Talismans in Animism: Personhood, Relationship and Fetishism

The importance and usefulness of objects within animism, as cultural social agents and material embodiments, with which relationships can be created, maintained and even renewed. In this video I'm also going to briefly express the problem with the idea of omnipresence and omnipotence of entities, especially of deities. Hope you find this video entertaining, but perhaps, most importantly, useful. Have a wonderful day!
In my academic works in video format I often present sources in the form of a bibliography by the end of each video. However, I don't often do this in videos concerning animism. Usually I pick a subject and present the sources I've used that have helped me to construct an academic work about that same subject. But when it comes to Animism, the sources are too many, and I end up creating a speech based on everything I've learned, thus far, concerning Animism, which is why it's difficult to present a specific bibliography in each of the videos I do about Animism. It's never about a specific subject but instead it's about a world-view. My videos about Animism are the product of several sources I've studied, especially anthropological accounts and archaeological reports, but also interviews I've done to some indigenous peoples, as well as putting to practice what I've learned, and as such I take new conclusions. However, this doesn't mean I'm not able to recommend sources. It's just difficult to present an endless list of sources because this isn't about a concrete subject, but a wide range of animistic indigenous perceptions towards life. So allow me to suggest/recommend some sources/authors: 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.
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[@MindBodySoulEspirit]

As an anthropologist, historian, and pagan witch for half a century, your videos inspire hope in me for the human race and sentient life. ༺☽:: Blessed Be Arith ::☾༻

[@The_Dangelat7158]

I discover objects that become talismans usually out in nature. It is a certain feeling, like discovering a lost friend, when I am out walking in a forest, along a riverbank, etc. That individual item instantly suggests to me the embodiment of my experience I am having while out in that location. It binds my memories of that place to the item. I use them to enhance my grounding abilities by holding that item and remembering the experience I had of that location.

[@robertayoder2063]

Right on

[@gnostic268]

Very good explanation of animism. I can only speak for my own family and the way I learned as a Hunkpapa Lakota person. There are hundreds of other individual Native Nations on the North and South American continents alone. We have a saying Mita'kuye Oyasin=all my relations and that means: all humans, animals, winged and flying animals and the animals who live in the water. Certain rocks (tunka) are used in our sweat lodge ceremonies and they are considered to have a spirit. The Pipestone used in our pipes is also considered to have a spirit. The pipe itself has its own representation and spirit. Water has a spirit. Our large drums are considered to have a spirit and that's why they're never put directly on the floor. A book that's a good fictional story of a drum -The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich tells the story of how a drum can have a life of it's own. Native traditional ceremonies in the U.S. were not allowed to be practiced until 1978 so a lot of the ways were practiced underground regardless of whether Native people attended churches. Imo the Church removed the spirit of anything not human for the most part because they wanted the power to be in the human priests and raised them to a god-like status much like a cult. When people live in an animistic way almost everything has a spirit and talismans represent that. People tend to walk more respectfully in their surroundings in an animistic belief system than if the only place they experience spirituality is in a building. A god-like spiritual leader in a church teaches them that this earthly life is unimportant because they're going somewhere else after they die is going to completely change how they interact with their environment imo. Thanks for the video

[@davemumi9172]

You mean Pagan nations.

[@robertayoder2063]

Nice comment. U come from a great lakota band . Good comment

[@gnostic268]

@@davemumi9172 No I mean exactly what I said. You seem to troll and be a deeply insecure person. Keep working on the void in your life that should have something of substance because your life will improve and you won't be so resentful concerning things you are able to understand

[@iankenney6602]

I wish there would be a nationwade surge in bringing back the ways and teaching of the true Americans. I feel such a bond to this forest that I visit that has a narrow but very old river running through it. I always leave a gift or song or something when I go in and I also always seem to be loved as well because I get mushrooms everytime I need wild mushrooms, I see parades of wild turkeys plow through trees about 20 feet away from me. The deer let me approach them to about 15 feet with a meaningful pause. There is so much magic already present there, but there is also so much mystery I still want to discover. I get a strange feeling of being at my eternal home most of the times I go there. I am a child there. The land has known me since I was a child. Now I just wish I knew it as well as it knows me.

[@aos757]

I love how invested you have become in speaking on animism Thank you

[@ernamoller175]

Thank you Arith. This is a video I will have to watch again and again. I have so much to unlearn and to learn. Thank you for being a shining light in this world of so much misinformation, and showing that I am not so lost as I thought I was.

Let me be a little geek here and say "not all those who wander are lost" hehe :) best of luck!

