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Why animism?

Animism is both a way of looking at life and a way of working with the world.

Animism helps us improve our creativity, family lives, love lives, work, health, emotions, environment, sense of purpose, freedom and power.

With animism in our lives, we can find the wholeness and wildness that make life joyful.

What does practicing animism mean?

It means that we can work with the circumstances of our lives through ceremony, art in all forms, thinking expansively, being in nature, honouring our ancestors, working with spirits, divination and working directly with energy.

Practicing animism is different for everyone, and is often shaped by our cultural heritage. Sometimes, it simply looks like folk magic and other times it looks like mysticism.

The common thread is how it allows us to directly work with everything in our lives, creating real change and understanding.

Northern European Starting Points

Magical and animistic practices that are good starting points for people of Northern European descent: Working with local or ancestral

The Principles of Animism

Animism is as diverse as it is potent. There are no laws, rules or dogma that apply across animism, and

A Personal Animism

Animism goes far beyond what our language can tell. We can catch glimpses of it in art, poetry, music and

Animism Isn’t

With such a broad definition, it’s helpful to be clear about what animism isn't. The Occult Traditions Occult traditions like

Understanding Animism

Animism can be very hard to define. The term is used by anthropologists and historians, theologists and philosophers - not to

Animism, not Shamanism

You’ve probably heard about shamanism. I used to call what I practice shamanism, mainly because that’s what the other people