Animism EXPLAINED: Place And Time Spirits (Episode 1)

In the first video in a series exploring animism, Join Gordon as he visits and encounters Lake Mungo -an ancient, dried-up lake bed that is home to thousands of Aboriginal artefacts that is also Australia's original World Heritage listed site.
Discover:
🧿 The difference between 'space' and 'place'.
🧿 Places as beings: how they have agency and destinies.
🧿 How sacred time works very differently to the premise of linear time.
🧿 Why Lake Mungo is so important to world history, and what she might do next.
This is the first in a video series covering the key metaphysical aspects of animism.
No Distance Between Us - Trailer:
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Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos.
When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.

[@hawk_1111]

Thanks for doing a great presentation at Lake Mungo Gordon. I was born less than a hundred kilometers from there. You are you right, most locals haven't been there or know it's true self. This has motivated me to go back and spend more time there. Thanks mate👍

[@TheMagicofJava]

Wonderful Gordon, especially the description of time and dreaming. I have arrived at the same thoughts through Islamic Neo-Platonism, but its so refreshing to find more ancient and animistic roots. Also the idea of a post-apocalypse hope has strong resonance with with story of Sabdo Palon in Magalang Java. Java became Muslim on the condition that its rulers ruled wisely and with compassion. Should they break this condition Sabdo Palon will arise and we believe this will be seen in a series of natural disasters.

[@whiteakers]

So present. Totally unique and brillaint form of journalism/documentary. Desperately needed. Thanks Gordan!

[@cindyw7008]

You convey well the placeness of this place, and I recently read The Handbook of Contemporary Animism, so connect w Deborah Bird Rose's work. Love the resolution of the remains - maybe a few indigenous remains in US need to go back to their peoples?!

[@arifreeman]

Best video! More on animism and aboriginal thought please. Or links where we can find out more.

[@matthewsproule]

Went there a few years ago. The place has deep serenity and presence. The area is a huge archeo-cemetry with most remains still in place.

[@anndebaldo7381]

Wow! I want to learn more! Looking forward to that! I suspect that this is critically important for humanity now. Thanks!

[@margaretinsydney3856]

What a wonderful video! Thank you so much. I knew none of this, and I've lived in Sydney for 35+ years. Yours is also the clearest explanation of the Dreamtime that I've ever heard. Lovely, lovely visuals too.

[@fillthesea]

love this, love seeing your face and the land too...feels like my favorite nature and philoophical docs

[@Sam-mf8pj]

Video games are / at least have the potential to be the cave paintings of our era: engage large communities in participatory actions and not only the largest artform of our era but also one in which an animistic worldview is germane. The rise of XR potentiates this further. Thoughts?

[@LearnRunes]

Love the beautiful imagery at the start!

[@puzzleclocks]

Wonderful, Gordon. I've been thinking a lot about the complex deep-time of the area I'm from more and more as I age and write stories set in these old hills. The idea of place-as-character within the western context of story is an angle that maybe even very westernized people can use as a jumping off point for this in our own lives. As your traditional first guest questions often reveal, it seems like an interaction between "liminal" experiences of place with "fiction" have such a deep power to cut through layers of cultural trauma and allow us all to regain healing contact with the weird-kids inside us all. Thanks for this one ❤

[@Wrennexton9593]

Loved this

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Thank you very much for sharing this with us! It is certainly a Place of Power!! It Most definitely wouldn't want to be Tamed by the Colonial peoples. Earth has power and I guess that we humans will be learning very quickly or maybe extinct.... I'd prefer for the humans to become Humane,,, ~ and Learn to be the best Custodians of this Beautiful Planet we share with so many different and varied Spirit!! A certain Pregnant Energy has been growing. It seems to be affecting everyone and everything!! Namasté 🙏🕊️ Andréa and Jasper. ...XxX...

[@69Jackjones69]

The Motherboy song from Arrested Development has been playing in my head since last night

[@damienwilliams1586]

Fantastic video Gordon!

[@skinnyt1971]

You must spend two clear sky nights at the Parachilna Gorge in South Australia. My daughters and I spend a week here every winter. The spiritual energy is palpable. It is not my ancestors’ country but that is very near. The landscape is as a mother to me and has been since the 80s. I’m sincere. Let me know if you are ever in old SA and have a few nights spare. I’ll tee it up. My shout.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

rocket appliances

[@traviswadezinn]

Thank you for this beautiful explanation

[@user-ns5fo6pt5x]

Wonderful Place, Thanks!

[@thezenfarmer]

Fabulous! Absolutely fabulous. ❤ And especially interesting for those of us who also follow the cyclical catastrophe theory that is discussed on the Suspicious Observers channel. On that channel, we have heard of Lake Mungo repeatedly, but in a different context. This video, introducing the elements of animism and the sacred, this is the important part. Yes, Lake Mungo does indeed have much medicine to offer for this time. She reminds us that the wheel is ever turning.

[@mai_8j888]

Beautiful!

[@angelorosini4326]

Thank you Gordon!

[@thingsdoneframed]

Love this video. Beautiful work.

[@pfekin]

Amazing content, thank you.

[@sojernon8689]

Animism is the terrain, Gnosticism the map

[@RepairRenovateRenew]

And "the map is not the territory" Robert Anton wilson

[@sienathewayfarer]

It's A map. Yours is a good thought to consider.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

Stop projecting

[@lordcublington]

Hell yes

[@lockandloadlikehell]

"If there's no pumpkin in the kitchen" wat

[@sambrown5976]

At what point would a human not be considered a person, i.e. due to not having agency, or being possessed by the agency of another or an institution? Someone without their own agency, e.g. an extremely disabled human, may still have agency in affecting the emotions of the people that love them. The possessed person may also have agency in the form of objectification for the possesor. What about someone posessed by tyrannical institutions that are not aware of their existence, who cannot exercise any agency, and who also does not affect anybody else like family or close friends. Is their personhood threatened, and are they less person than someone who is more free? Do tyrannical societies become disenchanted as a function of removing the agency of it's collective constituents, and therefore removing the "personness" of the society?

[@kingchief4038]

The world would be a better place if Animism was mandated by our Tyrannical Overloads..