Original post 23.1.21 If we feel our connection to the rest of the world, if we are aware that humans are neither the only conscious life form on the planet nor the most developed one, if we really feel and experience our interbeing, how can we live with the ecological destruction we are wreaking? …
Original post from January 16, 2021 After writing about our culture’s errors in perception and habits of separation, we can start looking at the opposite of separation and how to move in that direction. Charles Eisenstein adopts Thich Nhat Hanh’s term interbeing to emphasize that our very existence is not independent, but …
Original post from January 9, 2021 From the first two habits of separation, scarcity and judgment, comes the third habit: struggle. Given scarcity, we must compete – that is, struggle – to win what we need. This is true whether the competition is for money or attention or time or the legitimacy to …
Original post from January 2, 2021 The second habit of separation is judgment. Judgment is the perception that marks bad people as responsible for the evil and destruction in the world, saying, “If I were in their place, I wouldn’t act like that. If I were in a position of power, things would be …
When I read over this, scarcity seems so banal to speak of. Only when I break it down into examples, like below, does it start to make an impression. Oh, right, that too, I tell myself. And that too. I stopped noticing. I got so used to this particular scarcity that I thought this was …
Original post from /december 12, 2020 People generally think an animist vision for our culture is wildly impractical. They want to see a plan of what such a large-scale society would look like and how could we make the transition. This is not actually a reasonable request; collective changes never happen according to plan. …
Original post from Dec 5, 2020 What would an animist society, that respects and sanctifies life in all its forms, look like? As myriad animist cultures have shown, there’s no single answer, but it’s a good question to ask. We can each act on a personal level, but much can only be …
It’s nice to see how, in writing these, I was getting ready to teach this material. I’m now in the middle of teaching my first online animism course in Hebrew, and it’s going so well that I’m starting to consider offering it in English as well. Original post from 26.11.2020 So far I …
Original post from November 21, 2020 When I talk about animism and the need to cultivate conscious relationships with life forms – ‘people’ – of different kinds, questions arise. We humans don’t even manage to understand each other and communicate with each other, how will we understand completely different forms of life? It’s a skill …
This is a translation and update of the original post from Nov 14, 2020. Last time I stopped with the question:, “How can we organize society so it encourages us to maximize not profit, but reciprocity, cooperation, and care? I assume there is more than one way, and that the starting point I …
