What is animism? This topic is paramount to changing the worldview we hold in today's modern society, to one more tuned to the understanding of the old cultures. Animism is the term we use for the vision to see all life force. Spiritual, physical, temporal, all things, all life forms and even seemingly inanimate natural materials. And what do we have to prove it exists? Science! When you look through a microscope so powerful that you can see the building cells of an object, there is energy. There is a force binding each of these molecules to one another. Creating a blueprint of the object it forms. Keeping it's shape despite the infinite forces around the cosmos. That force isn't gravity. It is a perfect combination of many forces. Science would call them astatic, or the processing of energy. Animism calls them living sentient forces, fully aware of their duty. In Quantum mechanics, we can see that nothing is defined alone but in relation to everything around it. This is core to animism as well. What entity exists that doesn'thave a purpose or interaction with what is around it? We have a physical ecosystem in nature. It is measurable in various ways. Nature itself is loaded with sentient energy. Every tree, flower, blade of grass, herb, weed, all co-exist in an ecosystem that connects them. They give off chemical reactions and can recieve them as messages. A spiritual ecosystem isn't so different. But to be aware of it, means giving into your own energy. You are an energetic being inhabiting a physical body made up of earthly materials. Your body is physiologically bound to everything else. Your energy is what animated the flesh. Your energy isn't just animating your body but it connects you to all the spiritual energy around you. Learning how to sense energies requires stripping your mind of everything you consider "reality" and recognizing that you can't see air. But that doesn't mean it isn't there! So, the spiritual energetic ecosystem is no different! And one day if we are lucky, we might lift the veil over our mind's eye and see once again, what is on the other side of that spectrum!

I am going to be a living testament to the power and will of the gods. With all I'm facing, this is going to be an extremely difficult test. But I will use this as an opportunity to strengthen my connection to the spirit realm, the ancestors and the gods and goddesses. It will also strengthen my connection to family and friends. One thing I want to say, is that this is making me acutely aware of how much my mother has been through and still she continues to be a force for good, and is supporting me tremendously! Just 10 years ago she was diagnosed with the same illness. She was completely alone, and also taking care of my grandmother with dementia and lots of other health issues. Now, I have to really acknowledge what she has been like a force of nature in facing. I hope I can one day be that strong. If anything, all of this is going to inspire me a lot! I have more ideas now than ever. I have more drive than ever. And I am convinced even more that this world's frivolous attitude toward all the harmful crap in our environment and what we eat is majorly responsible for so many health issues. I used to not care. I used to eat like a pig! Pasta was my #1! And in my 30's I discovered it was poisoning me! I had an undetected gluten allergy that has progressed to full blown celiac. Now, I can't touch it! Butter, I was a butterton. Obsessed with buttery yumminess! Now, I have to watch cholesterol and saturated fats! I have been doing much better with my eating since the gluten problem surfaced. I am much more careful about eating healthy. But that didnt stop me from eating salt like crazy, not realizing how much sodium is in EVERYTHING! No wonder I'm dealing with hypertension. Processed foods high in sodium and chemical preservatives are one of the worst things! So, I am going to fully be advocating healthy eating, while remembering the cyclical nature of life. Everything we eat was alive and now is dead. It is dead so we can be alive. We consume and assimilate them into us. We are the living testament to their existence. And I want to focus on remembering that! How many cows, chickens, pigs, fish, died so I can be here today? I have no idea, but I thank each and every one of them for their sacrifice and promise not to squander it.

Thargelia. A festival in Late May in Ancient Greece. This is a time where the need is to cleanse negativity and purify the community as a whole. And with this ritual cleansing, bringing in the warmth of Spring, fertility, and life cycles. It should interest you to know that even in Christianity, if you calculate the "birth of Jesus" as December, then it was around the Spring Equinox or March 20th, when he was supposedly conceived. Which means that even in that anti-Paganism religion, it follows a pattern of seasonal cycles. And then again they believe he was resurrected in spring, almost the same time of the season for that matter. This is pagan nature worship at the core. But don't tell that to the Christians, they won't believe you anyway! Lol Ritual purification as a Greek custom also seems to be appearing in Muslim customs. Since Islam was started in the Arabian peninsula, and Greece occupied many places in that region including Egypt which is now heavily a Muslim population, it makes you wonder if the ritual ablusion that Muslims do to clean themselves before prayer or specific celebrations, may have originated in principle from this custom of the Ancient Greeks! Thargelia seems quite a nice thing until you dig a little deeper and come to find out, they had a pretty harsh tradition! Besides the cleaning of home, washing of body, and Rituals to purify the self and home, there is one ritual we might have seen similarly in medieval based historical stories. The shaming. The casting out of "sin" onto a specific entity and then it's banishment. This again has parallels with Christianity. The crucifixion was a form of this ritual in a way, though much more painful and ending in death. However, the ritual of Thargelia during the 1st of two days, was the tradition of Pharmakos. And Day 1 was dedicated to the huntress goddess, Artemis! Pharma (meaning cure and poison) also the root of the word Pharmaceutical, was incorporated into this ritual. The poison and cure aspect was presented in the form of 2 peasants known to be "ugly" but this could also mean degenerates, thieves, people accused of some debauchery, usually one male and one female, would represent all the men and women of the town. They would be adorned with necklaces made of figs, and were fed cheese, figs and barley broth and then that would be the last kindness they'd see in their home city.

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