Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Norse World
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7613098" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000FF">What is animism?</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p>"</p><p>Foremost among the causes which transfigure into myth the facts of daily experience, is the belief in the animation of all nature, rising at its highest pitch to personification. This [animism] is inextricably bound in with that [foundational] state [of mind], where [a human] recognizes in every detail of [the] world, the operation of [a] personal life − and will.</p><p></p><p>Sun and stars, trees and rivers, winds and clouds, become personal creatures, leading lives conformed to human or animal analogies.</p><p></p><p>"</p><p></p><p><em>Edward Tylor 1871. Primitive Culture.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"</p><p>Humans are tuned for relationship. Eyes, skin, tongue, ears, and nostrils − all are gates, where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.</p><p></p><p>For the largest part of our species existence, humans negotiated relationships with every aspect of the sensuous surroundings. Exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, textured surface, shivering entity that we happen to focus upon. All speak, in gesture, in whistle, in sigh, a shifting web of meanings that we felt on our skin, or inhaled through our nostrils, or focused with our listening ears. We replied with sounds, movements, or shifts of mood.</p><p></p><p>The color of sky, the rush of waves − every aspect of the earthly sensuous draw us into a relationship. Every sound was a voice, every scrape was a meeting, with Thunder, with Oak.</p><p></p><p>From all these relationships our collective sensibilities were nourished.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Today we [moderns] participate [animistically] almost exclusively with other humans and with our human-made technologies. It is a precarious situation. [Because] we are [actually] human only [if] in conviviality with what is not human.</p><p></p><p>Without the oxygenating breath of the forests, without the clutch of gravity, and the tumbled magic of river rapids, we have no [wider context or] distance from our technologies, no way to keep ourselves from turning into [our technologies].</p><p></p><p>Direct sensuous reality, in all its more-than-human mystery, remains the sole solid touchstone for an experiential world now inundated with electronically generated vistas. Only in regular contact with the ground and sky can we learn to navigate in the multiple dimensions that now claim us.</p><p></p><p>The development in the twentieth century of the [philosophical] tradition of ‘phenomenology’ − the study of direct experience − intended to provide a solid foundation for the empirical sciences. [This] careful study of perceptual experience unexpectedly began to make evident the hidden centrality of the earth in ALL human experience. Indeed, phenomenological research began to suggest that the human mind was thoroughly dependent upon (and thoroughly influenced by) our forgotten relation with encompassing earth.</p><p></p><p>"</p><p></p><p><em>Abram, David (1996). The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7613098, member: 58172"] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR="#0000FF"]What is animism?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] " Foremost among the causes which transfigure into myth the facts of daily experience, is the belief in the animation of all nature, rising at its highest pitch to personification. This [animism] is inextricably bound in with that [foundational] state [of mind], where [a human] recognizes in every detail of [the] world, the operation of [a] personal life − and will. Sun and stars, trees and rivers, winds and clouds, become personal creatures, leading lives conformed to human or animal analogies. " [I]Edward Tylor 1871. Primitive Culture.[/I] " Humans are tuned for relationship. Eyes, skin, tongue, ears, and nostrils − all are gates, where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. For the largest part of our species existence, humans negotiated relationships with every aspect of the sensuous surroundings. Exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, textured surface, shivering entity that we happen to focus upon. All speak, in gesture, in whistle, in sigh, a shifting web of meanings that we felt on our skin, or inhaled through our nostrils, or focused with our listening ears. We replied with sounds, movements, or shifts of mood. The color of sky, the rush of waves − every aspect of the earthly sensuous draw us into a relationship. Every sound was a voice, every scrape was a meeting, with Thunder, with Oak. From all these relationships our collective sensibilities were nourished. Today we [moderns] participate [animistically] almost exclusively with other humans and with our human-made technologies. It is a precarious situation. [Because] we are [actually] human only [if] in conviviality with what is not human. Without the oxygenating breath of the forests, without the clutch of gravity, and the tumbled magic of river rapids, we have no [wider context or] distance from our technologies, no way to keep ourselves from turning into [our technologies]. Direct sensuous reality, in all its more-than-human mystery, remains the sole solid touchstone for an experiential world now inundated with electronically generated vistas. Only in regular contact with the ground and sky can we learn to navigate in the multiple dimensions that now claim us. The development in the twentieth century of the [philosophical] tradition of ‘phenomenology’ − the study of direct experience − intended to provide a solid foundation for the empirical sciences. [This] careful study of perceptual experience unexpectedly began to make evident the hidden centrality of the earth in ALL human experience. Indeed, phenomenological research began to suggest that the human mind was thoroughly dependent upon (and thoroughly influenced by) our forgotten relation with encompassing earth. " [I]Abram, David (1996). The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World.[/I] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Norse World
Top