Paganism is often described as religion of “Nature Worship” or as “Earth-Centered”. Is it? Should it be? Is Nature, in how we use it, a euphemism for the wilderness, or the biological, ‘living’ part of the world, or is it a name we put on the world as a whole? Is Nature big enough for it to be a descriptive characteristic of our group spiritual life? Much depends on the definition of Nature. . .
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Following Gary Snyder, I define "nature" not as trees and flowers merely, but as all processes outside the control of the human eg
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There is so very, very much we do not know about the interwoven web of life that we call Nature. The sustainable and ever-changing
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Good to hear, Sam. Glad you like the essay. I read it as suggesting I was at the end of a continuum the other end of which was tho
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Gus, I was using your essay as a good example of a healthy relationship to nature/wilderness, then I went on to theological discus
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Sam- is there anything in my essay, anything at all, that suggests I did not address the points you raise other, I guess, than the