Animism: Vital Force, Witchcraft, Soul & Spirit

[@autumnsimril535]

"Relationships are not confined by the boundaries of the skin." - That is beautiful and a wonderful thing to know. Thank you.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

Once while on a hike I felt energy coming from a group of rocks - and they were suggesting to me that I come and join them. I won’t ever forget that. Also, when I was putting some seedlings into the soil and digging there, an ecstatic energy suddenly seemed to emerge from from the earth to surround me. I was absolutely not on drugs of any kind. I will never forget it - There are other similar things. 💛

[@kirkha100]

This video needs to be viewed, contemplated, and acted upon repeatedly. My perspective of….everything just opened up and broadened. Thank you.

[@astrogypsy]

You're not saying "nothing." These are highly abstract concepts underlying a rarely attended collection of ideas. You're doing great.

[@denyse6666]

great video LOVED the intro it touched the soul :) I hear the bird up in the tree I see the stones that speak to me i feel the wind upon my face i touch the mountains full of grace and when i die I know I'll be part of this bird, part of this tree .

[@tuathadesidhe1530]

The inside of me is my home, it will follow me wherever I go. The Sami

[@miguelferreira8280]

"Building a world for 9 generations in the future" this is the attitude we need. Thanks for this.

[@AzuraTarot]

a lot of wisdom here as well. "The ancestors of the body are not the ancestors of the spirit." For someone who was born feeling closer to nature, the land and animals than to humans, this is a wonderful truth to hear.

[@JohnSmith-pt5sg]

Have had the honor of meeting a few of the Naturefolk. They are extremely potent, energetically, and their emotions are like storms, hard to handle for a human. They see through any lies, so appreciate full honesty, if polite.

[@vikingskuld]

Your absolutely brilliant in explaining very deep and complex topics. You really have a gift. I appreciate your work and effort. Thank u

[@sunshinebanshee4709]

I just completed this video, after almost all leading up to it in your "Animism & Shamanism" playlist. I am hooked. Others have commented well below, and I concur with what they have said. This is one of the most valuable troves of knowledge I have found in awhile. 👍Two thumbs up. 👍

[@skyhighdiamonds910]

You discuss some brilliant contexts for these concepts and I really enjoyed your words about discernment: "because we don't want to waste time and our effort on a rock that, after all there's nothing in there, when we could be addressing the rock right next to it - that is in fact, alive." I think that works for people too! I've wasted a lot of time and effort on people that have been pretty dead inside! I've been following your talks on animism for a while now and they always resonate well with me. Thank you for your research and knowledgeable descriptions, as well as putting it all together in a way others can understand.

[@lorilea3188]

13:30 re: "spiritual and pious vs practical and social" confusion among academics . great stuff which speaks to me having been raised in a religion that worships an animate corpse and has forced that belief upon people for 2000 years. thank you.

[@lorilea3188]

41:45 amen.

[@lorilea3188]

22:00 human element

[@suegreenan906]

Love the term “entanglement “ between in-body and without material body……and also, thank you for the wisdom of living for the generations going forward…..great video. Sue Greenan

[@symbolikarts4195]

Wow! Mind blown / eyes opened, I really needed to hear this today. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🌜🌲✌️🧙‍♂️👍🌲🌛

[@circealluranominyx1587]

This video really helped me to understand animism and it's connection to not only the spiritual, but the physical. I have been struggling for quite some time, trying to seek out the concepts and belief structures of my ancestors. This video helped me to understand that it's not about physical bloodlines, but that the answers can be sought out by simply seeking to have a more open mind. Thank you for all the information you give to the world. ❤️ Via watching your channel, I have become a fan of your wisdom and knowledge.

[@2dazla8]

This is an absolutely brilliant video. So much information imparted and so much food for thought. Thank you, Arith 🖤

[@ArithHärger]

I really enjoyed making this one. I was inspired by events in my life during that time that made me explore deeper into animism and these questions about spirit and vital force :) glad you enjoyed it my friend!

