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Scientific Animism

Hosted by Chad O · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 46 episodes

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46
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About this podcast

The world is alive, and we are its witnesses! Meaning, myth, & spiritual community based in reality, no supernatural opinions required or forbidden newsletter.scientificanimism.org

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About the host

Chad O hosts Scientific Animism, a science show with 46 episodes published.

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Earth Clouds Are The Best Clouds

Apr 17, 202612m0

Title Earth Clouds are the Best Clouds: How Cosmic Daydreams Increase Empathy Description Seriously, other planets don’t have it so good. As we anticipate a near future in which human civilization is dispersed among mult

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Tell me your Scientific Animist reading list! (now with more collaboration!)

Apr 1, 20266m0

Scientific Animism is happening. It’s out there. Let’s build a reference library together. → check it out → are.na/scientific-animism This is a living resource that we can all create together, to document the large and g

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and YOU get a zine and YOU get a zine and YOU

Mar 18, 20266m0

it’s deliciously analog; deliciously ai-resistent; deliciously connection-forming. a folded piece of paper! the mass-broadcast mechanism of yester-century! so cute, so retro! i wanted one specifically of Animist Gratitud

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the pigeon is having none of your s**t

Feb 17, 20265m0

you are on the edge vertiginous prospecting rooftops Get full access to Scientific Animism at newsletter.scientificanimism.org/subscribe

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Release the Rancid Reservoir and Dig a Brand New Well

Feb 1, 202610m0

Maybe we’re never going to fully tear down the master’s house. Maybe we’re never going to fully out the old. Maybe the new gets layered over the old by degrees and half-measures and one beautiful, laborious story at a ti

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Our 2026 Communal New Year’s Poem feels so much like a prayer ✨

Jan 18, 20263m0

This Communal New Year’s Poem has become a bit of a tradition in the sense that I’ve tried to do it for the past two years. When does something become a tradition? Either way—it has felt especially important lately to be

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More Life: the prime directive

Dec 19, 20252m0

The world is alive, and we are its witnesses! Meaning, myth, & spiritual community based in reality, no supernatural convictions required or forbidden. Push me to boil down the movement to one ethos, one raison d’être, o

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The Sophie Strand Interview: "Give me the magic beans. Spit in my eyes. Lay hands on me."

Dec 9, 20251h 9mEp. 1S1

I still can’t believe Sophie Strand saw—and responded to!—my DM. Me! With my 150 subscribers. Her! With her 37 thousand. I’m humbled. Thanks for reading, listening, being here with me. Let’s co-imagine, co-enact, a more

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is the veil thin

Nov 8, 20251m0

Hello friend! It’s been a busy summer and I haven’t shared anything for a while. Here’s a short post just to say: I like this time of year, and I like you. I hope you’re safe and well-fed and spending your time with peop

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saving

Aug 24, 20251m0

I’ve been thinking about this episode of The Great Simplification about living off-grid and about how all my medicine causes more illness (the “high efficiency” gas boiler in the first house, the mini-splits full of stri

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Death is a bad smell

Jun 25, 20253m0

I imagine the emergent philosophy that is Scientific Animism growing into a collective movement where we create shared spaces, shared containers, to hold all our awe for the world and our grief at its senseless destructi

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Majih-Kwand

May 26, 20257m0

Hey friend, thanks for being here with me, learning to ask better questions. This is one of my favorites. When my four-year-old says it slow, you can hear the misplaced consonant, the "K" at the beginning of the second w

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Slow Hedonism

May 13, 202516m0

For me, right now, at my life stage, I want to embrace slow hedonism. Do things for pleasure! Pleasure is good! But I don’t need the easiest, fastest return on investment. Some of life’s most rewarding experiences requir

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i hardly believe in death at all

Apr 27, 20253m0

one day this feedback loop will end. one day these neurons will stop whispering to themselves a story of their own existence. the dance, the process, the performance will end, and nothing resembling a coherent Agent— a S

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sunrising

Apr 12, 202515m0

The sunrise happens. You can’t control it. You can’t make it come quicker or make it come later, you can’t speed it up or slow it down. It happens. The question is: are you gonna be there to be a part of it? Get full acc

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The Pro-Both Manifesto

Mar 30, 20256m0

About nine years ago, I heard a news story about the surprising number of people identifying as both pro-choice AND pro-life. Being in a fairly soft, in-between place myself at the time, I loved it. If I recall correctly

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Steal This Event! — PLANTS / ART / ATTENTION

Mar 1, 20258m0

When I started this Substack I also had the goal of sort of LARPing, with friends, what we thought Scientific Animism might look like if it were some sort of organized / organizing religion / movement / whatever. Can LAR

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The Pearl: on techniques for Scientific Animism

Feb 12, 20256m0

I have been practicing a Daoist meditation called the Microcosmic Orbit. As part of this practice, I visualize a pearl forming and growing in my sacrum—the Pearl of Consciousness. Get full access to Scientific Animism at

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ode to breath + confessions of a recovering techno-optimist

Jan 29, 20255m0

a whole winter, this constant companion— every morning out delivering papers, every exit from school— breath made visible, maybe a little, maybe a lot, but almost always there, still warm but cooling, bits of was-just-me

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manifesting, prayer, possibility, chaos

Jan 13, 20259m0

The tree makes 10,000 seeds. Sometimes, the yard is filled with seedlings. Sometimes none take. It’s not that God / The Universe wanted you to have this one new opportunity, and you just needed to trust and step out; giv

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Who is the host of Scientific Animism?

Scientific Animism is hosted by Chad O. The show is categorised under science (religion) and has published 46 episodes.

How many episodes does Scientific Animism have?

Scientific Animism has published 46 episodes.

What topics does Scientific Animism cover?

Scientific Animism regularly covers science, religion, spirituality. It sits in the science category, with a religion focus.

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