Animism is Normative Consciousness
The Emerald
Animism Is a Post Modern Proposition
The world is the body of a great being made up of beings. There are jin and seraphim and cherubim, electrum, metatron and elohim. Attempts to write fiction from the perspective of non human still results in stories from the perspectives of personhood. This is exactly what henry corbin meant by the world of ration, abstract thought living on the dead body of an angel. The angel's corpse,. in which the angel is animacy is this vision of personhood is the portal between us and the natural world, the portal to the real.
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