#animism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #animism, aggregated by home.social.
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Touch Grass: A Pagan Take on this Online Insult
What if “touch grass” is more than an internet insult? This Pagan reflection explores how stepping away from online noise can become a small spiritual practice—one that brings us back to land, body, season, and the world still holding us.https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/touch-grass-a-pagan-take-on-this-online-insult/
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Touch Grass: A Pagan Take on this Online Insult
What if “touch grass” is more than an internet insult? This Pagan reflection explores how stepping away from online noise can become a small spiritual practice—one that brings us back to land, body, season, and the world still holding us.https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/touch-grass-a-pagan-take-on-this-online-insult/
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Touch Grass: A Pagan Take on this Online Insult
What if “touch grass” is more than an internet insult? This Pagan reflection explores how stepping away from online noise can become a small spiritual practice—one that brings us back to land, body, season, and the world still holding us.https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/touch-grass-a-pagan-take-on-this-online-insult/
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Touch Grass: A Pagan Take on this Online Insult
What if “touch grass” is more than an internet insult? This Pagan reflection explores how stepping away from online noise can become a small spiritual practice—one that brings us back to land, body, season, and the world still holding us.https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/touch-grass-a-pagan-take-on-this-online-insult/
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Touch Grass: A Pagan Take on this Online Insult
What if “touch grass” is more than an internet insult? This Pagan reflection explores how stepping away from online noise can become a small spiritual practice—one that brings us back to land, body, season, and the world still holding us.https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/touch-grass-a-pagan-take-on-this-online-insult/
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A Pagan Case Against Lawns: Rethinking the Tyranny of Turf
What if your lawn isn’t just grass—but a quieting of the land itself? This Pagan reflection explores how modern yards prioritize control over connection, and how even small changes can restore a living relationship with the world just outside your door. -
A Pagan Case Against Lawns: Rethinking the Tyranny of Turf
What if your lawn isn’t just grass—but a quieting of the land itself? This Pagan reflection explores how modern yards prioritize control over connection, and how even small changes can restore a living relationship with the world just outside your door. -
A Pagan Case Against Lawns: Rethinking the Tyranny of Turf
What if your lawn isn’t just grass—but a quieting of the land itself? This Pagan reflection explores how modern yards prioritize control over connection, and how even small changes can restore a living relationship with the world just outside your door. -
A Pagan Case Against Lawns: Rethinking the Tyranny of Turf
What if your lawn isn’t just grass—but a quieting of the land itself? This Pagan reflection explores how modern yards prioritize control over connection, and how even small changes can restore a living relationship with the world just outside your door. -
A Pagan Case Against Lawns: Rethinking the Tyranny of Turf
What if your lawn isn’t just grass—but a quieting of the land itself? This Pagan reflection explores how modern yards prioritize control over connection, and how even small changes can restore a living relationship with the world just outside your door. -
To walk among Cypress knees is to walk through a living cathedral. These woody protrusions anchor the trees in the shifting muck of the swamp, embodying a deep, grounded resilience. They are the bones of the wetlands, weathered and wise. They are the Ancestors. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Animism
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"What exactly is “religion?” How has it affected the way we relate to nature and each other? And for people fighting for the present and future, what role might religion play in our lives? Anarchists have long proclaimed “no gods, no masters.” But is there still room for religion in anarchy? Should we start our own “solarpunk religion?”"
It's Time to Rethink Religion
https://youtu.be/C-mER19j3-4#Anarchy #Anarchism #Animism #Andrewism #Commensalism #Cosmology #Mutualism #Religion #Spirituality
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"What exactly is “religion?” How has it affected the way we relate to nature and each other? And for people fighting for the present and future, what role might religion play in our lives? Anarchists have long proclaimed “no gods, no masters.” But is there still room for religion in anarchy? Should we start our own “solarpunk religion?”"
It's Time to Rethink Religion
https://youtu.be/C-mER19j3-4#Anarchy #Anarchism #Animism #Andrewism #Commensalism #Cosmology #Mutualism #Religion #Spirituality
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"What exactly is “religion?” How has it affected the way we relate to nature and each other? And for people fighting for the present and future, what role might religion play in our lives? Anarchists have long proclaimed “no gods, no masters.” But is there still room for religion in anarchy? Should we start our own “solarpunk religion?”"
