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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP24 - Returning From Illness. · Random Heathen Ramblings

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It's been a minute. It's been a hot minute.
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It's been a very hot minute because we are in the middle of
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a very hot summer here in the northern hemisphere.
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At least in this part of the northern hemisphere in Middle,
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Tennessee. A good to be back here guys
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broadcasting and streaming and doing.
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You know what, I usually do every week here on the random
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Heathen ramblings podcast, Had a little bit of a hiccup in terms
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of what this week's show was going to be in terms of guests
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and participants and all that kind of fun stuff.
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But you know what that means for you, that means for you that you
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have just me this week. But you also have an awesome
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guests lined up for you in the coming week and in the coming
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weeks, as a matter of fact, we're going International in the
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middle half of 20:22, you know, the last podcast we had guests
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from Australia, not this week, of course but next week we
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should hopefully have a guest in Canada joining us and then
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sometime around the beginning of August or so, we should have
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someone joining us from the United Kingdom UK.
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Yes! That is a fact.
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You can take that to the bank cash.
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It the Do whatever you want with it, but that's not this week.
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This week is just going to be you and me.
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So let's go ahead and just light some incense real quick and let
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me give you an update on things. Things going on here in about
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here lately. Got some mugwort and I'm not
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exactly sure what the other one is.
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But it's it's a it's a dual stick situation.
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Okay. Dual instant situation going on
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here. A lot of A lot of healing going
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on here now in today. So I did want to talk about, you
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know, I was absent for last week's podcast and I want to
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thank you all. Thank you all for your, you
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know, understanding of the situation.
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I've II fell ill with the covid virus and so, did my wife, you
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know. So there was a lot of focus and
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attention put on the Hearth and Home which is I've always spoken
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about My podcasts and videos is that, that is where Heathen re
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the heart of heathen re lies in the Hearth, you know, and making
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sure that Hearth and Home is taken care of first and
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foremost, but everything else and that can sometimes present
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challenges with what we want to try and do in our Heathen
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communities. And, and then such because some
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so Many of us. So many people are yearning for
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community, and our yearning for camaraderie.
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And having, you know, people of like minds or similar thoughts.
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You know, people who share in the same ideals and whatnot as
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us be a part of our as it were family units.
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And I have to wonder. If that times the, the failure
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of creating such things and if the failure of establishing such
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things Rose, you know, the failure of which lies in our own
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failures. And focusing on the Hearth and
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Home. You know, because what I see a
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lot of times is people pushing for Community, pushing for
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kindred's, pushing for tribes, pushing for communal, Assemblies
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of people who they think are. You know, or have similar
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worldviews, and there's not a lot of vetting.
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There's not a lot of Focus on, you know, the home the Hearth,
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where things originated from. And so the push to create or
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establish a familial unit, whether it be tribe, Kindred,
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whatever you want to call it outside of the Inner Circle and
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outside of the roof tree outside of that family unit, trying to
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establish something. Outside of that fails because
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the Hearth and Home are damaged. And then there is no heart or
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home, right there. There's nothing that can be
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rightly established as being such.
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And so we lean or we see people leaning more towards the online
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community, right? We see people more focused on
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becoming part of an online or virtual family community virtual
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Kindred virtual tribe that sort of thing.
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And whether it be, you know, Facebook, communities, Facebook
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groups, Facebook pages, Discord servers, you know, that sort of
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thing. And people YouTube channels,
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even I mean, you know, just you name it.
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Whatever that virtual community. establishment might be, you
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know, we see Recreations or Versions of family popping up in
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so many ways, right? You listen to this ban, do you
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like this song? Oh, you like this?
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You know, sort of artistry, this sort of, you know, you know,
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style this this this artistic view this you know, just various
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things that that Maybe touch on. Certain aspects of an ancient
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archaic lifestyle things that appeal to the masses.
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Right there. There's a lot of things going on
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in. Pop culture.
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Now in today, right? I'm talking Beyond just the
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Marvel MCU, you know, talking beyond the hole for a node and
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aesthetic. I'm talking about things like
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the northmen, you know talking about things like last Kingdom.
