Animism and Core Shamanism

A blog   Just what is Animism?   Animism is a way at looking at the World, our Solar System, the whole Universe, where everything is alive with Spirits.   It is a different perspective to Science, but no better and certainly no worse.   Imagine if you will a person is walking in a desert.  They come across a rock that they can easily pick up.  They take it to a laboratory as it appears at first glance to be many millions of years old.  At the laboratory they take samples and poke and prod.  How old is the rock? What was the world like when it first formed?  How does it fit into the evolution of the World?  How had it evolved itself?  Answers eventually come.  However, what the animist would do is simply as the rock.   Put simply, Science is understanding through observation.   This is an objective practice.   We stand in a circle and observe an object and cone to a concensus throu...