Modern Paganism and Nature Spirituality

(June 9, 2023, Updated February 27, 2025) 

Definition of Paganism 

Pagans today seek to connect to the divine powers guided by ancient European ancestral traditions and concepts. Paganism is a path and not a faith. Paganism is defined by goals instead of by dogmas.

Nature Paganism

A subset of Paganism are the Nature Pagans who mainly seek divine connections via the aide of natural correspondences and seek to live a life coherent with deep natural principles. For whatever reason the universe was created, aligning with its powers brings us into harmony with the divine will. 

Neolithic people had no sacred texts so Nature Paganism is all they knew. That was their culture. 

The core of any perceptheistic/magical spiritual practice are feelings. These feelings are non-material conscious experiences having various levels of emotional energy. Consciousness experiences represent the non-material spiritual realm which is separate from the physical realm. No theory of physics explains consciousness. 

Reconstruction Paganism

Some modern Pagans use surviving ancient texts as their Bible, that is, they use them as their authority on how to be and live as a Pagan. This dogmatic use of the texts is different from using them as inspiration and as a source of ideas. These reconstructionist Pagans tend to be followers of Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Norse, or Celtic texts.

(June 9, 2023, Updated April 14, 2025) Many Pagan paths of today do not follow the old emotion magic ways as revealed in the ancient runic texts being translated on this site.  They either ignore spiritual connectivity completely being more of a nationalist revival, or think magic is simply a sequence of passionless incantations and divination techniques.

(June 9, 2023) How does prayer or any communication with the spiritual realm really work? Are you on the phone or radio with some deity? Of course not! The energy of physics is a physical phenomena which does not cross over into the non-material realm of consciousness. Only feelings have that possibility. Using feelings for that purpose is emotion magic, in other words, witchcraft. 

 The main themes of this video are:

• Magic crafting is a life-long path of growing awareness and self-improvement. 
• Everyone must find their own emotional resonances and correspondences. For example, what you read about what a crystal does may not work for you, that is only an observation of average effects. (standard training is to take a crystal and carry it with you so it is constantly in your mind. Observe what happens to you during that week.)
• You don't need a lot of tools and things to start. While those aid in directing and enhancing certain feelings and emotional channels most things around you generate some sort of feeling within you. Start with natural things you find and personal memory items. Also practice various kinds of meditation and yoga to see what works.
• Don't be afraid to mess up. Everyone is already messing up and doing uncontrolled witchcraft because everyone has feelings which are being projected out to others. These feelings then come back at oneself because we live in a social and spiritual network. So don't be afraid to start magic work which starts to bring emotions into awareness and under some sort of control. (That we exist within a social network has been scientifically proven. That we also exist within a spiritual network is inferred based upon anecdotal evidence and consideration of the evolutionary purpose of conscious experiences.)
• Keeping desired subconscious emotional channels open (emotional conditioning) requires constant but moderate practice just like athletic conditioning. If your life is a mess you have the wrong emotional/spiritual channels open so don't keep using those.
• You don't need to be a Wiccan to be a witch. While this was the first organized witchcraft tradition/religion, it is just one tradition out of many. Find a supportive tradition and make it your own but be aware that not all traditions are supportive. Traditions that are dualist (reality divided into good versus evil), dogmatic, or have lordified, human only, deities will severely limit your witchcraft by blocking many emotional channels. As Jesus himself said "you cannot serve two masters," meaning a person cannot follow both a feeling based spiritual path and a dogmatic path.

(July 3, 2022) This well done video uses the word "Pagan" as meaning "nature spirituality."  Any spirituality involves feelings of connection with the believed sources of existence. Nature spirituality assumes the sources of existence are the various powers of nature found in both its physical and spiritual (conscious) realms and not some human-like god living apart from nature on a higher plane. Also notice that Paganism (Druidry) in both its spiritual and religious forms is an ever growing personal path and not a static dogmatic faith.

(July 3, 2022) Spirituality without purpose is just another feel-good drug in a society full of such drugs and diversions. Yet in the end what good is self-absorbed spirituality in the greater scheme of things? 

Early Christianity faced this same issue due to its early emphasis on gifts of the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul issued this warning to those new Christians who only wanted to feel good and powerful.