Children arrive animists. They learn about life…

“People forget that humans are animals too, that we're just as much a part of the wild places as the things that live in…

— Vincent H. O Neil

“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that…

— Sigmund Freud

Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to…

— Graham Harvey

“The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation,…

— S. Kelley Harrell

“But this is not to say that a highly specialized body of belief such as that associated with Faerie is not capable of subsidiary…

— Lewis Spence

Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of…

— Daniel Quinn

“In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one’s self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the…

— Holly Estil Cunningham

“We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than…

— Sigmund Freud

“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name,…

— Zeena Schreck

“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking…

— Zeena Schreck

“All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object…

— Daniel Quinn

If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long…

— Leonard Bloomfield