Wakeful World, The – Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature Published_12 May 2022 These magical folk traditions also

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Wakeful World, The – Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature Published_12 May 2022 These magical folk traditions alsoOver the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian like immortal soul. Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall Orr explores the heritage of Western thought with precision, enthusiasm and