[@nobrock6416]

As a Heathen who grow up in a Christian family with a Christian and Abrahamic world view I've always tried to wrap my head around the idea of animism. Emotionally the idea of animism makes sense and feels right to me but mentally I've always felt left with more questions than answers. You sir have given me more insight into this subject in fifty min. than all the books I've read and all the people I've listened to since I've been on a Heathen path. Your contribution to those of use on a path to rediscover are pre Abrahamic religion's is immeasurably. Thank You.

[@emmalouie1663]

When kids think their toys are half alive it reminds me of animism.

[@jesserichards5582]

Everytime in my life when everything gets overwhelming & stressed beyond compare, I find a rock to pick up. Holding it in my palm i think about the fact that in this moment & also just our lifetime even, is only a speck of existence compared to how long this rock has been around. Oddly enough it helps me every time. Anyways love your content, very helpful & definately helps me in my journey. Thank You Very Much!!!

[@marcusfridh8489]

i see it like this: the talisman is not the object, but the spirit that lives in that object. it is just like natureworshiping, you do not worship the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, the mountains, and so on, you are worshiping whats it stands for, what is represent. sunworshipers, worships the lifegiving, the warmth, the light the energy of the sun, and the same thing with everything else in the natural divinity and spirituality.

[@Zaika_plays]

Thank you for the time and careful presentation you give here! As a former Christian, decolonizing my views of spirit and relationship to spirit has been incredibly difficult. Your videos have been so helpful for understanding a spirituality I’ve always felt since childhood, but that never should have involved religion.

[@pogojet]

During my years in Japan, I came to appreciate the animism of the Shinto religion. I like what you were saying about showing yourself to the deity In Shinto, you ring a bell and clap your hands and bow to get the attention of the deity. I am not an expert, but I think in Shinto, they would say all objects, animals, elements, have spirit.

[@MonicaBodirskyShadowland]

Wonderful video! Complexity in animism means some things are 'alive' and other things are not. You need to be able to sense, be taught, understand reciprocity and relationships. :))) I particularly enjoyed the suggestion to not interact with everything. I have taught this for years. People, especially due to colonialism, like a simple binary of good or bad, alive or dead and like to romanticize. Fortunately, I was raised with a complex view of animism and spent many years in an Indigenous community. It is hard to explain distinctions but you've done an incredible job articulating the view. I encourage people to embrace ambiguity and unlearn colonial thought regarding animism, but it's hard to find explanations as thorough as yours. Thank you for your voice and videos Arith.

[@wesleysale1052]

An amazing video. I used to have many conversations with others. Seems I'm getting sensitive again, trees along my route to the store often speak up as I pass them.

[@marcrhodes-taylor5347]

that was very helpful in telling me more about animism and fetishes than i had known before, very interesting thank you arith

[@blackthornsloe8049]

What a treasure trove of information and guidance these videos are ! In my thirty years of pagan practice I've been given glimpses of teachings from people who were knowledgeable but revealed to be a bad choice for attaching myself to . These videos are giving me the missing pieces . Thank you .

[@thewarriorscode2311]

Thank you so much, I have been studying Celtic (Druidry), Nordic (Asatru), Chinese (Daoism & Sim Buddhism) & Filipino (Shamanism & Animism) aspects of spirituality for nearly 20 years of my life, raised Catholic but always spent more time out in nature even as a child thinking about the spirits around me, grew up in rural Ireland so lots of stories of the fairys and what not so always been part of my life that way, your videos on Animism have helped me alot in my understanding of this thing that has always been apart of me on a deep level and now I find myself more at peace with my understanding of my own spiritual connection to the land around me so thank you so much good sir 🙇‍♂️

[@Greentrianglegallery]

Thankyou….your guidance and knowledge of so much is being revelled in….so much appreciated…it is so hard to find inspiration and informative conversation…you never fail to enlighten and illuminate and build upon the things I already have been fortunate enough to have seen and heard and found….I am so much richer every time I listen to what your offering …. Stay happy and healthy and safe and keep sharing with us please Arith….

[@theGothicTopic]

This is phenomenal.. exactly what I've been doing all my life without knowing what I was doing.. I do have Indigenous roots.. and have used magic in such a way.. I think this must be a basic survival technique somehow that comes already I installed in our software, for a lack of a better concept.. perfectly explained..thank u

[@davemumi9172]

Everyone has Indigenous roots.

[@fireinateacup89]

The moment you list what makes a person, a purr-son pops up on the chair in the background as if to demonstrate an example of a non-human person! Haha Love it!

