The experience of Nature ensouled that fortunate children have, a recapitulation of the mode of the animist consciousness of our primitive ancestors, was also experienced later in life by young Romantics such as Wordsworth and Thoreau, and interpreted as a mystical revelation of the Kantian metaphysical concept of the dual monism of Mind and Nature as corresponding aspects of the Cosmos. A further development occurred when, with the development of ecological science, the interpretation became more precisely of the dual monism of Mind and Biosphere-- deep ecological consciousness, then.
In mythic form, the experience of animist, undifferentiated wholeness of ensouled Nature was symbolized as the Primordial Serpent-- the Dragon in John Boorman's Excalibur, where Merlin says of it to young Arthur,'It is everywhere! It is everything!' In Eormanz, this 'Pantheos' could be expressed in deep ecological form as 'Ur-wyrm', or 'Eormen-orm'
Ur-(Ger)= primitive, original, great. Eormen-(OEng)= great, vast. Wyrm(OEng)/Ormr(ONorse)=serpent, dragon.
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