Original post May 7, 2021 Last week we celebrated the peak of spring, and it seems that this year is kicking us straight from there into summer. Although mornings are still pleasantly cool, the chrysanthemums are still blooming, the oak leaves are still soft and clean, and flocks of bee eaters …
Original post from March 20, 2021 Spring is at its sweet peak, no longer so cold, but the mornings are still refreshing, the ground is still wet, and everything is green. It’s not by chance that the major Jewish holidays are around the equinoxes, when we long to spend as much time outside as …
Original post March 13, 2021 I started writing these posts because my perspective has been enriched and affirmed by myriad authors accessible to me as a native English speaker, and I wanted to share their perspectives with locals for whom reading English is even more of a hurdle than reading Hebrew is for me. …
Original post from Feb 20, 2021 So far, I’ve been writing about the need to recognize our living world as alive and of value, and to learn to listen to the other than human beings who share it – because I believe that this is the way to a world that is …
Original post from Feb 13, 2021 I’ve been writing about listening to trees and plants and places and all kinds of creatures, and even artifacts – and I assume that to most western ears this sounds like projection at best and hallucination at worst. Obviously we can insist that all sorts of things we …
Original post from Feb 6, 2021 As I mentioned at the beginning, we are heterotrophs, not autotrophs. This means we are not able to create the nourishment we need from sunlight, so we must eat other creatures in order to live. Yes, that means we have to eat our wild relatives (or parts of …
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 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 …
