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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP7 - Are The Gods Calling You? (Supporter Email Response) · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Hail and hello. Welcome to another random
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Good to hear from you today. And I know that when these are
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It's because, my job right now is Very, very busy during those
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That way, I can go back and acknowledge you.
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But as always, thank you so much for tuning in today, listening,
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and, or streaming or whatever from wherever you are and using
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It's much appreciated. I got an email.
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Last week from the gentleman who had a pretty interesting
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question to ask and it actually kind of fell around a time of
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the week where things were starting to get pretty
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interesting for me. So this past week for me has
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been rather. Profound.
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I'm not going to go into a lot of great details.
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About it because it's a bit. It's kind of one of those things
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where I may talk about it someday one day, but I don't
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think that day is going to be today.
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It has to do with my My of course, the spirituality side of
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things, my my growth, my development as a person.
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Now I think it'll be a great topic of discussion maybe
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eventually like I say some day but I'm going to keep it close.
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Close to my heart as we as we're talking right now and today, but
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this email that came in when just you know for the sake of
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anonymity will just say Michael. So Michael who wrote In?
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And his email read Thor / Odin calling question mark.
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It's kind of like he's saying is somebody calling to me and he
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says, hey sorry for the late and random email.
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He sent this email to me at about little after 1:00 or 2:00
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in the morning. Last Tuesday, the 15th So
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wherever it is, you are Michael. No need to apologize, man,
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because I will read them whenever I can and respond in
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kind. So you know by the time by the
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time this airs you will have a gotten a response to your email
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and I appreciate this email. But he goes on to say yeah I
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just came across your showcasing my altar video.
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And wanted to ask you something for those that don't know what
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he may be talking about. I will annotate in the
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description in the, you know, show notes the cards, all the
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details will be in one of those areas depending on where you're
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watching or listening to this from, for that video that he's
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referring to. I've done a video or two of me.
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kind of just showing you what's on my Altar, and You know a lot
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for a lot of pagans that's a very private and you know,
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something else that they keep close to their close to their
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heart. And it changes a lot for us,
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right? Like we will add things to it,
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take away things move things around.
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It's a very living thing for a lot of us pagans.
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So, the video, he's referring to it'll be annotated up here in
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the cards and also out in the description area of this video
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in the show notes of the podcast.
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So, check it out if you're interested in seeing what?
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What Michaels referring to He goes on to say I've had this
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feeling that for and or Odin have been trying to tell me
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something or get to or get in contact with me or want me to
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worship them and I don't know how to really explain it, but I
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feel I've been seeing more crows in places you wouldn't see them.
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There was a thunderstorm dorm here and not too long ago and it
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almost felt like the Thunder was circling me and yeah.
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So I was just wondering if there's steps I should take.
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Obviously I was watching the video to maybe get an idea for
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an altar to start with or start to start to make and yeah,
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definitely probably random and stuff but figured maybe I'd get
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an answer now. Really sure if this is a thing
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or if I'm just watching too many movies.
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Hey, Michael. Appreciate again, once again,
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the email and the question that you have, this is an interesting
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topic especially given the series of events that I'm
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alluding to but not going into. Great detail about that happened
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last week. you know, so I guess we'll start with the whole you
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know, is it Thor and or Odin? That's calling to me now
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without, you know, talking more with you about this or talking
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to people, you know, more about these types of feelings or these
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types of encounters. I've read. social media, you
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know, posts, and Facebook groups, or tweets on Twitter or,
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you know, different things posted online, whether it be,
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you know, reddit reddit, sub threads and in certain Heathen
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re You know, subreddits are whatever, it's all over the
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unit, where people have an experience, and they connect
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that experience to something that that is tied to the sacred,
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to the gods or even to God. I mean, even monthly monotheists
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have similar things, you know, where they, they see God in this
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or that, you know, and they place the the sacred in that
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thing or the other. And so, what you're talking
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about here, where you, you know, so I see crows in in places that
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there wouldn't normally be crows or, you know, the thunderstorm
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that I, you know, heard the other day it was it was like the
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Thunder was circling me, you know.
