Astrology + Scientific Animism

I want the “scientific” part of "Scientific Animism” to actually mean something. I want this to feel like it could be a spiritual home—or maybe a spiritual framework, or test bed—for people like me with evidence-based worldviews. Skeptics who celebrate aligning our views with evidence, and who are open to the fact that new evidence might require us to change our minds. Who tend to have high levels of suspicion about supernatural claims, and even our own experiences. I want to build up a spirituality that honors that quest, that curiosity, and doesn’t require buying into a supernatural framework. To make spirituality feel possible to this audience.There’s already so many scammers and regular-confused-people misusing the word “science” as well as various scientific terms (quantum this and uncertainty that!). Is Scientific Animism just another one?To help clarify what I think this new idea is and what it isn’t, let’s draw some circles. What’s in this one, and what’s merely nearby in the Venn diagram. The other circles are fine, but I want us to come up with a definition of Scientific Animism that keeps it distinct from the other stuff. If the term is too squishy, it loses power; why even introduce it in the first place? Get full access to Scientific Animism at newsletter.scientificanimism.org/subscribe