It's Time to Rethink Religion
https://youtu.be/C-mER19j3-4#Anarchy #Anarchism #Animism #Andrewism #Commensalism #Cosmology #Mutualism #Religion #Spirituality
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"What exactly is “religion?” How has it affected the way we relate to nature and each other? And for people fighting for the present and future, what role might religion play in our lives? Anarchists have long proclaimed “no gods, no masters.” But is there still room for religion in anarchy? Should we start our own “solarpunk religion?”"
It's Time to Rethink Religion
https://youtu.be/C-mER19j3-4#Anarchy #Anarchism #Animism #Andrewism #Commensalism #Cosmology #Mutualism #Religion #Spirituality
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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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Dennis E. Powell takes us on a fascinating journey through rural life in #Japan and some of the fascinating #folklore one finds there. https://ofb.biz/sa1348
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Whispers on Stone: Why Paleolithic Rock Art Still Speaks to Us Today
(And why I’m moving halfway across the world to listen)
In the Glow of Firelight
Night in the Paleolithic. Firelight flickers along the limestone walls of a shelter, casting movement across the contours of a horse etched in stone, its musculature defined by the shifting interplay of shadow and flame. Beside it, an aurochs emerges, its horn arcing like a crescent moon across the rock face. These are not merely pictures — they are echoes. Echoes of the earliest human voices, carved into stone, suspended in time yet pulsing with presence.
Soon, I’ll be in Portugal’s Côa Valley, where these voices still speak. I’m not going to analyze them from behind glass — I’m going to listen. To stand among the engravings not as a distant observer, but as a human being among ancestors.
Photo by Stijn Nuttin on Pexels.com1. The Meaning Behind the Marks
Paleolithic rock art represents one of the earliest and most profound expressions of symbolic thought — a leap in human cognition. With engraved ochre from South Africa’s Blombos Cave dating back over 70,000 years (Henshilwood et al., 2002), we know that abstract expression emerged long before the rise of cities, agriculture, or writing.
These are not decorative flourishes. They are tools of memory, myth, and meaning. They express a need to communicate not only information but emotion, connection, and transformation. The subjects — animals, births, shamanic figures — appear across continents, hinting at a shared symbolic heritage stretching deep into our past.
For me, as someone rooted in anthropology, humanism, Stoic practice, and Nordic animism, these works are not static. They are alive — like songs or rituals — recalled, repeated, and reinterpreted. In an animistic worldview, these are not merely depictions of animals; they are animals. Beings. Spirits. Ancestors. Teachers.
This isn’t a metaphor. It’s a relationship — and one we are called to reawaken.
2. Why Portugal Matters
Portugal is home to one of the richest yet least globally recognized concentrations of Paleolithic rock art. The Côa Valley Archaeological Park contains over a thousand open-air engraved panels dating to the Upper Paleolithic. Unlike the cave paintings of Lascaux or Chauvet, these works are exposed to sun, wind, and rain — and still endure.
The Iberian Peninsula served as a glacial refugium during the Last Glacial Maximum (Carvalho, 2010), making it a stronghold for both human populations and artistic traditions. This continuity created a remarkably layered archive of expression.
Portuguese engravings differ in form and technique. They are etched, pecked, or abraded — their visibility shaped by natural light, weather, and time of day. Panels from sites like Mazouco and Fariseu often show overlapping generations of carvings, creating palimpsests that reflect a dialogue across centuries. The art isn’t only about what was carved — it’s about where, when, and how it was meant to be experienced.
In Côa, the land remembers.
Photo by Symeon Ekizoglou on Pexels.com3. My Path to Deep History
I grew up in California, captivated not by the landscapes around me, but by what lay across the Atlantic — the caves and shelters of Europe adorned with ancient marks. My first experiences with rock art were through books and digital reconstructions of sites like Chauvet and Altamira. Over time, I also gained exposure to Native American petroglyphs, developing a respectful and ongoing appreciation for their cultural significance.
Today, I’m pursuing my degree in anthropology at Arizona State University’s online program, with a focus on human origins and cognition. This academic path is deeply intertwined with personal philosophies — Stoic resilience, animistic reverence, and a humanistic commitment to empathy and understanding.
For me, studying Paleolithic art is not just academic. It’s personal. These marks challenge how I see the human story — not as a linear march of progress, but as a branching, spiraling chorus of memory, meaning, and imagination.
