Week 4 - Spirits Spirits Everywhere: Animism and Modern Interpretations - Ryan Tong

The way our world thinks is very logical. In fact, every thought expressed in western thought almost always requires some kind of logical reasoning behind it. No one considers, including me, the possibility of proving concepts and ideas using other meanings within the spectrum of education. It’s always from the perspective of logic.

From the article “‘We Are Not Alone’ the Shamans of the World Tell Us” by the Scientific & Medical Network suggests that we, as people, should consider more than what is taught to us. We should look at life how it was given to us rather than how it is currently analytically seen, just to at least consider the thought that life is given to us. Our ancestors “understood that there is deep wisdom in the rhythms of the Earth and an infinite variety of life experience stored by our fellow creatures and by spirits.”

Coming from a world that accepts modern society’s belief in scientific reasoning, it is hard for me to envision the world the way most people used to see it. I cannot imagine that the objects of every creature and being as living, despite the thought of that being in existence for a long time. However, despite not being able to intake this idea, I understand that it is not the point to believe in it but to think about how the world runs and to not just take it as it is. Under the scientific way that the world is observed, we cannot explain anything that is spiritual. Having this spiritual thinking explains many of the problems that science cannot answer.

However, if this school of thought answers so many questions, why is it not more widely believed? Why do we take science as it is, despite science being proven wrong multiple times throughout history? What makes a way of thinking more believable than others?

Works Cited:
""We Are Not Alone" the Shamans of the World Tell Us." Collective Evolution. The Scientific & Medical Network, 15 Nov. 2015. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.