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Ability to Exist
Animism is a simple idea, and like a great many simple ideas, it’s meaning tends to elude many people. Animism is related to the word animate, and what it means is that everything that exists has the ability to exist because it is animate. The idea seems easy to dismiss when staring at a rock…
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Crafting In Animism
Perhaps the innate quality of an item is determined by how much it likes existing in it’s current state? Which brings us to crafting and technology in animism. When you think of the world as living in all its parts, it may seem like building anything is an act of butchery or murder. This is not…
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Product of Cooperative Effort
Everything that happens and exists has this power not by itself, but as a product of cooperative effort. Your body lives because of the cooperation of sun and sky, and earth and water. This applies to everything. Outside of this nothing is possible. But just as in relationships between any two human beings, these cooperative…
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Power In Animism
Another simple thing that gets explained by animism. It answers the question of reality. Simply put, you can’t see anything that isn’t there. The only form of seeing things in animism is literally seeing things. When you see your socks in the morning, you are seeing things. You can’t imagine things, not in the sense…
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Engage The Spirits
I remember reading about how DNA can change inside an organism. It’s not as fixed as people think it is even in a life span. This is an established fact, and an otherwise stable gene may have no physical impact on you, because when the right material bonds to that gene it gets shut off.…