Category: Animism
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Chaffinches and Their Villages
Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! One and all, come, help me quick! Jacob Grimm This morning I watched two Chaffinches forage for seeds in my garden. I was fascinated by their presence there. Both were colourful and I think male, though I am no…
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The Origins and Ends of Manifestation
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” Stephen Richards The silence which is at the origins and the ends of manifestation is found at both ends of consciousness, in the supracouscious and the subconscious states. Thus ‘tamas’, the distintegrating tendency,…
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Plant Animism and Communication
“… originally believing in the existence after death, of the human soul. This belief had its root in the ‘animism’… and held its place in the remnants of ancestral worship… Their barrows, dolmens, and stone-circles point distinctly to their reverence for the dead, and their belief in their continued existence in another sphere of nature,…
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Connecting With Spirits of Place
“All human perceptions of material reality can ultimately be documented as chemical reactions in our neurobiology; all our sensations, thoughts, and memories are ultimately reducible to chemistry, yet we feel no need to deny the existence of the material world; it is not less real because our perceptions of it are biologically based… It is…
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The Song of Amergin: Unraveling it’s Mystery and Nature of the Cosmos
“I am Wind on Sea,I am Ocean-wave,I am Roar of Sea,I am Bull of seven Fights,I am Vulture on Cliff,I am Dewdrop,I am Fairest of Flowers,I am Boar for Boldness,I am salmon in Pool,I am Lake on Plain…I am Word of Skill,I am the Point of a Weapon (that poureth forth combats), I am God…