No Nonsense Spirituality with Britt Hartley

<p>What happens to spirituality when belief in traditional religion falls away? Can ritual, mysticism, awe, contemplation, divination, sacred stories and experiences of transcendence still have value without requiring supernatural explanations?</p><p><br></p><p>Britt Hartley is a religious deconstruction educator, author, and atheist spiritual director who helps people rebuild meaning, identity, and family culture after faith. She is the author of No Nonsense Spirituality and a doctoral student whose work explores existential crisis, secular spirituality, and life beyond traditional religion.</p><p><br></p><p>In this livestream, we will explore Britt’s concept of secular spirituality and her attempt to navigate a fascinating middle ground between organised religion, atheistic scepticism and contemporary alternative spirituality. We will discuss religious deconstruction, nihilism, meaning-making, mysticism, ritual and the psychology of spiritual experience, as well as the question of whether practices traditionally associated with religion and the occult can remain meaningful when their supernatural interpretations are suspended.</p><p><br></p><p>We will also venture into some particularly interesting territory for Angela’s Symposium: astrology, Tarot, psychedelics, intuition, altered states of consciousness, the Divine Feminine, cognitive bias, the relationship between mystical experience and metaphysical claims, and Britt’s distinction between useful spiritual tools and what she describes as “woo”.</p><p><br></p><p>GET THE BOOK</p><p>US https://amzn.to/4c8e3i2</p><p>UK https://link.amazon/B02qi3ynV</p><p><br></p><p>MY COURSES 👩🏻‍🎓 https://drangelapuca.com/courses</p><p>WEBSITE 🔗 https://www.drangelapuca.com/</p><p>BOOK A TUTORING OR A LECTURE 📖https://drangelapuca.com/services</p><p>SUBSTACK ✉️ https://substack.com/@drangelapuca</p><p>BECOME MY PATRON! 🎩 https://www.patreon.com/angelapuca</p><p>SUPPORT ME ON KO-FI ☕️https://ko-fi.com/drangelapuca</p><p>ONE-OFF DONATIONS 💰 https://paypal.me/angelasymposium</p><p>JOIN MEMBERSHIPS 👥 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig/join</p><p>MY PODCAST 🎙 https://open.spotify.com/show/2TKoWTGe6OKRokHN2zUIxM?si=dd9f50a734b14f86</p><p>MY MERCH 👕 https://drangelapuca.creator-spring.com/</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>FOLLOW ME👣</p><p><br></p><p>- YouTube (@drangelapuca)🌟</p><p>- SUBSTACK 💌 https://substack.com/@drangelapuca</p><p>- Instagram (@drangelapuca) 📸</p><p>- TikTok (@drangelapuca) 🎵</p><p>- Twitter (@angelapuca11) 🐦</p><p>- Facebook (Dr Angela Puca) 👥</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>⚠️ Copyright of Dr Angela Puca, in all of its parts ⚠️</p><p>Music by Erose MusicBand. Check them out!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5768951004397568</p><p><br></p><p>00:00:00 No Nonsense Spirituality Introduction</p><p>00:01:23 Meet Britt Hartley </p><p>00:05:20 From Mormonism to Atheist Spirituality – Britt Hartley’s Story</p><p>00:07:49 Hard vs Soft Polytheism: Can Atheists Be Pagan?</p><p>00:09:07 Why Humans Create Gods: Religion as a Human Project</p><p>00:12:33 Is Spiritual Atheism Actually a Form of Paganism?</p><p>00:13:34 Sufism, Shinto, Christian Mysticism and Spiritual Atheism</p><p>00:16:48 Chaos Magic, Fictional Deities and Spiritual Scepticism</p><p>00:19:42 Can Ritual Work Without Belief?</p><p>00:22:51 The Science of Ritual Without Metaphysical Belief</p><p>00:26:16 Why Practise Spirituality If You’re an Atheist?</p><p>00:33:40 How to Build a Secular Spiritual Practice</p><p>00:37:05 Situational Belief: Can Belief Be Used Temporarily?</p><p>00:41:22 Belief as a Spiritual Tool Without Dogma</p><p>00:43:59 Belief, Cognitive Bias and the Western Mind</p><p>00:49:03 Spiritual Tools Without Metaphysical Truth Claims</p><p>00:51:57 Nihilism, Phenomenology and What Is Really Real?</p><p>00:55:39 Philosophical Nihilism, Spiritual Experience and the Self</p><p>00:57:19 Is Belief Anoth