matthias preston

Category: Spirituality

  • The Unwilling Seer

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    I used to regularly perform ritual work that is considered to be a good introductory practice. While writing this post, I discovered that there is now a wikiHow article on how to perform this ritual, which is possibly one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I used YouTube like a proper heathen! One day…

  • The Animist’s Journal

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    I talk to everything. The birds at the feeder, the impressive neighborhood fir trees, the rock that catches my eye on a walk, the crow that watches me from a wire.  Most of these are passing interactions, like greeting a stranger. Although I talk to everything, not everything responds in the same way. Some respond…

  • First Star I See Tonight

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    Content warning for discussion of animal death. A few days after I was born, a white kitten with bright blue eyes showed up at my grandmother’s doorstep. The kitten couldn’t have been more than a few days old. My grandmother suspected that she was a kitten of a stray tortoiseshell cat that she had taken…

  • Meletē Thanatou

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    Content warning for discussion of death, animal death, and out-of-body experience. ──────────────────────────────────── The ability to dream makes us all natural storytellers. In this post, I will share a short series of dreams with you, and a layer of the story that they have told me thus far. The first dream occurred in my infancy, not…

  • The Cultural Baggage of Good People

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    We start alone on Valentine’s Day. What thoughts come to your mind? Do you expect a story of depression, loneliness, pining? That’s what I expected, too, as I took a mindful lone walk around my neighborhood, surrounded by decorations and encountering couples. The bright red heart, beating fast, flushing red, an historic symbol, carrying notions…