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August 2021

August 12, 2021
(This article is written by guest writer Aron Gamman.) Exploring Judaism through the lens of...
August 12, 2021
by Thomas Schenk Riding The Bull – No. 6 Spirituality Is Not Religion Spirituality and...
August 05, 2021
by Daniel Scharpenburg A zen story: A zen teacher named Hakuin lived in a small...
August 05, 2021
by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer James Jarrett. See bio below.) I wrote...

July 2021

July 29, 2021
by Dennis Oliver (This article is written by Dennis Oliver…) Is it not so, that...
July 29, 2021
 by DT Strain At the Spiritual Naturalist Society, we write and talk about contemplative spiritual practices of...
July 22, 2021
by Jeff Worthy Author’s note: One day as I looked around my Unitarian church congregation on...
July 22, 2021
 by Eric Steinhart I’ve recently taken up running at the ripe old age of 61.  I...
July 16, 2021
  by Jeff Worthy           Sometimes the ideas just come to...
July 14, 2021
 by Thomas Schenk In a humorous address to a graduating high school class, the writer Bill...
July 11, 2021
Spirituality, A Personal View – Part I by Thomas Schenk Spirituality is the creative activity wherein...
July 08, 2021
by DT Strain We talk a lot about compassion here at the Society. It’s even in...
July 02, 2021
by SNS Guest (Today’s article is by guest writer Brock Haussamen. For brief bio, see below.)...
July 01, 2021
 by Eric Steinhart I’m prone to mystical experiences. I’ve had six that were sufficiently intense that...

June 2021

June 24, 2021
 by Gregory Gronbacher Our crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and...
June 24, 2021
 by Daniel Scharpenburg Bodhicitta is the quality that drives away the suffering in ourselves and others....
June 18, 2021
 by Daniel Shkolnik I don’t trust the Zodiac. The Tarot isn’t too different from a Rorschach...
June 17, 2021
by Brock Haussamen My family were swapping medical grievances one evening—flawed diagnoses, unwanted side effects, useless...
June 10, 2021
 by Thomas Schenk In his book, The Saviors of God, Nikos Kazantzakis writes: “Earth rises up in...
June 09, 2021
by Thomas Schenk When I was young, I lived in a house on the banks of...
June 06, 2021
By Kai Whiting (Today’s article is by guest writer Kai Whiting. For brief bio, see...
June 03, 2021
by DT Strain Last week Thomas Schenk wrote an excellent article on the sacred. This week Daniel Strain...

May 2021

May 27, 2021
by Eric Steinhart The pandemic has transformed our lives in many ways. Some of us have...
May 26, 2021
 by Thomas Schenk In the Grand Portage Indian Reservation on the North Shore of Lake Superior,...
May 23, 2021
by Jeff Worthy We are living in difficult times. There are signs of recovery and...
May 19, 2021
by Eric Steinhart A naturalist affirms that every human person is exactly identical with his or...
May 13, 2021
 by SNS Guest (Article is by Ed Kelly Jr. For brief bio, see below.) As a...
May 12, 2021
by Daniel Scharpenburg We have the potential to experience moments of awakening, temporary experiences of enlightenment....
May 06, 2021
by Thomas Schenk Over the years I have read and reread many of the central writings...
May 05, 2021
 by Dennis Oliver A Moment For a moment “emptiness” made sense, strange tense: more than present,...
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