Spirited Away reflection

2. Through Chihiro’s transformation from miserable little girl to courageous adventurer, the film suggests that the world of the spirits is necessary to help us live in the everyday world, that spiritual development is part of the solution to environmental crises. What do you think about this? 

I think this is makes allot of sense from the perspective of various religions, many if not most spiritual community have a tie or a save the environmental message.  Native spirituality is the best example for they have such a strong tie to the environment as treat it as a gift to be shared and taken care of. Another region would be the catholic faith in which they talk about the environment being a gift from God and that we are the care takers of the earth and are responsible for the use of our resources. I think that to live day to day we must be able to let ourselves believe or think that they're are powers , things and forces that are far above our own control that keeps the world together.   

5. Does it make sense to think of bodies of water as possessing spirit? Have you ever had a relationship with a river, a pond, an ocean, or the rain that prompted you to speak to water? Have you ever been rescued by a body of water? Have you ever cleaned a body of water? 

Bodies of water with spirits that would make a lot of sense to me, water it's self is feels magical. Each body of water has a different personality, like the taste each town is connected to a different body of water and all have different tastes, feels and environmental life in it. Walkerton's water taste unnatural, Port Elgin's water taste clear and fresh and when swimming at the beach the water is cool and sandy, Kincardine's water is right in between the taste is not great but not bad, the beach water is clear and stony with bits of debris. Near my house is what I would label as a small stream leading into the lake it's almost thigh high in the fall and angle deep in the summer the water flows fairly fast at both times but I've never seen the stream the same every time I visit it. Most people say that water is the source of life so it is plausible that  spirit could represent a body of water.