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And is that the gods trying to call to me?
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So I'm going to go into a little bit generally speaking where my
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stance is on stuff like this and I'm also going to throw in my
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own. You PG or unverified personal
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gnosis to you know give give you and other people here.
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Some some food for thought, right?
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Nobody can sit here and in front of the next person and tell that
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person that the experience that they had was or wasn't Something
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of a divine. Presence.
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Okay. Or that, there was anything to
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do with this with the gods or the sacred, but for the most
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part, I think a lot of what we are talking about are things
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that can rationally be explained, right?
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I mean, especially when you talk about the day and age that we
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live in now crows, are a pretty common species of Of of the
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avian variety to frequent places all.
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I mean, I've seen crows on the beach, you know, I've seen crows
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in the desert. I've seen, you know, I've seen
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them everywhere, you know? So to say that, you know, I see
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more crows where they typically shouldn't be like it just being
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that they're, you know, becoming more common for your area, not
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again, not sure where your area is or where you're writing in
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from Michael but you know crows are pretty Pretty.
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Common species of bird. The other thing is, you know,
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the thunderstorm. I mean, I've been in dozens, if
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not more thunderstorms and I mean, the Thunder does have that
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feeling of like, oh, you may hear it over here in this
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direction, but as it gets closer and wears around you, I mean, it
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feel like it can bounce off of the, the surrounding, you know,
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trees or rocks, or buildings even.
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And then give you that feeling like it's, you know, circling
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around you so on the surface and what most people think of when
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they hear what you're saying is that That wasn't the gods.
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That was just things happening in nature the way things.
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You know, the way nature happens night, you're going to Nature
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baby, right? Nature going to do, what nature
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is going to do and you might just be there for it, you might
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be experiencing it in a moment where your thoughts are may, be
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focused on the gods and so therefore, your first
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inclination is to is to thank must be the gods, you know,
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calling out to me. And again, with, as many of
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these types of things, as I hear, I am inclined to lean on
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the, on the side of saying that that's probably not the gods.
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Now, you can certainly feel the presence of the Sacred around
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you in others, type scenarios, you know what I mean, especially
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when there's ritual being done when your focus and your intent
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is to bring the say, A down or out or within from without, you
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know what I mean? Like, you're inviting them into
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that space and so their presence can be felt in those cases.
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So, a lot of it, you know, you know, a lot of those types of
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things might be due to the, the state of awareness that were in
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order, the state of altered state of awareness, if you will,
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We're we're in that ritual state of mind.
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And so, the things that me Be happening anyway for everybody
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else. Suddenly have a bigger meaning
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for us at the time because we're In that frame of mind.
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So once again, not knowing the detailed specifics behind what
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you're saying, you know, if all it is is just you know I go to
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work every day and I see crows where they shouldn't be normally
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or where they wouldn't be normally or I, you know, I was
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in the woods and I was, you know, meditating, I was thinking
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on this or that or whatever. And all of a sudden it's just,
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you know, thunderstorm popped up out of nowhere and, you know,
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that sort of thing. I don't necessarily think it's
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the God's calling it in most of those scenarios.
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But again who am I to say that it is or isn't I want to be?
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I want to be, you know, go on the record as saying that you
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know, it's not for me or anyone else to say that your experience
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was not something of a divine nature, right?
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However, going back to what I said before is that most cases
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like this are are probably not the gods.
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And the reason why I say that is because when you really get Into
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the, the heart of heathen re. you got to look at it, like you,
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go back to the worldview of things, you go back to how an
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ancient society live Thrive and survived in in tough times and
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what they did to secure their luck to secure their, you know,
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coexistence with the spirits and the forces of nature around
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them, and how they Define those forces where to, you know,
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Imbibe into them, a level of sacredness, you know.
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So in the Thunder there was Thor and in the in the Ravens and in
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the ecstatic Madness of battle, there was Odin and you know, the
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beauty of the fields, there was seif in her Golden Hair, you
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know, and in the ferocity and passionate love of our, you
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know, womenfolk there is Freya or the loving mother protective
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beliefs or feelings Feelings are is that frigg energy?