[@thequestlordsteviequest]

Our dna remembers strong key things

[@gnostic268]

@@davemumi9172 What are your indigenous roots? Do you know where you come from?

[@elcoyote9410]

@@gnostic268 he's saying we all have pagan roots. We can all trace our ancestry back to a time and place. Modern "indigenous" people arent special, they dont have special knowledge. They are simply at a different state in their place and time.

[@melaniejones2002]

I always love your honesty about being a learner alongside you viewers.

[@magnekalinsen1185]

Thank you 🙏 You help to structure the flow of thoughts and sometimes it is very important. You remind me of the best professors from my university.

[@curtismiller268]

Thank you Arith enjoyed listening. 🙏✌️

[@dougkomoroski6803]

SO HELPFUL! Thank you! We have millions of little stone "effigies " coming out of the ground here. I have been trying to figure out a. Why I am suddenly recognizing them (they looked like natural rocks for 30 years.) b. Significance of repeating themes (sleeping serpent/dragon, volcanos/one or three steaming, humanoid(heads eyes open ) small bird in cave, small flying bird, hen turkey head,) Per Facebook group "The Other Artifacts " folks are finding these repeating images in nearly all 50 United States. As we discuss what we are finding, compare images, your videos are the ONLY thing academia offers us in explanation.

[@rachellenoir2072]

Thank you! This was wonderful!

[@chrissymcgee5930]

A fantastic video, I created an amulet which acts as a connection between myself and a disembodied person, I can't ever imagine passing it on, or allowing it to be passed on to another person. I put a lot of intent into it and put a lot of daily effort into the relationship I have with this person and as this person is misunderstood by many, I feel that the possible negative attitudes of whichever human person who happened to have my amulet may have, could cause harm to them and the disembodied person. I have thought these things for many years but didn't have the vocabulary to properly express it, thank you Arith for that gift.

[@robertayoder2063]

I get that a feel the same

[@Queenie-the-genie]

So wonderful as always. So happy that I found this channel. 🪶

[@Robert-gc9gc]

You are my favourite spiritual guide

[@augustcanyon3438]

Thank you for your channel. Your work helps me learn and develop and deepen my roman polytheism.

[@cyclicallivingoz]

This was wonderful thank you! In Australia they are starting more and more to work with First Peoples, applying the traditional management of land and cultural burning to better manage the cycles of the land especially in regards to fire management. I hope this tread of listening to First Peoples knowledge of land and nature continues, it just could be what we need in order to reconnect to our intrinsic instincts of animistic understanding and appreciation of the natural world, not to mention fight the effects of climate change. In thinking of making talismans I've always understood it as my own connection to the object, with the energy of my intention, with the energy created by the rituals, consecration, processes ect... all form the life force of the power of the talisman.....something like that! lol! Either way, it's very fun to make them and practice using them for specific purposes. Thank you for the great video, love learning more and more ....

[@Sixdimjodye]

As an indigenous person id like to say thank u for ur services

[@spirittokens6762]

Great work in explaining my sacred practice - when I lived in the country I was connected very strongly to the land our trees and plants that feed our ecosystem, I saw them as part of my family, you could call me the black sheep of the family .. when I traced my lineage it made sense that I still held what ultimately came out in my DNA memory, to explain something that you need to sense and feel you did a wonderful job in doing so- Thank you , Shell

[@MrEnaric]

Your excellent lesson on talismans and the relationship with other-than-human persons bring the story of the Völsi ( saga of king Olaf )to mind. How it was collected, hallowed, revered and used by an animistic household. The lady of the house must have been a 'full cunning' lady. Wonder what your thoughts are about her and undoubtly a lot of such, once common households. Especially now that late Iron Age wooden phalluses turn up in wells and pools here in the (northern) Netherlands. Thank you once again Arith.

[@erikaaltensee5358]

Yet another educational and illuminating Wednesday. I appreciate your perspectives and work...so much here on to consider on establishing and cultivating relationships of the now regardless of personhood and worldview. It's refreshing and appreciated. Thanks for your continued sharing. 💜

[@mistsister]

To share this knowledge reverses so many rigid misconceptions i did not know i had, whose deaths are essential to next steps.

[@mistsister]

So much goes into knowing yourself, your own thoughts. If you have mapped them you can discern the voices of those who could benefit from symbiosis. Being quiet in the mind moves towards trusting their voices as real.

