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An interesting contribution by John Michael Greer on enchantment and disenchantment. Note his take on enchantment: the world of phenomena (or "objects") is experienced as a community of persons. For instance, the sun is experienced as a person. Not "believed to be" a person, but actually *experienced* as such. He never uses the terms "animism" and "animatism", but that seems to be what he is describing. Certainly the latter!
A tie-in to the interview with Iain McGilchrist I linked to earlier is possible here. Note that McGilchrist suggests that the left brain is "materialist" and sees even animate objects as mechanism, while the right brain is "spiritual" and sees even inamimate objects as alive (for instance, the sun). This per scientific experiments in which one half of the brain has been disconnected.
This raises the question why evolution gave us this peculiar brain to begin with. After all, evolution is supposed to be about adaptation...
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