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You know, and so on and so forth.
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So you could, you could, you could definitely say that.
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It didn't this goes, you know, to be said for a lot of
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different indigenous cultures as well, where they look at the
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natural world around them and then tie or have have ties to
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something bigger than them, the sacred, the Divine, the gods
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whatever. But at the Crux of it, at the
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heart of it, you know, it was survival.
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Was preservation of luck, making sure that you survived each
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season, to live, to the next, to provide for your family to, you
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know, be successful with your crops and you're and you're
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hurting of cattle or this or that, you know, look at it.
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Look at the way Society was like the way the world was for people
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back then. And so they would they would
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their their energy was focused their their intent was focused.
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I think more on that than it is on.
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Whew. It's thundering.
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Now that must be Thor or up. There goes a crow that just flew
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over me, that must be assigned for mode and must be one of his
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Ravens or something like that, you know?
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Don't, I don't think that they viewed the world quite in that
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way. Now, we don't live in those
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times, right? We're not, we're not back in,
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you know? Pre-christian Scandinavia or,
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you know, Continental Saxony or any of these other, you know,
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very, very old lands that that that have these Traditions tied
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to them. So, but they are Living
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Traditions, are they are things that have have lived through a
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lot of crap, you know, the basically nearly going out of
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style. Well, almost really have going
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out of style, right? You know, the the The influences
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of Christianity in northern Europe and having it become like
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the national religion of Norway and some of the other
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Scandinavian countries later on, I mean paganism, all but died
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out, and it was outlawed in many places Iceland included, you
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know, you know, you couldn't do that anymore under pain of death
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or whatever. Since so, you know, a lot of
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those Living Traditions were We're covered up and lost over
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time and so what little knowledge we have and what
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little information, we have of the way things could have been
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and the way things could have been practiced or viewed back,
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then, you know, are being revitalized now and revived in a
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way to bring to light these sorts of things.
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So, you know, it's I think it's natural for a lot of people,
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especially newer heathens. And then any of Michael, if
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you're listening or watching, I don't know if you're new to this
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path or not, but any new heat Newbie Heathen, whatever you
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want to coin the baby heathens, there's different names for
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different, you know, we call it each other different things, but
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for people that are new to this path and that come into this
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path. A lot of, a lot of the, the
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previously, followed religion, whether it's Christianity.
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That's probably the most popular one.
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I think that we see a lot of folks coming into paganism, from
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is from a lifestyle or, or an upbringing with Christian world.
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Views. What we see happening is the the
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The world view that we had or that they had coming from
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Christianity into paganism. They bring that with them.
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So they they first thing they think about is the gods, write
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something to replace the god, the singular, God that they
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venerated before, write something to replace that
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Supreme Being in the gods of the first thing that comes to mind,
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right? And, you know, a lot of folks
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are on and I see this literally every day on social All media
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sites, you know, Facebook groups and whatnot.
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Where people are focused so much on the God's going to do for the
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gods are the God's calling me. I think the gods are calling me
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guys because this happened right?
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Maybe they are again. I'm not saying, you know, I'm
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not here to say that they are or aren't, but I think most of the
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time what's happening is, you're becoming enamored in some cases
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with the the aesthetic of Germanic paganism, Norse Heathen
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re and and whether that's you know Scandinavian Icelandic
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models or whether it's you know, Continental Germanic, Heathen re
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or Saxon Heathen re or whatever. You know, the whole aesthetic of
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it, all right, you know? And and how powerful it all
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seems you know oh you don't care.
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You don't kneel to your God's you don't you know, answer to
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your Gods. You're not, you're not afraid of
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an eternity of suffering and all this kind of stuff.
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It's so it's so, you know, free thinking and, you know, there's
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no rules and there's no dogma and all this kind of stuff.
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I mean, you know, look, I hate to break it to you.
