Our face-to-face events are the PAN Coffee Moot (fourth Saturday of the month), talks and workshops at the Silver Road Community Centre (second Sunday of the month - except October when the Brocante is later, and this year the venue is being rewired in June, so we have a walk instead) and, in the summer part of the year, walks. At the moment, our on-line talks are on holiday. The silver lining to lockdown was the people who have joined us on-line that couldn't do so in person. We have been joined by people from distant parts of England, Wales, Canada, France and the USA! So, we hope to tap into this network again in the future.
If you join our Facebook group you will automatically get notifications of our events. If you’re not a Facebook person, don’t worry, the links will be given here for each event. Alternatively, contact us using the following e-mail address and we can put you on our e-mail list to get the links (please copy out the e-mail address to avoid spam).
We are (still) currently investigating mailing list service options. Once we have chosen one, people will be invited to sign up afresh.
Animism is not a religion. It is an aspect of religion or spirituality. Religion is about belief, experience and relationship, and animism speaks to the relationships with and experience of other conscious and spiritual entities around us. Some, fundamentalist traditions tend to dismiss this as sinful and unholy, whereas others, including monotheisms, recognise that it is an acknowledgement of other sentient beings in the great panoply of Creation. There is common ground between Christian acceptance of the Fair Folk, Muslim acknowledgment of the Djinn, Shinto’s panoply of Kami, Paganism’s reverence for Nature Spirits and Spirits of Place, and Indigenous Peoples’ on-going relationships with those entities who are simply there. At the end of the day, it is no different to being friendly to the postie, shop assistant, bus driver, dog-walker you meet in the street – or their dog – and the bird who seems to be grateful for what you put in the bird-feeder.
We thank all our speakers who have generously donated their time to research and present talks, but the Moot still has running costs! So, we would welcome any donations, large or small (the price of a chocolate bar even…). Our PayPal address for donations is (please copy out to avoid spam):
Some of our speakers have kindly provided texts or presentations from their talks which you can download here.
