“ Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEEN… Zeena Schreck
“ The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense… Zeena Schreck
“ A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, T… Zeena Schreck
“ There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunci… Zeena Schreck
“ There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may… Zeena Schreck
“ Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cher… Zeena Schreck
“ We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path. S. Kelley Harrell
“ Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice. S. Kelley Harrell
“ The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth. S. Kelley Harrell
“ The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture. S. Kelley Harrell
“ Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given. Zeena Schreck
“ In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible. S. Kelley Harrell
“ God did not create evolution--evolution created God. The evolution of religion is as follows: animism--polytheism--monotheism--agnosticism--atheism. As history progresses, people worship fewer and few… G.M. Jackson
“ Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with. S. Kelley Harrell
“ She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap. Mary Webb
“ The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on. Sigmund Freud
“ ...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that real processes in the external world follow the lin… Sigmund Freud
“ It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great s… Holly Estil Cunningham
“ It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A… A.J. Ayer