[@2dazla8]

@@ArithHärger, I loved it. One of your most beneficial, for me. Everything you said makes so much sense and makes things clearer in my mind. I appreciate you, and your work, so much. Much love and blessings to you, friend.

[@leonardogomes7165]

Speechless... Awesome... Arith, you can't imagine how healing your channel at least is being for me and mainly for my soul! Many thanks for all🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏

[@Jeep192]

Many thanks Arith for this video, amazing. I am very much enjoying these videos discussing animism. The introductory music was amazing too. Your closing comments about the bird singing in the tree will be the part I so need to remember. Take care 🙂

[@tokenofyouresteem6350]

"But some things do not require a deep meaning", you got me there Monsieur Härger ;) Or maybe not, since I stopped deperately seeking answers to questions that cripple my life rather than enhancing it. But this part of me still exists. I have to say that I am heavily drawn towards understanding things through logic and thinking rather than sensing, and with that: feeling, but I am working on letting those sensations and feelings in, haha. Still I turn around the, metaphorically speaking, "cubes of knowledge" you give us and look at them from all kinds of perspectives. This morning, watching this video, I imagined the following: What if all you tell us is just an imaginary construct. What if it is just another human made system disconnected from reality? Then I realized the beauty of what you probably want to tell us with animism. Even if it is those things, the perception of the world and the altered actions towards our surroundings would greatly benefit all life forms, including the humans. It is, in a sense, a more economical solution when the aim is to sustain life. And life itself is the most precious resource since it has the greatest variety of use, therfore the most possibilities to acquire wealth. I know this sounds cold and rational, and I am not looking at it from this perspective only, but look at it like this: you convinced the cold and rational part of me, the economically thinking fracture of my self, so probably you are able to convince a person whose main feature is to be cold and rational, haha. When I forumulate something I am always imagining what I would say if I had to give a Psychopath, whose reality is pretty much detached from that of most people, an understanding why it is best for him to live in communication and cooperation and why manipulating things with selfish intentions would not only harm others but himself also. I have the belief that everybody can understand another by translation. Here is what I mean: I can understand what you are trying to explain to some extend because I am trying to put myself into your shoes when you are talking. I try to figure out what those words you use mean to you, what they are describing and translate that into my own language. You and I use different words but often mean the same :D Like somebody said in the comments, you have a gift to create understanding in people through your words. I am thankful that you share your perspective here on KZbin since it inspired me and helped me a lot in my life and its edeavours. Wishing you all the best, René

[@malidadoe8966]

I have long felt that there are these two lines of ancestors, of the body and of the soul, and this also means that through time and space both we create a veritable network of connections and points of emergence, which makes existence a much more complex weave, and we are over time and space weaving our web of life.

[@I_scribbles]

Simply one the most profound concepts dicussed in the last minutes of your video. Dicussing the cyclical life and the relationship with our ancestors and us in the present day. Great work, love the mind candy.

[@leonardofaedo707]

So good Arith...Thank you. Muito Axé pra você

[@ohnoajellyfish]

The things you say are so counter to my personal experience growing up steeped in witchcraft (Santeria) and superstition, but I am glad because in my family power was not about relationships with deeper entities or nature, or even about God since we were "Catholic". Coupling that with my father's atheistic views, I've spent most of my life either confused or apathetic. While I may never practice anything resembling witchcraft because I've seen what can come of it if you are careless, I want to grow closer to "other things", have more respect and understanding. I'm learning now, much in part thanks to you, Arith.

[@Andalaeknir86]

That is a proper attitude respect is vital within animism as well as understanding there are consequences if you dont know the ethics regarding communicating or meeting sourit dont trust any of it. Few are actually benevolent and it requires a long lasting relation between both. He is way better explaining it to a sense i lack as i am an animist working with personal spirits alone

[@megantrish8450]

Ooooooh I see what you did with that final thought! Goosebumps! Well played, sir, and another informative and insightful video. Thank you!

