Celtic Animism & the Anam Mòr
The Anam Mòr means "The Great Spirit" or The Great Soul in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It’s Gitchi Manitou in Gaelic. My favourite definition is The Great Mystery. That kind of sums up how Spirit feels in the world. lol.
I am an Animist. Our ancestors were Animists.
The Anam Mòr is present in all beings; human and non-human beings. All of existence is kin and the natural world are our cousins.
All of life is our kin.
Animism informs every aspect of my spiritual and physical life. Animism and the oneness of the natural world is the primary pathway of my healing.
Don't underestimate the trauma and wounds created when you first realized that our society, religions, institutions, educations, healthcare and spirituality disconnected us from the natural world. Our society has been designed to disconnect us from ourselves, each other and the Natural World.
We are Nature.
We are communicating with the wisdom of the natural world at all times. Fite Fuaite. We speak to our Ancestors, Nature and the world. This is real and true and happening, even if western society has tried to diminish and erase these ways of being and knowing.
Heart knowing and empathetic knowing and learning from intuition and direct relationship with the trees and the plants and the animals is real and true and is our birthright. It is a way of knowing and communicating that has evolved with our bodies since the first ancestor swam as a single cell in the soup of creation.
Fite Fuaite.
Mothatheacht, Mothachadh, Buiochas, Ceolta na Cruinne - these are all Irish and Scottish Gaelic words for the communication and connection to our oneness with nature.
There is no separation between us and the natural world.