It’s definitely as you say, so no argument here. Just a small afterthought — if we take animism as many of the same essence, what will happen if we introduce an idea that there is Absolute? If I was an animist, I would assume, but it would only be my knee jerk reaction, that one of those “many” must be “absolute”, thus I would naturally sort the many in some kind of hierarchical fashion. And if I was comfortable with my beliefs (i.e. not particularly convinced or interested in the idea of absolute) I would simply go about my usual “animistic business”. This would also explain why natives in America (but also elsewhere) had no particular difficulty to accept monotheistic dualism by equating Spirit with God while also preserving their culture. That is also what most probably happened in Levant and gave birth to religions as we know them today. It’s pretty ironic, because they are essentially “pagan” at their core, while waging war on “paganism”. Yet, everything what non-dual understanding imparts is that you are Spirit and there’s nothing except Spirit (that’s where also the “anti-pagan” attitude comes from, I suppose). Sort of what “third attention” points at — it does not invalidate the whole, it unifies it.