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let me know see what we can work out.
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All right, so for the episode this week, I always like when
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folks that listen or watch this show reach out to me and throw a
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Which by the way, if you want to ever, you know, suggested an
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So any which way that you decide that you want to, you know,
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share your thoughts or leave a topic of suggestion, that's
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that's perfectly fine. So this one came this week from
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a fellow who's been on the show multiple times.
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His name is Blake Russell and he is the musical master behind the
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project Skaldic Works. So if you're looking to check
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him out on his socials, I believe he's on Facebook and
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Instagram as well and probably isn't as a YouTube channel.
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But he plays like the toggle harp and drums and he's in the
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northern northern Alabama area of of the United States.
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But he he has been on the show multiple times and he he quite
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often throws some pretty good ideas of for topics out my way,
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and so this one came from him. So thank you Blake, for reaching
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out and suggesting this. But he wrote in and he says,
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does ill weird that one generates carry over to
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everything they do henceforth or is weird based on the intention
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that is granted in that moment? That was the subject of his
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e-mail. So it was a pretty pretty
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detailed subject line. And then in the body of the
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e-mail course, he says, hey, Jesse, not sure if I already
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asked this or if it's been if it's been covered in a pod
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previous podcast episode, he says.
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But I was wondering if the weird that one generates carries over
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to everything they do or make, every place they enter and
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everyone or group they interact with.
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Or is it mostly based on what is generated in that moment?
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For instance, if someone who made something for you did
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something to generate bad weird in the past, does the thing they
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have created carry that same bad weird or is it mostly based on
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the intent put into the object created?
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If someone has done bad deeds and enters a space, will the
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luck that they have generated from that deed carry into the
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room despite it being done in the past?
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And I think that's a pretty well well said, well stated thing.
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And I think that it's a great topic to to cover today.
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So thank you, Blake, for giving us this this subject matter.
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So as always, you know, folks, if you're not sure what we're
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talking about, this is what we're talking about.
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When I said weird multiple times, I don't mean weird in the
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modern English word of something that is strange or peculiar or
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odd. I mean the weird that we're
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talking about here is the word WYRD.
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And it's an Old Norse word that that generates, I believe, from
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this Anglo-Saxon name that that kind of says something along the
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lines of fate, but it's not it that it doesn't necessarily mean
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like the fate as in like the Greek fates.
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You know, weird is a elaborate thing.
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And it's a very complex concept. And it's probably best defined
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as in the in the form of a tapestry with multiple threads
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being woven into the fabric, you know, multiple threads being
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woven into the tapestry to make up what it is.
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So in addition to that, there is individual weird that is tied
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by, by, by every one person. So every there is, there is
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shared weird. There is the weird that is, you
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know, that, that that cosmic tapestry where we're all kind of
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having our own influence to, to, to add to that, you know, where
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the things that we're doing is being, becoming part of that.
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But then there's there's very specific threads that that, that
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when we interact and when we intertwine lives with other with
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others, those individual threads now become interwoven.
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And the the the tapestry is, is is create more, there's more
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elaborate things being done to the tapestry.
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So you know, you have your individual weird, you have your
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family weird, you have the larger picture weird these,
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these various tapestries and they're all interconnected.
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Everything is, is is ultimately interconnected to this great
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cosmic tapestry. According to the, the, the, the
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beliefs that we're talking about here in Indian in North
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Heathenry, I believe that the continental dramatic pagans had
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had a closer example of this as, as something more like a well
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and that the, the, the, the ones who shaped things in, in our
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lives. Where were the shapers?
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The, the, the, the, the Norse had the Nornier.
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You know, there you'll be here in the, in the myths about the
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Nordnier and then in the continental, you know, the
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Saxon, specifically Saxon heathens and those continental
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heathens there they had the shapers.
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So what, I guess, you know, So what Blake is, is, is, is trying
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to understand or, or ask about is, does the, the, the ill
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weird, does the bad things that people are doing, 'cause let's,
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let's break it down, you know, so weird again, this, this
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tapestry and then and what are we talking about?
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We're talking about everything that, that is making up this,
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this elaborate, you know, tapestry.
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What's making that up? Our deeds, our words, our works.