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If that's the way you think that he even re is and you're way
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off, there is Structure, There are rules, you know, and there
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is on some degree, a level of Dogma, you know, because there's
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consequences to our actions, you know, it may not be an eternity
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of in Hell Fire of burning to, you know, an in a lake of fire
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sort of thing. But you know you are not going
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to You know, carry out an ill deed and, and not get something
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that happens to you for for doing.
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So there, there's recompense there, there's punishment,
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there's things that happen or that should be happening to
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people that do these things. And there was law, there was
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order in these societies, you know, back then and so it's not
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this just free for all willy-nilly.
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I'll do it the way I want to do it and be the way I want to be a
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mean. Yeah, sure you can be that way
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you can have You know, I'll do. You know, I'm going to even the
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way I Heathen, you Heathen. The way you Heathen, there is a
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level of that, right? I mean there is a degree of
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that, I should say, but there are rules and there is structure
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and there are things to take note of.
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So I think again, what a lot of people are experiencing is when
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they come into this path, and when they find this path, it's a
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largely an aberration of the aesthetic and the idea behind
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it, all without really fully. Knowing.
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The the backbone of it right into the heart of it.
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Once you get into it all in which you start learning and
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doing and and you know, there's a lot to learn, there's a lot to
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read and There's No One Singular place to go to get it all you
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gotta, you know, search around. Fortunately, we live in a day
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and age that it's so accessible, you know?
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There's You know, academic websites that have PDFs of books
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that you can download for free. In many cases.
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You can order books online for, you know, in many cases, not a
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whole lot there. Sure.
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There are some that are kind of rare unicorns of literary work
22:42
out there that you're going to drop a pretty penny on.
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But it's not like it's mandatory it's not like it's a required
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thing to, you know, read all that stuff.
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But so much of so much of what I hear when you know when it comes
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to I think the god Calling me and this and that it's like
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you're trying to fill in a blank or fill in a spot, fill in a
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gap. From what you had before
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somewhere before. So, once again, you know, if the
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gods are calling you I don't think it's going to be in
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something that just happens naturally in the world around
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us, you know, again you could feel inspired, you can feel the
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presence of the Sacred ground you after doing certain things
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or while doing certain things. But on a whim, you know, and
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just randomly like, you know, this crow flies by or IC Crow
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perched here or two Ravens over there.
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This thunderstorm, this or that I mean, look, I've had moments
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throughout the years that I've been here, even where I've been
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in nature, you know, I've been outside.
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I've been, you know, congregating with my My Tribe
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around arvai, many harv a being our sacred grove, our sacred
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place to do ritual. And, you know, and when The
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Thunder Rolls, you know, when we hear a thunder storm and when it
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rumbles around us, you know, that that feels like the gods
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are closed, or that at least Thor is closed, because that's
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what we tie him with. We associate him with the
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Thunder, you know, somewhere out there doing our thing.
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You know, maybe not even ritual but we're just gathered out
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there and then and we hear, you know, Thunder in the distance or
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thunder that's coming through, we're like yeah, you know, and
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it's almost like a confirmation or affirmation so I'm not again,
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I'm not saying that what you're feeling Michael is any different
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than that, but you know, Consider also that it could just
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be the fact that it's just thundering out.
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You know, I mean I live in Tennessee and two years ago, on
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this time of year we had you know six to eight inches of snow
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on the ground. Last night, the time of this
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recording, which would have been Monday night.
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There was a thunder storm that rolled through, you know, and
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it's pouring down rain right now and it's almost 70 degrees.
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Very strange times we live in very odd to be, you know, in
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February and, you know, one year, it's full of snow and then
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the next year or two, it's almost like springtime, and it's
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raining out. I don't think that's because the
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gods are near or not near or whatever.
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I think that's just the fact that you know, this world is is
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experiencing some things herself that Rrrr, pretty damaging to
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its longevity and it's just rough, you know, it's a rough
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time so could be so very simply something like that, you know.
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Crows may not be native to your area or have a very high pot
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number population. Number close to you but things
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change birds, migrate conditions, you know, are what
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they are and you know, so you might get more of More something
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that you're not used to seeing, or have in general, all right?
