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February 2014

February 24, 2014

The Blues and Abstract Truth

The Blues and Abstract Truth is the title of a jazz album by Oliver Nelson...

February 24, 2014

Spirituality and responding to the Meaning Crisis, Part 1: The Meaning that was lost

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

February 18, 2014

Tao and the Laws of Nature

The Chinese word Tao and Western phrase the Laws of Nature refer to largely the...

February 18, 2014

Ancient Philosophy Meets Darwin: Can Science Offer a Way of Life?

In the age of Darwin, what do we still have to learn from philosophers like...

February 11, 2014

Atheist: Why God is Important

FYI to our readers: Many Spiritual Naturalists do not use a concept of God or...

February 11, 2014

The Ultimate Context

Our life exists in a context. In naturalistic terms we might say that this context...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

Compassion hacking: rooting out the attribution bug

Have you ever had a friend who just seems to make one bad decision after...

January 15, 2014

Living in a world without cosmic justice

It isn’t easy living in reality. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. And sometimes...

December 2013

December 17, 2013

Naturalist Practice: the Big Picture

We are at the beginning of an important movement to gather again, a spirituality that...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

An Atheist Plea for Preserving Thanksgiving

I don't often use the term 'atheist' to describe myself, because my lack of someone...

November 11, 2013

Religious Freedom from the Inside Out

We generally think of religious freedom in terms of coercion by others, political or social...

October 2013

October 01, 2013

What you think and how you feel: it matters

The more I've learned about naturalistic spirituality and spiritual practice, the more I've come to...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Are you really meditating?

In the many discourses I host or participate in, both online with our members, and...

September 18, 2013

Celebrating our first anniversary!

Hello friends! Today (September 18, 2013) marks one year since the Spiritual Naturalist Society officially...

September 17, 2013

Testing a naturalist’s faith

Writing my first column for spiritualnaturalistsociety.org , I’m going to assume, appropriately or not, that...

September 09, 2013

Daily Fruit

There is a folktale from India called The King and the Corpse. At the beginning...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Three Transcendents, part 4: Mind

Reaching inward, we discover our participation in something greater than what we normally call ourselves....

August 27, 2013

Three Transcendents, part 3: Community

In relationships with other people, we participate in something greater than ourselves. This post continues...

August 09, 2013

The Integrated Practice

I’ve been an artist as long as I can remember. My father is a traditional...

August 05, 2013

What “Death is a Part of Life” Means

Often in reading philosophy and wisdom teachings, one has a kind of repeating experience. We...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

When love seems absent

We all face times when it seems there is little genuine love in the world....

July 24, 2013

Bicycle Meditation

“What better place is there to ride a bike than right here, right now?” I...

July 21, 2013

Life Challenges as Mirror

This morning my wife discovered that the left side mirror on her car had been...

July 16, 2013

Three Transcendents, part 1: Naturalistic Transcendence

As my wife and I slogged along on our bicycles, generally irritated at each...

July 10, 2013

Dealing with Negative Nellies and Neds

One of the side effects of being a happy person is that unhappy people...

July 01, 2013

Last Hum of the Cicada: Death for Naturalists

Deep in the mountains of South Korea, a cicada hummed its last. Walking along the...

April 2013

April 05, 2013

SNS announces new partnership with Charter for Compassion

The Spiritual Naturalist Society is proud to announce that the Charter for Compassion and the...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Spiritual Naturalist Drumming

Drumming is an ancient art that has played a ritualistic and spiritual role in different...

February 21, 2013

Beauty in the Equation

“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit...

February 11, 2013

Happiness upon reflection

More and more I have come to realize that happiness is a matter of reflection....

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