Stupid noob late-night thought I may regret sharing later on. But thinking about the concept of spirits, or God(s), or whatever one believes inhabits the spaces around them. (I have panentheistic beliefs, so if you aren't along the same lines this won't make much sense to you personally.)

I've long felt an understanding for how this would manifest in my neck of the woods: the Great Lakes area. Here, the Anishinaabe belief was strongest, nature manitous of the water, thunder, things like that. I understand these beings. Thing is, they aren't "mine" to follow. I'm not Anishinaabe.

Digging into my genealogy, there's lots of Germanic ancestry, so what I'd take to be Saxon influence. It seems those would be "my" powers to believe in/follow, should I learn more about them. Thing is...this isn't their area I live in. These aren't their trees, their lakes, their thunder, here where I live.

How do you reconcile these things? 😕 #spirituality #panentheism

Uhm... #introduction

Nothing really to say about me as a person, I have crippling #anxiety & so no life/accomplishments to speak of. Here are some of my interests, I'm an expert on none.

#writing #writers #fiction #books #etymology #language #journaling #blogging #art #DigitalArt #genealogy #photography #NaturePhotography #history #psychology #Jung #geology #trees #forest #Lovecraft #WeirdFiction #TrueCrime #LawAndOrder #politics #asexual #LGBT #paranormal #panentheism (appears nobody's into that) #anthro (like #furry , sort of) #Michigan #MackinacIsland #GreatLakes #spirituality (not organized religion, no) #Anishinaabe #Haudenosaunee (I'm of European descent--don't wish to give a false impression) #AncientEgypt #mythology #myths #folklore #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #SocialAnxiety #depression #autism (not diagnosed--again, don't want to mislead) #NeueDeutscheHarte #SymphonicMetal #PennsylvaniaDutch #PennsylvaniaGerman #Urglaawe #heathenry uhh...maybe more later.

2026 update: I post political stuff & am kind of inconsistent with warnings/tags. I see such things bother some users, but I'm tired of policing everything I say in my own space (plus bots auto-repost me when I use political tags), so, just a heads-up you may want to mute me.

I welcome followers & try to reciprocate, but if you seem like a bot, you're a charity account (I'm on gov't support myself, sorry), or I can't figure out why you followed me, or if you post "Genocide Joe/Killer Kamala/Both sides are equally bad" content, I will almost certainly not follow back. Please just avoid me.

Apologies if I'm doing anything wrong, I mean no offense.

I guess I'll do an #introduction, now that I'm here!
Howdy y'all, I'm Em.

These days I'm feeling too #queer for shul here in Germany, too religious for the queer "community".

I spend a lot of time thinking about how Whiteness and White supremacism manifest in our society and minds. I'm learning to #decolonize my self and always looking for friends who actively seek the same.

I also spend a lot of time these days thinking about #phenomenology, #animism, #panentheism(/ #monism?), and #nondualism.

I'm a software developer by day, but that world is becoming less and less important to me.

My partner and I have a 70 year old steel sailboat that we're completely overhauling together, and someday we hope to set sail from #Hamburg towards wherever the wind takes us. I'll tag posts about the boat with #SVBellaCiao, you can follow that tag if you want.

Until then, come on over. Let me make you a tea. How ya doin, but I mean it, really. Whatcha thinkin about these days?

"46. 'We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.' — Julian of Norwich

"Julian here celebrates the reality of panentheism: God in us and us in God. But she underscores how this is not always clear, since we do not see God. Notice how different panentheism is from theism. The latter says, 'We are here and God is out there someplace.' Panentheism names the nearness of God, we in God and God in us, like the fish in the water and the water in the fish. That is how grace operates. Panentheism is the mystical way of understanding our relationship to Divinity."

- Matthew Fox, Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations

#Religion #Spirituality #Mysticism #Panentheism

There is a new episode of my conversation series, "Let's Talk!" available; I talked last summer with Ass't Professor Kiara Jorgenson of St. Olaf College. We discuss the expanding lives of students, intersectional justice, place-based vocation, panentheism, and more: https://youtu.be/-0SZnD3AWJ8

Audio-only: https://letstalk-paulsantmire.podbean.com/

#ClimateAnxiety
#SaintOlafCollege #JürgenMoltmann #JoannaMacy #RossGay #Niebuhr #ErikErikson
#WesleyWildman #panentheism #Luther #LutheransRestoringCreation