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So, Going back to, you know, your original question.
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You know, what can you do to answer this if you truly feel
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like, this is something that is a sign from the gods.
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You know, why, why do you feel that way?
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What is it about? The thunder aside from pitches
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rumbling around you like it. Usually does that makes it feel
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somewhat more. Only you really, you can answer
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that. What is it about?
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The fact that you see crows more often than you typically should
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aside, from all the basic, you know, maybe obvious reasons why
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that I just mentioned previously, what is it about
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that? Why does that make you feel like
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it's You know, one of the Gods, trying to connect to you, what
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is it about you? That is so and don't take this
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the wrong way, but like, but what is it about?
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You individually. And I'll put this question out
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to anybody, myself included, but is it about us individually?
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That makes us think that we are assist such interest to the
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gods. The gods have their own things
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that they have to deal with and worry about.
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They have their own Activities. And and and lies that they have
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to live in their own luck, that they need to secure in their own
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weird that they need to tie. The hell is one person on
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midgard going to You know, I do for for them one person.
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Now, is it possible that one person could have caught the
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special interest of a god? Sure?
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Because we read about it in some of the sagas, you know,
27:47
typically, those people were a renowned, they had some sort of
27:49
status in midgard. They were Kings.
27:52
They were Nobles. They were Heroes and they did
27:56
things that were heroic in kingly and Noble.
28:01
So, is it out of the norm to think or is it is?
28:03
is it that much of a Harebrained idea to think, you know, that
28:11
anything would be different now and today even though we're not,
28:14
you know, a thousand twelve hundred years ago in Scandinavia
28:18
and we're not, you know, an up-and-coming you know, king or
28:22
thrall that that is working his way through King, you know, a
28:26
kingdom and suddenly has a kingdom.
28:28
Let you know fall into their lap and they inherit all this wealth
28:32
and land and they have to defend their kingdoms and they have
28:34
great sagas written about him just because it's not Not that
28:37
anymore, who's to say that there are not people now, in today,
28:43
who do things of equal renowned in different ways and for
28:49
different through different, you know, methods that are not
28:55
catching the attention of the Gods, and who the gods would not
28:59
want, or would we would be hook them to have connections with or
29:04
tie weird with, you know? I don't know something to think
29:09
about. So if you are one of those
29:11
people who is doing things that would potentially catch the eyes
29:17
and attention of the Gods, I feel like a encounter that you'd
29:25
have with the gods and this is where it's going to, you know,
29:29
Venture off into my UPG. I would I feel that the
29:32
encountered that you would have with a god would be more
29:36
profound than just a passing Pro or Rumble of Thunder.
29:42
I really feel that I really feel that the So the sign or The Omen
29:48
right, that you would get would be much more profound than just
29:54
a simple happening of nature. It would almost be something.
29:58
So bizarre and so out of the norm that it's like, nothing
30:05
like that could be rationally explained, you can't because you
30:10
can't, you can rationalize and you can make sense of why crows
30:16
appear more now than ever before in certain areas or that they
30:22
are just appearing, where they normally aren't supposed to be,
30:25
you can make sense of that, you can rationalize that you can
30:28
also rationalize and kind of make literal sense of, you know,
30:33
The thunder rolling and it feeling like it's circling you,
30:36
that sort of thing. There's no real way to
30:41
rationalize. other certain things like perhaps hearing a
30:46
voice that you know, you only heard but there was no like
30:55
Audible Means of it being something else.
31:01
Like there was no TV, there was no radio, your phone was nowhere
31:03
near by and there was no other person close to you and you
31:07
heard a distinct voice. Now again, that's you PG stuff.
31:10
Okay, I'm just saying like Things like that or UPG is there
31:15
place for that within Heathen? Re absolutely. 100%, you know,
31:19
it's how we build our Traditions.
31:20
It's you know, Traditions were built in ancient times based off
31:23
of experiences that people had. And they said, you know what,
31:26
when that happens, that's what it means.
31:28
And that's what our Traditions going to be.
