Uncertainty and Wonder
We should reject mysticism, but a healthy sense of mystery has an important place in naturalistic spirituality.
Dwayne Schulz
Spiritual Exercises of the Stoics and Neo-Confucians
A plethora of spiritual practices are suitable for the naturalist.
Un-selfing
Losing oneself in the beauty of nature or great art is only one specific form of un-selfing, but there are others.
The Myth of Disenchantment
By contrasting the richly meaningful world of our hunter-gatherer ancestors with the structured realities of civilization, this article challenges the common idea that modern life is disenchanted simply because of secularization. Instead, it argues that the roots of alienation run much deeper—emerging with agriculture, hierarchy, and the long transformation of how humans relate to nature, meaning, and each other.
On Death and Nothingness
This article explores the philosophy of naturalism through the stark idea that death is absolute, dissolving not only the body but the self, meaning, and all existence over time. Confronting this unsettling truth, it examines how different traditions—from religion to Buddhism and existentialism—either resist, despair over, or ultimately find freedom and value within life’s fleeting nature.