Moving to Portugal is a commitment. It’s a pilgrimage to the places where the first artists spoke, not in words, but in form and gesture. I want to be there — to learn not just with my mind, but with my whole being.
4. New Tools for Old Stories
The study of rock art has evolved beyond field sketches and measuring tapes. We now use digital tools and interdisciplinary techniques to uncover layers once invisible:
- 3D scanning and photogrammetry capture high-resolution digital models of rock surfaces, preserving them and allowing detailed study without physical contact (Domingo et al., 2015).
- AI and machine learning help identify stylistic groupings, iconographic themes, and even possible artist signatures by comparing motifs across thousands of images.
- Portable XRF (X-ray fluorescence) offers non-invasive chemical analysis, revealing what tools or pigments were used — even where color is no longer visible.
- GIS mapping places rock art in spatial context, revealing patterns in site placement, resource proximity, and astronomical alignments.
These technologies are not replacements for wonder — they are tools for amplifying it. They let us see what previous generations could only guess, and connect sites across time and space in new ways.
5. Why This Still Matters
We live in an era of distraction, where meaning is often commodified or fleeting. Paleolithic art reminds us of something deeper: that the urge to create, to symbolize, to remember, is foundational to being human.
These engravings are not idle doodles. They are necessities. They anchored social bonds, encoded cosmologies, trained memory, and marked place. They testify that survival alone is not enough — we need connection, story, and a sense of the sacred.
In our own time of ecological and existential crisis, these ancient marks offer a mirror. They invite us to slow down, observe, and listen. They show us that humanity has always sought to navigate uncertainty through imagination and shared symbols.
Interpretation requires humility. As Conkey (1997) reminds us, we may never truly know the minds behind these images. But listening itself is an act of reverence.
Listening to the Stones
When I arrive in Portugal, I won’t walk into a sterile lab or academic echo chamber. I’ll step into a valley sculpted by wind and river, by time and memory. I’ll stand where ancient artists once stood, tracing forms they carved by firelight.
They did not carve for us. But they carved with the hope, perhaps, that someone would follow. That someone would see. That someone would remember.
So that is what I intend to do: not to speak for them, but to listen.
ScreenshotReferences
Aubry, T., & Sampaio, J. D. (2008). Antiquity, 82(315), 1024–1037. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00097802
Carvalho, A. F. (2010). Quaternary International, 223–224, 254–272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.02.011
Conkey, M. W. (1997). In L. Hager (Ed.), Women in Human Evolution (pp. 172–207). Routledge.
Domingo, I., Villaverde, V., López-Montalvo, E., de la Cruz, M., & Martínez-Vidal, A. (2015). Journal of Archaeological Science, 55, 53–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.12.010
Henshilwood, C. S., d’Errico, F., Yates, R., Jacobs, Z., Tribolo, C., Duller, G. A. T., Mercier, N., Sealy, J. C., Valladas, H., Watts, I., & Wintle, A. G. (2002). Science, 295(5558), 1278–1280. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1067575
Lewis-Williams, D. (2002). The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art. Thames & Hudson.
#AncientArt #Animism #Anthropology #ArchaeologicalResearch #Archaeology #CaveArt #CoaValley #CulturalHeritage #DeepHistory #HumanOrigins #OpenAirRockArt #PaleolithicArt #Pleistocene #PortugalArchaeology #PrehistoricArt #RockArt #ScienceCommunication #Stoicism #SymbolicThought
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🗣️ The Mandala of Animist Forces (A ✨NEW✨, free, 63-minute podcast)
Tags: #BuddhaDharma #Animism #Mythology #Thirdeye
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/mandala-of-animist-forces_schrei-josh -
#Animism
#SixShooterRecords 2014Cuando descubrí su maravillosa #música quedé encantado.
