Coming soon from Concrescent Scholars… Religion of Good: A Spiritual Guide for Ethical Individuals of Any Religion tackles the modern problem of realizing morality in the west, using a spiritual and mystical approach.  If you’re like me, you feel that neither philosophy, nor religious dogma, nor even intuition really gets at the heart of what’s good.  Reason explodes into too many possibilities and definitions to make sense of the subject.  There’s no way to verify religious dogma.  Moral intuition only works if we all have the same intuition.

As a Wiccan priest, I combine both the Neoplatonic roots of my religion and my Wiccan training in ceremony design to suggest an alternative.  Through myth, ceremony, and mysticism, we can experience the unity of all sentient beings.  By climbing the Pythagorean Tetractys, we can move our minds from the material understanding of nature to a mystical vision of unity.  Because morality is actually about this unity, we can get a handle on it by glimpsing, however imperfectly, the Platonic Good.