[@benhancock8143]

I love those keys! A worshipper of Hecate would love those. I have seen not every Gods of Goddesses like the same things or show up at the same places. In Ireland you find stuff that have been ritually destroyed in rivers or buried in bogs. Thanks for another awesome video my friend!

[@georgej.goroncy682]

That's what I like about your channel. You don't claim to be a human encyclopedia. You honestly. admit your limitations of knowledge, but what you do know is truly informative. There was a time when I was subscribed to that thunder wizard channel for a few months, but he was too much like a cult leader, and it began to shift from Nordic Shamanism to Qi Gong, Hinduism, astrology and the reptilian conspiracy too quickly. Kind of struck me as a cult leader. He was good at convincing people that he had all the answers, and he even had me questioning the validity of Heathenry before I said that's enough, but you present the subject as it is known, and admitting what is still not known about the ancient Northern Europeans. You are one of my go-to channels for education on the ancient European beliefs, Arith. Keep it up! Skaal, Brother!

[@christabrewster7516]

I was just thinking I like that alot of my inanimate objects have gotten close to me through relationships with them

[@patfrench8046]

As i keep watching your videos several times it sems to be slowly im comprehending what you are saying. You pack a lot into a video. Ill just keep going through them and see what coalesces. Thank you

[@ThisIsYourGodNow]

Your best work so far!

[@darcy8567]

I always find your subjects to be fascinating. A joyous Yule to you.

[@Eithne21]

Thank you for the video! I learned a lot today. Keep up the good work.

[@anglosaxon244]

Me personaly am very atracted to stones,specially quarz,and similar ones.i read that stones got memory,like us,but ancient memory...i feel that they are greath to enhance ones intentions....i love to go in the wild and collect them...and its quite special,..because i can feel how they tell me which one to choose...well!...real spirituality is like real art,...nothing is forbiden,..everything is possible.....have a nice day.

[@nuclearmaga9694]

another superb lecture.... explains so much.....extremely useful

[@slyder1615]

Great video man.

[@stewartthomas2642]

Love your stuff kick on love it.

[@belladonna70]

i firmly believe in animism thank you very much

[@angelaarsenault]

Thank you! Very informative

[@sb6370]

Been working on one for myself! thanks for the video!

[@TheAstralMage]

This was very very helpful, thank you

[@peach411]

Very good. Really very educational.

[@procrastinator99]

That opening was EPIC! Edit: Is that the Tree of Gondor on your arm??! Awesome.

[@Shansationa1]

Consistent, embodied, performed relationship. Alan Robarge has a wonderful video titled "Grieving Fantasy Bonds and Fantasy Relationships." The first section is dedicated to explaining psychology and mental mechanisms around relationships. First time I encountered the idea that attachment objects (imagination, ideas) and feelings (towards those ideas) are distinct from actual relating. I love it. I started out listening to him with focus on my past people of human relationships, and it quickly bumped sideways to inspire me into analyzing my relationships with people who are invisible. 24 minutes hits. I am also reminded of polyvagal interview ideas of co-regulation, and our nervous systems finding "pockets of safety" in the world listening to you speak of the pragmatic purpose of cultivating relationships with people of the world. They also have a term "neuroception" that I toy with as a stepping stone for ESP. Especially considering that they recognize that being in nature "itself" helps humans to coregulate to a balanced (ventral vagal) state.

[@mitziewheeler8517]

Until 2009 I always lived by the Mississippi river, it's creek's and water way's. So I have a collection of small river and creek stone's that I have collected over time. They have always carried the life of the river in them. Since I moved 2 states away these stone's still carry the life of the river and help me ground and center everyday. In this way they have become my connection in their being to that of the life of the river. The river is alive and shares it's life with us everyday.

[@eddydejagere3411]

Learned a lot from this. Thanks.

[@tasia8love]

great video! thank you!

[@regnbuetorsk]

i have a faceted obsidian, i keep it always with me and i am "cultivating" a spirit inside of it

[@Pearl_of_Labuan]

Good evening, I have recently subscribed to your channel. A few days ago, under another video, I asked if I can keep a wooden statuette of the god Odin at home and you advised me to watch this video (actually I hadn't watched it, I'm a subscriber since a very short time). Now everything is a bit clearer to me, but I wanted to ask you for some suggestions for establishing a relationship with this divinity: what gifts can be offered to Odin? What prayers? What does he like and what doesn't? What can I ask him? If you have any advice for me, thank you from my heart. Sorry to disturb, and thanks again.