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Talking about other multimedia Productions, where they're be
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Hollywood, whether it be other, smaller, Production Studios,
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whether it be, whatever it is, you know, things that are
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appealing to the northern European or dramatic aesthetic,
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you know, It's in the Forefront ladies and gentlemen, it's very
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loud and it's very dominant and its prominent in pop culture
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these days. and so the prominence or the dominance of
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that aesthetic, seems to draw the attention.
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Of certain individuals certain crowds, right?
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Certain people that think. That.
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This can be. Established cultivated grown.
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Just online. And it can't be.
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It simply can't be. This insurgents or increase in
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interest as it were of I'm going to use air quotes, right?
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The old ways. Foreign saved out to do,
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whatever you want to turn whatever term you want to put to
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this sort of thing, you know. It's a I guess it's been here
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for a long time. You know, whether it be through
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that, you know, the History Channel's Vikings, whether it be
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through Amon Amarth You know, they were putting out a lot of
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new material lately. So wound that one of their
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newest songs, that's titled, the great Heathen Army, you know.
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There's this. I don't know, man.
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Like there always seems to be this breath.
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You know, how you breathe into Embers and you can he Breathe
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new life? We breathe life into seemingly
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dying Embers. Right there.
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There's there seems to be this constant, insurgents Resurgence.
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I don't know that, you know, the northern European Indo-European.
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Perhaps indigenous Pagan practices that have just I don't
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know, man. Like I can't really speak to the
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to the, to the interest that it that it Rose like in the 90s and
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stuff because I really wasn't a part of that but like the
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mid-to-late 2000s and here we are now, you know, like There's
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this. Constant.
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Stoking of the coals to keep things relevant with northern
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European Germanic whatever paganism.
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Polytheism. and I think there's, you know, I think that there is
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a place where I think that there's Value to be.
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Considered with that whole thing.
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But the focus seems to be simply on the surface.
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It seems to be simply on the aesthetic of it.
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And if I were to sit here and say that, like, look, do I dress
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like this all the time? Do I do, I go out into public in
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a hooded, you know, Ensemble with the tunic and, and all this
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kind of stuff. Absolutely.
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Not like, this is just for the podcast.
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This is For what I do here on this on this platform and other
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platforms, you know what, you see.
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Here in this moment is to capture.
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The attention of a certain audience.
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It is right. I live a very specific way and I
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exist in a very specific way. That transcends what you see on
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the surface but what you see on the surface is a part of me,
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right? The ritual theater.
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The. You know, adorning ourselves and
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creating an atmosphere for ourselves to embrace and
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Encompass. The thing that we maybe are
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closely closely drawn to Right. This is part of it.
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And I've been condemned, I've been chastised.
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I've been ridiculed. I've been thought less of for
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the aesthetic. I'm sure a lot of us have, you
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know, but the aesthetic is very simply put the surface of it all
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it is a surface of it. All this is not a requirement,
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this is not mandatory, this is not what you should be doing
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necessarily To embrace the spirituality to embrace the path
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or whatever, it's maybe a something that you're going to
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reach, maybe it's something that you're going to achieve, maybe
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something you're going to arrive to at a certain point.
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But it's not mandatory, I am who I am and I Heathen the way I
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hear him. I am a pagan in the way that I
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Pagan, all right? Just like many people.
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Observe their religious practices in their own way in
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their own individual way. I am just one person.
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I'm just one man. I am just one individual.
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I am one sentient. Living being that coexists.
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Amongst other sentient living beings?
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And this is a part of me as a part of who I am.
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And this is a part of how I wish to be seen.
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It is not all of me. It is a part of me.
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There are other parts of me that you will never see that.
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Least not on this platform. At least not in this way.
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Right. And that should be understood
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in. That should be respected. the
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whole Viking thing, you know, like that's been something that
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has been romanticized over-romanticized celebrated
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without any real understanding of what that is, you know.
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Who are the Vikings? They were farmers.
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They were Fair years. They were.
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Smith's blacksmiths bladesmiths. They were the common Folk.