Su #arte es conmovedor, tanto como su protección y defensa de la rica #cultura y #tradición #Inuithttps://sixshooterrecords.lnk.to/AnimismWE
#Inuk #folk #electrónica #músicadelmundo #avantgarde #vanguardia #experimental #indie #Canadá
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Such a beautiful video essay on #folklore of storks in southern Scandinavia. #animism #birdConservation #birds https://youtu.be/Qk8tGyQPmAs?si=mBFHJ1br-ZoIof0T
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The Old Gods have not returned. They never left. They were simply waiting for those whose blood and bones resonates with their voice heard in the forests and groves, rivers and standing stones, in the moon and stars and the rising and setting sun. Waiting for us to hear and return to them.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #spirituality #heathen #writer #writing #OldWays #oldgods #nature #animism -
2- Another crappy shot from the same time- I followed it for a few minutes- I don't think it was much concerned about evading me, just moving from tree to tree foraging. I suspect they are more familiar with me than I with them, since they are so quiet, small, solitary, very easy to overlook- or simply know some small bird passed by..#birds #photography #nature #Canada #animism #reverence #SolaceInNature #GoOutsideForMe
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What about #atheism in regions of #Africa?
Dr. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba shared descriptive #stats and quotes from ≅20 people — mostly #religious, but not all #Christian.
What stood out to me:
- #animism has multiple facets (e.g., as #religion vs. as #philosophy)
- at least one person reported no #religious belief despite #belief in a "supreme being"
- some respondents described #charismatic #religiosity as excessive/negativeYou can follow Kevin on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Ndereba
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This is going to be a very, very horrible and lethal timeline/reality to just be a mundane human without any occult or esoteric knowledge or psychic and magical abilities in. Considering the rate of survival for “normal” people, I do not envy them. My husband and I are very sensitive to magical and psychic energy. For my husband, it boosts his divinatory and precognitive abilities. He will suddenly start having visions and will develop an interest in refining his astrological skills. For me, it makes me very hungry as a vampire and dark. If you are a regular human, you are pretty much screwed. If there is a nuclear war, and you are a regular human, you will probably die.
I think that’s how magical skills and psychic abilities will probably spread. I think it will spread through natural selection following a nuclear war. That’s why I think magical organizations trying to make the world more magical through their magical operations being horrified that we are teetering on the collapse of civilization shows how asinine and short-sighted their goals were. Evolution works through survivorship.
It’s conventionally asserted and believed that magic shifts probabilities. Shifting probabilities, even on small scales, changes the stochastic aspects of radiation. The number and energy of radiation particles detected at a given location and time fluctuate randomly due to various environmental factors. In addition to that, when radiation interacts with matter, such as in scattering or absorption processes, the outcomes are probabilistic. That means that a magician who has a latent ability to shift probabilities and the implicit desire to live will shift probabilities so that high-energy radioactive particles are unlikely to hit and shred their genetic and cellular physiology. A really neat way to visualize this is to create a DIY cloud chamber and record it and have it in the vicinity whenever you do any magical operation. If your magic has a bit of power, it will interfere with the background radiation via changing the ionization energy of what you see in the cloud chamber. You will be able to see it.
Want to prove Einstein’s Special Relativity? Build this.
I try to keep the woo down and avoid using buzzwords as buzzwords. A field is a structured set. In mathematics, a set is a collection of distinct objects, considered as an entity. A field is a structured set. A structured set refers to a set equipped with additional elements or operations that give it a specific organization or arrangement. So, we can say that a psychic field is an organized collection of entities that possess subjective characteristics, i.e., qualia. The properties in the topology of that field would have values.
If we say that each property or cell of that field is at equilibrium, then a wave is when one cell is not at equilibrium and propagates a change. It spreads a change to the other adjacent cells that push them out of equilibrium. If you have a grid and all the values are 0, a wave would be a change in values from the first row and first column from left to right. It would wrap around each row and changes the values from 0 to a different value, too. That is a wave. The ability for one psychic entity to propagate a wave of change to another is the potential energy, i.e., dunamis, and the actual changing of those other things is energia. There are analogs to potential and kinetic energy on a psychic level.
While it may seem like I am some flavor of animist, I am on the fence about that. I frequently say that will is analogous to mass in that mass is a property that resists acceleration. Will is a phenomenological property that when you try to get someone to do something, their will intervenes and resists you. Consent is a property where a person’s will does not act to stop you. When someone explicitly violates a person’s consent, they are acting against the will of that person. Psychic phenomena imply a more fundamental, higher-dimensional phenomenological domain. From that perspective, a table has a psychic aspect to it where it can experience and observe itself. But, when I act on that table, the table cannot resist me. It has no will. Conscious entities have a will. An entity that is a body of experiences is not necessarily conscious and doesn’t necessarily have a will. It’s still energy to be ordered, where it begins to have a will when it interacts with my will. It would be analogous to massless energy — light. So, manipulating psychic energy that comes from the existence of tables and rocks would be like manipulating light. It has psychic energy that emerges from a subjective characteristic of experience where the rock reflexively perceives itself, yet it has no will. Mythologies, stories, and fictions are ways that we can organize this energy, where the seed of its emergence as a conscious entity comes from collective will.
