Ancestral Medicine is an organization that encourages the embodiment of animist values and practices in ways that are culturally healing, non-dogmatic, and accessible to people of diverse means, ancestries, and geographies. The organization offers online courses, training in ancestral healing practices, and opportunities for international learning and ritual participation. Ancestral Medicine seeks to honor each person’s unique goodness and to fulfill its mission in partnership with the ancestors and the old ones who are the Earth.

Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, London. He is a prominent scholar of animism, specializing in modern Paganism, Indigenous religions and animism. His site links to many articles on these topics.

The Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE) is a consortium of individuals and organizations working to ease the spreading devastation of the animate Earth through a rapid transformation of culture. AWE employs the arts, often in tandem with the natural sciences, to provoke deeply felt shifts in the human experience of nature. Motivated by a love for the more-than-human collective of life, and for human life as an integral part of that wider collective, AWE works to revitalize local, face-to-face community-and to integrate communities perceptually, practically, and imaginatively into the Earthly bioregions that surround and support them.

Nurit Bird-David is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Haifa. Her seminal 1999 article in the field of anthropology initiated a reinterpretation and revitalization of the way that animism was conceptualized within the field, marking the transition from “old animism” to “new animism.”

David Abram is an American ecologist and philosopher best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues. He coined the phrase “the more-than-human world”.