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2016-01-28T10:11:53-05:00

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AWESM: Ancient Wisdom for Everyone from Seneca & Marcus #1

Last updated on: January 28, 2016 at 10:11 am By Spiritual Naturalist Society

Reflection One: Books and Reading The philosophers, poets, and playwrights of the ancient world, specifically from Greece and Rome, have so very much to teach us. Sure, they may have lived centuries ago, on the other side of the globe and from a very different time than our own, but truth is truth. Human nature hasn’t changed, and we can draw upon their wisdom to motivate us and improve our lives if we are willing to open our hearts and... Read more

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2016-02-11T10:43:14-05:00

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The Meaning of Life?

Last updated on: February 11, 2016 at 10:43 am By Spiritual Naturalist Society

The old question What is the Meaning of Life? has become something of a joke — not because it has been answered, but because it seems incapable of being answered. Below I attempt to address the question, though perhaps I only add to the joke. Meaning and purpose always relate a part to a whole. A word has a meaning within a sentence, a spark plug has a purpose within a machine, a person has a purposeful or meaningful role within an... Read more

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2016-02-11T10:45:20-05:00

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Joy in the Journey

Last updated on: February 11, 2016 at 10:45 am By Spiritual Naturalist Society

We live in a society that is obsessed with getting someplace. It’s all about meeting our goals, being someplace. There are deadlines that need to be meet, appointments we need to keep. Everything is focused on the destination. We need to remind ourselves that, as important as goals may be, they are not where the joy is. Yes, there is a sense of accomplishment, and this is important. But it is half the story. We need to rediscover the joy... Read more

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2015-01-01T13:38:48-05:00

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Spiritual Naturalist Society Launches Annual Funds/Membership Drive

Last updated on: January 1, 2015 at 1:38 pm By Spiritual Naturalist Society

This month, from December 15th to January 15th, we are holding our annual Funds/Membership Drive! No matter who you are, whether you’re a member or not, there is something everyone can do to be a part of it. We hear from so many of you who are moved by naturalistic forms of spirituality and interested in contemplative practices. Our mission at the Society is to promote these ideas and practices for the sake of helping more people to be happy... Read more

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2015-01-01T13:29:50-05:00

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How Stoics Treat Jerks

Last updated on: January 1, 2015 at 1:29 pm By Spiritual Naturalist Society

This article by guest-writer Matt Van Natta… “People. What a bunch of bastards!” –The IT Crowd Stoics love people, even the bastards. The heart of our philosophy is love for humankind. The virtue that we seek to cultivate can only be properly expressed in relationship to our human family. We agree with Marcus Aurelius who reminded himself that, “your only joy, and your only rest, is to pass from one action performed in the service of the human community... Read more

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2015-01-01T13:21:18-05:00

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How Hard is Empathy?

Last updated on: January 1, 2015 at 1:21 pm By Spiritual Naturalist Society

Why is it so easy to immerse ourselves in our own suffering, but so difficult to understand the suffering of others? Take these two essays about accommodation in yoga for instance. In the first – a self professed skinny white woman (Jen Caro) shares her thoughts – which she admits she was projecting – onto an overweight black woman who entered her yoga class and had a difficult time of it, and who apparently spent the entire course in child... Read more

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2015-01-01T13:11:48-05:00

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Roots of SN, Part 3: Evolution and the Way to Live

Last updated on: January 1, 2015 at 1:11 pm By Spiritual Naturalist Society

Most ancient peoples had some notion of how life came to be, quite sophisticated in some cases, and such ideas shaped conceptions of how to live. What is peculiar, historically speaking, is that modern Western people generally don’t draw such conclusions based on evolution. Values cannot be derived from facts, so they say. By contrast, ancient peoples had few such reservations, and generally built their values upon how they understood the facts of their world. This difference will be pertinent... Read more

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2015-01-01T13:02:21-05:00

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Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis, Part 2: The Emergence of the crisis.

Last updated on: January 1, 2015 at 1:02 pm By Spiritual Naturalist Society

Acknowledgement: This article is based on Science and the Sage which is written by myself and Christopher Mastropeitro, as well as work on the nature of wisdom by myself and Leo Ferraro. In part one I introduced the connections between spirituality, meaning, and the meaning crisis, and historically examined this meaning in terms of three interlocking orders, viz., the nomological, narrative, and normative orders of the middle ages. It was a very powerful system of meaning that was simultaneously religious,... Read more

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2014-08-22T09:34:58-04:00

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Spirituality Without the Supernatural? New Book Offers Bold Vision

Last updated on: August 22, 2014 at 9:34 am By Spiritual Naturalist Society

For most, the term ‘spirituality’ evokes the supernatural, such as the afterlife, God, prayer, and so on. But some who aren’t believers in those things are, nonetheless, taking spiritual practices head on. A new book gives a sweeping panorama of what practitioners call Spiritual Naturalism. “Exploring Spiritual Naturalism, Year 1 is an anthology of articles from the first year of the Spiritual Naturalist Society (http://www.spiritualnaturalistsociety.org) and is available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble online. While many might call them... Read more

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2015-01-01T13:00:01-05:00

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Roots of SN, Part 2: Modern Cosmology

Last updated on: January 1, 2015 at 1:00 pm By Spiritual Naturalist Society

It is surely strange to begin a history of ancient naturalism with modern cosmology. Nevertheless, starting with the present can help elucidate preconceptions before proceeding to the past. In so doing, a clear picture of current understandings can be developed, the better to distinguish our own assumptions and avoid projecting them onto ancient peoples. At the same time, a foundation in the underlying concepts under investigation can be established. This post is part of Roots of Spiritual Naturalism, a series... Read more

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