A NEW BOOK · AN ANIMIST’S FIELD GUIDE
Wider than
the world
Twelve practices for waking the senses to a living world.
The world did not go quiet. We did. This is a book of small, ancient practices for coming back to your senses, and finding the living world still there, still speaking, still waiting.
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Most of us were not taught to live in a world that is alive.
We were taught to manage it. To measure it, schedule it, optimise it, scroll past it. We learned to treat the ground as floor, the rain as inconvenience, the other animals as scenery, and our own grief as a malfunction to be medicated away. And then we wonder why we feel so alone in a world that is, in fact, crowded with kin.
This book is not about adding one more thing to your life. It is about subtracting the noise long enough to notice what was here the whole time. The owl at 3am. The water that remembers. The fire that loosens the tongue. The prayer you have been afraid to pray.
Twelve practices. Both hands in the soil, eyes on the stars. No bypassing, no spiritual shopping, no urgency. Just the slow, clear-eyed work of coming home to your own senses, which is, I have come to believe, one of the most quietly radical things a person can do in a world coming apart.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
A book to keep, and to use
The full book
Twelve practices across three movements, written to be lived, not just read. Around sixty pages, beautifully set.
Every device
A print-ready PDF and an ebook (EPUB) for Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, your phone, or paper.
Yours to keep
A one-time payment. Lifetime access. Return to it across a turn of seasons, the way the practices ask.
This is for you if…
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You feel the world is alive and have nowhere to put that knowing.
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You are done with spiritual bypassing and want both hands in the soil.
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You carry grief for the world and suspect it is not a flaw but a signal.
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You want practice, not theory. Something to do tonight, on real ground.
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You are tired of being sold urgency, and want a quieter, older way.
It is probably not for you if…
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You want a quick fix or a manifestation hack.
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You would rather read about the work than actually do it.
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You want guarantees, certainty, and tidy answers.
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The words grief, dark, and descent make you want to close the tab. Some of this goes down into tender places, on purpose.
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No funnels. No countdowns. No false urgency.
The empire already sells you enough panic. I will not add to it. There is no fake deadline on this page, no timer ticking down, no scarcity invented to rush your hand. The book will be here tomorrow, and next season, when you are ready.
The writing is the medicine, and it is meant as a gift. The practices are real, drawn from over twenty years of animist work, Andean and Norse lineages, and one farm in Burgundy where the bees and the fog and the 3am owl keep teaching me things. If it is for you, you will feel it. If it is not, that is its own kind of clarity, and you owe me nothing.
WHO IS WRITING TO YOU
I raised forty million dollars in the corporate world, and then I walked away from it. I am a trained veterinarian and a medicine man, French-born, Andean and Norse trained, schooled at Harvard and in ceremony on the shores of Lake Titicaca. For twenty years I tended a sanctuary in the Catskills. Now I live at La Ferme du Cerf Bleu, an eighteenth-century farm in Burgundy, rewilding twenty acres, keeping bees, and writing to some fifteen thousand people each week.
I have walked the trail this book describes, and come back with mud on my boots. That is the only authority I trust, in myself or anyone else.
Angell Deer
Founder of Sacred Paths · Author of Becoming the Medicine
NEW TO THE WORK?
Start where it is free
There is a free companion to this book, The Animist’s Field Guide, with the first seven practices. You do not need it to begin here. But if you would rather walk the earlier stretch of the trail first, it is yours, with no cost and no catch.
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Before you decide
Do I need the first book to read this one?
Is this for beginners?
What exactly do I get, and how?
Some of this sounds intense. Is it safe?
Is there any catch with the price?
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The world is still speaking.
Twelve practices for waking the senses to a living world.
Come and listen.
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