[@teresafigueiredo]

I discovered your channel, and thanka well, I will be a regular subscriber certainly, your themes interest me a lot, add knowledge and wisdom to our Life! Today join you in Patron with satisfaction! 😉

[@GrasslandsG81]

Funny timing how the cat jumps up there as he begins discussing what constitutes personhood...and then goes on to immediately mention animals...

[@morriganwitch]

Oh my amazing xxx

[@sevenis9712]

This gave my mind more food for thought on this subject. Things that make you go hmmm.

[@dangerouswitch1066]

fascinating topic. i too was raised by catholic family in the Cajun ethnic group in Louisiana, and am also somewhat familiar with voodoo.

[@elcoyote9410]

Dig deeper. Voodoo and Hoodoo is rich and powerful. It will serve you well. Louisiana is a power place. It's on a power conduit. A magnetic lay line runs parallel with the Mississippi river

[@dangerouswitch1066]

@@elcoyote9410 indeed. gris-gris

[@DjalmaThuran]

It's interesting that you mentioned indigenous cultures, I live in Brazil and here is a certain approximation of native cultures and the civilization brought by Europeans, I believe that more here than in the rest of the world, with us adopting words from their vocabulary and a little bit of their culture as well. So for me I have adopted a culture and a religious practice that drastically differs from the Christian cultural pattern of the country where I live (even though it is a religion of my European ancestors) I feel much easier to understand indigenous culture than people from other cultures who have not had the same kind of cultural relationship that occurred in my country. I hope my text was intelligible, I just wanted to leave my thoughts recorded here, thanks for the good video.

[@actualitypossibility]

This video was a big key for me to click with what you've been saying about animism. I think I appreciate more about what kind of motives can be satisfied by consciously developing an animistic worldview. Would you please say more about what you mean by "sensibility" on your list? Thank you.

[@dylanmagoiofthethalasso4032]

Around the time of 29:39, so for example you're saying that Poseidon Aegaeus ( the city of Aegae) could have been a spirit of that city/ land but through the eyes of the Greeks he was a deity? At around 39:17, there is this book I'm reading that mentions religions trying to separate us from the material world and I think you would enjoy it. It's called The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the magic of the everyday life by Sahron Blackie. I've been practicing for almost 10 years and this video has opened up a point of view on how objects are used in witchcraft. I've always liked animism, but I'm getting into actually researching it. Fantastic video.

[@aracknidd]

Yes, moving away from animism does break relationships and some might say this is to distance one’s self from illusion of the little self that profits from deals and bargains, which I would maintain can increase suffering. Hmm.. I sound a bit Christian., maybe more Hindu. Yes there are the ‘others’ that we live with in a sea of activity, but that’s just operating on the level of individualism? What about the the true Self that lives and plays out in all things/animals/people?

[@AriaIvancichArt]

🌻 Ty 🌻

[@alicecarmin6646]

J’ai un talisman, je l’ai trouvé par hasard est avec moi en tant qu’ange. J’ai adoré votre vidéo

[@iankenney6602]

I see personhood in rocks. Animating them by finding ways to rub away time from them. The rocks eye or eyes appear and draws you to truly believe you noticed some change in what you see as a pupil. That's how I am able to become absolutely sure if the rock has life or not. I wonder if this is a unique phenomenon or something that others would notice if they looked for it.

[@helenmilenski861]

Question: With the concept that we must engage with a deity by action to 'show ourselves' to exist to them and then engage in a relationship with them, I can accept this as true. However, what about the instances whereby a deity chooses to engage, unprompted, with a person who may or may not have an awareness of the deity? For instance in witchcraft today, there are very many people who have been either chosen or contacted by a deity and were not especially looking for a relationship. What of those cases?

That's a very good question, and in there we enter in a whole other realm of concepts, explanations and possibilities. I think the first approach we must take is: what exactly do we consider to be a deity? An entity might be understood to be a deity to some people, but not to another community, group or individual. And following that line of thought, how do we know we are in the presence of a deity, or differentiate between deity and another entity? For instance, if we take to shamanism (and I'm here using "shamanism" as a general term and taking a not-very-detailed approach as several communities have their own perceptions) when someone is chosen or contacted it could be by a whole set of entities that may or may not be deities: could be the beginnings of spirit-possession; the contact of an ancestral entity (not necessarily having been human once, or an ancestral "shaman" from another group not necessarily linked in life to the family of the person); the initiation into a relationship with a helping-spirit wanting to create a stronger relationship (spirit-spouse); an entity forcibly creating a binding; a spirit disguised as a deity for whichever reason; a local deity; a deity only known to the person; familiar spirit; human ancestor; land ancestor, etc. It depends on the circumstances and in which situations people put themselves in, knowingly or unknowingly. But indeed, sometimes contact is "external" to the human desires or wishes, and sometimes it can be quite harmful and unwanted.

