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The Honest Weather Prediction Service
An engraving from 15th century Germany of witches bringing down the rain Want: A weather prediction service that publicly states it is using Astrology, the I Ching and other divination techniques, to predict the weather. As an added bonus, it tells you about the implications of today's weather for your personal fortune. It would be about as effective as current weather prediction services, just far more fun and honest.
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Things Are So Bad In California That Farmers Are Employing "Water Witches"
"While water witching (dowsing) sounds a bit odd, a German study conducted in the 1990s spanned a decade that paired geologists and dowsers in Africa to drill for water and see how accurate they were. In Sri Lanka alone, drill teams drilled 691 wells under the guidance of dowsers and discovered water 96% of the time. "
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Finger Pointing at the Moon
"Don't Mistake the Finger Pointing at the Moon for the Moon" - Zen Buddhist Saying
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What does a 21st century version of Animism look like?
Animism is the world's oldest religion, starting in the Paleolithic age. Its view is that all phenomena have agency, that there exists no distinction between the spiritual & material, and that sentience exists not only in humans, but also in animals, plants, rocks, rivers, etc.
Beyond the naive & outdated interpretations of Animism as "primitive" superstition, one can think of it as one of humanities oldest still active cultural lineages. Beyond the spiritual domain, Animism has highly relevant views on socio-political, ecological & technological issues
In a sense, one can think of Animism as a *holistic framework* which elegantly encompasses ecology, culture, art, politics, technology, science & spirit. It is age old & battle proven yet still alive & in flux. Animism is not a belief system, but a world view and a value system.
Among the many positive and highly practical affordances that Animism offers us today, here are a few: It addresses the "people-in-nature" (opposite the current "people-VS-nature") question heads-on, which is critical in times of climate change & mass species extinction.
Animism is fundamentally *process-oriented* & *relations-oriented* (VS our current cult-like obsession with consumption & dead artefacts). Looking at human-environment interactions as processes and relationships is indeed the way to get out of the "people.VS.nature" trap.
And finally, by re-enchanting our worldview, Animism invites us to feel deeply at home in our own skin & reality - and not live in an constant state of alienation and fear of the "other", which results in our current pathological need to control, model & predict everything.
To conclude, i like to invite you to earnestly meditate on this: Fairies, Ents, Elfs, Gnoms, Jinns and Water Spirits are real! As real as the spirit in plants, animals & humans. Animism has much to offer for the 21st century. Let's embrace it & re-enchant our world.
Related: Animism: a belief among indigenous people, young children, or all religious people!
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What does the square root of minus 1 and fairies have in common?
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"The center of the universe is really everywhere, within each of us." - Black Elk
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Gnome DeCentral Bank (GDB)
The "European Central Bank" (ECB) and similar organizations are a horribly unimaginative, dysfunctional lot. But despite all their very noisy machinations, they are absolutely inconsequential. The real power on this planet is still negotiated in organizations such as the "Gnome DeCentral Bank" (GDB) and related forums, that quietly operate in the belly of nature.
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That moment when one is forced to acknowledge, that one's child can see unusual creatures (commonly called gnomes, elves, fairies, goblins, yōkai
, etc.) and interacts with them regularly.
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4,000-Year-Old ‘Snake Staff’ Discovered in Finland - A Stone Age shaman may have used the carving during special rituals
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Hoʻoponopono - a Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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I sincerely hope you had a most amazing summer solstice 2021! May it be a great turning point for what ever you direct your attention and intention towards. It's going to be a beautiful summer.
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"Fortune-Telling" is a category error.
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"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." - David Hume
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"Some would say that we have some sort of telepathy or symbiotic relationship. Others would say we just have one idea" - Wachowski Brothers
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"In reality time and space exist in you; you do not exist in them." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