Earth has an atmosphere of gas around our planet. Psychic fields are coherent and cohesive in the same way gas or liquid is. Similar to how there is a flow to liquids and air currents, there is a flow to our consciousness. In the same way this gas can heat up in such a way that it drives air currents and streams and creates storms and all sorts of other meteorological phenomena, energy added to the psychic atmosphere of our planet can do similar things. Because my husband and I are highly sensitive to this, we experience an increase in our abilities and an alignment of our personality traits in certain ways. There’s a huge psychic storm building up. I wonder if it is cyclical. Something similar happened a few years ago, so I wonder if the cyclical spiral society finds itself in beneath the heavens is being mirrored above in the heavens.
#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #Astral #astrological #astrology #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #divination #dystopia #dystopian #egregore #egregores #energyWork #godforms #Metaphysics #nuclearWar #occult #occultism #pagan #paganism #paranormal #psychic #Psychokinesis #servitor #servitors #vampire #vampires #witch #witchcraft #WorldWar #WorldWar3 #WorldWarIII #WW3 #WWIII
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Its fascinating how powerful #animism was at protecting the environment for most of existence. I just learned recently that the #nymphs in #Greek #mythology really no different than local #Shinto deities, or animal spirits of the Americas. Every rock, stream and tree had a spirit attached to it, and if one wanted to change or use the land, they had to know how to appeal to these spirits and do it sparingly.
Even #polytheists had some variety of lesser animistic spirits that get lost among the big names. Of course, major roman brownies got upgraded to gods when they saw and liked the Greek #pantheon.
To this day even if they don't actually believe in it, Icelanders use the concepts of land #elves as kind of an extra layer of bureaucracy before changing the land. Animists have been looked down on, as the most primitive form of religion. As modern science shows us that the environment is one of the most important things to protect, perhaps it is the most important and advanced form of #religion .
Wanton destruction of the planet only happened when we switched to #monotheism and converted all those spirits into evil #demons in our minds. It opened up many new scientific and technological advances but wrecked the planet. Perhaps we need some form of applied animistic bureaucracy such as giving all things a certain level of rights and autonomy to ensure they survive for future generations to also enjoy. #environmentalism -
The urge to be petty and post a screenshot is really strong, but I will not since I’ve been saying a lot about that particular lot for years now. If you know, you know. Look, folks, if someone sits down at a table with Nazis, you have two Nazis and not one. Twitter is that table. Any white person who is still on Twitter is probably a Nazi, has implicit antisemitic beliefs, or enables antisemitism. I could be very, very petty and drop a screenshot of a well-known occultist defending antisemitism aimed at an autistic person who had to get off Twitter because of antisemitic conspiracy theories, but I won’t.
Instead, I will just tag their cabal in the hash tag. Fascism did not swallow anyone whole. They were always fascist.Too many occultists enabled bigotry for far too long. With that, I am logging off the internet and will be enjoying my husband’s boneless, skinless BBQ chicken thighs. Cut off anyone who is still on Twitter because they see what is going on and have decided to still be in that space. Again, anyone who sits down with Nazis is a Nazi. Twitter is the dinner table. The same goes for substack.
#anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #antisemitism #authoritarian #autism #autistic #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #DKMU #fascism #fascist #magick #Nazi #Nazis #occult #occultism #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #politics #Reddit #substack #Threads #Twitter #uspol
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I don’t do conspiracy theories, period, at all—the end. From the left or the right.
If you log onto Mastodon, you see non-stop political discourse that is increasingly becoming radical from the left. If you log onto Twitter or Reddit, you see anti-Semitism, fascism, and Jesus Gets Us ads.
There is no moral equivalence, nor am I arguing that. However, the existence of fascism doesn’t justify spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories to counter their conspiracy theories. In fact, it should be even more of a motivator to be meticulous and rigorous when laying out a persuasive case.
