@futurebird I think that #techbros are just little boys longing to talk to their teddy bear. #Animism is something deep in our minds. What irritates me: these guys have no problem to talk to trash but could never talk to a tree or see an intelligent animal as a person. And this crashing with #nature makes me feel deeply unwell.

“I try to remain a staunch materialist, something like an open-minded atheist, but when my seven-year-old asks, ‘Is God real, Dad?’ I never know what to say. How do you tell them no when you’ve met God, in the flesh, in a field outside Abingdon?”
#writing #essays #nature #animism #paganism #druidry

https://fuzzyfrontiers.org/essays-and-opinions/atlantic-magic/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

@CommonMugwort Fascinating article! I am curious to see how this develops in brain research. #Animism is not tied to #mushrooms, but it is fascinating to see that ancient cultures had their own rituals to focus on different experiences.
I remember well Christian Rätsch, a German ethnologue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_R%C3%A4tsch In his encyclopedia he wrote also about European #psychoactive plants and fungi.

BTW, here you can find the author Colin Domnauer https://dentingerlab.org/people/

#fungi #sporespondence

"Colors of the Wind" is a song written by composer #AlanMenken and lyricist #StephenSchwartz for #WaltDisneyPictures' 33rd animated feature film #Pocahontas (1995). The film's #themeSong, "Colors of the Wind", was originally recorded by American singer and actress #JudyKuhn in her role as the singing voice of Pocahontas. A #pop #ballad, the song's lyrics are about #animism and respecting nature, finding its roots in indigenous Native American culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRSmToaXySU

This is what I do love on #Mastodon so much. It all began with #cleaning, I thought about #dust and was fascinated that #dust bunnies are animals like German Wollmäuse: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/115589214893915365

Suddenly, I could learn the word for these fluffy friendly creatures in different languages and a whole universe of #animism and #folklore opened. These little people are magic! Just look into these comments!

#moreThanHuman #littlePeople #Wollmaus #dustBunny

Une figurine datant de 12 000 ans, a été découverte: une #oie enveloppant une #femme penchée en avant - la plus ancienne représentation naturaliste d’une femme en Asie du Sud-Ouest. https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/patrimoine/archeologie/une-figurine-representant-un-etre-humain-et-un-animal-datant-de-12-000-ans-a-ete-decouverte-en-israel-par-une-equipe-internationale-d-archeologues_7628675.html

English paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2517509122

More photos (fr): https://recherche.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/decouverte-en-asie-sud-ouest-plus-ancienne-figurine-representant-interaction-humain

#Archeologie #archaeology #woman #goose #art #moreThanHuman #animism #NatureMatchCuts #reconnectingWithNature

As a subjectivist, idealist, animist, and social constructionist I look at technological change and see it reflecting my views. Whether it's virtual reality as a constructed reality, augmented reality including via brain-machine interfaces, AI, etc. #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #subjectivism #idealism #animism #socialconstructionism #socialconstruct #technology #VR #AR #AI

https://youtu.be/EgGfQdv_rPc

#agriculture #animism #apocrypha #astrology #bible #collectivism #civilization #christianity #culture #cosmology #cosmos #earthmother #esotericism #individualism #judaism #knowledge #materialism #monism #monotheism #motherearth #mothergoddess #nephilim #neuroscience #neuropsychology #pantheism #philosophy #poetry #polytheism #psychology #religion #secretsociety #spiritualism #spirituality #symbolism #theism #theology #society

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I'm thinking more about the concrete causal relationship between environment-body interactions and the rest of the mind. I can press my hand against my arm and a tactile sensation results from that or at least is repeatedly correlated with it. #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #idealism #animism #mind #body

But yeah, I want to expand community to include the rest of nature or our ecosystems. We socially interact not just with humans but non-humans. We form a larger community with non-humans mattering as community members too and having rights. And we need to remember that we are part of the ecosystem and not separate from it and that to ensure our own survival we must ensure the survival of the ecosystems we're a part of. #communism #socialism #anarchism #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #indigenous #animism #personhood #environmentalism #ecology

But yeah, if minds arise from the experienced interactions between an environment and body then electrons, microbes, trees, lakes, mountains, etc. have minds. #philosophy #religion #metaphysics #ontology #animism

Why is #Animism still relevant in the Anthropological lexington?

I was under the impression its an outdated term with problematic connotations.

#Anthropology #Religion

But yeah, my thinking is that just as my experience of my body and interactions with my body produces my mind so too does my experience of other bodies and interactions with those bodies produce other minds. And vice versa. Others experience my body and produce my mind. #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #idealism #theoryofmind #animism #mind #body

Week 4 of trying to befriend local crows in the park. The ones that already know are not so jumpy anymore and follow me on my walk now :blobcatlove:

#animism

I will say I'm excited though. I'm pretty sure I proved other humans have minds and animism. Our minds experience multiple bodies that interact with each other and produce minds for those bodies that then control those bodies. We are interrelated in this way. Also by bodies I include not just human and (non-human) animal bodies but trees, clouds, etc. as bodies. #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #idealism #animism #mind #body

I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade to animism and subjective idealism. Microscopic animism, the inclusion of virtual reality as a constructed reality that is just as real as "default" reality, etc. By microscopic animism I mean ascribing minds to microscopic "things" such as single cells, light waves/particles, etc. At least this makes sense to me. #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #idealism #animism #mind

I believe my brother or really my brother's body has a mind but his body is a visual experience of my mind. Assuming his mind exists he has his own visual experience of his mind that is his body that he controls. But it's similar to yet different from the body I experience. His mind causing his body to move makes sense but how is his mind able to cause other versions of his body in other minds to move? #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #idealism #mind #intersubjectivity #animism #theoryofmind

I really do feel that every body having a mind and intersubjectivity are related. That's why a body moves in all minds. Whether it's a human, (non-human) animal, plant, fungal, watery, or earthy/stony body. #philosophy #metaphysics #theoryofmind #animism #intersubjectivity #subjectivism

But yeah, some may not know this but plants do indeed move and they move with the sunlight throughout the day. It's slower but there. #philosophy #metaphysics #idealism #animism #mind #body

But yeah, what I believe is that my brother's body has a mind behind it causing it to act and I believe, say, a plant's body has a mind behind it causing it to act. I believe in this relationship but want to figure it out and justify it. #philosophy #metaphysics #idealism #animism #mind #body