Animism


Animism: Respecting the Living World
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Acumen Handbooks)
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
A Language Older Than Words
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature
The City Is a Labyrinth: A Walking Guide for Urban Animists
This does not mean (as is so often thought) that primitive man, in order to explain natural phenomena, imparts human characteristics to an inanimate world. Primitive man simply does not know an inanimate world. For this very reason he does not 'personify' inanimate phenomena nor does he fill an empty world with the ghosts of the dead, as 'animism' would have us believe. The world appears to primitive man neither inanimate nor empty but redundant with life; and life has individuality, in man and ...more
Henri Frankfort, Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man

William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that w ...more
William Wordsworth, The Major Works

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