31:30
And when it happens, we're going to react to it in a certain and
31:33
specific way. so similarly, in today's day and age, Things.
31:43
Same thing could apply. I'm just saying that.
31:49
I believe in my you PG is that if the gods any of them.
31:56
Have any interest in what we do in the Pro in the in the
32:01
profane, right? Not in the Sacred Space, but in
32:03
profane space here in midgar. If they have any interest about
32:07
what we do on an individual level, then it must be something
32:12
pretty epic and they're going to make it an epic way to make
32:16
themselves known to us in that way.
32:21
So once again, you know, maybe the crows and thunder are are
32:26
things that that are inspiring you to want to.
32:30
Learn more about the gods, you know, maybe it's just something
32:32
that's going to inspire you to do some research, you know,
32:36
learn the world views of ancient Germanic peoples and get into
32:41
that sort of approach to things understand. the heart of heathen
32:47
reading, what what it means to weave frith and what the, you
32:50
know, even though it may not be an exceptionally old term, but
32:53
what end Garden guard, the inner and outer yards mean, you know,
33:00
mentioned for if that's another big one, you know, understand
33:02
the importance of the gifting exchange, understand the
33:05
importance of, you know, establishing a good and
33:15
wholesome, Relationship with the localized spirits of the land
33:19
and those those forces that exist around us because they are
33:25
nearby and close. Where's the gods were perceived
33:27
in ancient times as being somewhere without somewhere
33:31
else? Not here in midgard.
33:33
There's there's so much that exists here in midgard that we
33:36
have to that. We share space with that, we
33:37
coexist with learn more about that.
33:40
You know, you can also learn about the gods.
33:42
I'm not saying to, you know, pigeonhole yourself into one, Or
33:46
two ideas of thought, but be open a bit about it but also
33:49
have a method to what it is that you're, you know, capturing and
33:55
learning. I don't know.
34:00
So you know what can you do? To answer this first.
34:05
I think you need to determine. Is it a call?
34:09
Is it something that the gods are calling you to you?
34:10
Or are you just, you know, being inspired?
34:13
Because like you say, maybe you're watching too many movies.
34:15
I don't know that. I don't, you know, who am I to
34:18
say that? Who might have think that there
34:20
are a lot of great movies coming out. and that have come out a
34:25
lot of really cool TV shows that that embellish a lot on the way
34:29
things were back then and then make it you know appealing to
34:34
Bringing a lot of money and make a lot of people rich and
34:37
Entertain, You know. So there's definitely that.
34:42
But why not, why not use those types of things?
34:46
To really study and learn more about the reality of it, the
34:51
history of it, the authenticity behind it is, it is it just a
34:56
bunch of who hockey, you know? I mean, all right, they just
34:59
rewriting things too. Sell tickets or get, you know,
35:05
ratings up or boost their streams or whatever, or are
35:12
they, you know, focusing on trying to put something out here
35:17
that people can learn from and people can be entertained by
35:20
right. And at the same time, learn
35:22
something. There's there's a, definitely, a
35:24
lot of that mix of things around there.
35:26
So if you are looking to Answer this call as it were I I posted
35:37
last week's podcast, if you go back through my catalog and just
35:41
look at last week's podcast, I included a list of content
35:46
creators here in like on YouTube and and some other sites as
35:50
well. Just great social media, content
35:53
creators that are Heathen. That that produce exceptionally,
35:57
good educational, and entertaining content.
36:00
Go back and check that out and learn as much as you can about
36:05
it kind of see if it's something that fits you.
36:07
If you want to pursue that path, if it's the gods that you're
36:10
interested in and you know first learn about things that are
36:13
happening here in midgard. You know how you can be of Worth
36:18
to the people around you, how your worth is calculated?
36:20
Understanding what worth means, you know, it's not how much you
36:24
make, it's not how much you own. It's the worth of that is placed
36:29
on you by your People, you know, all this kind of stuff, it may
36:33
again that that goes into the worldview aspects of heathen or
36:37
you got to you're coming into a religion, which is it is, this
36:42
is a religion as much as people may want to say it's not.
