pinpointing this kind of break with these polytheistic uh religions that emerge in Mesopotamia. Um Marduk is is the kind of the supreme god.
for - history - progress - animism - gave way to polytheism in Mesopotamia - Marduk god
pinpointing this kind of break with these polytheistic uh religions that emerge in Mesopotamia. Um Marduk is is the kind of the supreme god.
for - history - progress - animism - gave way to polytheism in Mesopotamia - Marduk god
Hunter-gathering preceded animism by hundreds of thousands of years
for - comparison - Hunter gatherer vs - animism
It's not a just a localist project. It's embedded within the guy intellectually, within this planetary. And by intellectually, what we mean is that Gaia herself as a living being, has her own will and her own agency, that through ontological shifts we can learn and practice to be in dialog with, to be in call and response with, to be in service to. And that requires a certain amount of humility and a move from materialism to animism, a move from rationalism to relational ism
for - transition - from materialism to animism - from rationalism to relationalism - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023
we need to halt deforestation
Because trees think.
all beings can represent, produce, and interpret signs.
Signal linguistics. Mind == ecosystem.
select bacteria indigenous to the gut microbiota signal bidirectionally with the host serotonergic system to promote their fitness in the intestine.
Just as forests think so do bacteria. Body == civilization.