While I am a magician and an occultist, I am fact-based and data-driven. If there is not a significant amount of data or if what you are asserting does not have enough empirical support, I will categorize it as speculation, conjecture, a counterfactual, and thus fiction.
I don’t know if it is because it is an election year, but social media has become a dumpster fire of misinformation, conspiracy theories, antagonism, and non-stop political discourse. On a personal level, I resent it when people try to manipulate my opinions or beliefs.
Again, there is no moral equivalence to fascism, but people should stop and evaluate the tactics they, themselves, use. Fascists spread conspiracy theories as a Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) tactic. I am seeing FUD spread all over Mastodon from people on the far left. It is an appeal to fear by creating paranoia. If you do this, you’re participating in Machiavellianism and expressing the same cynical view that is the slippery slope down into fascism. It could always be you. Most monsters don’t start off that way.
A lot of people who do horrible things do so because they believe it is for a good cause. Most people end up in cults because they believe they can recognize when something is a cult, and since they would never join a cult, it isn’t a cult. In addition to that, very intelligent people are more likely to believe misinformation if it comes from peers and their peer network that they have strong relationships with. That’s why misinformation spreads like wildfire through highly connected social networks.
Using Machiavellian approaches, for whatever reason, is implicitly the same type of cynical justification that fascists use. I’m not so naive to think that these random posts most people won’t see will change anything. I am just simply stating I’m logging off from social media because the conspiracy theories from all sides are too damn much.
I’m backing up this site as I type this, moving a live site to my local host, and I will continue to express my thoughts privately. Thank God, all of my RSS feeds for reputable news and peer-reviewed research are set up on my smartphone and via Thunderbird. I have YouTube carefully tuned for only STEM stuff, and I have disallowed it to make recommendations for me. People have lost their damn marbles. As someone who deals with the esoteric and arcane and the spooky, I’ve always largely ignored conspiracy theories, but this is getting out of hand. I will not drink from a poisoned well. Time for me to log off.
#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #antisemitism #Biden #BlueSky #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #disinformation #DKMU #DonaldTrump #fascism #fascist #fediverse #JoeBiden #liberal #libs #machiavellian #Machiavellianism #magick #Mastodon #misinformation #Nazi #Nazis #occult #occultism #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #progressives #propaganda #Reddit #RSS #RSSFeed #RSSFeeds #socialMedia #Threads #Thunderbird #Trump #Twitter #uspol #witch #witchcraft #WordPress #YouTube #YoutubeAlgorithm
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"There are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's human and more-than-human is razor thin."
The clock radio came on to our local #NPR station replaying one of my favorite shows. David Abram inspires me.
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CW: death of a bird, photo of live bird
I had just got the weekly local newspaper from the mailbox, so I used some sheets to pick up and cradle the bird (it still felt warm, through the paper and my gloves) and carried it into the woods, where I found a place at the base of Grandmother Spruce and covered it lightly with spruce branches. His spirit drums on! #reverence #LoveOfNature #BirdGoddess #animism
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Still figuring Mastodon out, but hey, have an #Intro post!
I'm a #queer artist, writer, and polytheist with particular interest in #kemeticpolytheism, #irishpolytheism, #norsepolytheism, #folkmagic, #animism, & #decolonialism.
Topics I anticipate posting about include #witchcraft, #polytheism, #devotionalart, #ancienthistory, #archaeology, #theology, #meditation, #transrights, #ancestorwork, #antiracism, #anticapitalism, and #environmentalism
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It is very difficult for Westerners to understand indigenous people - we don't have the vocabulary or the worldview
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8695bBp/
#pagan #animism #sami #religon #environoment -
The Mirage of Failure ; Thai Occult Reflections Pt. 2
Are theurgy and thaumaturgy unhelpful relics of a dying colonial logic? Read on and yell at me in the comments when you disagree 😄
https://reverendjanglebones.com/2022/12/05/the-mirage-of-failure-thai-occult-reflections-pt-2/
#thaioccult #buddhism #westernmagic #merit #tamboon #magic #theurgy #thaumaturgy #animism #failure
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Expanded #intro
Twice a #widow Recovering #healthcareworker Third generation #nurse
#mystic #holistic #moderate
#catparent #Crone #reader #artist #writer #curious #queer
#officemanager #instructor #spiritual #animism #prayer
:mindlyheart: 🤲🙏I 💗 #crows