Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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matter-spirit split

Coming soon! Tamed by a Bear

I’m thrilled to announce that my new memoir, Tamed by a Bear: Coming Home to Nature-Spirit-Self, has been accepted by Counterpoint Press in Berkeley! The book will come out in early July. My editor at Counterpoint, Jack Shoemaker, says this about the book: I’ve been moved by Bear. It’s as attractive a description of our…  Read More…

Natural spirits

In a recent interview on 13.7, NPR’s opinion blog about “Cosmos and Culture,” theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser says, Spirituality is a word that has been kidnapped by religion and that invokes the existence of supernatural spirits and the like. He sees things differently: I use the word in a very different way, as an expression…  Read More…

What Is natural? What Is supernatural?

“Natural” and “supernatural” used to be easy to tell apart. The natural world followed laws of nature—in short, anything we can see and touch. The supernatural did not. Mind-body split The division makes sense if you accept the idea of Descartes (borrowed from Plato and the Greeks) that mind and body are separate. After Descartes,…  Read More…

Why Nature-Spirit?

Most of my life I’ve suspected there was more to this world than meets the eye. Now, having lived a few years and done some close investigating, I know that the amount we cannot see or touch is simply staggering. Yet in recent centuries in societies that trace their origins to Europe, the invisible power…  Read More…