Nature Religion

There can be no doubt that as a matter of fact a religious life, exclusively pursued, does tend to make the person exceptional and eccentric. I speak not now of your ordinary religious believer, who follows the conventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by others, communicated to him by tradition, determined to fixed forms by imitation, and retained by habit. It would profit us little to study this second-hand religious life.

A deeply thoughtful self-help series. In the third volume, we complete our models with some deep thoughts on religion. Ideas of a god, or gods, creating the Universe and interacting with humans have been part of human culture since its beginnings. Even today, with all the advances in modern science, most humans consider themselves to be religious. Come join our discussion as we add to our models ideas of how a Creator God, or gods, may interact with human beings. We will end with a heart, mind, body, and soul model of being human, as seen from a human soul’s perspective. The Outsider ...

Bradley Sickler offers a timely theological, scientific, and philosophical analysis of cognitive science, arguing that the brain is more complex than what can be explained by science alone. Navigating questions about the brain, religion, and science, Sickler guides listeners to confidently affirm that the Christian worldview offers the most compelling vision of the true nature of humanity.

This audiobook is loaded with different nature sounds from sound of the raging ocean smashing on the rocks to a gentle flow brushing on the pebbles on the sea shores. You will love the different sounds produced, but this gentle but yet ferocious element/force of nature. In this audiobook for sleep and meditation, you will discover and experience the different forms and force of movement of this gentle, but yet ferocious element of nature called water.

Paganism for Beginners: A Modern Guide to Nature-Based Spirituality, Pagan Rituals, and the Old Gods is your comprehensive introduction to the fascinating world of Paganism. Whether you're curious about earth-based religions, searching for a deeper spiritual connection, or ready to start your own Pagan path, this guide offers everything you need to take the first steps with confidence. This easy-to-follow book explores the core beliefs of Paganism, its ancient roots, and the many modern traditions practiced today—including Wicca, Druidry, Heathenry, Hellenic Polytheism, and Eclectic ...

Heaven and Nature Sing invites you into a fresh interpretation of the Christmas story—one where earthy, overlooked things like snowflakes, trees, serpents, bodies, and swaddling bands reveal the glory of the Promised Son. Journeying from the first pages of Scripture to the last, you’ll experience the goodness of our Creator King and learn how the whole earth sings his praise.

Humans are embedded in rhythms and frequencies that determine their lives: Day and night, waking and sleeping, the seasons, the breathing rhythm, the heartbeat frequency and hormonal rhythms that determine our biological clock. Nowadays, some of these rhythms have become confused, and the relationship between tension and relaxation is often no longer correct. Due to our modern world we often do not experience the seasons intensively enough, we often work against the inner bioryhthmic clock e.g. in shift work and have little time for harmonization and energy reflux.

In Dzögchen Practice: The Path of Pure Awareness, Unlocking Your Buddha Nature, Valeria Cruz guides you through immersive meditations and reflections designed to reveal your boundless true nature.

A stunning collection of over 10 hours of ambient soothing sounds from nature to calm your mind, body, and soul. Perfect for achieving mindfulness, or during yoga and meditation. In this audiobook, we have used state of the art recording technology to provide the most immersive sounds of nature, ones that create the ideal background sounds for times when you’re seeking inner peace.

Building on the book by C.S. Lewis, award-winning author Casey Paul Griffiths joins the principles of love with the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to help illuminate the minds of Latter-day Saints so that they may better understand themselves, God, and their relationships with God and others.

God is a condition of Being, a pure and infinite field of energy potentiality, a timeless empty Awareness beyond the limitation of one and many, playing with itself through an infinite number of beings which are none other than itself. In this book I’ve tried to summarize in a very essential way how all the main theistic religions and the ancient Hermetic traditions point to the same non-conceptual Truth regarding Reality and Being, and in particular, how the field of phenomenal reality as self-perception is governed by unchanging Laws or Principles which can be known and utilized in ...

Since 2016, Chris Highland has written weekly columns for the Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina. Drawing from his own experience in ministry and chaplaincy in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now writes as a freethinker from a humanist perspective. He engages many subjects and issues that concern people of faith--any faith--especially topics and ideas that also matter to non-religious people. Highland Views includes over 50 essays published as columns in the Citizen-Times. Writing with a tone of invitation, Highland welcomes readers across the spectrum from Evangelical to Atheist as ...

In this latest book about my most recent metaphysical journeys, I had two ideas that I wanted to follow through on: I wanted to see and experience the great forests of Gondwanaland; and, I wanted to see and experience what existed on a higher frequency within the one hectare of garden that I currently call home. All the rest was spontaneous, as a greater metaphysical world reality revealed to me wonders of which I had never even dreamed.

Our claims to a desire for spiritual advancement do not align with the intensity of the current global chaos. With The Irreducible Primary, Rob Taylor unapologetically examines the stagnating relationship between spirituality, nature, and human conduct and the overall impact on human interactions.

Believers is a scientist's answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. It is a firm rebuke of the "Four Horsemen" - Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens - known for writing about religion as something irrational and ultimately harmful. Anthropologist Melvin Konner explores the psychology, development, brain science, evolution, and even genetics of the varied religious impulses we experience as a species.

Essays exploring the edges, and edginess, of faith and freethought. Former minister Chris Highland presents another collection of essays primarily drawn from his weekly columns in the Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina).

In October 2014, a group of mathematicians, physicists, ecologists, philosophers, and theologians gathered at a special conference in Berkeley, California, to present the results of a two-year research program dubbed “Project SATURN”. This program explored many of the rich avenues of thought found at the intersection of modern science and Christian theology. Chief among them is the possibility that certain processes in nature might be so complex that they do not have sufficient physical causes.

The Misrepresented God tells the truth about who the Creator is. This book analyzes what religion says about God's heart and personality and measures it up to what God revealed about himself through his beloved son, Jesus Christ. So many Christians have been bombarded with confusing teachings and doctrines that their understanding and knowledge of God describes Satan rather than God. This book takes that twisted mess and replaces it with one soft, warm light of truth that anyone can embrace: God is love.

Forest bathing isn't taking a bath in the middle of the forest; it's the act of allowing your senses to bathe in the sensations of the wooded areas we have come to know and love. During a forest bathing session, you fully immerse yourself into experiences, reaping physical, emotional, mental, and social health benefits. Forest bathing is a natural and proven way to help relieve stress and reduce the adverse effects that a hectic life can cause.

This book provides one of the clearest and most graphic descriptions of what it is like to live permanently in this amazing state. It also provides a clear, concise, and logical exposition of the physiological mechanism responsible for illumination, genius, inspired creativity, and paranormal phenomena. It clarifies the role of mystical experience as the common thread running through and uniting all religions and is the key to the unification of faith and science.