[@leonardogomes7165]

@Helen Milenski I think that it all boils down to how each people, person, egregores, cultures, religions etc interpret and mainly manifest their particular and collective reality dogmatized in rites, mythology, symbols etc. caring in regional, temporal, vibrational, multidimensional, planetary, universal, multiuniversal and without definitions beyond the cognizable of infinity. Nobody's right or shouted: everything in the whole is timeless, indefinable, unpronounceable and interconnected through the inner self and each other. Just insights.... Sorry for the outburst. LEONARDO GOMES from Ilha do Marajó Pará Brazil

[@leonardogomes7165]

I think that it all boils down to how each people, person, egregores, cultures, religions etc interpret and mainly manifest their particular and collective reality dogmatized in rites, mythology, symbols etc. caring in regional, temporal, vibrational, multidimensional, planetary, universal, multiuniversal and without definitions beyond the cognizable of infinity. Nobody's right or shouted: everything in the whole is timeless, indefinable, unpronounceable and interconnected through the inner self and each other. Just insights.... Sorry for the outburst. LEONARDO GOMES from Ilha do Marajó Pará Brazil

[@coranova]

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[@stephen33]

I know that there are other persons that are not human. In fact I learn about new spirits and mythologies when I get visited by things I can't explain. Example. I was meditating on thors hammer and learnt what a draugr was. I know that it is not an actual hammer. I visualized a belt around my mid section and I visualized gloves that could hold a such a pulsing item. I was meditating on the rune Uruz until it "became" in me. I saw the hammer as such an unwieldable force. Then I felt it. I thought it was just going to be a visualization meditation. I was wrong. I somehow pulled this power into my center. My whole body was vibrating sometimes painfully. I felt as through my stomach was going to explode. My heart was racing. I went to bed still holding this vibrating pulsing energy in my body. I was awoken in a dream. I was in a half aware state. I saw these dead men in vivid detail. I saw them faster than my imagination could create them. I saw them drop off a boat and I could feel their chilling presence drawing near to me. They looked terrifying in the most surreal detail. I felt an instinctual push with in me to use this "hammer." I took this power and I used it. The "hammer" seemed to know as if how to use it's self out of me. These creatures were instantly vaporized or pushed away to somewhere. That was one of the most vivid accounts that I have. Before this I never knew what a sea draugr was. That is when I really got into studying the runes.

[@patfrench8046]

Sounds like its easy to start something that could be dangerous and maybe should be left alone. How many unfriendly encounters have you had, and how did you respond?

[@czarnyksiezycrogaty]

Ive found today on the seashore A whole wing, right one :)

[@MrEnaric]

The only true talisman is the one you can validate and hallow yourself. I would not easily accept different for my children, wife or myself. So glad you touch this topic because you tread carefull around it.

[@goldenboy12ish]

I wonder how can i be sure that truely that one spirit that i tried to contact, is the same as the one that indwelles an object of choice? Especially if i had never before any relationship with any spirit, and if i don't know their personality, which could help to confirm the spirit as the One i seeked out, or a more mischievious One which only pretends to be the One i tried to contact.

[@Sheepdog1314]

it is what you make it

[@azizlebeau619]

This is deep ! African décédant am I

[@AlexanderWoods05]

As someone than grew and know about religions produced by the African Diaspora in Caribbean, and have a practice than it's the mix of well the 3 base cultures, this video is based AF i could add more things but i just discover this channel with this video and maybe you cover what i could add in this comment

[@AlexanderWoods05]