[@bethmyers7485]

Thanku so much for this video.. it was affirmation in my life .. 🎉

[@malakannagowli2350]

I thank you for this video. I agree with what you are saying almost upto 90 percent. Human beings are trying their best to understand the surrounding around them in all aspects. They wanted to know what their physical body is made of. They wanted to know how thoughts are formed in their minds. They want to their relationship with their parents and their ancestors. They want to know what other people think of them. They also want to know how to influence them and how to control them physically and psychologically. Thus in their efforts to know what is around them in physical, psychological aspects they also want to know their relationship with forces of nature like air water fire earth as well as with plants, trees, hills and forest. In their efforts to know their relationship with supernatural forces they form various theories, thoughts, assumption and belief system. This results in formation of religious beliefs and such rationalisations as per their experience, and their capabilities to understand them. You have a very good understanding of souls, consciousness, spirits and ability to understand forces of nature. People like you should show the way to the people who are not concerned with these forces. Thanks again for this video.

[@HimmelsscheibeNebra]

Wunderbar. Very well explained with some very nice interwoven life lessons. What a wise video. Thanks and best wishes, Die Himmelsscheibe

[@martinobanassa]

What a very special message. Thank you for today!

[@marcrhodes-taylor5347]

i really appreciate this video, i hope that you are keeping well in these troubled times.

[@natalieschreiber7785]

Thank you so much for your videos! You explain things so well!!

[@My_Alchemical_Romance]

I absolutely loved this!!!! Keep these coming!!!

[@st.patrickreid8968]

Excellent documentary, well put together.

[@vodouisant6]

Thank you for another AMAZING video ! So many people disregard animism in the states when it comes to Witchcraft ( traditional craft for me ).... I have a feeling you're going to be changing minds, the way people think, their dogmatic ways of thinking..... Thank you again :)

[@leonardogomes7165]

A video for all my life and next lifes in animistic way. Must be seen several times. Thanks a lot, João

[@tombullish3198]

Thank you very much Brother. I've never seen nor heard somebody tell the story about our ancient history in Aninism, Totemism and aspects of Shamanism in such a great way. Making the Esoteric Knowledge 1 with the Empirical System is very important. It's not as if we are not rational and logical because we are Spiritual, Occult or believe and perform Magic and Rituals. I might just sent people this video instead of explaining it myself. I just found out about your channel. Great stuff, already learned some things I didn't know as well, which is great, of course. I hope you keep doing what you do, you are very appreciated, not only by me. I can already tell this, just by your comment section and channel in general. Bless your Mind, Body & Soul.

[@jaedenbennett6931]

The best intro to date

[@Andreh.T]

Yes, I really enjoy it and its really informative and interesting and helpful, thank you for sharing.

[@aylarasimgil9571]

Hello Arith! I really love your videos and the topics you talk about intrigue me. I would like do more in depth research and learn more about animism. Are there any resources you would suggest me?

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you very much! Glad to know you enjoy what I do, hehe. Yes, indeed I can suggest some sources: I would recommend/suggest (to start) Rane Willerslev, Viveiros de Castro, Graham Harvey as recent sources, but also an older one Irving Hallowell. Each focuses on different cultures such as Siberian, Amazonian, Ojibwe, etc. so you get a different pictures but also common and similar perceptions, beliefs and conceptions from different cultures and geographical realities. I also recommend that last book I've made a review on, Evergreen Ash, by Christopher Abram, which is a good animistic approach, of sorts, to Old Norse and Icelandic cutlural aspects. Fabio Rambelli as well for animism in Japan in contemporary times, as Japan is still quite animistic and it's useful to understand how things are these days. Thomas DuBois has a very interesting book "Shamanism" and he picks various cases but one in particular which is the case of Thai Vang Yang, a practicing Hmong txiv neeb. As I often say, there's no shamanism without an animistic understanding, so this one will also be useful. Also, check Roger S. Gottlieb, it's really worth it. Also Juha Pentikäinen, perhaps even Joy Francis, Knut Helskot and Hans Mebius for Finno-Ugric studies.