36:45
It is may not be organized, religion like the sense of
36:49
churches and diocese and you know, that sort of thing.
36:55
But it is a religion that you know, anything that has to deal
36:58
with the guy God's the sacred, the Divine makes it a religion,
37:02
you can be spiritual and not have anything to do with the
37:05
gods whatsoever. There is spirituality involved
37:08
in this religion, but it is nonetheless a religion.
37:12
And as with any religion you you are learning about that aspect
37:17
of it. But in this is a folk way.
37:20
This is this is The worldview of things that all of this religion
37:26
was is in. Has been derived, from is as
37:29
much different than what Western Society has has largely adopted,
37:35
you know? You see similarities in other
37:39
cultures. So you know maybe consider that
37:44
as well look at other religions see you know check out other
37:47
things. Open your mind a bit you know
37:51
learn and study. So when you were saying, you
38:01
know, that this whole thing started with you had to go back
38:04
and look at the email when we said that this whole thing
38:06
started with you searching for videos or searching for more
38:10
information on creating an altar or making an altar.
38:15
You know, you obviously have an idea in mind to want to connect
38:17
to the sacred because that's what an altar is.
38:20
An altar is a Sacred Space that we create for things like this,
38:27
you know? At least in in most contexts of
38:32
paganism our altars are Huggers are vaes are Groves in this and
38:39
that are spaces that we mark off as Sacred Space within the
38:45
profane space. So it's, you know, whether it's
38:48
the corner of a room inside of a closet underneath the
38:50
mantelpiece of mound of rocks, outside.
38:55
A circle of trees, whatever it might be.
38:57
You know, something that we mark off and that we set aside as
39:00
being dedicated to our Individual practice of
39:07
venerating the Gods, right? Your interest in that your
39:12
thoughts. And that I have ously have the
39:14
Gods on your mind. So for the experiences that
39:18
you're describing to be something where you're like,
39:21
maybe that's the God's calling me.
39:24
You're already heading in that direction.
39:26
You know, they may not need, they may not be calling your
39:29
just heading in that direction and it's like those are the gods
39:31
that are on your mind so learn a bit about them, right?
39:34
Read some of the stories of lore and mythology and get to know
39:39
what at least was written down, that we know about the gods and
39:42
their Tendencies, their behaviors are mannerisms, you
39:46
know, Their characteristics. Their fathers, their faults?
39:54
But don't neglect the heart of heathen re you know have a
40:00
strong end and good home life, you know, because Clan is
40:05
everything. If you didn't have a strong
40:07
clang and you didn't have anything from there.
40:10
You have your tribe that gets kind of built out as an
40:13
extension of your clan in your family.
40:16
Many tribes make up a community, you know, and in the in, in
40:20
those numbers, you know, you have strength, learn the World
40:28
Views about what why people did, what they did back then, why we
40:33
do things now, the way we do it, why are we looking to the Past?
40:38
You know? Why do we look back too?
40:42
Build something now or to reconstruct something.
40:45
Now and not everybody's a reconstruction is to even, you
40:47
know what I'm saying? Is that so much of what we're
40:49
doing now, has its roots in days gone by so those Traditions,
40:55
those ways however, old however far back, you may want to
40:58
consider going start it somewhere.
41:02
So, For me like when I first started in my either, it was a
41:06
very physical growth. It was very physical approach.
41:10
It was, you know, how strong I can be how, you know, certain
41:15
way that I can look. That sort of stuff is very
41:21
physical, the net and then and then after so many years you
41:25
know it kind of transition from that into how much can I learn
41:30
the academic? The mind, you know, what can I
41:32
learn, what can I study? And I've reached a point now
41:38
where all of that stuff is still important to an extent but the
41:43
most important stage of my spirituality, my in my Heathen
41:47
re and then my practices is now next is the spirituality, you
41:52
know, the connecting with Those forces around us, that we share
42:00
existence with. not just the gods but including the gods and
42:08
you know, a very profound Experience that I had this past
42:13
week, literally the day after Michaels email came to me.
