We assess values of things based on their amount of subjective experience, of consciousness. As a human, we look at ourselves and define ourselves based on our common subjective experience, as we think, superior. We treasure our subjective experience, because without it, we are lost, nonexistant. What do we call 'conscious' things?
“Are all rocks alive?” That was the question that Irving Hallowell, an American anthropologist, asked an old Anishinaabe man he was visiting in southern central Canada in the 1940s.
A default assumption of western technological societies is that nature is dumb, random, and basically oblivious to us as individuals. Many of us, however, have embraced the notion of synchronicity, and concede that apparently random events occasionally conform to a higher order. This order suggests that intelligence is embedded in the world and can orchestrate events.
German Translation of Graham Harveys Animist Manifesto
Special thanks to Her DragonMill and Christian!
Alles, was existiert, lebt.
Alles, was lebt, verdient es, respektiert zu werden.
Was man respektiert, muss man nicht unbedingt mögen.
Jemanden nicht zu mögen ist kein Grund, ihn nicht zu respektieren.
Jemanden zu respektieren ist kein Grund, ihn nicht zu essen.
Lately in the face of having an real up and personal look at our current social system, as well as looking at the new laws on health insurance, I find myself thinking back to earlier times as well as other cultures who take care of each other in a much healthier way.
Check out these excerpts from an interesting post on comic books, animism, magic, saints and super heroes, psychology, history, alchemy, and Catholicism, by Jules Evans @ The Politics of Well-Being
Hi thought I would pop in, I am sort of an amateur artist working on a visionary art series some of which are posted here on my blog. http://animistvisionaryart.blogspot.com/
I thought I would introduce myself and some of my work.
Cheers!
Hi folks,
I started writing about bioregional animism on my blog in 2006, the community around it has really grown since then...
from tribes to here and many other online communities and web pages and blogs. I am glad to see it happening here, its an interesting site that attracts a lot of neat people.
good to meet you all. http://www.bioregionalanimism.com/
The Santa Fe Spore will be holding our monthly conversation, collaboration and planning over fine food and drink at Flying Star in the Railyard, they are open late on Wednesdays, have good food and participate in the Farm to Restaurant Project. We can discuss other possibilities at the meet up.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