[@aylarasimgil9571]

@@ArithHärger Thanks a lot, you're very kind.

[@leonardogomes7165]

@@ArithHärger At 9:30 minutes you said all: the pragmatism, experience and the less importance and need to explain all. My🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏. Awesome lol. Your frente and if you allow your new patron. Best wishes Leonardo from Brazil Soure Pará. I am waiting your answers......

[@leonardogomes7165]

@@ArithHärger Speechless... Awesome... Arith, you can't imagine how healing your channel at least is being for me and mainly for my soul! Many thanks for all🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏

[@FlashyLight]

Great video with a great ending, thank you!!

[@BGBPW]

Such a beautiful summary. Thank you, sir.

[@dawsonbray9398]

WOW. .... JUST WOW! THANK YOU ARITH

[@lanellegael5400]

Thank you for your talk. Important clarification on sometimes confusing subjects.

[@khespera]

Very helpful. This solidified some ideas in my head.

[@MrEnaric]

Arith speaks like an experienced and 'knowing' person. This intrigues me almost just as much as this subject. It's indeed about engagement and keeping relations with 'others' that sometimes can be practical, but personally is not my main goal. Acknowledging and esrpecting each other in itself is just as meaningful.

[@marirodriguez2420]

Wow, your ending was so powerful, thank you!

[@taionorbanus5101]

I have found a lot of what you're saying to be true. You put better words to it than I.

[@mementotomato7141]

Your videos are so little appreciated, but i hope you go on with it for a long while, can't put into words how much i enjoy and find useful these teachings!

[@spikewillow4552]

So much information, one video I'll be watching again for sure.Thank you for sharing brother

[@belladonna70]

thank you

[@BlazRa]

I guess this applies to me , I'm not really too big into labeling things but I have had first-hand encounters with a few different paranormal entities one was a pure black shadow man with a hat that I literally saw while spinning and he tipped his hat and then disappeared. Also I saw one that was literally living within the hollow of this really really really old oak tree that if you look at it from the right angle looks like a left hand coming out of the ground with a hole in its wrist! It was the only one that was able to actually communicate didn't do so with sound . It just basically put the phrase in my head "get out" over and over and it touched my chest

[@MrAustinjeff]

Good talk. Thanks for your insights.

[@kayvo5413]

One of my favourite Videos! And you're looking quite handsome sitting there in the woods all rugged up ☺

[@hipknowsis9568]

Thank you.

[@garychynne1377]

is it fair to lose your hair and not know where to find it look on your chin it's there my friend smile and never mind it. thank yew arith.

[@garychynne1377]

you know arith i take back all those bad things i said about you. harharhar. ok ok i've never said anything bad about you but now i have your attention. i appreciate your lectures for want of a better word. you have a good handle on the subject matter and present it in a palatable way. i could go on but you know what i'm trying to say. thank you for the teachings. take care

[@juanpabloporraslara5318]

@@garychynne1377 i like that .

[@malidadoe8966]

Also! Thank you for emphasizing the significance of the body!

[@yuriklaver4639]

No nonsense presentation, thanks.

[@letichialove1221]

You keep blowing my mind I LOVE ALL MY ROCKS BUT MAYBE I JUST KNOW HOW TO PICH THEM 143

[@agentredfox]

Wonderful video. As a practicing witch, I appreciate the breaking down of vital force and how it plays into manifestation.

[@MonicaBodirskyShadowland]

Well expressed witch-wise Arith! Thank you.

[@curtismiller8312]

Thanks you for sharing, wonderful video loved lessening.🙏✌

[@cat3019]

I love your videos, they are very interesting!

[@wren1019]

yes, i think it's all about energy (in its various forms) as well as a trust in the patterns (cycles) of, well, everything. everything happens as it should because it does.

[@cyclicallivingoz]

Really enjoyed this talk, thank you!

