On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 I was once again a guest of CTCW Otherworldly, this time talking about ghost cats and reincarnation! I started off retelling the tale of how I encountered an entire litter of ghost kittens when we rescued a tiny lost kitten that was threatened by a tomcat, and how one of those ghost cats later decided to reincarnate as a cat I adopted in the physical world. After that we ambled into talking about the nature of cat souls, my personal take on familiars as fellow witches, and some of my theories on the nature of reincarnation and spiritual evolution. At the end of the video, one of the viewers talked about some of her experiences communicating with the ghosts of animals, including a beloved little rat named Lola, who is a psychopomp that has guided many other animals to the other side.
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I was recently a guest on Mistery’s Mystical Cupboard discussing animism, what it is, reincarnation, nature vs nurture, cultural appropriation, and more.
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This is the story of what happened to me with an entire litter of ghost cats, their living sibling, closure after death, and the joys of reincarnation.
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Animism is a natural human impulse, as odd as that might seem in the context of greater Western culture. If you have ever cussed out an electronic device or a curb you tripped over, thanked your car for making it there in time, or mourned the loss of a beloved item, you engaged with those things in an animistic way. Animism means understanding that everything has a soul, from you and me to every animal, plant, object, and place. It is a cosmological perspective on the nature of reality that is compatible with most cultures, traditions, and paths, and an important feature of the philosophies and cosmologies of a great many religions, both historic and modern.
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These are my personal reasons for not formally venerating my ancestors, and some things I have done instead to root my practice and connect with death.
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