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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....
February 04, 2013
A New (old) Skepticism
Skeptics have often been accused of being cynical, negative, etc. They will (quite appropriately) correct...
January 2013
January 22, 2013
Working toward Liberation
Many philosophies and wisdom traditions have independently come to realize that anguish and emotional suffering...
January 17, 2013
What is Spiritual Transformation? (Pt 2 of 2)
This is the second of a 2-part series on spiritual transformation (link to part 1)....
January 14, 2013
What is Spiritual Transformation? (Pt 1 of 2)
In this 2-part series, we will not only look at spiritual transformation in detail, but...
January 10, 2013
Managers of Human Nature: A Job Description for Spiritual Naturalists
Job descriptions help us know that we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing. So...
January 07, 2013
Do you believe in Love?
In studying ancient philosophy (the very thoughts that shaped the course of later ideas, culture,...
January 03, 2013
Distractions to Spiritual Practice, Pt 4
This is the final part of a 4-part series which explains, in each part, one...
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