What is bioregional animism?

Bioregional animism is by definition relating to the land/bioregion as the source of ones religion and culture. It is a form of Personalism where other then human persons including the whole bioregion itself is related to and communicated with as a person, not as if it was a person but as a person. Animism does not personify other then human persons, animals forces of nature, plants, the land and sky, it gives up human dominion over the designation of who and what a person is. Bioregional Animism does not treat animals, plants, forces of nature, or the land and sky as tools, or symbols, for humans to use but instead views these other then human persons as just that… persons who can be communicated with, who relationships and partnerships and allegiances can be formed with for living in mutually beneficial and reciprocal ways; In both the physical and spiritual world. Bioregional Animism sees that ones larger self is the eco-region one lives within and that animist spiritual practice, cosmology, ontology, culture, and life practices are all expression of that larger ecological and transpersonal self. In a way Bioregional animism is a response to the need for the rediscovery and rebirth or earth embracing traditions, and attempts to embody the ideal slogan of thinking globally but acting locally. Many people are drawn to shamanism in an attempt to find this way of relating to self and earth just to find that there is no shamanism in reality, shamans are healers and spiritual leaders designated by an animist tradition or culture, in other words all shamans of the world are animists not shamanists. Bioregional animism attempts to assist others in discovering the spiritual tradition which is an expression of the land under their feet and the sky over their head which fills their lungs and moves through ones heart. Bioregional animism attempts to show us that the spirit of the shaman as well as the animist is derived from and is an expression of the bioregion, of the land itself and forms from deeply intimate relationships with the life and spirit of those around us. Bioregional animism works with a base inspiration from the work of Graham Harvey’s New Animism www.animism.org.uk/. As well as with modern concepts of bioregionalism by such authors on the subject as Kirkpatrick Sales, www.schumachersociety.org/publi...3.htmlPlease read His book Dwellers in the Land: A Bioregional Vision. As well as Harvey’s revolutionary work on new animism titled, Animism: Respecting the Living World. For more information on bioregional animism please read our blog. bioregionalanimism.blogspot.com/ If you would like to meet other bioregional animists as well as discuss bioregional animism with Little lightening bolt and other bioregional animist our online forum can be found at tribes… tribes.tribe.net/bioregionalanimism Bioregional animism is the Life vision of Little Lightening Bolt of the Cascadia bioregion and the Tumwawa eco-region. It is not an idea or concept or philosophy it’s a vision that he carries and offers as a gift to all who may need to carry such a vision themselves. Little Lightening Bolt can be contacted via the tribe’s bioregional animism forum. He is currently writing a book entitled Bioregional Animism: Finding the spirit of the shaman in your back yard... with out haveing to culturaly appropriate....

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Friday, March 14, 2008

We love our relations

“The Parasites:
I believe Western European culture will never endure in the Americas. I believe it is only a passing phase like the hoola hoop or the skate board. I also believe that the peoples living in the Americas will become American; that they will have to in order to survive in America. That means that a truly American culture will evolve-is evolving-in the Americas, a culture which is not a European import, nor an adaptation of an European import. That means that the sons and daughters of immigrants who strove for over four hundred years to posses the Americas will be possessed by the Americas; the descendants of those who tried to conquer and subdue the Americas will be conquered and subdued by the Americas. It means that the stubborn land pioneers cleared and cursed will be loved, respected, and revered by the great grandchildren of pioneers. And the native creatures of that land will also be loved and fostered, including the original American Human: the Indian.”-Wilfred Pelletier and Ted Poole, from No Foreign Land: The Biography of a North American Indian.

Cosmic Rains of the black sky tribe tending to the needs of the earth mother and her children.


This is what I have been shown by spirit… at our lodge at the cedar house so many years ago, doing ceremony with my tribe, we black sky people… when bioregional animism was being born in my visions and in our relationships. I saw how the Earth this land gave form to the body, the mind the spirit and the cultures of the people… how new tribes were forming peoples spirits where waking up to the reality that they are the place they live, they are the people of the land and sky they live within…
I was shown this clear as day… I could feel the land reaching up through us giving us form and instruction on how to live, how to bee kin, how to be family and live in a good way. I still see this and feel this… and I am seeing it in the people I share this vision with.
I am going to going on a long walk in the not to distant futurethis fall… looking for my people and seeking new skills… and visiting the members of the black sky tribe where ever the four winds have taken you with the hope to bring you back to the Puget Sound eventually so we can co-create a village with the land.

This is happening...
Posted by little lightening bolt at 6:56 PM

1 comments:

little lightening bolt said...

We will be possessed by the Americas because that is who we truly are...

1:24 AM

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