I do not think it was not touched, I would have to watch the video again for that I will also speak here based on my experience (I don't have much time practicing either) Every object where a spirit lives must be fed, and must be awakened. Let me explain things are alive, and not all are ... But here things get complicated. How do you wake up something? How do you insert or drive the spirit? and how you "train" them nganga a word I think lucumí that means "dead" is the skull or bones of a dead person used in some of their things (I'm not going to call things right because I try to make things understandable) they are stones, and they have earth and other elements ... The dead person does have a power, but it is not like you are going to use people's bones to do things (I do not recommend it.) but the dead person to be able to have a power stronger in the other plane, he needs our help in this plane, if I have a witch's doll or something for example, the spirit may be there, but it lacks strength, and to give it strength, it has to be made different things like you mentioned, smoking tobacco and blowing the smoke, and praying as you said, bathing it in herbs and things that are in line with the purpose and of course beyond all the things I said must be personalized, the spirit must know with whom he walks, and for this things are used such as soil from the 4 corners of the house, hair, and nails of the person (In some cases they ask you for height and more) all this makes the spirit have its "Steroids" in the other plane and thus can more effectively fulfill the tasks This can be done with anything, stones, or wood, or dolls, anything that has life or can receive things inside And above all and more important is the secret, although in Africa it is known that initiation ceremonies are obviously done by other people, the deities or spirits are given to you by third parties, because although someone can tell you how to do them, They carry a secret, for example the kini kini witch dolls that are from the palo mayombe, and are originally from the Bantu I think they were in Africa. His dolls look like a representation of a black person obviously, and making a sign, with glass eyes and with a lot of nails, the nails in addition to representing exorcisms, enkangues, attacks and things like that, 7 are nailed as the secret that He finishes giving life to the dolls. and obviously the food that is one of the most important things, which can range from insignificant things such as giving candles, smoking tobacco, to animal sacrifices, or as unfortunately happens in Mexico more than religious fanaticism as something that is maintained in that religion ( Conga rule) is human sacrifice, it depends there on the spirit and with what one works, those that require human sacrifices are monstrous dead who are known as "Pagan" or "Jewish" this due to the lore of Catholicism and the friction that They had those two religions where the bad is outside of Christ If I'm wrong, they tell me, I think I said some things there that may have a certain margin of error but I'm not going to go away saying things that can't be say Also im not native speaker on english so i use a little bit of google translate sorry for that comrades

[@AG-ug3lb]

Only a few weeks ago someone made a joke about Zeus. And I (jokingly) answered, I wonder what it was like to be an ancient Greek and believe in those crazy people (referring to the Greek gods with their human flaws). I said it out loud and now here I am beginning to scratch the surface of understanding what a Pagan world view with very humane spiritual beings might be like. 🙈

[@pillarsoflight2607]

What about beings that are non-animated, like spirits, and other "paranormal" phenomenon?

[@Snaveltong]

What is your opinion on the growing interest in speculative realism where the theory is proposed that objects should be perceived as having some form of life?

[@Snaveltong]

Also do you have an opinion on Baruch Spinoza's pantheist philosophical system, and pantheism in general?

[@blickberg8404]

The Catholic church makes use of a lot of objects (saints, symbols, relics, etc.) that ssems to fit with your description of animism but what does it mean/say if the common person is not the owner if the animistic object but the church is?

[@guilhermeantonio3795]

How do we know that they are alive? Is as simple as asking and as difficult as asking

[@fabienlehenaff2742]

What is the Celtiberian god called ? Anduvaliku ??

The name is pronounced and written differently in the many modern languages of the Iberian Peninsula, although the modern name derives from what the Romans called the deity when they came in contact with this cult in the West of the Iberian Peninsula - they called the god Endovellicus. Since it's a Celtiberian and Lusitanian deity, the original name may have been somewhere between "Andevell", or Celtic "velic"/"valic" from "vailos" (wolf), although there was another Celtiberian wolf-god named Vælic, or maybe even Proto-Basque "Endo" or "Endo-belles".

[@fabienlehenaff2742]

@ Thank you so much for the explanation ! You're the best !

[@joenathan8059]

Have you made a video about atheism?

[@curtiseagleeyemullin]

For some reason Chrome will not play your videos on the iPad. But I can play any other video, Canada 🇨🇦

[@nuclearmaga9694]

where did the non-animism or anti-animism force or influence come from? the forces which destroyed so many cultures and ethnic groups?

[@curtiseagleeyemullin]

All it’s doing is buffering. This is the third or fourth time I’ve tried in two or three days I don’t want to play the videos in KZbin because I do not want to be inundated with ads. So I simply choose to not watch videos, and so I remain uneducated. Thanks a lot guys (not you Arith, the internet controllers). I’m paying for a service that isn’t even rendering me any service. If that’s not abusive I don’t know what is. Who pays for some thing and receives nothing in return but frustration and postponed expectations for the product to work as it claims to work!?

[@yasmienlove4571]

Would like info on intro music. Thanks in advance.

it's mine, just my drum and a series of sounds I've made to try to imitate animals' sounds.

[@yasmienlove4571]

Awsome

[@Lawrence_L.A._Auble]

Being one with your/the world and connecting with living things is taking stock of things around you and having respect for the world as a whole. Just like a cross with Jesus or a root it’s staying connected and believing in something than nothing. The universe has power.