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And they lived during a Time. during history, when You had to
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do whatever it took. You had to Consider whatever
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means necessary to survive to give your family, something
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better. And at that time, those things
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meant pillaging meant rating, men.
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Invading it meant taking things that weren't yours of
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Birthright. You don't live in those times
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now. we don't exist in a time of raiding and pillaging.
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You know. but because of that because of that being something
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that was keyed in on, The Viking age, right?
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Goes down in the annals of history as being a time of, you
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know, Heroes. You know, much of the sagas, the
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Icelandic sagas and the Norwegian sagas, many of the
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sagas that were written that we have.
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Documented you no recollection of happened during a time in
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history called The Viking age. It was a tumultuous time.
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It was a time when the beliefs of the indigenous people.
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Of Northern Europe were being eradicated, sometimes very
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violently. To be replaced by the
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globalization. The global dominance.
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Of the judaic Christian religion.
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And you know, I grew up as Christian and I grew up with a
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Christian worldview, a non-denominational Denomination
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denomination. Denominational.
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Christian worldview. It was a very unique thing in
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that, you know, I grew up in a closed-off, you know, society.
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That was very tribal inherently tribal, you know, take care of
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your own. The outside world is the outside
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world. You you take care of what is
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within, you know. and, Religious views aside. so much of what I
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feel is valuable now, and today, and even modern culture today,
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touches on the things that I was brought up in religion, aside,
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because, quite frankly, there were there, were, there were
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things about the religious teachings that I was brought up
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in that, just don't check out for me.
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Yeah, it's largely why I'm pagan.
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It is 100%. The reason why I no longer have
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dealings with my blood kin. all of my family, all of the people
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who I consider family now in today, Are of no birth blood kin
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to me. They are kith.
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They are that extended family. There are that extended family
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unit, people who have proved themselves worthy to me to be
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called. A title of familial Bond.
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You know. and having just gone through a very recent, you know,
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Health crisis as it were, you know, I tested positive for
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covid last week. No, we was two weeks ago
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actually now my wife tested positive for covid.
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Just this last week. We're here.
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We're alive were recovered, you know.
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But having gone through that. Having gone through that, you
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know, Health crisis, you know, my wife being someone who is
22:02
immunocompromised, having prior medical conditions that the
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covid virus, could, you know, add two problems on, you know,
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myself being someone of relatively strong background.
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I have no prior health conditions, you know, II made it
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through. The the the Omicron variant
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relatively unscathed, you know yes there was a day or two where
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I was you know, in fits of you know fever dreams and visions
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and things like that that we're just, you know alarming but you
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know to be honest I my ass has been kicked harder with the
22:38
common cold than it was with the omikron variant of the covid-19
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virus. My wife on the other hand you
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know had some pretty substantial health.
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Concerns and you know we got them checked out.
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Fortunately she is clear of any other major health concerns, you
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know, all her x-rays, all the her you know heart scans and all
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those types of things that were done.
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Proved to be clear. So you know thank the gods and
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ancestors for that. but one of the things that, you know,
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having gone through something like that was the people who
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checked in the people who care, the people who were Close while
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being distant, you know, checking in sending a message,
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sending a text and then whatever we're not blood kin.
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To me. you know, when it goes back to this hole, Thing that I
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that I constantly see about, you know, tribe and kinship and
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kindred's and uneo having these these, these familial units
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build out of seemingly, nothing. You know, this this desire.
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Amongst people. To have a clan to have a unit to
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have a community to connect with.
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I wouldn't have what I have now. If it weren't for already
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establishing a strong familial unit, whether it be through
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adoption, whether it be through marriage, whether it be through
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blood, whatever there has to be that, you know, folks that are
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has to be that family unit. at least so far as I've been able
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to ascertain, you know, the family unit that I have exists
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outside of blood kinship, because those who are blood to
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me and that our blood, you know, whose blood I come from, have
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shown themselves to be less than honorable, and less than I guess
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they don't know. They consider me outside of
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their family and outside of their family unit and outside of
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their roof-tree, you know, outside of their Hearth cult
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because of my religious practice.
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Because of the way that I again on the surface appear at times
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what you see It's only partially what you get.
