If anything, the practice of a religious naturalist is experiential. The initial impulse of a religious naturalist inclination in a spiritually open person often hangs squarely on experience – the incredible majesty of this bodymind, this moment, this nature, this...
The Hedonicon by N. H. Bartman In recent weeks, our friend Nate published The Hedonicon: The Holy Book of Epicurus as an e-book and in paperback edition. Nate is an artist/musician who wrote the Dude’s Letter to Menoeceus, and he has also written for the Society of...
Amythia: Crisis in the Natural History of Western Culture by Loyal Rue Amythia: Crisis in the Natural History of Western Culture Loyal D. Rue, University of Alabama Press, 1989 A review and commentary by Ursula Goodenough Circa 1991 I wrote the review of this book...
The Brush Dances and the Light Sings by John Palka and Yvonne Palka John and Yvonne Palka were biology professors in Seattle until their retirement in the early 2000’s, and they devoted their non-academic lives to artistic encounters with the natural world, John using...
At Home On An Unruly Planet by Madeline Ostrander Madeline Ostrander is an environmental journalist. It took her almost a decade to complete her new book At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth. Eight of the chapters of this book are her...
The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent I first came across Jeremy Lent’s work about a year before The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search For Meaning was published. I’m not sure how I stumbled onto his website but I soon realized that...
