Animism:

(1) Religious practices based on the belief that all living things and natural objects have their individual spiritual essence or "soul".

(2) The belief that every object found in nature, whether living or non-living, has a spirit or life-force attached to it which is endowed with the same fundamental reasoning and volition of men. In essence, all of nature is endowed with a pure life essence which holds all things in a symbiotic relationship and a spiritual balance within the universe. This is a core belief in many magical philosophies and practices.

(See also: Animism, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Dream Interpretation Animal, animals

Animals represent the parts of our personality and the depths of our unconscious, our instincts. Animals in dreams are always symbols of our subdued desires, this way our subconscious communicates to us about forbidden.##Bear: a symbol of power, vitality, strength and endurance.##Fish: a fear of loosing love.##Dog: extremely subdued sexual urges; a true friend.##Insects: repressed anger, emotional stress, family problems.##Cat: a symbol of female eroticism and sometimes repressed desire for freedom.##Cow: female sexual urges combined with patience and calm.##Lion: glorified and powerful physical contact between men and women.##Mouse: a symbol of femininity; a fear of mice - a fear to acknowledge your femininity.##Horse: aroused, but unrealised physical energies or controlled vitality.##Serpent: a phallic symbol; woman dreaming of serpents usually suffer from unfulfilled sexuality.##Small animals usually represent a small sibling; large animals stand for your character features and repressed cravings. Animals talking to us with human voices are a warning that people can hurt you or take advantage of you. Dead animals are the sign of a change in your personal situation. Animals are a symbol of primitive character traits like passion, greed, anger.##39

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Animal, animals, Meaning of Dreams about Animal, animals, Dream Interpretation Animal, animals)

Animal

1. DOMESTIC ANIMALS: Comfort, familiarity, security, gentleness.

Astrological parallel: Virgo.

2. WILD ANIMALS: The lower nature, the unknown, fear, danger.

Astrological parallel: Aries.

Source: Astrocenter, http://astrocenter.astrology.msn.com/msn/DreamDictionary.aspx

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Animal, Meaning of Dreams about Animal, Dream Interpretation Animal)

Animism:

The belief that everything is alive. The Law of Personification taken as a statement of universal reality rather than as one of psychic convenience.

(See also: Animism, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

animal that represents a person, tribe, or other group

(See also: totem animal, Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dictionary)

ANIMALISM: The doctrine that man is a mere animal with no soul or spiritual quality.

(See also: ANIMALISM, Magickal Traditions, Magickal Paths, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

The animals that shamans call on for assistance when they are seeking knowledge or attempting to do a healing. Also known as "power animals"

(See also: animal helper, Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dictionary)

Animal Magnetism. See MESMERISM

(See also: Animal Magnetism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Sacred Animals.

See ANIMALS, SACRED

(See also: Sacred Animals, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

The notion that all things in the world have a spiritual essence or spirit, including all animals, plants, landforms, bodies of water, and elements.

(See also: animism, Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dictionary)

Animal Soul. See KAMA-MANAS, KAMA-RUPA, PRINCIPLES

(See also: Animal Soul, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

ANIMISM (Latin, anima: "air, soul"):

 The belief that all life is produced by a spiritual force separate from matter;

 The belief that natural phenomena and objects are alive and have souls;

 The doctrine of the existence of soul as independent of matter;

 The belief in the existence of spirits, demons, etc.

(See also: ANIMISM, Magickal Traditions, Magickal Paths, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Sacred Animals Many ancient peoples have attached great importance to animals in their rituals; and they may have had facts to support their theories. If the hierarchical system of the universe is a reality, it follows that every animal is a feeble representative on its plane of comic potencies that descend from lofty sources. Ceremonial magic, however, may be better suited to one age than to another; so that it may be better to explain than to attempt to reintroduce the ancient practices as to the use of sacred animals in ritual.

It is equally true that such words as lion, bull, and scorpion are often used in occult writings to denote, not the physical animals, but the potencies to which they correspond. Zodiac means the circle of (sacred) animals. As man himself is on this earth the model and storehouse of all forms, those as yet unexpressed as well as those which have already appeared, he had in his own composition the ideal forms and attributes of all the various animals who in eons of past history as stocks were derivatives from him as their superior.

See also ZOOLATRY

(See also: Sacred Animals, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

ANIMAL MAGIC

Jacob von Uexküll has shown that animals live in quite separate numinous worlds defined by the nature of their species. The elephant lives in an elephant universe, the butterfly in a butterfly world. They inhabit separate spheres of consciousness. Says Uexküll, "when a dog runs, it moves its legs. When a sea urchin runs, it is moved by its legs." Uexküll even distinguishes between acts of individual superstition (or "ritual") - bird pecking at empty pavement, dog licking newly washed dinner bowl - and genuine "species environment" magic that involves entire herds or flocks, performing purely symbolic acts.

(See also: ANIMAL MAGIC, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Animism The name given by anthropologists to the attribution of life or mind to inanimate objects, such as trees, mountains, rivers, or images. This belief of the ancients and of many existing peoples was a recognition of the universal sentience of nature.

Also the doctrine of Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) that the soul is the vital principle and responsible for organic functions in the body, and synonymous with Vitalism. This doctrine avoids the logical absurdity of making life at once the cause and the effect of the properties of matter; but it errs in making life something entirely distinct from matter, for such a separation reduces both to mere abstractions.

(See also: Animism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Animal Kingdom One of the main divisions or life-waves of entities on earth, separated from the human kingdom by its lack of the emanated or evolved self-conscious mind, a faculty which can be acquired only by the aid of beings already having it -- the manasaputras.

The entities now pursuing their evolution in the animal kingdom will in a future imbodiment of the planetary chain become human in the same way, although a certain number of the highest animal stocks now living, such as the apes and possibly some of the monkeys, may attain incipient humanity before the end of the seventh round in the present planetary manvantara.

The mammals in this fourth round came later in time than man, having arisen from germinal cells thrown off from the bodies of the individuals of the human racial stem millions and millions of years ago, when nature still allowed such a procedure. These early mammals have since become highly specialized.

The animals below the mammals originated from the human stock in the preceding third round, and hence their ancestors or sishtas were on earth and provided the origins of the later widely disseminated sub-mammalian stocks in this round, even before the human sishtas felt the incoming human life-wave and multiplied over the earth.

(See also: Animal Kingdom, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of beta animal:

beta animal - in animal behavior, the subordinate or second animal in a social group

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Animal Magnetism. While official science calls it a "supposed" agent, and utterly rejects its actuality, the teeming millions of antiquity and of the now living Asiatic nations, Occultists, Theosophists, Spiritualists, and Mystics of every kind and description proclaim it as a well established fact. Animal magnetism is a fluid, an emanation.

Some people can emit it for curative purposes through their eyes and the tips of their fingers, while the rest of all creatures, mankind, animals and even every inanimate object, emanate it either as an aura, or a varying light, and that whether consciously or not. When acted upon by Contact: with a patient or by the will of a human operator it is called "Mesmerism" (q.v.).

(See also: Animal Magnetism, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Definition and meaning of animal communication:

animal communication - animals use several ways to communicate with one another. These include the visual, auditory, and tactile senses, as well as certain chemicals involved in taste and smell. Other possibilities are magnetic fields and electrical discharges. Communication among animals helps them to recognize each other, cause reproductive behavior, and to organize social behaviors

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of omega animal:

omega animal - in animal behavior, the animal which has the lowest social rank in its linear hierarchical group

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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