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I don't walk around looking like this.
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I don't walk around and face painting.
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Don't walk around. In an altered state of
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consciousness. 90 some odd percent of the time.
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I'm coherent. I am connecting to the life that
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exists around me in the ways that it does.
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You know, and if people can't see past that if people want to
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assume that this is some sort of facade, but this is some sort of
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a possession that this is some sort of a, you know, fake
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representation of who I am and what I'm about.
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Then they fail to. Understand the assignment they
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fail to connect with other living forces.
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That are around them. You know.
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This this podcast is a bit different than other podcasts in
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the sense that I am speaking to the void, the void includes some
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of you that are watching and listening now and today you
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missed the podcast for last week because I was taking time to
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heal. I was taking time to focus on my
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Hearth and Home and I was taking time to withdraw myself from the
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outer and focus on the inner. That is necessary, that is
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absolutely necessary at times to focus on the inner. and even
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during my focus on the inner, I was able to understand and know
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that healing. True, healing does not happen in
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isolation. There are parts of isolation
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that are required to start the healing process, but the healing
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process occurs and happens. During movement.
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The river. Backs up. when it is, Damned
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trees and plants are choked out when they are not given enough
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soil and enough nutrients to grow Within we are choked out,
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we die. In isolation my friends.
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You may consider yourself a solitary practitioner, but I do
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not believe that you as a solitary practitioner withdraw
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yourself entirely from any sort of life.
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You may be solitary, maybe alone.
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You may be by yourself, but you are connecting to some sort of
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Life Force around you. Whether it be the trees, the
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Rocks, the air, the water, there is some sort of life around you
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that you are tapping into because otherwise my friend, you
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die, Become stagnant, you become moldy, you become dead.
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You wither you rot in isolation. And if that is where you choose
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to stay, that is where you choose to remain.
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In that Darkness. You will lose life.
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You will only grow so far. You will only heal so much.
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At some point, my friends you need to break out of that
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isolation. At some point you need to
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recognize the life that is abundant around you and if you
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don't tap into that, if you don't reconnect with that, if
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you thrust yourself. Into that seeming.
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Lee cozy, Cocoon of isolation. You will die.
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Think of that. The caterpillar, you know, has
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to isolate has to go within that cocoon state.
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There's 100% isolation and separation from the world
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around. But at some point they break
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free, they break free to become the thing.
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To become that new life form. At the world around them
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understands, and knows as that. He is who she or he is.
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So many people. Thank that isolation.
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Solitary practitioners. The Soleus, right?
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So many people think that that's where it ends.
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I can't find anybody else. I don't trust anybody else.
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Yeah, I get it. You're only going to grow so
31:08
far, you're only going to reach a certain stage.
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You know, classic example. I broke out of my isolation as
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it were by going out and becoming present in the public.
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That insertion into the public space resulted in me.
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Picking up the covid-19 Omicron Burien.
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It did, I went to a show. I went to a concert with my
31:46
cousin. My wife's cousin, who needed,
31:50
Camaraderie, who needed friendship.
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I stepped out and I went to a show and then, you know, three
31:57
days later, I'm running, 100 degree fever, wearing a hoodie
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in, you know, 100 degree temperatures.
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Sometimes. Okay, and this is just me
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speaking here, sometimes being exposed.
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To those things being exposed to that.
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Darkness being exposed to that. Element.
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Is the necessary thing that pushes us into a new layer, a
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new stage of growth. Hey.
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My intentions, my purpose of going about was not for me I
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could have cared less about the show that I went to.
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I don't listen to that kind of music.
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I went because someone near and dear to my heart was in need.
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They wanted that camaraderie and I went outside of my comfort
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zone to be that Source of camaraderie and it was a great
33:16
experience. So what if a few days later, I
33:19
feel sick. It was a learning opportunity.
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It was a learning experience and I took the experience, I took
33:28
the encounter, I took what happened to me, and I made the
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most out of it that I possibly could, I rested.
