Coming Home

[strawpuppy]

Animism to me is like coming home.

It is who I am.

Does anyone here go further into it (meaning into the deeper aspects of what animism encompasses?)

I strive every day to connect because when I do achieve it, it feels like it is the only time I am truly alive...come home!

[heron]

Aside from your broad, somewhat vague, rambling of animism, what is animism really for you, in a more definitive way.

[strawpuppy]

I only found out the other day that there was a name to the way I feel. Someone said it was "animism". Wikopedia sort of put it into perspective:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism

I also found this site which I'd like to share with you:

http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/borges/ex00/index.html

There are no words that I can find to explain what I feel any better than the vague ramblings I come out with. To try and explain further would produce wierder and more vague ramblings......guess I have to agree with everyone that knows me that I'm just plain "nut's"!

heyHo**!

[Devin]

To me animism is an intamate connection with the forces at work around you, respect for nature and a connection with the earth and your ancestors.........I hope Heron doesn't have any comments on this one :)

[heron]

Devin, i will leave that one alone, it sounds just fine. ;)

[themnax]

Animism to me is like coming home.

It is who I am.

Does anyone here go further into it (meaning into the deeper aspects of what animism encompasses?)

I strive every day to connect because when I do achieve it, it feels like it is the only time I am truly alive...come home!

i grew up going for long walks by myself in the woods. i wasn't raised in any of the indiginous traditions, but there is something there you feel, a spiritness in each kind of thing and place. i guess you either feel it or you don't.

=^^=
.../\...

[Calisto_Flyshigh]

I don't think Heron should be one to judge what Animism feels like for someone else-- let them be <3. Sometimes words aren't necessary for definitions.

[heron]

What animism is or isnt is not up to interpretation , there is a structure there, or else it isnt animism. I was just asking him to construct an meaningful definition of what it is, to him, not the spouting he had been doing all week.