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Lance Foster (The Sleeping Giant) raised some points in respect of my blog post entitled “Animism:Souls or Relationships?” that got me thinking about the language related to ‘new animism’ and ‘old animism’ and has left me feeling a little uncomfortable. Core to any animism seem to be “ways of relating”, but in contemporary western society, the [...] I know I’m going to offend some with this post, but I’m going to ask you to consider being bigger than the offence taken, and just ask if I might have even half a point. I’ve not had much connection with my (albeit limited) experiences of pagan ritual. Don’t get me wrong, I love ritual… [...] Quite apart from being my Operating System of choice, Ubuntu is a word with powerfully relational, animistic etymology. The concept of Ubuntu, of “a person (being) a person through (other) persons”, strikes at the core of what I try to express when I put my animism in terms of relationships, and what I mean when I [...] A recent discussion on the Druid Network lead me to ask the question: Do you see animism as implying that that which is animated is so by virtue of an animating force, a spirit or a soul. Or do you, like me, understand being alive as a property of relationship within a set of systems [...] In love with all creation A respected contributor to a Druid forum I participate on wrote of becoming a “soul-in-love-with-all-creation” through a devotional meditation practice and was kind enough to share some of this practice, the Dercad Duthracht. The concept put me in mind of an exercise I have worked with from the field of [...] As if anyone is really going to care But it interests me. Many people who have an animistic perspective describe a polytheistic world-view. I’ve never been able to do that, probably for a number of epidemiological nit picky reasons and for some person history ones. Theism refers to belief in deity, which I understand to [...] |
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