ANIMISM

In an animistic view of things, everything one can come into contact with can and may have a spirit indwelling in it or be a spirit. So we may have forest spirits, the Spirit of the Forest, spirits who dwell in a forest, as well as tree spirits, pond spirits, stone spirits, and the myriad spirits of the dead that also inhabit the forest.
It is important to understand that there are points where this process breaks down. It is helpful (to me at least!) to view this ecology of spirits like the ecology we live in the physical world. I am a human. I know many other humans. I live with my wife, a flock of chickens, a flock of ducks, dogs, a cat, etc. I also live with a vast number of ravens, and rabbits, and human neighbors, their dogs, cats, horses, goats - on an on. All of us animals here have homes. My chickens live in a Juniper tree, my ducks have a pond that it seems they consider home. My dogs and goats have a part of the property. We each can be said to dwell in these locales, these homes of ours. So in a sense, I and my wife and the dog and the cat who live in this house are the spirits (at least some of the spirits) that indwell in this house. Some do balk at this conception of we-as-spirits, but that is nothing I can help them with, as it seems beyond obvious to me!
Extend this metaphor (and in sorcery metaphor is to a degree a map of the evolving real) outward, being as inclusive as possible. In time we might come to an awareness of the spirits of insects, or fungi, and perhaps even what we think of as biological processes, like decay itself. All of this occurs before we set foot into the Otherworlds where the biological root of spirit is not at all a given.http://www.aidanwachter.com/new-blog/stories-truth-belief-questions-chaonimism-animist-sorcery-part-ii
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