In this episode, we look at European Paleolithic Animism,

How language conventions inform our understanding about the type of Animism that was practiced in the past.

The creation of duality and the goddess culture.

In this episode, we look at how new Animism came to be invented, the difference between old animism and new animism, the fall of the Soviet block, anti-imperialist sentiment, self-help.

the loss of belief in spirit forms and the growth of belief in a central universal force.

the end of psychic skills and the belief in integration through empathy.

Freewill is the belief in an internal decision-making process, used in the Abrahamic religions to help you to make moral choices.

Karma disputes Freewill by claiming that instead of our being capable of utilizing Freewill, a lot of our activity is predetermined by outside influences, most noticeably the life we lived prior to our former deaths.

Animism frequently falls into the Karma system, since many believe that consciousnesses we perceive to exist inside physical objects may have been human in the past.

But this isn't a blanket-cover-all belief across all Animism, and so we introduce the Pathway system.

(Incidentally, less dependence upon freewill allows us to live in the moment and be spontaneous, key attributes for an Animist.)