This story starts with a book I just finished "Eat, Pray, Love."  Wonderful book, highly recommended if you'd like to get away from the gloomy fare many of us read for 'fun.'  In it, a woman takes a year off to chase her passions, learn how to pray, and finally find those parts of herself she was missing.  Truly a delightful read.

Bill's recent thread on animism has inspired me to post a series of articles I wrote a while back about my experiences/perception of animism -- or what I have re-termed 'monism'. Note this was written for a general audience rather than for this community with its more 'advanced' conception of some of these topics. PART III

Bill's recent thread on animism has inspired me to post a series of articles I wrote a while back about my experiences/perception of animism -- or what I have re-termed 'monism'. Note this was written for a general audience rather than for this community with its more 'advanced' conception of some of these topics. PART II

Bill's recent thread on animism has inspired me to post a series of articles I wrote a while back about my experiences/perception of animism -- or what I have re-termed 'monism'. Note this was written for a general audience rather than for this community with its more 'advanced' conception of some of these topics.

Some say you will find no better test of your own knowledge than when you teach it to others, so with that...

Hello! I'm an animist. I devote my life to the spirits. With the number of agnostics, atheists and interested seekers out there, I figured it would be fun to open up a Q & A thread.

The mother of my heart passed away this week.

I suppose I could use terms like "mother-in-law." I could further compound it by using the proper term "stepmother-in-law." Or I could confuse it by telling you what I always called her -- Mom.

Thanks, bbbleaver for the post

animist in the city

Submitted by bbbleaver on Wed, 2007-07-04 12:26. Animism | Evolution | Human ecology | Seattle

Allowing Human Nature To Work Successfully

We have been raised to see literacy as one of the most positive and useful tools in our modern civilization. Achieving universal literacy has been a goal of educators and liberal, people-centric activists for years. Although I am quite certain that this has been with nothing but the best of intentions, it may be that it has not always been with the best of results.