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Primal Reverence

J.X. Mason February 8, 2022 No Comments

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Always Capitalize “Earth” and “Nature”
My Cup Runneth Over
(no title)
Stoicism, ~171 C.E. to Today
The Many Conceptions of “God”
Quotes About Death!
Hindu Morality – Pro and Con
Seven Questions for Every Religion and Philosophy
Nature’s Spiritual Gatherings
Cargo Cults of the South Pacific
Steady Energy Flows Can Create Patterns
Patterns Evolve When Energy Steadily Flows
Early Cells Engulfed Tiny Creatures!
“I Write the Songs”
Asteroid “Bennu” Has the Elements of DNA!
Human Beings Were Not Designed
Falling Down into the Grass
A Grove of Aspen Trees May be One Organism
Nature (including humans) Creates Increasingly Complex Systems
Love and Nature’s Continuing Creation
Complex Systems, Evolution, & Transcendence
Patterns in Nature
Naturalism and Baruch Spinoza
Heaven & Nirvana Would Get Boring!
God… or…”God”… or the things on my list?
What is Natural (or Secular) Spirituality?
Was Evolution on Earth Probable?
Evolution of the Eye
Nature Creates Patterns
Millions of Americans don’t attend church, but they do believe in “God.”
You Don’t attend Church, But You Do Believe in ‘God’…?
The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci, and Nature’s Spirals
Nature’s Path of Continuing Creation — in a nutshell
Bathtub Whirlpools & Hydroelectric Dams
The Probability of Life’s Natural Creation
The Role of Foods in World Religions
Nature Continues to Create Complex Systems
Patterns of Increasing Complexity
Why Humans Invented the idea of “God.”
Mathematics Evolves in Nature’s Continuing Creation
Evolution & The Constructal Law
The Purpose of Life: To Create or To Love?
Twelve Assertions About “God”
Frog Church & A Wilder Clay
The Purpose of Our Lives
Michael Dowd’s “Eco-Credo”
The Origins of the Christmas Tree
About the Song, “Blue Boat Home”
Characteristics of Modern Cults
What’s the Secular Equivalent of “Grace”?
Humans Were Not Designed by God
The Oak Tree is an Emergent Complex System
Heroes and Heroines of Continuing Creation
Brainless Jellyfish Demonstrate Learning Ability
What Is Nature’s Continuing Creation?
Why Is Hairstyle So Important in Religions?
Human Beings Were Not Designed
Eight Ways Humanity Could Become Extinct
No, I Don’t Worship Nature
Are Humans All That Special?
3 Ways to Find Meaning & Purpose in Life
Christianity’s Denial of Our Climate Crisis
580 Creationist Claims – All Refuted
Taoist Virtues
Creating by Combining
Emergence in Biological Levels
What to Do About Suffering
Buddhism’s Condition of Impermanence
How Old Is Planet Earth?
Level of Support for Evolution
What Do We Do If Disaster Strikes !?
Evolution and the Complexity of the Eye
Abiogenesis – From Lifeless Molecules to the First Living Organism
The Universe and its Processes
Evolution is Part of Nature’s Continuing Creation
A Broader View of Evolution
“All Things Are Cooperating Causes”
Professor Bejan’s Constructal Law
From the Book,”Lives of a Cell”
Genesis – Two Different Stories
God or Nature’s Continuing Creation?
The Processes of Nature’s Continuing Creation
Peak Experiences
When Wholes Are Greater than the Sum of their Parts
Constructive Living Is My Spiritual Path
A Riff on Walt Whitman
Do I Believe in God?
Warmed-over Pantheism ?
From Whirlpools to a Galactic Mind
Great Theories of History
From a Tree to Transcendence
Why Is There Suffering?
Buddhism vs. Transcendentalism
Why New Religions Arise
Beyond the Tonic of Wildness
The “One” versus The “-isms”
Pros & Cons of Taoism & Zen
The Patterns of Nature’s Continuing Creation
Earth-centered Spirituality
On the Business of Life

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