NATURE RELIGION - a symbolic center and the cluster of beliefs, behaviors and values that encircles it based on wilderness identification as well as a passionate concern for place and easterly in society. (Catherine Albanese) (NAD)

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nature religion

A symbolic center and the cluster of beliefs, behaviors, and values that encircles it based on wilderness identification as well as a passionate concern for place and mastery in society

(See also: Nature religion, Body Mind and Soul)

NATURAL WITCHCRAFT: Witches who practice some forms of witchcraft adeptly without formal training or study, likely due to training received in past lifetimes are Natural witches. Many of these witches become Witches later in life and engage in the pursuit of  formal training, religious instruction and expansion of areas of skill, however some choose to remain practicing Natural witchcraft and do not adhere to any pagan religion.

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NATURAL ASTROLOGY - study of earthquakes, tidal waves and other climatic and environmental influences. (NAD)

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NATURAL MEDICINE -any therapy that stimulates one’s own healing powers: that places responsibility upon oneself rather than the doctor, healer or any exterior source; that utilizes nontechnological means and medicine. (NAD)

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naturalism

All phenomena can be explained as of natural law and cause, with no supernatural association

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Natural - A method of healing or a product from natural sources used in medical treatment. A difficult term to define because it can mean different things to different people. See Organic.

(See also: Natural, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

A Theosophical definition of Nature :

Nature

The consciousness side of nature is composed of vast hierarchies of gods, developed cosmical spirits, spiritual entities, cosmic graduates in the university of life.

The material side of nature is the heterogeneous matter, the material world in its many various planes, in all stages of imperfection  - but all these stages filled with armies of entities evolving and growing.

The proper term for nature in modern theosophical usage is prakriti or still more accurately mulaprakriti  - the ever-living kosmic producer, the eternally fecund mother, of the universe. When a theosophist speaks of nature, unless he limits the term to the physical world, he never means the physical world alone, but the vast reaches of universal kosmos and more particularly the inner realms, the causal factors of the boundless All.

Hence, a growing understanding of nature in this sense  - which is another way of saying an understanding of reality  - obviously provides the only basis of a religion founded on the changeless realities.

See also: Nature , Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul

NATURAL MAGIC

Sorceries and bewitchments intended to have an effect on Nature (e.g. "rain dance", "fertility rite"). It extends even to breaking the laws of nature - such as Crowley turning Neuberg into a camel.

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A Christian theological definition of Naturalism according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Naturalism

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A Christian theological definition of Natural knowledge according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Natural knowledge

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Nature Elementals:

Term used by some to refer to various minor spirits inhabiting or associated with various natural phenomena such as trees, streams, rocks, dust storms, etc.

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NATURAL FIBER: in reference to clothes, bags, etc; these would be cotton, linen (from flax plant), silk & wool.

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A Christian theological definition of Natural knowledge according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Natural knowledge

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Dharma Nature

The intrinsic nature of all things. Used interchangeably with "emptiness," "reality." See also "Buddha Nature."

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Buddha Nature

The following terms refer to the same thing: Self-Nature, True Nature, Original Nature, Dharma Nature, True Mark, True Mind, True Emptiness, True Thusness, Dharma Body, Original Face, Emptiness, Prajna, Nirvana, etc.

According to the Mahayana view, (buddha-nature) is the true, immutable, and eternal nature of all beings. Since all beings possess buddha-nature, it is possible for them to attain enlightenment and become a buddha, regardless of what level of existence they occupy ...

The answer to the question whether buddha-nature is immanent in beings is an essential determining factor for the association of a given school with Theravada or Mahayana, the two great currents within Buddhism.

In Theravada this notion is unknown; here the potential to become a buddha is not ascribed to every being.

By contrast the Mahayana sees the attainment of buddhahood as the highest goal; it can be attained through the inherent buddha-nature of every being through appropriate spiritual practice. (The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen.)

See also "Dharma Nature."

 (See also: Buddha Nature, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Self-Nature

One's own Original Nature, one's own Buddha Nature.

 (See also: Self-Nature, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Five Natures

The natures of

(1)  Bodhisattvas,

(2)  Sravakas and Pratyekabuddhas,

(3)  ordinary good people,

(4)  agnostics,

(5)  heretics.

 (See also: Five Natures, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

higher-nature, lower nature: Expressions indicating man's refined, soulful qualities on the one hand, and his base, instinctive qualities on the other.

See: kosha, mind (five states of mind), soul.

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Buddha-Nature (buddhata): In Mahayana Buddhism, undifferientiated absolute existence behind all appearances, functionally the same as nirvana, emptiness, suchness, and the Eternal Buddha.

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