Hope this is okay to share here. I recently had the chance to speak with Tyson Yunkaporta for my podcast.

I first came across his work through Sand Talk, and one of the things that really stayed with me was the emphasis on relationship, not just between people, but with land, place and the wider living world.

We ended up talking about Indigenous knowledge, comedy, high-context ways of seeing, ecology, story, serpent lore, hierarchy, and how modern systems can shape what we even notice about the world around us.

I’m a comedian and practising Buddhist, and definitely not coming at this as an expert. I mostly make the podcast because I’m curious and want an excuse to speak with people who make me see things differently.

Thought the conversation might be of interest to some people here.

I made a post a while back about the object in question from my old account, received a sanity-check explanation, but now I am certain the negative energy has returned.

It's a Cold War-era antiquity, I assume the malice is caused by the tensions and war-related hatred from the manufacturers and distributors during its time.

Incense is not an option, as my father has a strict ban on it. I'd rather not remove the item from its space, as it is a collector's item of sentimental value to me.

I have cleansed it with incense before the ban, and it worked, but as you can tell, temporarily.

Any recommendations?

HII! I love my plants with all my heart, and I wanna care for them in a kinda.. human like way. Like.. putting on their favorite jewelry! Or their favorite music! If this sounds weird please let me know! Also.. is it weird to call my plants my babies, or child(ren)? I wanna communicate with them though dowsing rods. If you have a better suggestion, please let me know! Thanks!! ^^

Like here is the thing. Like some time ago. Eagles used to tap me or flyingkick me on my head and it used to be like that for a while. Iike I would be just sitting there in the park and an eagle would just hit me on my head , and he would do that multiple times . It for some reason stopped , now they wont hit me , I dont know what happened, like I sit in the same spot and now eagles would not hit me like they used to. What's going on. Like have I changed the influence from eagle to something else? Is it because I changed some habits or something.

I discovered the ideas of neopaganism a few years ago. I didn't resonate with Christianity or other faiths, so I started a spiritual journey guided by intuition and my personal experiences with the divine.

Over time, I came to believe that reincarnation plays an important role in the growth of the soul. To me, it gives us multiple opportunities to learn from our mistakes, develop compassion, and become better people.

I also believe that nature is sacred and that every living being is connected through a greater spiritual cycle. My path has led me to create a personal faith called Amrrana, inspired by nature, reincarnation, divine beings, and the idea that spiritual growth is a lifelong journey.

I'm curious to hear from others: what spiritual experiences or beliefs helped shape your path?

Like hunted wild animals or food from volunteer trees or intact natural habitats? It just seems aligned with animism somehow to me, to respect the independent sentience of the being.

I think that's true. We have animals spirits hiding or residing inside of us and we are like chained to them. They can activate and drive us like to crazy bad stuff. We are here in this life to break the chains from these animal spirits and be free. We have only one spirit , the spirit of an angel and that is the only transcendent spirit that is original. We are here to drop the chains of these animal spirits and be the angel spirit .

What do you guys think, I feel like that is the case.

I was in a terrible place for about a decade. Spiritual and mental turmoil, a whole 9 yards of bad coping mechanisms and just overall lost in life.

I was advised to just "give it a shot" in regards to going on a vision quest. At the time I thought it all sounded like hokey silliness.

Well, I went on said vision quest and for whatever reason I decided to actually take it seriously. It changed my perception of life completely.

I won't bore with all the details but I did end up having a vision, an eagle made of rainbow light that filled my sense of perception with absolute certainty that I could fix my life if I just set aside my doubts.

I came out of the quest completely changed. Instead of this twitchy and anxious junkie, I felt like... me. I could feel the real me under all the b.s. I had piled on top over the years.

Since then I've uncovered my standard running spirit animal (fox), made a cute little shrine, and turned my life around. I'm no longer a user, slowly making progress in all areas of my life, and have been called a "great teacher" and "good leader" by others... which past me would have thought impossible.

