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**ResuNezily** · 09-29-2008, 06:03 PM

quoting from the article:

...above, when speaking of animism, i said that each water droplet or other object "has a unique spirit," but that is not quite correct. the conception of spirit as something to be "had," and therefore extrinsic to matter, is a metaphor of separation and of fire. what animism actually implies is that each thing is a unique spirit, that matter itself is spiritual, sacred, and special. spirit can no more be abstracted out from matter than structure can be removed from the water that carries it... i think we (at least i) tend to miss this very important fact. there is a profound shift from seeing spirit as a tangential aspect of matter to seeing spirit as the very nature of matter. very nice article.

09-29-2008, 06:03 PM	#14
ResuNezily Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	quoting from the article: ...above, when speaking of animism, i said that each water droplet or other object "has a unique spirit," but that is not quite correct. the conception of spirit as something to be "had," and therefore extrinsic to matter, is a metaphor of separation and of fire. what animism actually implies is that each thing is a unique spirit, that matter itself is spiritual, sacred, and special. spirit can no more be abstracted out from matter than structure can be removed from the water that carries it... i think we (at least i) tend to miss this very important fact. there is a profound shift from seeing spirit as a tangential aspect of matter to seeing spirit as the very nature of matter. very nice article.
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