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And they are the, the actions, you know, so weird is what it
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is. And it's, it's nothing
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inherently good or bad, But there are things, there are
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actions that can be done by individuals when, when in, when
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they, when, when they're, when things are becoming intertwined
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that can either strengthen the, the luck right strength,
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strengthen those, those threads, or they can do there, there are
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things that can damage them, you know, so it's either doing
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something to strengthen the web of weird or damage it.
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So I see this mostly happening with our, our relationship with
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people, not so much in, in like objects, you know.
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So like, for example, one of the things that he was asking was,
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you know, if someone who made something for you did something
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bad, you know, or did something to, to, to, to cause I'll, does
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that energy does that bad, weird, that bad energy does that
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go, does it transfer into the object?
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And then now is something that somebody did carried into an
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object and now that you possess the object, you're as a result,
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impacted or affected by that bad weird or that I'll, I'll weird.
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I don't think that that's how the concept is understood or was
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ever understood. It would be different if the
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the, the, the if, if the works that were being done for the
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object, you know, let's say a magical sigil or, you know,
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something that was intended to bring it forth certain results
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magically or or whatever. That'd be one thing.
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But I don't, I don't think that it was ever understood that
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like, OK, well, if you know, if you know, if, if, if Bjorn, you
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know, killed his, his his brother Sven and then gave
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something to his neighbor that was a was a, you know, a gift
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that the, the murder, the, the the D, the kinslang that Bjorn
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executed upon Sven, that I'll D does not carry in forth into an
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object that is gifted. So the person receiving that,
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the neighbor receiving that gift from Bjorn would not be impacted
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by Bjorn's I'll luck or or you know, the the the things that he
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did that that damaged or tarnished the threads of weird
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in that family. Now, if it was a you know, now
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that the difference that in that would be that if if Bjorn and
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the neighbor somehow became closer as a result of this kin
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slaying, maybe, you know, maybe the neighbor had something out
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for Sven, you know, and and and and wanted Buren to do it.
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And you know, Buren hated Sven anyway, so it was easy for him
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to do it. And you know, the neighbor
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didn't want the the the outlawry status or the bad luck to fall
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on him from doing the kin's fling.
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So he he's like we're doing the killing.
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So he's just had let let Buren do it.
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And Buren didn't care about his honor.
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You know, if, if that relationship between those two
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people that that is, that is definitely intertwining threads
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of, of weird. And that's I'll weird.
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That's that's a bad relationship.
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That, that, that is something that can really tarnish a
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family's luck. It can tarnish an individual's
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luck for sure. Because now Bjorn is, is, you
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know, a kinslayer and he's, you know, he's broken the law.
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And so he's now he would be considered outlaw, you know, if
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if it was, I'm just, I'm, I'm creating hypothetical situations
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here, right. So we're just, we'll just just
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humor me and we'll just go with it.
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And now because of that, you know, now that they've entered
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into this relationship together, they're they're somehow tied
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together through through these deeds that I'll deed that, that,
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you know, being associated with something like that, having that
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reputation is, is not going to be good.
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It's not going to feed the well with good things.
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It's going to tarnish the, the, the weaving of, of things.
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You know, it's going to create a, a rough patch in the fabric.
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So there's a difference in the ways that I understand it.
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You know, it's, it's like, so let's, you know, if, if you
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know, we want to look at, let's say a source material about
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something. Let's look at the saga of, you
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know, Egil Scala Grimson was the one thing that comes to mind.
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And that is with that one part or that one, that one part in
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the in the poem or in the saga, I should say, where, you know,
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somebody had painted runes on, on whalebone and they didn't
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know what they were doing. And they and it created a
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sickness upon someone you know, And and that sickness was as a
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result of the runes that were painted on this piece of
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whalebone were the wrong runes for the spell or for the charm
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or for the thing that they were trying to to invoke or to to
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incite an egg yield being the rune master had to undo it.
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He had to undo that and, and put the right runes on this on this
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piece of will bone in order for the for the person to to regain
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their health. So, like there are definitely
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things that can be either purposefully or in
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unintentionally done to mess with things, you know, and and
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to bring forth, you know, bring bring disturbance, bring
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sickness, bring, you know, I'll locker or whatever.
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And then to damage those, those fabrics of, of, of the tapestry
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and whether by purpose, design, or whether through unintentional
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actions, like an example of, you know, an egg gills saga, you're
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not just stuck with that problem.
