Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog: Practice

Ritual Technologies: Light and Beauty

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

Mark Green

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Practice, Techniques

Imagine being in a cathedral. The hush, the dim light from stained glass windows and flickering candles, the faint scent of incense. The faint sound, perhaps, of sacred music through the profound silence. The architecture that sends the eye reaching up, up, to barely discernible vaults. Massive columns, larger-than-life statues of…

Building Atheopagan Community

Tue, Jun 28, 2016

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Pagan, Practice, Atheopagan Life

As I referenced earlier, Atheopaganism as a named path is new. That means that those of us who are a part of it are rare, and far-flung (the Facebook group has members from across the globe). That said, Atheopaganism has something precious to offer both atheists and Pagans,…

Atheopaganism Alone

Sat, Jun 25, 2016

Mark Green

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Practice, Atheopagan Life

Recently, I asked the Atheopagan group on Facebook for suggestions of some topics they would like to see addressed here at the Atheopaganism blog. Given that non-theistic Paganism is a minority element of a minority religion, it’s no surprise that several people suggested writing on how to have a solo practice, or how…

Ritual Technologies: Sing!

Mon, Jun 06, 2016

Mark Green

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Practice, Techniques

If there is one human sense more than any other that really drills down beneath the thinking mind and evokes feelings, memories, longings, it would be the sense of smell. Olfactory cues go to the most primitive parts of our brains, and are remarkably powerful in snapping us back to powerful feelings…

Considering the Moon

Wed, Jun 01, 2016

Mark Green

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Opinion, Practice, Atheopagan Life, Atheology

What does the Moon mean to an Atheopagan? Well, to this one, at least, the Moon is the bringer of “magic light”. Low light conditions tend to damp down the activity of the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, enhancing the role of the limbic system in consciousness. In moonlight, we…

Intuitive Understanding and “Divination”

Sat, May 07, 2016

Mark Green

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Practice

I read Tarot cards. Not as much as I used to, but I still do it. I don’t think of it as “fortune telling”. I think of the Tarot as a magnificently complex set of symbols from which I randomly choose, creating therefrom a narrative which draws up my intuitive…