Animism is a rather blunt tool to use in relation to indigenous peoples to rationalise away our own reality today. I mean, is it not also applicable to the psychic content of our relationships with smartphones, pets, ideas, politics and social media. Or when we idolize. What do we mean? The bottom line is that we do not focus enough intellectual ability on the content of what we ourselves attribute to our psychic experiences. Intellectually, we just exclude the necessary experience that we must have in order to perceive our beingness intrinsic action on us. The psychic interaction formulated by indigenous people in conceptual form is something else than what is being attributed to them. Also, it was naturally divided between those experiences that had to do with psychic development and the inner maturity of individual people, and those that had their influence as natural phenomena and their inherent energy. Although posterity scattered them out of their proper context and then put them back together again in rational terms without their psychic reality and the experience of their implication on our life. Their origins differed even if the intellectual logic that described them did not do it on the that basis or with today’s attitude and usage of terms. The notion of psychic maturity united the individual’s respect for the influence it had in relation to them with a similar reverence for the natural phenomena that in a compensatory and orderly manner related in a self-organized way to all life. In the same way that we embody our inner development in relation to the psychological trials that force us to conceptually relate to what we are exposed to within ourselves, with the same awe and respect. Calling them gods takes them away from their unique relationship to life, and the living experience that arises in our encounter with them on our path to psychic maturity. But to refer them to meaningful patterns of psychic experience, and its content as different kinds of psychic attractors may at least try to make them physical in an embodied sense, and meet them half way. Because behind them there is a call to perform a specific function. It was also spoken of in the past about noaidis who by their relation to their Sáivu family also could carry several psychic families within them and relate them to the psychic dynamism that created for other people in Sáivu. And to the greater structure of a wholeness they also referred them to beyond them. Such a noaidi healed the relationships between others and their relation to them and through his own relationship with his, he could carry them as a vessel for their relation to our Sáivu families and guide people in their relationships with our individual psychic family. Something that missionaries in the Christian tradition could not accept. Nor that the underlying self-organizing center which advises us was associated with soul wandering in a recurring consciousness reincarnated as an ancestor, an inner person who is born in every human being again and again, with its own unique relation to this source that unites all opposites, and has done so through all time.
To sum it up, what we are going through is not just names of objects, but attributes of our living experiences.