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November 2015

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,...

August 20, 2014

Gnothi Seauton: On Being Human

This article is written by guest-writer, Maggie Jay Lee… Elizabeth Vandiver states in a Teaching Company Course that...

August 07, 2014

Book Review: Waking Up, by Sam Harris

Review by DT Strain for the Spiritual Naturalist Society Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality...

July 2014

July 01, 2014

Harvesting Happiness

We’ve all been in frustrating situations such as standing in a long line in a...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Tao and Governance (a personal view)

The Tao Te Chingis a book about leadership and governance. Many of its chapters are...

June 27, 2014

Roots of Spiritual Naturalism, Part 1: Introduction

Were there Spiritual Naturalists in the ancient world? This is the central question of this...

June 24, 2014

Meditation Framing & Procession: A Spiritual Naturalist Ritual

The following is a description of a ritual I have designed to precede and follow...

March 2014

March 12, 2014

The Role of Philosophy in Spirituality

Our Education Director, B.T. Newberg, has published an article for us discussing the role of...

March 12, 2014

Encounters with Indentified Flying Objects

Editor's note: What we pay attention to is important, and Thomas suggests paying attention the...

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