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or Concerning The World’s Fullness With ‘Numen”, i.e. divine/living presences. This is incomplete. I have struggled with the intricacies of this for many months now, to try and explain where I understand the source of the aliveness and consciousness of all things to come from. When I’m there it seems [...] Greg Hill made a really interesting post on his blog today in which he discusses the contention raised by the philosopher Galen Strawson that physicalism entails panpsychism, or the stance that all physical matter is conscious. Now I don’t propose to develop that specific argument, but in comments I have discussed the idea that it [...] Words dissemble plant them Jim Morrison, American Prayer It has been suggested in a forum I contribute too that words only have the power that we give them. This is an idea that I would like to explore on several levels. I’m not proposing a certitude either way, I’m [...] This is a very serious matter… that the way that human beings think, certainly the way that I think, is in terms of stories… Now what is a story? A story, if it so please you, is a metaphor… If you look at these two plants, you will see that they are essentially metaphors, one [...] Corwen ap Broch has just started a new ning group dedicated to Animism, which looks to be very interesting. For those who don’t know Ning, it is a social networking site that combines forums, blogs, noticeboards, that sort of thing http://www.animism.ning.com A while back Sleeping Giant had a series of posts about spirit of place and how these were not always benevolent. This is an account of an experience I had with my family at Arbor Low in Derbyshire a couple of years back. Arbor Low is a stone circle near Buxton, Derbyshire… I’ve known of it [...] Anyone who has read through my posts will know that I do not regard myself as a “theist”, so might be a bit puzzled as to why I entitle a post “The Nature of Gods” since, as I have no direct relationship (in a personal sense) with any Gods, anything I think and have to [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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