“Everything is ensouled, imbued with its own form of intelligence, however foreign and impenetrable it may be to us.

Not only animals and plants, but rivers, stones, natural forces, planets, and stars participate in this vast continuum of awareness. Even at scales far removed from human perception, from atoms to galaxies, there is a sense of interiority, of some kind of personhood.“

Art: The Mystic Wood (1914) by John William Waterhouse