A blog post by Lance Foster at The Sleeping Giant also had me asking similar things of myself. I have used terms like soul and spirit… enspirited… to describe the being alive that I mean when I refer to animism, but the words are not adequate unless used maybe as poetic metaphor.

I realise that I *fully* identify being alive with *relationship*. And as no thing can not NOT be in relationship, so all things are alive.

What we are changes. Day by day, minute by minute, second by every miniscule fraction of a second. We metamorphise constantly, both by virtue of constant change in relationship both internally and externally and by virtue of agreement… consensus within some of those relationships as to what constitutes an entity and thus, a person.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Georg Cantor, quoted in “Infinity and the Mind” by Rudy Rucker.

And each of the elements of a set of elements is also interacting with and in relationship to all other elements, at every level of existence. The interaction is the living itself… is consciousness itself… and we descend into Indra’s net.