i've always believed that everything has spirit, and can come/leave whenver, and i thought that was just me. then i found out about animism. i'm really interested and want to know where to start with animism and everything. any help would be grateful
So many places to start...if your in the states you can check out any number of native american beliefs. In Japan look to Shinto, in Australia look to the dream time dreamers, in Europe look to any of many of the old pre-christian faiths. Those of the above mentioned that are not purely animistic at least have strong overtones of animism. Check out the topic at amazon and look to see what written material you might like or even head to your local library.
Sit in the trees and feel where the spirits roam free. In a shamanic practice or any practice for that matter, it's important to cover all forms of cultivation. If you read, so too should you simply be the teachings.
Feel the world around you; close your eyes and feel enveloping strength from the spirits of the earth walk around you.
If you've always felt something, then why don't you discover it for yourself and create your own belief system, nothing anyone else can tell you on this subject means anything, because they know no more than you do.
I think that's true, but at the same time, we all create our own belief systems and interpretations, but humans usually need something to go by in order to do that. If I look at structured bullets holding information about different religions, I can pick and choose the bullets I believe in and sort of form my own philosophy off that
you're still looking at shrik wrapped thoughts, while we're surrounded by a universe that doesn't shrik wrap anything at all. if we need something to go by, we're s. out of luck. there is the infinite and infintisimal diversity that is out there, and there are the lies we make up to tell ourselves. out there, is, or may be, spritness, with or without self awairness, but what we make up to pretend to know about it, in the end, is just ourselves blowing our own smoke up our own awairnessess. my personal experience is that there are nonphysical awairnessess, as well as spritnessess of places and things, some of which may represent awairnessess and some which may not. and some of may be bigger and others friendlier, then others. and there may be one that is bigger and friendlier than everything else. but all the words we tell each other about it are just words, and just our own words at that. even those which the grand mothers of grandmothers and their brothers wrote down however long ago. true, some of those writing down of words might have been in response to channeling specific spirit awairnessess, maybe even one bigger and friendlier then others. but again what we can experience of what there is does not begin and end with what we think we know, nor with what ever has been or perhapse ever can be, expressed in words. =^^= .../\...
