer Matt Van Natta… “People. What a bunch of bastards!” –The...

August 2014

August 24, 2014

How Hard is Empathy?

Why is it so easy to immerse ourselves in our own suffering, but so difficult...

August 23, 2014

Roots of SN, Part 3: Evolution and the Way to Live

Most ancient peoples had some notion of how life came to be, quite sophisticated in...

August 22, 2014

Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis, Part 2: The Emergence of the crisis.

Acknowledgement: This article is based on Science and the Sage which is written by myself...

August 22, 2014

Spirituality Without the Supernatural? New Book Offers Bold Vision

For most, the term 'spirituality' evokes the supernatural, such as the afterlife, God, prayer, and...

August 21, 2014

Roots of SN, Part 2: Modern Cosmology

It is surely strange to begin a history of ancient naturalism with modern cosmology. Nevertheless,...

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