Exploring Secular Ritual with Live Demo Feat. Helen Greene

People have often used ritual to signify important mild stones in their lives. From birthdays to funerals to weddings, religion has gotten away from these poignant moments in our lives and sanitized them. We ask this Friday you join Helen HellsBells Greene for a new beginning, to reclaim the joy of human experience and a huge middle finger to institutions who stole that from us. Costumes are enthusiastically encouraged! The stream will include the following:

“Sacred” Psychology: A brief presentation of the history of ritual and its psychological importance in secular life
A blasphemy burning: Bring an object to burn (safely), rip, hammer, drown, etc that symbolizes you moving into a new place. Don’t have one? Make one.
The Unbaptism: Become unholy!
Bare it all & Libations: Bring your favorite sinners’ drink & unburden your lack of soul ;)

More about our guest:
Helen comes from a diverse background of beliefs. Raised Roman Catholic, then rejecting the church to move into paganism, she was a pagan high priestess for 10 years during her time in that faith (which was 13 years).

Eventually realizing through education and skeptical inquiry into herself, she came to the conclusion she had no solid evidence for her beliefs – which brought her to a more humanistic and realistic worldview.

Still studying psychology even out of college, she spends her time trying to understand human behavior, the emotional and psychological understandings of ourselves, and what forms our perspectives and why.

Helen also has been an atheist activist for four years, working with organizations such as Recovering from Religion, the Atheist Community of Austin, Skeptic Haven, and others. She is also a queer person and advocate of LGBTQIA+ rights. She prides herself on invading other peoples’ podcasts, talking about their journey, the organizations she volunteers for, skeptical thinking, and being her infectious, dorky self.
For fun, she enjoys horror (esp cosmic horror) & sci-fi movies, video gaming, playing DnD, and diving deep into made-up world-building in stories such as the Lord of the Rings and dreams of living in the Shire.

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