[@nancyc5922]

Excellent video, I am more animist then spiritualist, although I do mingle in spiritualism, witchcraft, seldom, much prefer reading energies and knowing where it came from.

[@Andalaeknir86]

Animism is spirituality just more mundane and everyday and much simpler and somethong seen and observed even through the lense of science

[@nancyc5922]

@@Andalaeknir86 Animism is not mundane , not very simple either

[@Tipi_Dan]

You provide an amazing public service.

[@udoschnelle7717]

Another legendary video 👊💪👊

[@christopherbell4543]

I had an experience with this topic via a Strega witch, thanks for yours thoughts on this subject.

[@FrenchBasicsStream]

Those videos are very helpful (and have always been). I wonder if there are some academic or research links available on the links between magic and animism (over a quick research, I find few more than Frazer etc), or on the worldview of animism as linked to a "vital force" ? Currently trying to improve animism related articles on the French Wikipedia (this is few but if it can provide inspiration to some...). BTW, your view of the soul as related to quantum physics appears to match Nick Herbert's theory of "quantum animism". Many thanks.

[@jeremyfoxmalcolm4601]

Hello Arith! Thank you for such a digestible explanation of the soul from an animistic perspective. Would you be able to recommend any books on this topic?

[@JohnSmith-pt5sg]

Steve Cunningham. He does classes online, occasionally. He goes deep, into beings we can run into, and how they interact with people. Ancestor work, as well.

[@JohnSmith-pt5sg]

His books are on Amazon, can be expensive, unless you get used.

[@jeremyfoxmalcolm4601]

@@JohnSmith-pt5sg thanks! I'll check it out

[@JohnSmith-pt5sg]

@@jeremyfoxmalcolm4601 No problem. Orion Fox wood is good as well. His thing is a mix of Appalachian folk, African, and Celtic practice.

[@jeremyfoxmalcolm4601]

@@JohnSmith-pt5sg Very interesting! I just got one of his books on the topic of Faery Seership (I've been looking for a good book on this subject for some time). Thanks for the resources!

[@irishelinac]

Thank you so much ! I have a question Arith : how our ancestors communicated with the persons (spirits) ? I guess in many ways but which ones :)

[@Robert-gc9gc]

I love your intro🔥

[@Michaelsloncehammr]

Great Musik intro with the breathing 🍎

[@a-aron3775]

My dog goes ape when I start these excellent videos!

[@leonardogomes7165]

At 9:30 minutes you said all: the pragmatism, experience and the less importance and need to explain all. My🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏. Awesome lol. Your frente and if you allow your new patron. Best wishes Leonardo from Brazil Soure Pará. I am waiting your answers......

[@foxvindr8281]

I love the into music

[@riverhp3324]

Not sure if I follow you on the embodiment part. I experience the physical as the spiritual. The soul and body are one. And when I die, my body and soul transform into other things. Perhaps some other nonhuman souls form my being and this is what you mean? How do we experience the soul? Up to this point I have only experienced the soul through unity of mind and body...in fact because I cannot experience the totality of my body and mind I have limited contact with the soul, but I do experience part of it.

[@solstice92]

Great video

[@nickvolkert3450]

Yay, another exciting video. :) Question: are there symbols or animals specific to music? I’m a professional classical singer, and would love to learn more.

[@JohnSmith-pt5sg]

Donkey. They make beautiful music in the night.

[@yul498]

Shamanic drums was really hot 🔥🔥

[@JohnSmith-pt5sg]

Booty drums! 😜

[@rolandomota7771]

Another banger 👍

[@osamaafif]

Thank you 🙏

[@leonardogomes7165]

Arith, if in animism there is a conception of spiral and non-duality, therefore multiple options of realities and several times at the same time, such as the Hardy-Weizenberg electron uncertainty principle and its probability and spins, whatever of now, whoops, past and now and future? how to predict and exist like this? How it all began? Hugs, from his new follower and future patron, Leonardo Soure Marajó Island Pará Brazil

[@soulburntarotllc8155]

I really liked this video.