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You're not just doomed to have this issue or this problem
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forever or, or, you know, for it to carry on.
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It can be undone. You know, things can be fixed.
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The repairs can be made and it is usually obviously, you know,
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the opposite of the thing that it was, you know, so in Eagle's
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case, you know, he had to clean the, the, you know, wipe the,
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you know, the, the, the runes away or, or sand them away or
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scrape them away and then re apply them a different way or
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just do the whole thing differently.
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You know, so the opposite of what it was initially done.
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And so like objects, you know, things that a person did in
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their life to harm somebody else or to do something that was of a
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of a I'll nature. You know, if they give you a
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gift, if they make something for you, does their luck transfer
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into that gift? No, I don't think that that's
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that's how it was ever understood to work.
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You know that it wasn't like you know, now I have seen.
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You know, and experience my own personal UPG on things.
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I have seen cases where I used to have my wife and I, we used
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to have a, for a short period of time, we had a, a roommate who
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lived with us. They were in a kind of a tough
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spot in their life and they needed some, you know, they
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needed a, they needed to reset themselves.
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They needed to repair their own weird, I guess would be one way
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of looking at it. And they weren't here, they
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weren't living with us for very long, but they, they, they
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exhibited behavior that was very unbecoming of a guest, of a, of
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a roommate. They caused physical damage to
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our house, like they, they put a hole in the wall and just
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anything. So anyway, they were, they were
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told to leave, you know, and they were told to get out, find,
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find your own way. Now, now before that had
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happened, they had obviously, you know, we, we, we felt
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comfortable enough with them to let them live with us.
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And before all of this happened that I just described, they had
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helped us with like tilling up our garden and planting some
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crops like tomatoes and cucumbers and okra and various
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things. And after all of those things
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were done, like after we finished with the, the tilling
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of the ground and the planting of the, of the crops, you know,
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we all kind of had this little, almost like a, you know,
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charming of the plow or, you know, a, a little ceremony,
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little ritual to, to gift to the land in a way.
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And, and we all buried something near that garden as a gift.
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And the thing that they buried was a knife.
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And we never, you know, thought anything of, of that, the, the
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nature of it, you know, we never thought anything of it at the
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time. This is years ago too, by the
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way. So, you know, never thought
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anything that that burying such an item could be, could, could
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maybe bring I'll, but it was, it was not too, too, too far after
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this situation. It was like within a few weeks
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of, of getting the garden set up and everything that they were
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asked to leave or told to leave the house at because they were,
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you know, they were, they were unbecoming.
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They were behaving in a way that was not becoming of, of, of a
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good guest. And we didn't want that around
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us. And we got to like my wife and
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I, we got to remembering what was buried back there and we go
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get that thing out of the ground, get it out, throw it
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away. And it was, it was, you know, it
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was interesting because like we were, we were noticing that the
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garden wasn't starting off that well, you know, it wasn't
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starting off growing very good. And once that once the blade was
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removed from the earth and disposed of, things started to
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get back to normal. So it was interesting, you know,
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like the, the, the ill deed or or whatever that the person, I
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don't know, I don't know how or why that, that if it, if it had
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anything to do with, with the result of the garden growing
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better or not, could just be that the fact that this is a
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blade, this is a night, This isn't, this is not a, you know,
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the gardening tool. It's not an organic thing that
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that could feed the earth, you know, and, and maybe just that
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energy alone was what, how the earth was responding and how the
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spirits of the land were responding to it.
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That it was a, you know, a bladed object meant to cut and
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to sever instead of to, to cultivate.
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That could be probably more, you know, what was happening there,
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But it is interesting to, to take note of a situation that I
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personally had experienced where an item that was once the
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possession of somebody was a part of, of a reason why things
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weren't, you know, the things, things weren't acting right.
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Things weren't acting well, things weren't growing.
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Things weren't, you know, healthy, you know, and, and
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again, the, the, the, the act of, of what caused this person
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to be told to leave or evicted, you know, that hadn't happened
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yet. It's not like they did something
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to damage our home and then we went and did this thing and, and
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that was what was kind of absorbed into that blade.
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Like, no, it was, it was either the blade itself or it was
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something else that we didn't know about beforehand.
