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December 2015

December 24, 2015
My family emigrated from the former Soviet Union to the US when I was 10,...
December 17, 2015
The Winter Solstice is upon us, and the year is in its darkest phase. In...
December 14, 2015
Episode 4: How does one apply Spiritual Naturalism to real world problems? Find out in this...
December 10, 2015
“The Self is the ear of the ear, the eye of the eye.  It is...
December 03, 2015
It may be the most wonderful time of the year for some people, but for...
December 01, 2015
Episode 3: An interview with Rick Heller, author of Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace,...

November 2015

November 19, 2015
Since I was a small child, I have suffered bouts of depression. Most of the...
November 12, 2015
Recently I stopped by a music store in town to buy banjo strings. I hadn’t...
November 05, 2015
Every spiritual path begins with a purification stage. In the mystic way of Christianity, we...
November 01, 2015
Episode 2: Naturalists include Humanists, skeptics, Freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, and other rationalists, but how do Spiritual...

October 2015

October 22, 2015
Reflection Two: On Pain In 2001, I injured my back lifting a box of books...
October 17, 2015
Our latest book is now available! Exploring Spiritual Naturalism, Year 2: An Anthology of Articles from the...
October 15, 2015
“Money, so they say Is the root of all evil today” Pink Floyd lyric Most...
October 08, 2015
My father died a few weeks ago. It came as quite a shock. He was...
October 01, 2015
Love is an overused word that has a diverse and varied meaning depending on the...
October 01, 2015
Episode 1: In the first episode of our new podcast by the Spiritual Naturalist Society, we...

September 2015

September 24, 2015
In his book Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, Titus Burkhardt writes of...
September 10, 2015
I was first aware of Oliver Sacks with the publication in 1985 of his book The...
September 03, 2015
Traditional Buddhism began over 2,500 years ago. It was founded on the metaphysical understandings of...

August 2015

August 27, 2015
In many ways, our efforts in the Spiritual Naturalist Society are part of a quest....
August 19, 2015
Reflection One: Books and Reading The philosophers, poets, and playwrights of the ancient world, specifically...
August 13, 2015
The old question What is the Meaning of Life? has become something of a joke — not...
August 06, 2015
We live in a society that is obsessed with getting someplace. It’s all about meeting...

January 2015

January 01, 2015
This month, from December 15th to January 15th, we are holding our annual Funds/Membership Drive!...

December 2014

December 31, 2014
This article by guest-writer Matt Van Natta…   “People. What a bunch of bastards!” –The...

August 2014

August 24, 2014
Why is it so easy to immerse ourselves in our own suffering, but so difficult...
August 23, 2014
Most ancient peoples had some notion of how life came to be, quite sophisticated in...
August 22, 2014
Acknowledgement: This article is based on Science and the Sage which is written by myself...
August 22, 2014
For most, the term 'spirituality' evokes the supernatural, such as the afterlife, God, prayer, and...
August 21, 2014
It is surely strange to begin a history of ancient naturalism with modern cosmology. Nevertheless,...
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