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December 2022

December 15, 2022

What is Soul? What is Spirit?

 by Daniel Shkolnik I was recently asked, “When people say they are “spiritual,” what do they...

December 08, 2022

Adventure, Contemplation, Creation

 by Thomas Schenk In several articles for SNS, I have written on cultivating our inner resources...

December 01, 2022

The Wisdom of Age?

by Thomas Schenk I was thinking, the other day, about a couple of old women...

November 2022

November 18, 2022

A Dissonance of Spirit

 by Jeff Worthy All I really remember was the loud “ping” that echoed through my helmet...

November 07, 2022

Anxiety, REBT and Stoicism

(Article is by guest writer Ed Kelly Jr. See bio below.) I have wrestled with...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

An Introduction to Psychosocial Fields

by Daniel Shkolnik Have you ever noticed the way a charismatic person can light up...

October 18, 2022

Just Sit. And if You Cannot Just Sit, Write

 by James Jarrett “All of humanity’s problems stem from [a hu]man’s inability to sit quietly in...

September 2022

September 15, 2022

Finding A New Meditation Practice In Nature

by Leigh Anderson I find it hard to concentrate on anything for more than a...

August 2022

August 11, 2022

Pilgrimage to the Ancestors

 by Brock Haussamen Not long ago, every living species of amoebas, humans, roses, zebras and all...

June 2022

June 23, 2022

Retirement Account

 by Thomas Schenk I first learned to meditate more than forty-five years ago and I’ve been...

June 16, 2022

Living with the Ambiguity of the Modern World

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Stefani Ruper. See short bio below). The...

June 09, 2022

Getting my DNA Scanned

by Eric Steinhart Since I suffer from several chronic illnesses, I got my genes scanned...

June 02, 2022

Lessons From the Origins of Life

January 17, 2019 by Brock Haussamen I’ve been following discussions over at the Religious Naturalist Association about...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

My Evolving “Prayer” Practice

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Edward Kelly Jr.  See bio below.) I...

April 2022

April 24, 2022

Coping with Being Human

 by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Stefani Ruper.) One of the most important components...

March 2022

March 17, 2022

Buddha Is As Buddha Does

 by Dennis Oliver Buddha instructing his disciples. Preface: Although the following remarks are limited to explicit...

March 10, 2022

Out of Time

 by Jeff Worthy Recently, a specific line from Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (the film script, actually)...

March 03, 2022

Timelessness?

by Thomas Schenk If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,...

November 2021

November 18, 2021

The Tornadoes of Transformation

June 21, 2018 by Jeff Worthy Imagine stopping in the middle of the path you are traversing,...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Aspiration

 Thomas Schenk The success of artificial intelligence, though limited, suggests that intelligence is a rather...

October 28, 2021

Choice Stuff

by Thomas Schenk The question of whether or not humans have free will is one...

October 14, 2021

The Biology of Suffering

 by Brock Haussamen “Where does suffering come from? Why do we suffer?” The questions open biologist Ursula...

October 03, 2021

Jewish Religious Tradition and Spirituality in a Naturalistic Perspective

by SNS Guest (This article is written by guest writer Aron Gamman.) Exploring Judaism through...

October 03, 2021

Hakuin and the Accusation

 Daniel Scharpenburg A zen story: A zen teacher named Hakuin lived in a small hut...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

A Healthy Scepticism

by Dennis Oliver Without some sense of conviction we’ll not accomplish much, nor be able...

September 23, 2021

Mortality’s Mirror

Mortality’s Mirror  by Jeff Worthy Recent events in my life have reminded me of an excerpt...

September 23, 2021

Atheistic Platonism

by Eric Steinhart There are lots of ways to be an atheist. Atheism needs to...

September 10, 2021

Breaking Free

 by DT Strain There has been a small resurgence of interest in cults in popular media...

September 10, 2021

Writing Wild by Tina Welling – A Book Review

 by SNS Guest (This article is by guest writer Leigh Anderson. For a short bio, see...

September 02, 2021

Spirituality: A Personal View, Part III

 by Thomas Schenk Death Most forms of spirituality are based on some notion of life after...

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