[@cefynembling-evans2314]

the magical ingredient necessary for the connection between human and non-human form is empathy, which is in effect just a word that describes an inherent skill that was widespread but in today´s society is becoming scarce...

[@BlazRa]

I don't particularly like referring to myself with the phrase witch because it implies a female. I consider myself a sorcerer. It really applies to the way I approach doing magic because I get information from many sources and I use what works. I like to think of it like this , I take a whole bunch of metaphysical and spiritual material and put it into this big magical Forge and burn away all the scumm and waste I then Forge a mighty sword to cut the cords of reality and sew them to my will! 🤘😎

[@MrBlazingup420]

Spirit & Soul are twins both unseen needing one thing, like clouds created by dust of the earth blowing in the wind and taking on ever changing form and nature, Spirit hot and Soul be cold, Spirit be fire Soul be water, Spirit be a bright light Soul a dark shadow, Spirit be every young and immortal Soul be mortal and old always growing, Spirit be wild and free Soul be Ego and control, Spirit be wise Soul knowledge both unseen until morals, understanding grows between, creating Human from animal that is in everything.

[@Robert-gc9gc]

So as an example, an oak tree, has a use of being made into weapons, tools, firewood etc and also has a spiritual aspect of being associated with magical uses. An oak tree that is cut down vs the tree that is not for some other spiritual or physical use. Is this the practical approach that you mean?? Trying to grasp this concept

[@satturnine7320]

My understanding of the soul is that it is the animating life force which is the totality of previous reincarnated lives that originated from ‘source’ (Ginnungagap) Your spirit(identity) does not exist before this life and was generated at birth Our task is the merger of the two If a ‘schism’ (possible trauma and/or deep personal conflicts) occurs the spirit becomes a ghost and the soul moves on It’s a symbiotic relationship Of course this is a much simpler version of one’s totality as explained in your previous video that I linked here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4CzaYCJgbadiMU

[@markmckinnon9238]

All of the mentioned ritualistic practices are merely a start . Once you become proficient at your craft a mere thought will bring about manifestation.

[@sorayatorchic]

Don’t forget that animals having a soul is a new concept in the Christian mindset even in the scientific mindset. It was believed animal’s didn’t have souls or had primitive souls. This was an argument for slavery and for exploitation of animals. So it’s a bit more complicated than just physical vs nonphysical

[@MrAustinjeff]

That is an assumption that the entirety of the planet had this view and VERY unlikely. Problem with assumptions is when one is wrong the house of cards falls.

[@soveriegn478]

Ha anyone ever wonder what type of state that is that ppl in that time felt ? I bet it's wild .

[@awolpeace1781]

The mind-body complex is a living hell all humans must endure because of past unvirtuous karmas.

[@anthonyhudson3158]

I think many atheists who claim they don’t like Christianity do not realise that in a cultural and philosophical sense they are not too far removed. Atheists of course don’t believe in the mythology or magic but in many ways the mindsets are very similar. I think the world would be a better and safer place if animism were the predominant belief. Great video.

[@BlazRa]

If you have more than one soul in your body you need to kick them to the curb! You don't need competition for control of your body!

[@derrickpelke7893]

Good talk

[@Krushurpants]

the spots you pick sometimes match a perfect painting!

[@procrastinator99]

That intro was epic.

[@JohnSmith-pt5sg]

Does anyone else see someone behind him, around 6-8 mins in? 😁

[@BlazRa]

You have one soul it's the real you your flesh is something akin to a house and after you're free from your body you can either choose to just manifest things instantly Literally just imagining things into existence or you can go back to what I like to call the home some people call it the source We're from there you can return to the material realm. Also you can Ascend Beyond this cycle of reincarnation towards godhood by raising into higher dimensions.

[@justingiles6008]

Mr. Harger where did you get your coat? Its just the one I'm looking for.