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The Beauty of Winter Trees
Natural settings can speak to people, make them feel at home. One of my sisters has been attracted to oceans, another to the desert. For me, it is forest settings that have always beckoned. Every morning, I feel a sense of peace and gratitude as I look out my...
Ethnobotany
Laura Emerson Alaskauu1.substack.com Nature’s grand vistas of mountain ranges and oceans are certainly awe inspiring, but so, too, are the riches that lie beneath our feet and within arm’s reach. Let’s pay attention to a patch of nature close to us. One of my...
Encountering Nature as Sabbath
Photo by NOEM on Unsplash Encountering Nature as Sabbath “Holiness is not something limited to the religious world, much less the supernatural; holiness is something that happens in the natural world.” — Thomas W. Mann from The God of Dirt, Mary Oliver and...
Forest Bathing & Forest Therapy
Laura Emerson Alaskauu1.substack.com Book: Log Cabin Reflections, about living off-grid in remote Alaska Do you know the terms Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy? They refer to immersion in nature for several hours at a time, on a repeated basis. This is not a time...
RNA Newsletter – February 2024
How Nature Restores Us to Ourselves
Image: Kyle Sanguin on Unsplash Encountering nature in silence, solitude, and seclusion, we become immersed in present moment awareness and find renewal. Where I live in the northeast it’s winter. Being close to one of the Great Lakes, we experience what’s called...
The Hedonicon: a Scripture Whose Time Has Come
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 Epicurus and has contributed to...
RNA Newsletter – January 2024
The Evolutionary Philosophy Circle
Ed Gibney is a writer, philosopher, and co-founder of the Evolutionary Philosophy Circle (EPC). The EPC is one of several groups that are operating within ProSocial World (PW), which is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2020 by distinguished scientists...
Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation
Nature's Path of Continuing Creation by J. X. Mason presents a new Way of Living that is based on Nature, Reason, Science, and factual history. Miracles and myths are gone, except for the miracle of ongoing creation itself — simple parts joining together to emerge as...
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