We have come together as animist explorers, searching for the paths and practices that lead us back to our place in the more-than-human world. We are looking at ways our ancestors and our relations around the world find meaning, belonging and purpose that are relevant to us today. We believe it’s possible for us all to remember how to live in a much deeper relationship with the living world around us and move in the direction of beauty.

Nordic Animism is the contemporary recovery of Euro-traditional animist knowledge of Northwestern Europe. It is the practice of engaging and respecting other-than-humans that inhabit our landscapes, our cycle of seasons and our culture through history. “From a scholarly perspective, Animism is a broader perspective than, for instance, the study pre-Christian heathenry, because animism has been reinvented through changing attitudes, practices and changing religious idioms. The animist perspective shifts the focus. Instead of researching one historic context (typically from around the Viking Age), contemporary animists study a mode of religiosity, i.e. a religiosity that focuses on locally appropriate ways of respectfully relating to the wider community of beings. This relationship of respect has implications for our general approach to, for example, managing the environment. This is sometimes called Euro TEK (European Traditional Ecological Knowledge).