THE ANIMIST WAY

Breath is song; everything sings, and Song is the intimate relationship of spirit.

The Sagh’ic say, “Tei Sarna’n”, which means, “everything is in the moment and the moment is everything”.

To live an animist spirit life, in which we are all equal collaborators in this journey of life, is to be in relationship and to be relationship with the moment.

“Tei Sarna’n” also means “the breath of god is my breath, which sings in all of god”. Animism in its truest sense is a simple definition – “everything has breath”. The Sagh’ic word/sound for ‘breath, song, soul’ are all the same and as such the animist perspective is that everything is the sound of the breath/song/soul of turning in the grace of creation.

The essence of this Animist Way is an observance and aligning of the day to day life of the community with the turning of the seasons, the path of the moon and the cycle of nomadic journeying that maintains the community in direct relationship with the environment it is set in. The environment and the people of the community are never seen as distinct or separate, rather they are all part of one living organism or spirit journey; all dependent on each other to reach the journey’s end.

“There are no binaries within animism. There is no self and the other. There is no self and the world. It’s all one. Every thread is made up of strands, every strand more fibres, and every fibre more so, until there is only nothing… we are all tapestries made of the magic stuff of nothingness.” Dipankar Panth

The tradition is based on a cyclical process in which everything returns to the night and recommences at daybreak; as the world retreats to winter and re-grows in spring; as life sleeps in death to awake in birth. The Wheel of Seasons is in essence the underpinning and driving force of the tradition even with all its stories. This turning is the dreaming of a world in creation, and as such, is not real. It is the dreamtime that is real, the time out of time, that we dream this life from. In essence the tradition reflects the lost and disenfranchised soul of the world in a Gnostic journey.

​​The Sagh’ic are a re-enlivening of an ancient form of nomadic animistic and ancestral spirit practice. This Ancestral Nomadic Tradition follows the qualities and character of the wild dog beast or wolf and incorporates those into a Spirit and Earth driven way of life and relationship. Our songs and stories are also related to the paths that our nomadic ancestors took in understanding the world, and the storytellers they met along that journey, and in hearing those stories they wove the words into their own; it is a tradition of dreams not history.

We are an Animistic tradition (from the Latin anima “soul” or “life”, and refers to a set of beliefs that revolve around the existence of non-human “spiritual beings” or similar kinds of embodied principles) observing and learning from the world of nature around, the creatures and elements of the forest and how best the community can survive and reach a state of harmony with The Eternal Forest. The Sagh’ic differs from the more typical animistic focus on individual spirits seemingly working autonomously, and rather on a commonality of ultimate purpose of Spirit. This spirit is manifest in the qualities, energies and guidance of all ancestral spirits. Thus the Sagh’ic are a Totemic Animist tradition, as there is this inherent awareness of everything in creation being United in Spirit, held together and instructed through the Ancestral Spirits.

All teaching, practice, rites, songs, stories, rituals and ceremonies are done in direct intimate relationship and interaction with the Ancient Ones, The Old Ones and the Ancestors, through the use of song, dance, plant spirits and elemental ritual.