A Question About Grass

[coreball]

I have been reading quite a bit about animism lately... and I can see how animals and trees could have a "soul", but I am having a hard time with things such as grass or rocks. I am just curious what the animist viewpoint is on these seemingly lifeless or spiritless objects.

[Musikero]

grass is alive just like trees are alive. Dunno 'bout rocks, though.

[BlackBillBlake]

Get to know some rocks.:eek:

Collect a few stones of different kinds, and spend some time focusing on them. They are all different. Each type of rock or crystal has a different feel to it - a different 'is-ness' which makes it unique and different from other minerals. That's one way to begin to undestand how the spirit is in rocks. It's something like an energy signature....

Also stone circles and so on are usually places with a special atmosphere.

[Spiritchalist]

Stones and Trees are alive in a different way, imo. It's difficult to explain, in that Trees are actually alive, but Rocks still have a Life Signature..

[natural philosophy]

i can imagine this hippy shit in my head- concentrating on a rock to get to know it's diferent-isness

[coreball]

Thanks for the responses. I agree that a rock circle / formation can be a spiritual place, however, I am still not sold on an individual rock possessing a spirit. I'll have to gather a few like BlackBillBlake suggested.

[Paul Shapiro]

Hi, this is an interesting topic. We know that both living things and nonliving things are made up of atoms and molecules, but the structure of the atoms is different resulting in a different apparent structure of the object on a larger scale. For example, when you have a certain element that will create a crystal under the right conditions, it forms the crystalline structure that comes from the quality of the building block. The matter behaves according to the nature of the fundamental building block it came from. A seed or roots of grass will make grass and the structure of the grass is as such. Similarly, human beings get their consciousness and ability to have such consciousness through the structure and activities of their body. So the spirit that's on the crystal or stone is apparent as appearing through its structure. This may help you to understand what it's like.
Paul.