This brings us to the very essence of animism: a radical rejection of Cartesian dualism, the recognition that we are our bodies and not an ephemeral spirit wrapped in an arbitrary fleshy shell, and the simple belief in our own experience. Atheists often assert that they only believe what they can experience for themselves, but this is not true; they do not trust their ... alphabetanimismlanguagemagicwriting in RELIGION.PHILOSOPHY > otherwith **relphil**animism