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June 2023

June 11, 2023

Inner Darwin

by Thomas Schenk I’m surprised that humans didn’t discover something like Darwinian evolution from observing human...

May 2023

May 27, 2023

Can You Love Nature?

by Eric Steinhart Painting by Elmer Wachtel, Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum We humans often...

May 18, 2023

Cosmologies: Mythic and Scientific

by Thomas Schenk The Greek word “cosmos” means order and a cosmology is an attempt to...

May 04, 2023

Listening to Harebells

by Thomas Schenk The Eve of Destruction I was talking with some college students the...

April 2023

April 20, 2023

A Socratic View of Ethics

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Ed Kelly Jr. See bio below.) “Socrates advised...

April 07, 2023

The Spider as a Spiritual Symbol

by Thomas Schenk Spiders give many people the creeps. Yet with their ability to construct intricate...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

The Story of Master Huineng

by Daniel Scharpenburg The 600s in Southern China. This place was considered a backwater, a place...

March 26, 2023

Living in the Network

by Eric Steinhart We live in networks, although they are almost always very hard to see...

March 16, 2023

The Storyteller’s Torch

by Jeff Worthy Painting of the Lady of Shalott, by John William Waterhouse. In my 31...

March 10, 2023

What Do All Spiritual Naturalists Have in Common?

by B. T. Newberg (When there are five Thursdays in a month, such as this month,...

February 2023

February 09, 2023

It Goes Together

by James Jarrett “You want it to be one way, but it’s the other way.” —...

February 09, 2023

Religion and Spirituality

by Thomas Schenk In common usage, the words religion and spirituality are often treated as synonyms....

January 2023

January 26, 2023

Simulated Worlds and Natural Deities

by Eric Steinhart The Gazebo People have been making simulated worlds for a long time. ...

January 12, 2023

Giving Thanks, Part 1

by Eric Steinhart 1. Giving Thanks among Humans People often give each other gifts. If...

January 12, 2023

Mindful Journaling

by Leigh Anderson Photo by Joyful on Unsplash I have been journaling on and off...

January 06, 2023

Of Gold and Jewels

by Thomas Schenk I’ve long been interested in alchemy. According to several sources, alchemy was practiced...

December 2022

December 31, 2022

Stoicism’s God: The God of Nature

by SNS Guest (Today’s article is by guest writer Kai Whiting. For brief bio, see...

December 15, 2022

Fate is at Your Elbow

by Jeff Worthy Anaphylaxis [an-uh-fuh-lak-sis], noun. Pathology: An exaggerated allergic reaction t0 foreign protein resulting from previous exposure...

December 08, 2022

Losing Beliefs and Finding Faith

by James Jarrett This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need...

December 01, 2022

Spirituality and Microscopes

by Eric Steinhart Every spiritual naturalist (and every pagan) should own a microscope. They’re relatively inexpensive:...

November 2022

November 24, 2022

The Natural Soul & Socrates

by DT Strain Plato’s book of Phaedo may be especially important in ancient Greek philosophic concepts on the...

November 24, 2022

The Meaning of Life

by Thomas Schenk (When there are five Thursdays in a month, we are planning to feature...

November 18, 2022

Atheistic Mysticism

by Eric Steinhart Atheists have mystical experiences that don’t involve God. I’ll describe several examples here. ...

November 11, 2022

Asking Open Ended Questions to Pursue a Personal Philosophy

by Leigh Anderson The book, Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte is about productivity and how we...

November 07, 2022

Meaning in a World without God

(Article is by guest writer Stefani Ruper. See short bio below). I’ve known since I...

November 07, 2022

Soul of the World

by Thomas Schenk Photo by Matt Deavenport, from Flickr I keep a book titled, The Soul of...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

The Place of Nature in Naturalist Spirituality – Part II

by Gregory Gronbacher If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we would rise rooted, like a tree. –...

October 18, 2022

A Preference for White Magpies

by Thomas Schenk In his book, Dear Colleague, geographer and cultural polymath Yi-Fu Tuan writes: Culture, to...

October 13, 2022

Living Without Certainty, With Wonder and Yearning

by Dennis Oliver “I’m prone to mystical experiences. I’ve had six that were sufficiently intense that...

October 07, 2022

Trust The Seekers

by Jeff Worthy One of my favorite quotes comes from Andre Gide: “Trust those who...

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