[@raymondhoule6108]

I personally believe that there is no such thing as an inanimate object. I believe that everything is living and has spirit. I think of it this way... Allfather made everything. Whenever someone makes something they put their energy into their creation. As a result everything has a small bit of the allfather. This is the common spirit that litterally connects all of creation. Therefore everything has spirit and therefore is its own sovrign being.

[@letichialove1221]

Relationship

[@Alienami]

Perhaps another way to view them, would be that they become Quantum Entangled, married, and therefore bound to a specific task and a specific person. To divorce this marriage, the more thorough way is to destroy it with love and gratitude for the time it lived and work it did. Also, Hebrew religious books a person owned are often buried with the dead for almost the exact same reason... They are alive and bound to a person because of their use and worship with them. Or something like that.

[@elcoyote9410]

Yes! Quantum mechanics needs to be intertwined with these discussions. Quantum entanglement is due to zero point field. The Tao, the force, zero point field whatever we choose to call it, we're on the verge of converging metaphysics and physics

[@rezanadesian6652]

Why is a talisman that has been used, for a person, may cause trouble if it used by another person ?

It may contain the last user's vital force/energy and consciousness, and it may not have beneficial effects on another person for many reasons, such as previous works of magic with that talisman might leave harmful traces or spirit-entities. The previous owner's consciousness might also get attached to the new user.

[@rezanadesian6652]

@ thank you for your respon. It is quite the opposite in my country here. Especially in Java island, people are racing to acquire old relics which was previously owned by someone elses. So that they may get the blessing of that talisman. Because it has proven to be used by someone, then it must have been useful to him/ her in the past. Then it must have some good use for we in the now. Thats their way of thinking. And my culture here. I wonder whats your comment about this ?

[@michaelcunnigham787]

Obrigado!! So you speak portuguese! :)

[@spectralvalkyrie]

Awww it's a root! Congratulations 🎊 😂

[@leonardogomes7165]

I think that it all boils down to how each people, person, egregores, cultures, religions etc interpret and mainly manifest their particular and collective reality dogmatized in rites, mythology, symbols etc. caring in regional, temporal, vibrational, multidimensional, planetary, universal, multiuniversal and without definitions beyond the cognizable of infinity. Nobody's right or shouted: everything in the whole is timeless, indefinable, unpronounceable and interconnected through the inner self and each other. Just insights.... Sorry for the outburst. LEONARDO GOMES from Ilha do Marajó Pará Brazil

[@logarithmic7]

My family didn't understand that my stuffed bear was a alive. My mom said i was 4 when i told her i wanted to be buried with my bear when i die lol

That's very sweet and understandable. Reminds me of my best friend. She too wanted to be buried with her stuffed dog. It's sweet and sad and dearing. Sad in the sense that the minds of children are pure and then society breaks that; society breaks the sweet naivety, and this naivety I do not see it as something bad but as something pure and powerful, and a very special way of seeing life that should never be taken away. The purest form of empathy which is more powerful than love. It is the very basis of love.

[@logarithmic7]

@ In all the years I've been commenting on KZbin, your reply is the 1st and the only one that has touched my heart. Thank you for taking the time to reply with a genuine expression of your well articulated thoughts. You are a benevolent Soul. If we truly are all connected through some point of mass consciousness, then i am renewed with hope that there really are wonderful people like you to share all that energy with.

[@leonardogomes7165]

I really understahd you Logarithmic7 All are connected😊.

[@leonardogomes7165]

@@logarithmic7 I think that it all boils down to how each people, person, egregores, cultures, religions etc interpret and mainly manifest their particular and collective reality dogmatized in rites, mythology, symbols etc. caring in regional, temporal, vibrational, multidimensional, planetary, universal, multiuniversal and without definitions beyond the cognizable of infinity. Nobody's right or shouted: everything in the whole is timeless, indefinable, unpronounceable and interconnected through the inner self and each other. Just insights.... Sorry for the outburst. LEONARDO GOMES from Ilha do Marajó Pará Brazil

[@logarithmic7]

@@leonardogomes7165 A magnificent description of your inner workings! I couldn't agree more with you. How fortunate that again I have crossed paths with another endearing soul. Much love from Canada Leonardo Gomes.

[@davidmistoffelees8459]

9:37 cat.... ur welcome :)

[@ricksmith9256]

I'm an indigenous Germano-Celtic man, my bloodline being displaced to America in the great European diaspora. Can I get reparations from Italy for conquering us in ancient times plz?

[@letichialove1221]

Andrew