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So I don't know, I can't, is it, these are one of those things
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that you, I don't, you know, you can't definitively say for sure.
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But if you're of the heart and of the mind to believe in that,
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know that the thing that you, you know, if that's what you're
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going to believe that you're, you're not necessarily stuck
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with that it can be undone. That, that, that, that, that
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work can be reversed or erased and started clean again.
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You know, now, I think that when it comes to our deeds and when
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it comes to our actions, that is the thing that leaves a more
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lasting impression. That is the thing that transfers
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through not just our luck, you know, not just the luck of an
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individual, but the luck of a family.
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It is it is it is what is inherited through the family
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line through that family is weird and family can be you know
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that who those who are blood. Can you know, those who are
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members of a family through DNA, through, through biological
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means, or they can be the, the forms of family in the, in the
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way that family is formed through other activities like
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marriages, adoptions, fostering oaths.
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You know, there's so many different ways that in, in
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Heathenry especially that a kinship is, is, is formed.
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It's not just, you know, so and so begat so and so.
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And then that's our family. Their family is, is, is forged
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and kins, kinships are forged in, through many different ways.
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So I do think that in, in, it's in that context that the deeds
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of people, good and bad things that have either done well for
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the, for the web and that have been strong threads to be woven
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into the tapestry or damaged ones, things that have caused
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the, the, the, the threads to fray and the tapestry to rot.
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You know, I think those are things that are very much
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manifest in existence and they, and they do transfer.
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They do exist outside and through more than just the, the
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moment in which the thing happened.
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It's why I believe that some people have it going seemingly
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worse for them all the time or most of the time, you know, when
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you encounter people who are they can't get their shit
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together. They're always complaining about
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something. Everything is always a woe is
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me. There's this problem I can't fix
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right? That there's always a problem is
28:26
always something that that they're just that it's like they
28:28
they're they're cursed in a way. And I believe, you know, that
28:37
that is the result of that, that weird that I'll deed or those
28:41
those things that have been ingrained into the fabric of
28:45
their of their, of their weird and their families weird.
28:51
The necessary actions to repair that damage haven't happened.
28:57
They're at a point in their life where they're now receiving the
29:02
result of, you know, deeds passed on and they have not
29:08
taken the initiative. They have not taken the
29:10
responsibility to fix it, to repair it, to do something
29:14
different, to change it up. You know, I was talking to a a
29:21
dear friend and brother of mine just last night about things,
29:27
you know, and, and how, you know, this is the time we are
29:29
in. We are in those Times Now where
29:31
it's, it's, it's time to shake things up.
29:33
It's, it's too much. I'll has, has damaged the web,
29:39
you know, and this, this, this person who I'm talking about,
29:42
you know, they're not, they're not even heathen.
29:45
But the concept of, of what we're talking about today and
29:49
what we were talking about last night is a concept that you can
29:53
find, you know, applicable regardless of your faith or your
29:58
religious views on things. But it's, it's, it's
30:02
understanding and it's knowing that things aren't going to
30:04
change by themselves. You know, works and deeds and
30:09
actions that have been done in the past that have brought us to
30:11
this place and have brought people to a place where they are
30:13
now. Is, is, is not going to change
30:16
just because we've hope for the best.
30:18
Or we, you know, we dance or we drum or we sing or we, you know,
30:23
no, it's, it's by undoing certain things, redoing certain
30:28
things, you know, reversing that, throwing that, you know,
30:32
that Uno card down and, and reversing it back and then
30:34
fixing it, you know, doing the necessary work to fix it.
30:39
We were talking about it in the, in the context of like
30:45
generational trauma and, and, and family problems and things
30:49
that come down to us generationally.
30:53
But I think it can be, I think it can be applied and, and
30:57
understood in the context of, of a, of a larger scale too, You
30:59
know, 'cause we're talking about weird and, and weird is, is a,
31:04
is, is a network. It's, it's, it's a, it's a huge
31:07
web. It's a tapestry that, you know,
31:09
one thread here leads to another thread somewhere else that you
31:17
may not have necessarily intimate knowledge of, you know,
31:23
but you know, as an example, it's, you know, look at the
31:26
thing, look at where you are in your life right now.