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I knew, you know, nurtured myself, and I touched the bare
33:41
Earth with my bare skin, I absorbed the bright life-giving
33:47
nutrients of the Sun and to my eyes and my face and my skin, I
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went outside of my comfort zone during my most Uncomfortable
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moments. And I connected with what is
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most Primal and what is most sacred to me, the Earth, the
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sky, the wind, the air, the sun, all of that.
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And did it help me? Heal faster I could say it did
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I'm not a medical professional and I wouldn't recommend what I
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did to anybody else that I know because it worked for me, but
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I'm not a medical professional, right?
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I don't sit here on any sort of pedestal and say that you should
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do the same thing. You get sick.
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Go out and stand out there and hunt degree heat and put your
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feet in the ground, and all this kind of stuff.
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I know what worked for me and I know what allowed me to heal.
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You need to know what you need to heal.
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You need to know what steps you need to take.
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To allow the, the nutrient-rich. Spirits around us Earth, the
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water, the air the fire. All of these things.
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All of these things that our ancient ancestors knew, and
35:11
understood. How you reconnect?
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How you re-establish a connection in that way?
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Is going to establish you. It's going to to to solidify you
35:25
in things that you want to do for the people around you. if
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you are not prepared, if you're not ready, To protect and grow
35:37
your own Hearth, your own home, however, big or small that may
35:40
be, whether it's just you, whether it's you and a roomy
35:43
with its you, in a life partner, whether it's you and a spouse.
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However, you identify a well, however, you establish this sort
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of thing socially. And it's construct, right?
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It starts with you. It starts with us.
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It resides with us. When everything else has said
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and gone. We are What Remain?
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You know, and I got like I said, it's a bit of a different
36:23
podcast this week, because I'm getting kind of visceral.
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I'm getting kind of Very, you know.
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Down to Earth as it were with all of us.
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But I hope that it's enjoyable. I hope that it's I hope it means
36:40
something to you to be a part of this moment with me and to
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reflect with me a little bit because maybe you didn't
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experience the same thing I did. But you're experiencing
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something yourself. You're a part of something
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yourself right now, you're involved in something right now.
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That you need to. Focus on yourself with.
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But don't get lost in yourself. Don't get lost in that
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isolation. Don't get so absorbed in the
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solidarity. That the rest of the picture
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gets forgotten. Look at it like a puzzle, my
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friends. They're the outer layers, the
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edges and then there's what happens in the middle.
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If you set the boundaries, if you set the edges, it's time to
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focus on The Middle. But that middle is building the
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bigger picture, it's not where it ends.
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It's not where it stops. so, there's your there's your
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there's your meal to digest for the week.
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Hopefully, next week. We have a very special guest
38:04
from British Columbia area of Canada joining us to talk about
38:09
all kinds of fun things going on in the mythical.
38:16
Weird weaving aspects of things. And then the coming weeks and
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months to come in, in in August, we have a special guest coming
38:26
to us from the United Kingdom. So yes, The random Heathen
38:32
ramblings podcast has branched out this year into the
38:36
international waters. You know, last episode we had
38:41
James from the Ravens age healing and Australia next week.
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Hopefully, we have a very special guest coming to us from
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Canada, British Columbia. And then next month in August,
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the United Kingdom, lots of fun things lined up.
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Hopefully, they manifest themselves.
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But regardless of what happens in that Arena, I will be here to
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the best of my abilities. Thank you so much for your
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ongoing support and understanding during the medical
39:10
crisis. That myself in my nearest and
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dearest had happened. We are coming through it, we
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have conquered and we are here to sing our songs of Victory and
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I hope the same for you. My friends.
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So whatever it is that you do, do it with gusto.
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Do it with intent. Do it with purpose.
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Do it to honor your ancestors, do it to honor the gods, and do
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it to leave a legacy behind you. When you depart this Mortal
39:36
plane, So in the interim, I hope you all take a moment to check
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out the link to relink. That's posted in the description
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ruined. Drawings, will be coming soon
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again, because of the medical thing that I had to deal with.
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There's some delay in that but it is coming.
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Thank you for your ongoing and constant support in that area as
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well. Don't forget to share this
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So, and until we talk again, they your ancestors always smile
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upon you and walk with you. And may the gods continue to
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notice you. See you next time.