“People forget that humans are animals too, that we're just as much a part of the wild places as the things that… — Vincent H. O Neil Copy Share Image
“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
“The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one’s self in direct contact and concert with… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“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… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer… — Leonard Bloomfield Copy Share Image
“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the… — Alfred Jules Ayer Copy Share Image
Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human. — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain… — Sabina Magliocco Copy Share Image
“Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
“This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
“God did not create evolution--evolution created God. The evolution of religion is as follows: animism--polytheism--monotheism--agnosticism--atheism. As history progresses, people worship fewer and… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
