Pagan Portals - Western Animism
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A Zen approach to the World, the Universe and Everything. Many of
today’s disenfranchised pagans in the West appear to be seeking a
spiritual connection to life without feeling the need to become a witch,
a Wiccan, a shaman, Heathen, or a Druid. Here the Shinto approach fulfills the basic need for a belief system based on what we would define
as simple animism and ancestor worship in accord with the world’s
other, authentic, animistic traditions such as the Australian Aboriginal
and Native American way of life; while Zen provides the intellectual
stimulation rising from the simplicity of basic folk-belief to elevate
the soul to a higher level of mysticism.