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August 2021

August 12, 2021

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part II

by Thomas Schenk Riding The Bull – No. 6 Spirituality Is Not Religion Spirituality and...

August 05, 2021

Hakuin and the Accusation

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

July 2021

July 29, 2021

Facing Defeat and Despair with Compassion

by Dennis Oliver (This article is written by Dennis Oliver…) Is it not so, that...

July 29, 2021

Psychedelics and Spiritual Practice

 by DT Strain At the Spiritual Naturalist Society, we write and talk about contemplative spiritual practices of...

July 11, 2021

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part I

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part I by Thomas Schenk Spirituality is the creative activity wherein...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

The Spirit Tree

 by Thomas Schenk In the Grand Portage Indian Reservation on the North Shore of Lake Superior,...

March 2021

March 24, 2021

Basic Goodness

 by Daniel Scharpenburg I like the Buddhist idea of Basic Goodness. It’s a term that was...

August 2017

August 12, 2017

Spiritual Hedonism and Beyond

(cc) Jeff Power Today's article written by  Thomas Schenk ... A while back, I was discussing Spiritual Naturalism...

August 06, 2017

Not Thinking is Not the Goal

Today's article written by  Jay N. Forrest ... Buddhist meditation is about being mindful, about being fully aware...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Burning the Man

Burning Man is not a religion. You are free to interpret it however you like.

July 21, 2017

A River, a Volleyball, and Secular Spirituality

Paul Robeson singing “Ol Man River” in the 1936 film of Show Boat (youtube)   Today's article...

July 15, 2017

SNS Seeking Writers

Do you have a passion for naturalistic spirituality and a talent for writing?  If so,...

July 14, 2017

Spiritual Practices

  Today's article written by Jay N. Forrest ... Let’s say I invited you over for a...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

The Spirituality of “Home”

(cc) maf04 The simple definition of the word “home” by the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary reads:...

August 11, 2016

Being a Spiritual Mutt

(cc) new 1lluminati If asked about my religion, I humorously answer that I am a...

August 04, 2016

Protect Your Relationships by Cutting Off Your Anchors

Series: Evaluating Reality Using Science Written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Intentional Insights Co-Founder and President....

August 01, 2016

PODCAST: Self Help Without Woo, an interview with Jennifer Hancock. SN Today #11

Episode 11: Jennifer Hancock is a Humanist author, speaker, and teacher of online courses in...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

The Science Behind Spiritual Naturalism

I didn’t wake up one day and decide to become a Spiritual Naturalist. I was...

July 21, 2016

Symbiosis, or How We All Get Along

Competition has long been regarded as the main dynamic in the way that humans and...

July 14, 2016

The Trauma of Media Events

This has been a season of nasty politics, concerns about our government, environmental fears, social...

July 07, 2016

Spirit as Consciousness

Sam Harris (2012), who is an atheist, argues that we should use the word spiritual,...

July 01, 2016

PODCAST: Building a Spiritual Practice. SN TODAY #10

Episode 10: In this episode we are talking about building a spiritual practice. What is a...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Evaluating Others: Checking Our Bias

(image credit) So imagine you are driving on autopilot, as we all do much of...

June 23, 2016

Is Meditation Selfish?

(cc) Alan Turkus I have been writing about meditation, spirituality, and inner resources for about...

June 16, 2016

The Spirituality of Service

As we rode home on the bus, I knew that we had made a difference.  ...

June 06, 2016

Reading the Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching is the most popular book outside the Bible, with over 100 translations into...

June 01, 2016

PODCAST: After Buddhism, an interview with Stephen Batchelor SN TODAY #9

Episode 9: Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist teacher and writer, known for his secular or agnostic...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

The Smart Way to Work With Purpose

Series: Find Your Purpose Jerome is desperate. He drags himself to his office job every...

May 19, 2016

Animals, Beings, and the Law

At the beginning of her article “Are Animals ‘Things’?: The law evolves” (Harvard Magazine, March-April...

May 12, 2016

Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

by Kabir Edmund Helminski. Book Review by DT Strain. Book link in SNS Amazon Shop...

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