The guy who pressured me into undertaking a spirit quest and the eagle that visited me are wholly responsible for who I am today.

I will never turn my back on this spirituality, it saved me when nothing else could

A tree in my area was recently felled before it's time (still had/has plenty of life left to live). Do practicing animists on here have any advice on how to help ease it's spirit's passing?

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Hello,

This is a new account that I will be using exclusively for this sort of thing. This is mostly because I don’t feel it is wise to publicly connect religious views with my main account, for privacy purposes.

I will also be sharing this post in multiple related subreddits to accumulate as many responses as possible, so sorry if you see the same thing around.

I am an avid believer in general animism and shamanism. I won’t go too deep into my religious views, but I believe that there is some degree of validity to nearly every global religion and I believe that most world religions evolved out of animism. I think I have a pretty solid understanding of animism and shamanism as a whole, but I have recently been compelled to try to amass as much knowledge and information from as many animistic cultures as possible.

That being said, if you or someone you know comes from an animistic culture (Native American, Inuit, Sámi, Maori, Zulu, Australian Aboriginal, Shuar, anything like that (apologies if I missed your specific culture, was just broadly listing off the top of my head)) OR a culture with animistic tendencies (Northern European, Celtic, Slavic) and are interested and willing to share your and your peoples’ beliefs with me, please reach out. Or, if you know someone who falls within this category who would be willing to connect with me, please refer them to me.

I am also interested in any scholarly resources on the matter.

As a side note, I am generally weary of new age ideas, and am primarily focused on verifiably old ideas. I mean no offense to you at all if these practices and beliefs work for you, I have just found that they personally aren’t typically for me.

Thank you for reading, and I hope to speak to you soon!

Hello all im a new anamist could anyone tell me more about this belafe system

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like the concept of a memory... then somehow coalescing into its own soul

or just a feeling and a time then it shifts into its own thing eventually inhabiting a living being or becoming some living thing. idk just a random thought

Like al il soul whirlwind/vortex and souls are just energy fields with densities

1. Animism is deeply rooted in my own culture, I'm a native american from BC (I'd prefer not to say what tribe specifically)

2. I don't have a set belief on how people were created, because there's hundreds of local stories to process by myself

3. I'm aspiring to be a butcher, which could be against most people's mindset as an animist, but I think I could do it as ethically as I can. (I've been studying everyday to understand what goes into that trade)

4. I just made this acc to match my other online things but I've been on reddit for a while

So I'm already a pantheist ex-muslim and I've been introduced to animism and it really clicked with my soul and I wanna be an animist but I don't have knowledge on it. though Ive always animated things and as a hyperempath I always felt empathy towards inanimate objects and I'm very drawn to nature and seeing it as my temple. so I really want some education on animism and I wanna know what should I do as an animist.

I was in some sort of a dilemma. I do try to make it short.

Soooo

I have some sort of a mental illness that can distort my vison in a certain way and leads often in a depressiv phase. The easiest way to descripe it, is it feels like a bad trip on a small dose of LSD (everyone who knows, knows😅) like everything looses its color, looks and feels pale and dead.

I really startet to dig into folkloric legends and it also went in sort of a hobby of mine to look specifically for animistic aspects

Now i figuerd out, that all those small rituals etc like for example offering milk to the white croned viper that lives in underneath our old farming house (there actually is a myth from the region where i life of such snakes) really helpes me in those phases. It does not take away my visual distortion BUT it really helpes me bring back the "color" and "warmth" into my surrounding

Now I tried to explain that "handy discovery" to my psychatrist and for me it felt like he looked at me as I would go nuts. I did try to explain to him that I don't acctually think that there is this white croned viper underneath our home ( although sort of i do belief in it otherwise i wouldn't feed it.... its complicated😂) it just helpes me to connect more with my surrounding and tends to bring me back to "realety"

I"m sry i didnt know how to make it even shorter 😂

So my question is:

How do you explain yourselfs to someone who can't relate at all with animism? That means if someone has expierience with that topic

Because the thing that makes me a little bit crazy is ( after that i'm finished i promise)

If I would tell anyone that I opened my heart for jesus, pray before every meal to thank god nobody would dare to question it and would just be happy that I found something that helped me and now I'm just the childish part of the family who hunts gnomes and stuff

Hi, I don't know if I 'understand' Animism fully yet(?). But I'm vegan and a while back I was having an overthinking mental crisis and couldn't tell if animism "go hand in hand" with veganism or not. Could I get clarity on if it makes sense to be both vegan and an animist? Do animists believe that for example plants "feel pain"?

I basically feel like I have a dilemma here.

I hope it's okay to share some of my animal, fungi and nature/sun/moon photos here. I thought I'd post it just because I felt like I connected to nature and something 'bigger' and wonderful when I'm surrounded by animals and plants like this. As if nature is watching me back.

And idk if this is part of Animism but ever since I was a child, I've seen small bugs and other animals as my family. Is that some animist thing or is it related to something completely different? I just remember that I called beetles my brothers when I was a child lol.

I’m looking into animism (ryukyan religion specifically). I’m just not sure if I should start working w the land spirits of where I’m at currently or begin working w spirits where my ancestors are from? Both? Just curious if anyone else has practiced from a country other than the origin and what your thoughts were

Thanks 💛

TL:DR - starting at 9:55 - Is Consciousness Fundamental? Harris considers whether consciousness is a basic property of the universe analogous to gravity or a pervasive field rather than a byproduct of complex brain processing. She references studies where plants make decisions based on environmental factors (like roots growing toward the sound of running water or the parasitic Dodder Vine measuring light waves to locate host plants)

For a little bit of context, I grew up methodist (the liberal branch), I agree with some of the teachings when it comes down to things such as "loving thy neighbor" and the concept of an afterlife. But I have always felt more of a draw to spirits and nature rather than a god in the christian sense. I feel like I have a deeper connection to the natural elements of the world and I believe they tell me more about life after death compared to the bible. I also have always had a weird connection to my ancestors who have passed (I honestly am not sure how to explain it). When I pray, I pray to them rather than god, because that is what feels right to me. I also have used tarot to communicate with them about various things.

I have been looking into various paths such as druidism, shintoism, and general animism. I will be honest it is a lot of information to take in all at once. I know animism as a whole is a choose your own adventure when it comes to practicing, which is great, but I am struggling on how to get started.

I was hoping you guys could provide me with recommendations on getting started or your own experiences in the beginning to help me find a starting point.

How do you personally practice animism? What rituals, habits or other things do you do? Do you have a formal ritual or is it more ad-hoc? Do you practice every day or just every now and then?

I'd love to get ideas of what others do. I guess I've believed in the main idea of animism for years, but I've never really done anything about that. I'd like to start practicing but don't really know where to start.

What do think about AI and Animism. We both run on electricity, can communicate with other, think, calculate from information, die when electricity is removrd. Can they be considered a thing?

The other day, I took a walk down to a local park. I sat under this beautiful oak tree and I felt such a strong connection and so much "magic." So today I went back and spent the whole day there, just observing nature - the birds, the squirrels, the bees - all the critters. I also combed through the grass and picked up every bit of man-made garbage I could find in the vicinity. I really want to connect with the spirit of the tree. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to do so? Should I leave offerings? What would I leave? What should I do if anyone disturbs my offerings? Are there any other ways I can connect?

It is a public park that's near several schools, so it's nearly impossible to have time there without kids running around, but it is what it is. I just wish I could escape all the noise pollution. It's hard to really focus when there's a big intersection so close. But I live in the middle of suburban sprawl so it's pretty much impossible to escape that.

Also, in image 2, I found those sticks just like that and I had a feeling that it was something important. I hadn't noticed them at all until I'd been there for a while even though they were right next to me. Does this have any meaning to it?