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Here you will find a growing volume of references to philosophy, history, teachings, lessons, and ethics that would be of use to the spiritual life of a naturalist. In addition to these articles, don’t forget to check out our Local Group Center, where we have materials submitted by local chapters, as well as our forums where you can discuss these ideas with other Society members. You can read more about the authors presented here on our archive contributors page. If you have suggestions for additions to this section, we would like to hear them – please contact us.
Traditions, Introductory
A Naturalist approach to personal gods
What is Naturalistic Paganism?
Spiritual Naturalism, General
What is Spiritual Naturalism?, Daniel Strain
6 Reasons you will see more of Spiritual Naturalism in the future
Do Spiritual Naturalists believe in God?, B.T. Newberg
Religious Naturalism and its Place in the Family of Religions, Donald A. Crosby
[Video] Overview of Bucknell University course on Religious Naturalism, Carol Wayne White
A Naturalist approach to personal gods, Daniel Strain
Beyond Meditation, Daniel Strain
Real Religion?, B. T. Newberg
Sacred Tongue, Daniel Strain
The new Copernican shift: How science is revolutionizing spirituality, B. T. Newberg
Embracing a Natural Life, Daniel Strain
Compassion as Foundation, Daniel Strain
Nature-Based Spirituality and Our Sense of Value, Thomas Schenk
How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias, Rhonda Magee
Vibrations across the Centuries: Anne Conway’s Early Modern Cosmology and Postmodern Spirituality, Carol Wayne White
Distractions to Spiritual Practice (full expanded edition), Daniel Strain
Agnosticism or Naturalism?, Daniel Strain
How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias, Rhonda Magee
The Meaning of Life in 3 Minutes (video), Lawrence Rifkin
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Naturalistic Buddhism & Taoism
Buddhism 101, Ted Meissner
Taoism 101, Daniel Strain
A Secular Buddhism, Stephen Batchelor
What am I doing? (book excerpt: Zen & the Art of Consciousness | video: Living without Free Will), Susan Blackmore
A Naturalistic Approach to Buddhist Karma & Rebirth, Daniel Strain
The Condensed Chuang-Tzu, Daniel Strain
The Seven Stages of Meditation, Ray Rawles’ summary of book by Ajahn Brahm
Deep Ecology – Radical Dharma, by Guhyapati
[external link] Secular Buddhist Association
Naturalistic Christianity
Naturalistic Christianity 101, Daniel Strain
Evolutionary Christianity, Michael Dowd
Christianity Without God, Arthur G. Broadhurst
An Evangelical Pentacostal Naturalist?, Michael Dowd
Review of Lloyd Geering’s ‘Christianity Without God’, Daniel Strain
Is Biblicist Christianity Bankrupt?, Michael Dowd
Numenius and the Hellenistic Sources of the Central Christian Doctrine, Marian Hillar
Evolutionize your Life (part 1 | part 2), Michael Dowd
[external link] ChristianHumanist.net
[external link] ThankGodForEvolution.com
Naturalistic Humanism
Humanism 101, Daniel Strain
The Humanist Contemplative, Daniel Strain
Foundations of Humanism, Robert D. Finch
The Humanist Lifestance: Important Issues in the Lives of Individuals, Robert D. Finch
Humanist Ethics: Emotion and the Ethical Foundations of Humanism, Robert D. Finch
Humanism, Art, and Technology, Robert D. Finch
Humanist Futures, Robert D. Finch
Michael Servetus: Champion of Humanism and Freedom of Conscience, Marian Hillar
Is A Universal Ethics Possible? A Humanist Proposition, Marian Hillar
[external link] HumanistContemplative.org
Naturalistic Paganism
What is Naturalistic Paganism?, B. T. Newberg
Steps Toward A Dionysian Naturalism, Wayne Martin Mellinger
Saving the Marriage of Science and Myth, B. T. Newberg
Big History: The Heart of Spiritual Naturalism, B. T. Newberg
Isis in Big History (part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4), B. T. Newberg
[external link] HumanisticPaganism.com
Naturalistic Stoicism & Ancient Greek Thought
Stoicism 101, Daniel Strain
The Stoic Handbook, Erik Wiegardt
Stoic Infographic (Poster), Michel Daw
Stoicism as a Spiritual Path, Michel Daw
Introduction to Stoic Ethics, Jan Garrett
Values in Classical Stoicism (w/Chart), Jan Garrett
Classical Stoicism in a Nutshell, Jan Garrett
Compassion and Stoic Philosophy, DT Strain
An Introduction to Stoic Practice: The Three Disciplines of Stoicism, Donald Robertson
Controlling Control, Daniel Strain
Trials & Tribulations, Pamela Daw
Hiding Under A Bushel, Pamela Daw
The Concept of Logos in Greek Culture, Marian Hillar
Philo’s Logos Doctrine: Bridging Two Cultures and Creating the Philosophical Foundations of Christianity, Marian Hillar
[external link] A Stoic Course – at TheStoicLife.org, Michel Daw
Was archaic Greece naturalistic?, B. T. Newberg
Stoics Are Not Unemotional!, Donald Robertson
Moral Philosophy and Modern Science, Marian Hillar
Related Science & Philosophy
Complexity Science 101, Daniel Strain
The Nature of the “Force”, Daniel Strain
Simmias’ Harmony: Socrates’ Arguments for the Soul, Revisited, Daniel Strain
The Ethics of Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE to 50 CE), Marian Hillar
The Cognitive Science of Wisdom (video), John Vervaeke
A tropical rainforest ontology: in search of a non-reductive naturalism, John Halstead
Transcendence Without the Bull, Lawrence Rifkin
10 Sublime Wonders of Science, Lawrence Rifkin
The Paragraph I Wish Sam Harris Would Write, Lawrence Rifkin
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Influential Thinkers
Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)
Inspirational People
Stephen Batchelor
Susan Blackmore
Ralph Wendell Burhoe
Joseph Campbell
Donald A. Crosby
Michael Dowd
Willem B. Drees
Albert Einstein
Owen Flanagan
Lloyd Geering
Ursula Goodenough
Jürgen Habermas
Philip Hefner
Mordecai Kaplan
Gordon Kaufman
Stuart Kauffman
Stanley A. Klein
Thomas Metzinger
Brendan Myers
Karl E. Peters
Varadaraja V. Raman
Chet Raymo
Loyal Rue
Carl Sagan
George Santayana
Baruch Spinoza
John Shelby Spong
Jerome A. Stone
Brian Swimme
Paul Tillich
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alfred North Whitehead
Henry Nelson Wieman