{"quotes":[{"text":"In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.","author":"S. Kelley Harrell","tags":["animism","paranormal","shamanism","wyrd"],"id":607,"author_id":"S.+Kelley+Harrell"},{"text":"The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.","author":"S. Kelley Harrell","tags":["animism","body","celebration","shamanism","soul-intent-arts"],"id":19369,"author_id":"S.+Kelley+Harrell"},{"text":"The only 'elephant' left in the room is love.","author":"Benjamin Aubrey Myers","tags":["animism","revolution","spiritual-wisdom","zen-buddhism"],"id":27926,"author_id":"Benjamin+Aubrey+Myers"},{"text":"Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.","author":"S. Kelley Harrell","tags":["animism","ghosts","haunting","spirituality","supernatural","true-paranormal"],"id":53164,"author_id":"S.+Kelley+Harrell"},{"text":"...Our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that real processes in the external world follow the lines laid down by our thoughts.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["animism","belief","external-words","magic","over-estimation","philosophy","thoughts","words"],"id":77489,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the 'laws.","author":"Barbara Ehrenreich","tags":["animism","physics","world"],"id":84396,"author_id":"Barbara+Ehrenreich"},{"text":"He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.","author":"Michael Montoure","tags":["animism","autumn","leaves","pretty-prose","swooning-over-sentences","trees","woods"],"id":115704,"author_id":"Michael+Montoure"},{"text":"The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["animism","power-of-man","religion","self-efficacy"],"id":146320,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.","author":"S. Kelley Harrell","tags":["animism","community","shamanism","spiritual-path"],"id":174382,"author_id":"S.+Kelley+Harrell"},{"text":"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.","author":"A.J. Ayer","tags":["animism","existence","god","gods","monotheism","philosophy","religion","scientific","unprovable","untestable","verifiable"],"id":175028,"author_id":"A.J.+Ayer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}