What you think and how you feel: it matters
The best mask in the world will not bring true happiness…
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Three Transcendents, part 2: Nature
In the second of this 4-part series, B.T. Newberg writes on our relationship with Nature…
Bicycle Meditation
Being fully at home, wherever you happen to be peddling…
A Naturalist approach to personal gods
Caveat on ‘God talk’ Spiritual Naturalism is a broad category of thought and practice. It’s unifying principles are: (1) an approach to life that stresses the essential perspectives, principles, and practices conducive to the good/flourishing life; and (2) a naturalistic worldview, and by implication the rational and humble approach to knowledge and claims associated with … Read more
What is Spiritual Transformation? (Pt 1 of 2)
The purpose of a spiritual practice is happiness through self-transformation. But what does transformation mean within a naturalistic view?
Do you believe in Love?
Some ancient thoughts on divinity can be surprisingly naturalistic when we look to the concepts behind the terms…
Distractions to Spiritual Practice, Pt 4
In the final part of this 4-part series, DT Strain describes how obsession with fixing the world, noble and important though it is, can be confused with spiritual practice…
Distractions to Spiritual Practice, Pt 3
In this third of a 4-part series, DT Strain describes the potential for academics to become a distraction to spiritual practice…