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If you’re new to Esoteric Potato, this is the best place to begin.

This project explores animism as lived, contemporary practice — not as belief to adopt, but as a way of relating to place, infrastructure, weather, and the ordinary environments we already inhabit.

The core of this work begins with three essays:

Part 1: You Already Belong
An introduction to animism as a form of connection to place.

Part 2: Belonging Without Community
Why belonging doesn’t depend on social recognition, but emerges from relationship with the world itself.

Part 3: The World Leans In, Sometimes
How sustained attention can gradually reveal the animacy of place.

These pieces form the foundation of everything that follows.

You can read them in order, or enter anywhere.

If you prefer to begin at the threshold:

The Quiet Strange