Topic: Personhood

Charles Fort proposed that everything in the universe exists on a spectrum between the unreal and the real, a concept that supports an animistic worldview. This model suggests that the natural human state is animistic, as evidenced by the way people attribute personhood to pets and feel the "spirit" of specific places. Animism is identified as the earliest form of human spiritual experience, appearing more coherent than materialism in light of modern data.

The practice of scrying, famously used by John Dee, is linked to the idea of spirits "falling" into crystals to facilitate communication. Stephen Buhner’s herbalism techniques, where students sit with unfamiliar plants to intuit their uses, demonstrate a "two-thirds accuracy" rate comparable to remote viewing. These methods suggest that humans can verify the "personhood" and intelligence of the natural world through focused awareness and assembly of specific techniques.