42:20
Solidifies what I just said is that, you know, you go through
42:23
stages in your growth. Sometimes, you know, you got to
42:26
learn to crawl before you can walk and you gotta get that
42:29
walking down right before you can run and then eventually
42:32
you're going to leave dry land, and you're going to learn how to
42:36
Move around in water. And all these things, right?
42:41
It's all about growth, like sometimes, you know, we skip
42:44
certain steps sometimes, you know, I want to, I want to run
42:48
before I can walk or I want to walk before crawling or, you
42:50
know what, I want to go swimming.
42:54
If you before I can walk in and we see stuff like that, you
42:59
know, we see kids develop in different ways, and everybody's
43:02
going to develop in different ways.
43:04
To as we go from that, you know, infancy childhood youth
43:09
adulthood It's no real straight path with it.
43:13
It's kind of it's pretty, it's pretty gnarly, it's windy, you
43:17
know, so Have you been watching too many movies?
43:21
Michael. I don't know, are the God's
43:25
calling to you? Because you here?
43:27
You know, I mean imagine if there was crows in the
43:31
thunderstorm, I mean, But maybe they are, I don't I don't
43:38
necessarily get the sense that that something like this is the
43:41
God's calling to somebody, but I could be wrong again.
43:44
I'm not the one to sit here to say that it is or isn't it's
43:48
just an opinion. You asked, and there's my
43:50
answer. So I hope that this spark some
43:54
more conversation for you, Michael.
43:56
And if you want to write in again, just, you know, reply
43:59
back, and let me know. But I hope that this has been
44:02
something that you find. Didn't you know, educational and
44:06
helps you in some way. That's why we do these things.
44:10
You know, here as of late, I don't have any guests lined up
44:14
on the show kind of taken a very organic you know approach to
44:19
this. I had a had a thing in mind you
44:22
know, where it was going to be, you know, real gung-ho and we
44:25
were going to have a lot of you know guests and stuff lined up,
44:28
but I'm taking a bit more of a relaxed approach.
44:31
I want. I want this to be Enjoyable or
44:34
not, just for me but for everybody.
44:37
So, As long as you guys keep watching, as long as you keep
44:42
engaging sending emails writing in calling in tweeting it,
44:47
posting it on Facebook groups or Pages.
44:50
Again you know whatever as long as people are doing that as long
44:54
as there's an interest and engagement and I'll be here even
44:58
if it's just me talking through this microphone to you to all of
45:03
you. So thank you all today for you
45:06
know, being here and thank you. Michael for writing in and
45:10
asking a question it the timing of it was so perfect.
45:13
Right? Because I saw it, you know that
45:17
day obviously it came in. I woke up later on go into work
45:20
and Never really put like I saw it.
45:23
I was like I'm going to respond back to that in the next day was
45:25
when things took a huge wild turn for me. and then, you know,
45:31
I got to thinking about Stuff. And I go back and I look through
45:34
my emails and I go, wow, that, you know, that's perfect, that's
45:37
a perfect thing to talk about because it hits so close to home
45:41
for me. Like, it literally just hits me
45:43
right in the heart, because I've been there, I've, I've had those
45:48
experiences where I'm like, is this the God's talking to me, or
45:53
the gods trying to teach me something?
45:55
Or I'm, I'm looking at something and it's a certain day of the
45:58
week and how can where it's like we we force ourselves to think
46:01
that we have to see the gods and everything.
46:03
And the gods aren't in know everything that you know,
46:05
they're not necessarily. But when they are man, when
46:10
they, when they make their presence known, that I can save
46:13
just out of, you know, again, U PG, just what I'm saying.
46:17
That my experience. There is no question when the
46:22
God speak to us, there is no, well, what if it's this could it
46:26
be that? Nope, it's 100%.
46:29
Definitely the gods, no questions about it.
46:32
No, if ands or buts. So you have to think about it,
46:36
you have to wonder if you have two guests and chances are, it's
46:38
not it. That's all I'm saying.
46:41
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46:47
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48:09
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