We humans are creatures of the Earth. We are kin with all the other animals, birds, plants, trees and fungi, insects, reptiles and fish, the rocks and mountains, all the water of the Earth and the air we breathe. Animism is the awareness of life in all the beings on the Earth, including the land herself. As all beings have life, they can be communicated with, worked with and honoured. We are all interconnected in the web of life. But its more than that.
Read MoreIn the UK, where I live, the ancestral spiritual traditions of the indigenous people of the land have gone. What remains has been Christianised, hence the celebration of Christmas. Many people in the UK are hungry to connect with older, Earth-based traditions that marked such pivotal moments as the winter solstice. Where do they go to find ancestral wisdom to help them connect in these ways?
Read MoreOver time I learned that the practices of the spirits I met from prehistoric Britain were part of a wider shamanic culture and the more that I was finding out about that, unearthing that and arguing that, the more that I could see that what had been lost in this land was akin to what indigenous peoples experience in their shamanic cultures. And the more that I connected with the spirits of prehistoric shamans, the more I began to create threads linking a British indigenous shamanic tradition with the modern world.
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