an animated world

Long before any ism or religion existed in humanity's consciousness, animist practice was the embodied experience of living beings. 

Animism is not a theory, a philosophy, or an idea. It was simply how things were. A common understanding - across the entire world, for all of time. 

The fabric offerings tied to a tree mark offerings to a being of the landscape.
Olkhon Island, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Roberto Quijada, CC BY-NC

Animism is not a religion one can convert to but rather a label used for worldviews and practices. It identifies and describes acknowledge relationships between nature and the animal world. A driving force and influence over humans and a way of being that needed to be respected.

energetic signature

At a recent episode of The Shamans Cave, the phrase energetic signature started an entire way of thinking about what energy we put into the web of life.

being rather than doing

We are all woven into the web of life when we are born. Every single one of us has a different energetic signature that we actually add. Bringing beauty and brilliance as we contribute our uniqueness - adding it into the mix in the world we come to live in. 

Nobody has the same energetic signature. In our current culture though - instead of honoring our uniqueness we are induced to fit in - rather than embracing and loving our own unique energetic signature.

discussing energetic signatures on The Shamans Cave

Follow a lineage back to our own ancestors and see how that energetic footprint contributes to our life today and what we are leaving behind for our descendants to step into as well.

Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman generously share this valuable conversation and their insights with us.

They create true alchemy as they speak to the different aspects and facets of how we express our individual energetic signature.

How important it is as it adds to all of life.