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Tag Archives: Patterson
Eco-Paganism and place
I recently posted a guest blog on Adventures in Animism called ‘Eco-Paganism 101′. Eco-Paganism exemplifies several themes that I’ve been exploring here, so I want to flag them up. Eco-Pagans are animists, “people who recognise that the world is full of persons, only … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and spirituality
Tagged anthropology, Eco-Paganism, embodied knowing, embodiment, indigenous, Patterson, spirit of place, spirituality
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The Wanton Green – Pagan places
For many contemporary Pagans the relationship between bodymind and place is fundamental, but that relationship has rarely been explored in any depth. Paganism is often described as being polytheistic, animist or about ‘nature worship’, and while that’s all true in a vague and anodyne way, it’s of … Continue reading
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Tagged nature, Pagan, Patterson, spirit of place, spirituality, The Wanton Green
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The threshold brook
My Ph.D. research into embodied knowing found that Eco-Pagans living in urban environments often had a powerful spiritual connection to a specific place. Barry Patterson, one of my research participants, described this connection as listening to the “threshold brook” (Harris, … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and spirituality
Tagged connection, Gendlin, nature, Pagan, Patterson, place, spirituality
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