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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] In a previous post I wrote about stories as triggers for spiritual growth, as catalysts. But what is it that allows a story to act as such a catalyst? By what virtue does a tale stimulate psycho-spiritual development? In the future, I shall want to explore all those things that enable a story to trigger such [...] an old article taken from my old tumblr blog I’ve recently taken up archery with my wife and my daughter, following Oaklore’s shining example. We are only at the training stage, but it certainly seems to qualify as a wholesome family activity, with a health amount of good hearted inter-familial competition being generated. Being at the training [...] |
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