31:29
And, and it doesn't matter, OK, Look at where you are in your
31:32
life right now. Everything that you've done in
31:35
the past and some things that people have done either for you
31:40
or with you is the reason why you are where you are right now.
31:46
It's why you're feeling the what you're feeling.
31:47
It's why you're experiencing what you're experiencing.
31:49
This is because those threads have been woven and it has now
31:55
become part of the tapestry of your weird.
32:02
And for some it might be a beautiful tapestry that they're
32:05
satisfied with. And it's, it's flourishing and
32:07
it's, you know, and it, and it continues to flourish for others
32:11
and with others. And for others, it might not be
32:14
so much, it might be a little flappy, you know what I mean?
32:17
It might be tarnished, it might be damaged.
32:19
There might be holes in it, they might be hanging on by a thread,
32:23
barely hanging on kind of thing. But in any situation, and in any
32:29
case, no matter what your situation is, it is as a result
32:34
and due to the actions, the deeds, the choices that were
32:42
made before. It's simple as that.
32:47
So to, to, to, to reach this point of our lives and to find a
32:57
way to, to fix things. If it, if it's not what we want,
33:00
that's where, that's where we come into play.
33:02
You know, that's what I mentioned before that, you know,
33:04
weird can kind of be looked at as fate, but it's not like we're
33:07
fated to suck at life. We're fated to, you know, just
33:11
be miserable all the time. It, it could be that we are at
33:16
that point. We might be miserable or, or
33:18
things might be very difficult or, or it's hard because of a
33:21
lot of the deeds that have led up to the point of, of this
33:27
moment, right, of this piece of, of the thread of the, of the, of
33:31
the web that is being woven to, to get us to where we are now.
33:34
But it's not a it's not, it's not the end of it.
33:38
Things are still happening. We are, we, we can step in, we
33:41
can grab hold of the threads and we can weave our own tapestry
33:46
and we have to, we, you know, whether we want to or not, it's,
33:52
we're doing it anyway. So why not make the choice to do
33:56
it? Well, you know, it's, there's a
34:05
lot of things going on in the world abroad, a lot of things
34:12
going on in individual lives. You know, I'm, I'm not, I'm
34:17
under no delusion to think that, you know, I have it harder than
34:20
anybody else or other people have it harder than me.
34:23
It's we all have it, you know, varying degrees of difficulty
34:26
where we're all playing at different levels, kind of if you
34:31
if you don't want to say it that way, but we're all experiencing
34:35
this version of existence a bit differently.
34:40
Then the next person. Sure, there's going to be people
34:43
that are threads have become intertwined and and we're
34:46
weaving in a very similar pattern that we you know, that
34:51
that we jive, you know, that we like minds and and we're but you
35:01
know, I'm under, I'm under, you know, no delusion to say that,
35:05
you know, I've got it worse or better than anybody else.
35:08
I I've just got it, what I've got it.
35:09
And if I don't like it, the what if I don't like the things that
35:13
I've got going right now and then then the way things have
35:17
have have kind of spun into existence, I'll fix it, then do
35:23
the do the work, do the necessary thing, you know, to
35:27
change that. So it's tough, you know, when
35:37
you see others that are very close to you, that that have
35:42
been a very influential part of your life that have been some of
35:51
the the ones to, to, to, to start that thread in going in
35:56
the direction that it has reached.
35:58
You know, I look at that, the people of my past, you know,
36:00
whether it be immediate family members or distant family
36:05
members or, or again, members of my people in my life who were
36:09
like family to me through non traditional methods, you know,
36:13
through just community, through marriage, you know, through,
36:21
through whatever the case may be.
36:28
When I see, when I, when I look back on the, the, the places
36:38
that I've I've reached in my life, you know, that maybe not
36:40
where I'm at now, but where I've, I've been at before.
36:42
And I look back and I reflect and I go, you know, man, like
36:46
that was I, I reached that point in my life because of the
36:53
threads that I was weaving, you know, and, and the influence of
36:59
the threads that people in my life had woven with me.
37:05
You know, this would be, this could be very intricate
37:08
situation. You know, it's, it's, it's not
37:11
to place blame on others outside of your control.
37:15
It's not to say that, well, my life is this or that because of,
37:20
you know, what an old family member did or whatever.
