Talking About Words. There is one very special use of quotation marks which it is useful to know about: we use quotation marks when we are talking about words. In this special use, all varieties of English normally use only single quotes, and not double quotes (though some Americans use double quotes even here).
As Odinists, our spiritual beliefs are based upon life, not death. We believe that this planet and the other beings who reside here possess spirits, and we believe that we ourselves have immortal souls. We know also, that there is, in a very real sense, no such thing as time, or space, or death, but only change.
Animism may further attribute souls to abstract concepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology. Some members of the non-tribal world also consider themselves animists (such as author Daniel Quinn, sculptor Lawson Oyekan, and many Neopagans).raham Harvey, in his 2013 Handbook of Contemporary Animism, identifies the animist perspective in line with Martin Buber's I-thou as opposed to I-it. In such, Harvey says, the Animist takes an I-thou approach to relating to his world, where objects and animals are treated as a thou rather than as an it.