Scientific Animism

The world is alive, and we are its witnesses! Meaning, myth, & spiritual community based in reality, no supernatural opinions required or forbidden

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lightning to a lightning bug
as nazis descended on our capital la tormenta descended on our street (i use the spanish "la tormenta" because it's so much more dramatique than the…
 • Chad O
Earth Clouds Are The Best Clouds
11 years like 🫰🏼 and that creative project's still half-finished but a space thing happened so
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Tell me your Scientific Animist reading list! (now with more collaboration!)
Help build the Scientific Animist reference library
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and YOU get a zine and YOU get a zine and YOU
print your own! find me in person and i'll give you one! pay me to mail you one! EVERY BODY GETS A ZINE
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the pigeon is having none of your shit
on the edge vertiginous
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Release the Rancid Reservoir and Dig a Brand New Well
on using the master's tools, like Christianity & religion
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Our 2026 Communal New Year’s Poem feels so much like a prayer ✨
Building and fortifying community through co-creation.
 • Sam Sweigert
More Life: the prime directive
boiling the movement, for better and worse, down to a catchphrase
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1:09:51
The Sophie Strand Interview: "Give me the magic beans. Spit in my eyes. Lay hands on me."
"An animism that isn't rule-based, never systematized, that's patchy and heterogeneous, that shifts according to needs. Without ritual, without class…
 • Chad O
Scientific Animism
Scientific Animism
The world is alive, and we are its witnesses! Let's co-imagine, co-enact, spiritual communities based in reality, no supernatural convictions required or forbidden.
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