37:23
But it is, it's, it's it they're, they're, you know,
37:26
placing blame and taking ownership or two, you know, 2
37:28
very different things. And, and to say that, you know,
37:32
I am the way I am, or I've, I have reached this point of my
37:34
life largely due to things that have happened from, from, from
37:39
others. I mean, that's a reality.
37:42
You know, it's that, that the, the generational thing,
37:45
especially generational traumas, right?
37:47
Like things that have come down through the family luck and that
37:52
have been woven into our family's tapestries.
37:55
We didn't ask for it. We didn't ask to have those
37:59
things, but they're there, you know, and you can't, you can't.
38:06
Like once they're there, they're there.
38:07
Once it's been added to the well, once it's been woven into
38:09
that segment of the, of the, of the tapestry, it's, you know,
38:15
you can only go back so far. You can only undo so much.
38:18
And, and you can't, you, you, you can, you can continue to
38:22
choose to, to weave along that same pattern, or you can deviate
38:28
and you can take the threads and you can weave into something
38:30
else and you can integrate into something else.
38:32
You can change the outcome that the, the original part of the
38:36
tapestry remains. It's, it's, it, it can't be
38:40
undone in is in that aspect. But the things that can be
38:43
undone is I don't have to stay on the same trajectory.
38:46
I don't have to weave in the same pattern.
38:48
I can choose a different pattern.
38:51
I can choose a different way or different method of weaving.
38:56
In that way things can change. And in that way we can undo the
39:00
damage, you know, that was done in the, in, in the past.
39:06
You know, when I see when I see people, you know, and I've had
39:17
to, you know, reflect upon this myself because it's, it's again,
39:20
it's, it's applicable for everybody.
39:22
It you know nothing, nobody's unique or special in in this
39:27
way. It's you can, you can, you can
39:33
choose to pay attention or you can choose to ignore, but you
39:42
can never honestly say that you just didn't realize it.
39:46
I didn't notice. I didn't know that you did.
39:49
You've, you've consciously chosen to face it or not face
39:52
it. You know, you're not oblivious
39:55
to things. You're just choosing to ignore
39:57
those things. And you know those ugly truths,
40:03
those hard truths, they're not easy to to face.
40:08
You know, it's not easy to have the music played and then be
40:16
made to dance. You know it's.
40:25
You're you're you called out on something when you're made to
40:35
realize that. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm the reason
40:39
that this is still the way it is.
40:40
You know, I couldn't have any. I didn't have anything to do
40:43
with how I got here, but I have everything to do with why I'm
40:48
still here. And, and it's tough sometimes
40:52
for people, you know, they don't like to, they don't like to
40:57
weave their own threads. They don't like to take
41:00
ownership and take responsibility.
41:04
And then they like to and are they?
41:09
And then they wonder why things are the way they are.
41:11
Well, you know, again, this is all a choice.
41:14
It's, it's a choice on whether you weave or not weave, but
41:16
it's, it's a choice and the outcome will be what the outcome
41:19
is based upon that choice. It's, you know, cosmic threads
41:26
in the cosmic web that, that the larger scale picture things as
41:29
it is a really interesting way of, of working things out.
41:33
You know, you can't, you can't escape.
41:38
You can't escape it. You might, you might outrun it
41:42
for a little bit. You might get it out of your
41:44
line of sight for a little while, but it catches up
41:47
eventually. It, it always will.
41:49
You'll never, you'll never outrun it forever.
41:52
You'll tire, you'll slow down, but it'll stay constant.
41:55
If it doesn't, so why? Why prolong the inevitable?
42:03
Why? Why continue to, to, to live and
42:07
to act in such ways where you know, those things aren't fixed,
42:15
those those I'll deeds, they're, you know, the, the bad luck, if
42:18
you want to call it that, whatever aren't addressed.
42:27
And for that matter, you know, if you do think that the item
42:29
that was given to you is, is carrying with it some, some bad
42:33
juju or some bad energy or whatever, because of what
42:38
somebody did cleanse it, fix it. It's, it's an item.
42:45
It, it's by in and of itself. It has nothing.
42:48
You know, I, I even, I even talked about this with, with
42:56
some other near and dear friends and and kinsmen of mine.
43:02
Soon after I received a ceremonial pipe, a Lakota man
43:08
made, you know, probably 40 years ago or more.
