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Animism is Normative Consciousness

The Emerald

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Animism Isn't Gone, It's Alive

The zen budhist tradition i grew up in, imported to the west, was primarily focused on silent meditation. But scratched just below the surface into the koons and stories and chants, and a whole animate world revealed itself. When we went to india when i was 13, that animate world explode ed into its full glory. animism isn't gone. It's alive. Because animism is normative consciousness.

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