Anitism is the pre-colonial Filipino spirituality. It is similar to animism.
It could be a resource for my jiyu shukyo particularly because of its similarities with pantheism. Shintoism is also animist but has pantheist elements. If there is liberal Shinto then there could be, at least with my personal jiyū shūkyō project, a liberal anitism.
In such a progressive remaking of our precolonial spirituality, what I want to emphasize is the pantheistic elements—that nature is divine and that humans are part of that larger nature.
I should anticipate regional differences (e.g., Pangasinan anitism vs other regions) but also how these are interconnected with the deeper history of the Austronesian people. It is a project similar to Imaoka’s immersion into Shinto.