43:14
I know that the man who had it before me, you know, had it for
43:18
over 33 years. And if the pipe was made by, by
43:24
somebody probably before that. So, you know, who knows how old
43:27
the actual pipe is, but you know, this pipe that was used
43:30
in, in ceremony, you know, in, in, in Lakota tradition.
43:36
Now, none of those traditions, none of those fabrics were ever
43:39
shared with me. None of I was never intertwined
43:42
into that fabric of weird, you know, or into that tapestry.
43:45
And I was never given those songs or given that medicine in
43:50
that way. But I was given the item.
43:54
And the item itself is as is, as was as powerful as, as the man
43:58
his name was 7 eagles who who had it before the man who gave
44:02
it to me or earlier, there's two.
44:04
There was, there were 7 eagles. And then there was Thracos who
44:07
gave it to Wolf who gave it to me.
44:10
But you know, the, the, the, the magic of the item, the power of
44:16
the item, the main, the might, whatever you want to call it,
44:19
the energy of the item is it was, it was only, yeah, sure.
44:22
Like there's a lot of history behind it.
44:25
And then there was a lot of ceremonial work done with that
44:30
pipe, but I was not taught any of those ceremonies.
44:33
I was not, you know, given any of those traditions to, to
44:39
preserve. I was given the item and I
44:42
therefore now create my own tradition with it.
44:47
That is what that is what matters, you know.
44:49
So the item itself does not, you know, the item itself is not
44:59
what's giving you the, the, the ill or the good energy or luck
45:03
or whatever you want to call it. It's what you do with it, you
45:08
know, So if you have a feeling, you know, really get a good
45:13
feeling about this particular item.
45:15
I mean, if if that's part of your hearth cult, and I don't
45:18
mean like superstition in a bad way, but if that's a part of
45:21
your, you know, ideas of of how things work in the world, then
45:26
then fix it, repair it, do the do the work to cleanse into into
45:31
start something anew with it. If what was given to you or what
45:37
was given or what was passed carries A carries an I'll
45:41
feeling about it. So I think that that pretty well
45:48
sums up where I see things on this.
45:50
You know, again, when it comes to the items of, of things and
45:57
how I, I, I'm more inclined to believe that the, the item is
46:01
imbued with the energy based on the intention of what the item
46:05
was for. You know, again, kind of like
46:06
the, the Akil Scala Grimson, the whalebone thing, you know, like
46:10
the guy put in, on in those in those ruins to, to, to do
46:15
something, but he wasn't, he didn't know what he was doing.
46:17
And then as a result, it, it, it did the opposite.
46:20
And so soon Akil has to come in as being the the master of the
46:23
ruins and fix it and undo what was done.
46:27
So that way the person got better and was healed and, and
46:31
all that. So, yeah.
46:38
So I don't know if you have any thoughts of this about yourself
46:40
or Blake, if you, you know, listen to this and or, or watch
46:43
this, I know you're here on, on Patreon too.
46:46
So hopefully, hopefully I read what you were saying rightly and
46:50
I and I understood it and answered it well.
46:54
But let us let us know what you think down in the comments if
46:55
you're watching this or yeah, if you're listening to this and
46:58
you're able to comment or share your feedback or your thoughts,
47:01
definitely do. So love to to hear what
47:04
everybody else is thinking about things like this.
47:07
So I guess, you know, ultimately the answer kind of is there's no
47:10
real, you know, there's yes and there's no, but also yes, it's,
47:18
it's situational. It depends.
47:19
But I think ultimately what it, what it boils down to, you know,
47:24
for me is this understanding what, what weird is and how it
47:28
is not static. It's not this, we're not just
47:31
riding this line of, of, of the thread.
47:35
We're not, we're not just riding along this, this piece of
47:38
fabric, this thread and, and stuck with, with what we are
47:42
given. We can, we can change things
47:44
along the way. We can rewrite the code as it
47:48
were. We can, you know, weave
47:50
differently. So we have that.
47:55
We have that ability to, you know, change what we're not
48:02
satisfied with, what we're not. Yeah, that's we can change it.
48:09
We have the power to change. So anyway, thank you, Blake, for
48:14
again for writing in and and putting this out here.
48:18
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48:20
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48:44
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48:49
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48:51
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48:55
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