Convergence 2026: Beyond “What Is Spiritual Naturalism?”
Announcing Convergence, our November online conference. All are invited!
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To Saturn
What if the darker moods of life are not merely obstacles to happiness, but invitations to discover a deeper way of being? Drawing on the mythological figure of Saturn and Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul, this article explores how melancholy, contemplation, and the acceptance of life’s shadows might deepen the soul and help us find meaning beyond the demand to “only count the sunny days.”
Spiritual Exercises of the Stoics and Neo-Confucians
A plethora of spiritual practices are suitable for the naturalist.
A Naturalist’s Perspective on Jesus
A naturalist points to wisdom to be gleaned from the historic Jesus of Nazareth.
Arriving at a Workable Philosophy of Life
Appreciating the extraordinary fact that I am here at all, and using the limited time I have to help other people keep moving forward.
Deconstructing our World
Human beings inhabit two realities at once: the immediate world revealed by our senses and the mental world woven from memory, language, imagination, and belief. This article explores how mindfulness can help us reconnect with direct experience without abandoning the uniquely human capacity to create meaning, culture, and possibility.
Broadening Experience at SNS
As an online community, what kinds of shared events can we realistically build, which address ritual and the experiential side of spiritual practice? Daniel Strain shares thoughts on this in an exercise to imagine what is possible at SNS...
Poetic Faiths
Poetic Faiths are an emerging current within Spiritual Naturalism treating myth, ritual and religion as creative works of art. They are “metamodern folk religions”: consciously made systems of story, symbol, object and practice that recover the folk-religious power and mystique of ritual life without requiring naïve belief or institutional authority. The term is an expansion … Read more
