Is there an afterlife in animism? Without an answer, I would assume that the answer would be something to the effect that "One's life-force is simply re-inserted into the cycle of life, and one's energy sustains other lives. "In practice, a deer continues life after being eaten by a mountain lion in the form of the mountain lion." That much I assumed is the animist afterlife. What I want to know is whether one's consciousness continues after death, as it does in the Christian interpretation of a "soul"? • Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn