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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP2 - The Saga Of Little Kitty & Bidding Farewell To Loved Ones · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Hello. And yeah.
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Here we go. Here we go.
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Again, it's like a Whitesnake song right.
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Here we go again. On our own baby.
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So thank you guys for tuning back in again.
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As you can tell, my voice has returned to a bit more of its
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former luster or lack thereof. Not quite as raspy, not quite as
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labored as, as it was last weekend.
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I am happy to you know report that the malady I guess you
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could say the malady the the injury of sickness.
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And all that kind of stuff. Was nothing more for me and my
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wife than just a seemingly at least cold you know upper
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respiratory. Inconvenience we both tested
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negative for covid macron, whatever.
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Some of the family obviously is still recovering from the
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effects of it. My both my father-in-law and
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mother-in-law but the good thing is that my father-in-law you
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know, he's in his 70s and is feeling fine, you know he's not
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He's not in a lot of discomfort or a lot of.
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You know, pain or whatever. He's he sounds better than he
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did last week, he is moving around bit better.
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So I guess right now. You know it's just a point or
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just a matter really of Retesting seeing if they've got
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it still, my mother-in-law, you know, still feels a little under
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the weather but seems to have been the worst of it.
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You know, no fevers no major major impact.
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But you know just figured I'd start off this week's podcast by
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giving you guys an update on the thing that we were talking about
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last week and just let you know that you know everybody that we
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have regular dealings with seems to be you know on the mend and
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that seems To be, you know, the trend on this variant, at least
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people that are catching it, you know, it's just a really bad
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cold or so it seems. But anyway, Great to report on
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that, you know? And yeah, so we're going to be
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talking this week. Had a little had a little and
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say that's a little bit, had some, you know, tragedy strike
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actually today. We got some tragedy strike
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actually for the first couple of weeks.
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First few weeks here, we are now going into the second week of
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January or finishing up the second week of January you know
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where had depending on when you're catching this. and we've
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already seen and heard from a lot of Things that are I say
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things. We're hearing a lot about the
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people. Passing.
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A lot of celebrity deaths. You know Betty Betty White bowed
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out for her Curtain Call right before you know the New Year
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struck on New Year's Eve. I remember right now just a few
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days ago It was and they'll end towards the end of end of last
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week. I think I heard about Sidney
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Poitier you know, 90 something years old, he just passed. and
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then the most recent one that I can think of that, you know,
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probably most everybody's impacted by in some way, or at
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least, you know, feels worst about right is, is, is Bob Saget
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man, old old Bob Saget, 65 years old man, Yeah, Bob Saget, man.
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used to watch Full House as a kid growing up, America's
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Funniest Home Videos, You know, and then didn't realize I guess
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it's him. You know much later on as I got
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older and stuff, I'm just how much of a comic this guy was,
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you know, that that feature that he hadn't half-baked half-baked
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was in. That was a That was like, the
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first time that I can recall seeing, you know.
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Danny from Full House, right? Just acting.
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Like out of cows, like what? That's the same guy, you know?
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As sucking dick for crack, man. You know, it's can't put it any
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other way. But yeah, I was like what but
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turns out he had, pretty dark sense of humor.
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And you look in some of his other comedic roles and comedic
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acts and stand performances and stuff like that.
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And you can see just how much of a Of a interesting guy that he
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really was. So you know, tragedy is striking
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early this year. I don't know.
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Almost seems like we see this happening.
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Like, every at the beginning of every year it seems you know at
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the beginning of every turn of a new year, when the, when the
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leaf turns, right? We like oh man, you know, who
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are we going to see that kicks? kicks the bucket first and You
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know, it's kind of the name of the game though.
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Not I'm, you know, people get old man and we all do and What
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I've what does it say the the hour of our fate is set and none
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can escape it, something along those lines, you know?
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So we're just we're riding along on this journey.
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In this thing called life, man. And we're, we're just on our way
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to get there and it made it, and it's up to us, it's up to us
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individually. It's up to us and our own
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respective lives too. You know, what condition do we
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want to arrive in? When we reach the end of the
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road as it were, or the or the change of change of directions?
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It's not really the end of a road, it's in it's a transition,
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you know, it's like we're stopping off at this point,
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we're getting off on an X and we're going to another Direction
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and then some of these folks, you know, just because there you
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know, public figures celebrities, whatever in the
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public eye, you know, they, they get a little bit more attention,
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put on them a little bit more of the spotlight, put on them
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because of obvious things, but we're all going to get there and
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at the end of it, all none of us are Different in that aspect.
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So, In that in that light you know and I say you know tragedy
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has struck and all that it is a tragedy.
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It's a loss, you know, because we people that maybe, you know,
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we're much more closer, friends and family to the people that
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died. The people that have passed on
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right there, affected the most and we had if something happened
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recently in our tribe, matter of fact, at the time of this
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podcast, Has being aired for the YouTube channel members once a
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one again. Say a special, thank you, and a
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Thursday Premiere so Halen and then thank you to you guys and
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gals out here that, you know, support the channel and that
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way. But So Monday, which is this.
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Now I guess the 10th, our tribe had a loss felt and you know I'm
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going to I'm going to go somewhere.
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I'm going to I'm going to maybe say some things that may want to
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say like rub people, the wrong way, but maybe like I'll come
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on. Give me a break, right?
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I'm talking about the death of house pet.
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Which on the very surface level seems like, you know why we
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talking about the the death of a house pet.
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I'm going to get into a little bit of like the whole, how much
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this this animal? Is this pet this philia?
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I feel like there was there was a philia inhabiting this this
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animal, I go these philia and that and that and that host has
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now been displaced from from that part of the self of my
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These self. Now we're going to talk during
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this podcast about what I mean by the philia, but suffice it to
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say little kitty. We'll just call her little kitty
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expired. Her life expire today or
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physical life expired. Today, after a short yet steady
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right dissension in to poor health talking about things
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where you know, She was unable to get around, move around as
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freely and as easily as she used to be able to her, her bowel
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continence e, was not as strong, right?
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So, she couldn't control her bowels as easily just the The
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Tell-Tale signs, you know of an animal that is Starting to reach
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the end of its physical life. And the guy, you know, to give
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you all just like a background story about about her about
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little kitty. You know this animal, she's been
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a part of my go these life for. I want to say the biggest part
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of 15 years or she's about 15 years old.
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And when she came into his life was Near and round, or at the
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VA, what we call our VA. Now, our Sacred Space on his, on
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my go, these old all familial lands.
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Right? So, whenever we have a tribe
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Gathering of religious importance, such as, you know,
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sigurd bloat in the, in the spring, / summer, or winter
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nights at the opposite end of the year, and any other sort of
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major ritual religious experience, a lot of that is
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done. Outside in the woods at our VA
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and little kitty had made her appearance known.
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If it wasn't there, if it wasn't at that particular day, it was
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at another adjacent. It was that it was around some
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sacred Gathering, some Sacred Space somewhere that was you
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know marked off as sacred or Hallowed Ground that sort of
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thing. The growth, whatever I want to
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say was at the same place that we all gather at now my go these
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watching or whatever you know if I'm wrong then correct me.
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But anyway ever since then you know and how much she's been
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involved. In his life has been like since
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day one there. and yeah, like anytime he did anything
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ritually. Whether it was in his house
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apartment, whatever, you know, any time that he would start
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something like that. She was always there, like she
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was always a part of it. She was always nearby, not by
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his desire or effort to make her part of it, she just made
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herself present, you know, and and has for many many years.
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And so when her health began to decline very very rapidly.
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But in a you know in a slow and say rapidly, it wasn't like an
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overnight thing but it's probably I think at this time
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probably wouldn't let me within the last week or so.
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It's just been that, you know, slow and steady decline but you
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know as as that's happened and as and as he was observing her
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behaviors and mannerisms and trying to help her out as best
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he could and you know, making sure she felt loved you know you
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reach a point where you determine alright.
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Is this something that we can Extend their life comfortably or
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is it time to allow them to peacefully you know transition
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and pass on knowing that they're loved without as much pain and
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suffering as possible, you know and today was that day.
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Today on the 10th at I want to say it was 1021.
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Central Time 10:21 a.m. was when you know, she she left this
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realm and Because of the spiritual connection because of
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that philia aspect between her and my Goethe.
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It's like a loss for the tribe. You know, because this isn't
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this is someone and I use that term correctly.
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This is someone not something, not just a thing but a living
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breathing representation of Life.
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Someone has Departed. Our physical plane are profane
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playing to move on into the spiritual plane, and it's an
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interesting time to think about things like this.
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And I'm using the, you know, Experiences of loss recently
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that we see at the beginning of a new year, right?
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That are visible to the world of the deaths of celebrities public
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figures and that sort of thing. we've felt loss personally and
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I'm sure the people listening and watching today have all felt
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lost personally themselves as well within a relatively short
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period of time from this past year up to now You know, and
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we're coming into here in a few days.
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The Yuletide celebration for our tribe, where we'll be
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celebrating. Our you'll close to around the
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time of the full moon, are you will celebration will be two
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days prior to the to the, to the actual full moon.
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But because of, when it falls during a weekday and everyone's
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schedule, right? We're having our celebration.
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Couple of days prior, so we're getting into that mindset.
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We're getting into that, we're preparing ourselves, excuse me,
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we're preparing ourselves for, for all of that, sort of
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activity, where we'll be having holding bloat, to the gods,
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where we will be, you know, gifting to the Gods in
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anticipation and in hopes of Their Blessings on us for our
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tribe, for our people, for our Loved ones throughout the coming
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year, and we do. So, as well, with our feasting,
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with our gift exchange, you know, with the with the gifting
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cycle, we exchanged in that gifting cycle with the gods as
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well as with us, our people, our folk, we exchange gifts at your
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we have and hold sambal where we you know allow for the speaking
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over the horn or over the weld for our toasts and boasts and
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any Oaths that are given are The most powerful when given around
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you'll. So, you know, it's a very
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important time of year for us and our tribe and for a lot of
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people are anytime that there's a yuletide celebration, whether
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you do. So around this time of year,
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like on the historical reckonings of things, or whether
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you do it around the Christmas time, you know, around that
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whole area. If you do it around that, it's
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still an important period of time.
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I've heard a lot of and I've heard a lot of heathens talk
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about how the the the veil being the thinnest around this time of
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year and it is it's we we experience the activity of those
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who dwell in the spirit realm in that sort of space between the
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profane and the sacred, you know, they live in and amongst
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us and around us and if you can hear my dogs are barking, I'm
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sorry. But they are very vocal as well.
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But the activity that takes place around this time of year,
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usually, between winter nights and and you'll write is, is very
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powerful. Our ancestors.
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We can, we can communicate very closely with our ancestors more
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easily with our ancestors. Perhaps we can communicate
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closer and with the gods with the sacred this time of year.
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And so the the taking advantage of that sort of thing is is
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important for us. And as we talk about, you know,
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people passing on people leaving the Flesh and bone and blood
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shells in which they exist, right.
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Departing from this profane space in their physical form as
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we talked about that. And as it happens around this
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time of year, it's a very fitting thing to talk about
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because it's a transition as I mentioned it's not the end of
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the road it's a transition at you're getting off at an exit
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and you're moving on to something else you're you're
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getting off the highway and you moving down those Country Roads
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or you're getting off the country roads and you're going
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down those you know, country back back.
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Though the beaten off the beaten path, sort of thing, you know,
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getting out of the city and into the country and just whatever
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analogy that you want to use. To describe it.
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You get the point and So right, when we talk about like, how
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close our experience is to the gods and to the sacred and to
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our ancestors, as we talked about that being much more
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powerful for this time of year, we look to also have a stronger
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experience, we a, a more in-depth experience. with those
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that pass this time of year in or near this time of year, so
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the ones that have already left and when they're already gone on
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We're able to maybe stay connected, or or be more
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connected with those. At this time when they pass, and
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during this time. So whether it's, you know, a
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human being, whether it's a house pet, whether it's an
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animal that that you have a special connect to connection
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with and connectivity with it's all relevant, it's all
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important, you know, and especially with regards to the
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animals, because they, again, they they coexist, The sand and
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yes, maybe they don't have the same, you know?
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It's not like a person, you know what I mean?
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A human being person, but quite often, man, like, you can get
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really get closer to some animal.
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They use. I, you know, I've said and I've
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heard a lot of people say to myself sometimes and either, you
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know, they hold better company than some people, you know.
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Because they listen, they are empathetic, they love you for
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who you are and under, you know, there's no malice, there's no
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hate with them, they just, it's just love.
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And especially when we call it talked about like house pets and
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this is probably going to venture into some of the UPG
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type stuff. But I'm going to refer to some
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things going to read some things, actually to you guys
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that I'll leave in the show notes with the description for
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you to read your cells at your own pace, but with regard to the
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philia and some of the historical Information or
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whatever that we have about what that meant to the Germanic
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peoples. And then the Norse Societies or
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the Norse, you know, people from Scandinavia, about what that is,
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what is, what are the philia? Who are the filia?
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What is philia mean, that sort of thing?
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But, you know, they they coexist with us.
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They had an end, they share in our space.
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They share our existence, we live with them.
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They live with us. And they are often times.
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Like, we talked about pets house pets, are their dependent on us
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to to feed them to give them shelter to make sure they are,
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you know, kept clean, happy healthy, you know, all these
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sorts of things. So there's you know, as much as
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we give to them too. Sure that their quality of life
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is as best as it could possibly be that.
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We can provide, you know, how they gift that back to us how
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they reciprocate to us. Many times.
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It's through the things like we're talking about that.
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Love that. That, that, uh, know that, you
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know? Just pure pure love or in other
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ways like we're talking about with my go, these cat her, you
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know, she's if she's a feline and and she was very present
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during ritual moments, and spiritual moments and things
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that touched on the sacred and in the spirit realm, you know?
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So in those ways, you know, the fact that she had sheltered, she
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had a home, she had food, she had love and care provided to
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her. It was like, you know, this is
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her way of saying, Thank you. And gifting back to the source
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that provides her with these things.
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And I also want to just call attention to, you know, one
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thing that happened during a very important and pivotal
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moment in my go, these life where, you know, he was
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transitioning from one lifestyle, think of an existence
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in a relationship to into something else and into being
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sort of sinking being single, and not having that relationship
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anymore. And, and little kitty that cat,
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right? She was present for that.
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And then the only time, the only time in the 15 years that he,
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you know, that they shared existence together.
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The only time that she ever killed another animal, Like a,
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like a cat would for hunting and whatever.
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The only time that that ever happened was when, you know,
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basically the day that it was on paper, right?
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Like done with this marriage and them moving into a different
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part of my life, she killed a bird and presented it to him.
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And it was very, it was like, it was a, it was a moment that was
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like, you know, almost like she was saying, you know, Dad, I'm
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here with you now. It's where, you know, we're
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moving in from one stage to the other that that Part of things
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are is dead now but I'm here, and I'm bringing this gift to
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you to let you know that I'm here for you.
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And I'm gonna be here with you and that's how it felt for him,
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you know? And that's how he described it
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to me in loose terms. I said, no, not not verbatim,
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but yeah, like that's, that's how it was for him, you know,
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that she was there for him at that moment of his life where He
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had nobody else or the person that he thought he was going to
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be with the rest of his life was now not going to be and who did
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he have? He had, you know, little kitty
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of course his child. You know, you're not taking away
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from her at all, by any means, love Ukiah, but little kitty is,
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is has been there with him, you know, and losing her now, you
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know, and having her move on and leave her the go body and live
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here, leave your physical shell is such a You know, impactful
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and hurtful time, you know, then let's face it, you know?
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And when when you connect with your pets like this when you
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have them for that amount of time you know?
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Even if it's just for a few years, we talked about decades
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or more of time, you know. She was with him for 15 years,
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you know. I don't know that many people in
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my life that I've known for that period of time.
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Aside from my family, like my mother, my father, my sister,
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and and then send some of my relatives right?
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There are If you people humans in my life that I can say that
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I've known for that amount of time.
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And you know, so you do you build up a strong bond with them
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and they build a strong bond with you and Losing them.
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It's a loss. It's a loss.
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Felt a true loss. Felt, you know, and I was
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talking with with the thing, go with my go, the earlier kind of
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in a group chat that we all have.
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And, you know, this is a loss for the tribe and it is, it
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really is because at that so that's what tribe is about.
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You know, when you celebrate victories, when you celebrate
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success, it is a success at the whole tribe can celebrate
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together. and in the same token, when loss is felt, By an
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individual or by a family within the tribe that loss is felt
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across the tribal unit across the board.
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Maybe felt different ways but it is still felt because your pain
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is my pain, your love, your success, your joy, your Victory
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is buying and we share in all of that together.
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It's kind of where the the complexities of frith come in.
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You know what I mean? Like, we're oath bound through
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frith and and so therefore or you know, when one suffers all
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the members suffer when one is joyful, all the members are
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joyful And that's the beauty of it all.
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So, I will. I do want to since we've talked
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about this portion of things for a while and I've brought up kind
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of the feelings of it all, I did want to, you know, talk a bit
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and read to you guys, an article that was written on Heathen
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off.com about five years ago or so and it's about the philia.
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So I'm going to link it in the show notes.
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I'm going to link it in the description.
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You guys can read it along as you if you so choose at your
28:57
convenience, it'll be there. But for anybody that's You know,
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wanting to know what easy talking about with the filia.
29:06
This is it? This is, this is what I'm
29:08
referring to about, you know, the philia.
29:12
So the article goes on and this is, what is a philia, a philia
29:18
is one of two things. The animal shape, that a
29:21
person's Spirit takes when he or she Journeys or a semi
29:28
autonomous human shaped entity who is attached to a person's
29:33
soul. Both types have strong
29:36
connections with a person's ancestral line and can represent
29:40
or work on behalf of an entire family.
29:46
So that's what affiliate is, what affiliate isn't is, it's
29:50
not a quote-unquote Norse totem animal, right?
29:54
Philia is a distinctly Norse concept that bears.
29:58
Very little resemblance to the, like stereotypical Native,
30:01
American or other cultural concepts of an animal totem.
30:05
The author of the article is referring to Native American
30:08
Concepts. I know that animal totems rep
30:10
are seen across multiple indigenous, cultures across the
30:15
world, but we'll just stick with Native Culture for the sake of
30:17
argument right now. Norse cultures of the Viking
30:23
age, understood the non corporeal, part of a human being
30:27
to be very complex. The person had a philia or fetch
30:33
is another word they have or log or today, which are the tally of
30:38
Deeds, sort of the foundation, the the Primal layer upon, which
30:44
one's weird or fate is based or built on, you have humming you,
30:49
which Is Loosely translated as luck.
30:53
I'm Nina is luck which and again, these are just a few of
30:57
the many parts of the self that make up the human soul in that
31:02
in the Norse concept of the, the parts of self, right?
31:07
Who we are as human beings. What makes us who we are outside
31:10
of, just what you can see and and stuff like that.
31:15
So, Because the roles and definitions of the philia and
31:21
related concepts of things such as the disa, or dese, or those
31:27
female ancestral, spirits and hamidah often overlapped and
31:30
changed over the years. However, it is difficult to give
31:33
one coherent definition of what a philia is and what one can do
31:41
that said, phileas or fear. As a people in Old Norse
31:47
cultures would have recognized, them are still actively showing
31:51
up in many people's spiritual practices and lives.
31:56
The term philia literally means follower I'm going to pause for
32:02
just a second, because if you guys go to my video catalogs on
32:06
YouTube, for those that are listening to go to my YouTube
32:09
channel midgard musings, and just do a search on my Channel
32:12
4, The parts of self. I'll try to, I'll try to
32:20
annotate some cards along the way for those that are watching
32:23
and put the link to the videos in the description and show
32:28
notes. So you guys have a place to go
32:29
back to and listen or watch. But if it's on me, it's on my
32:32
YouTube channel. It's not a podcast, it's on my
32:34
YouTube channel. So if you want to learn more
32:36
about these things and, you know, I did a several video mini
32:40
series on the channel about the other parts of self.
32:44
So but what the term philia basically means is for Lower as
32:47
in one who follows, right? So philia, the word and the
32:53
concept is what later European termed like a witch's fetch or
33:00
familiar. You notice how philia?
33:02
Familia familiar? Like there's, there's some
33:05
etymological maybe some linguistic connotations there
33:08
that compare that. Anyway, a philia is a follower
33:13
one who follows so They can take either an animal or take on,
33:19
even either an animal or a human shape, and if human, it will
33:24
usually show up as a as they say, a pretty young woman, or an
33:29
old hag, it's pretty definitive one way or the other.
33:34
You know, which it is or at least, you know, in one literary
33:39
case an old troll woman. So, sometimes the philia belongs
33:46
to an individual. And sometimes it belongs to an
33:50
ancestral line. There is an example of a kin
33:53
fetch. I think described in some cases
33:58
so you can see like where we're talking earlier about, you know,
34:00
little kitty and then go and him and and her being a philia or
34:06
his philia or inhabiting her body and at times.
34:12
So again, it can it can belong to an individual or to belong to
34:16
an ancestral lines and if so, the shape of the philia That it
34:22
takes represents that family, so figure, which is plural.
34:27
We're relatively rare in Old Norse times, usually only a
34:32
prominent hero King, perhaps, or or somebody else important in
34:38
society, like a gold vein or which Priestess something like
34:42
that would have one version or the other.
34:45
They were not too commonplace among the common folk, at least
34:50
in the literary sources. Family of better starkers
34:54
perhaps might have a wolf as their philia or Bear, right?
34:57
They may take on the shape of a wolf when they go better Sark
35:02
those who would practice or have that that practice of
35:07
shape-shifting such as wild / circling were thought to have
35:13
some sort of an astral body called a hammer.
35:17
I mentioned the Hummer in one of my videos on the concept of the
35:20
self, the complexities of the parts of self.
35:23
Ha mutters. One of them the hominids like an
35:26
underlying portion of their physical.
35:30
Self which when they berserk could take the form of an air of
35:36
their family animal. We don't know of any instances
35:42
in the lore. At least, from the point of view
35:44
of this author. And to my knowledge, at this
35:46
point, at least, where a person had both a human-shaped and an
35:49
animal shaped feeling, it was usually one or the other.
35:52
And then again, the Lord that we know of where these things are
35:55
mentioned, refer to one or the other not both.
35:59
So a philia. Usually carried out several
36:01
roles dependent on the form that it takes it.
36:04
If it was an animal shaped, it has, or If it was animal shaped,
36:09
it is the shape that one's Soul, when the person has left their
36:14
body, for example, doing any sort of shamanic type journey
36:19
and you know, astral projection, leaving the body, traveling to
36:21
other realms. The, the form of the person
36:26
would be would be visible or seen in those places as in the
36:30
form of that filia. So it makes sense that with
36:35
dingo him doing ritual, work and spiritual religious activities,
36:40
in his in his Abode, in his home and his place and stone so
36:43
forth, that little kitty would want to be there with him for
36:47
that as being the one to sort of take on his astral projected
36:52
form, his shape-shifted form and then be that.
36:56
Follower that, you know, familiar as it were accounts in
37:00
the lortell of a person's philia showing up in the real world in
37:06
their animal form. Far from where the person's
37:10
bodily, body actually was indicating that the philia is
37:12
owner was trying to send a message or help out in some way
37:17
and the philia can appear in dreams as well.
37:20
Okay, so a few of you can also take a human shape, as we
37:23
mentioned prior, it's one, or the other not both at the same
37:25
time. But one way that a human philia
37:29
is represented is as a protector or either a specific hero or of
37:35
his of that person's entire family line.
37:39
The other role of philia can take is to warn a person of
37:43
their approaching death or prophesying the deaths of those
37:46
in their family. Either way the human philia
37:50
appears to be be given or sorry, the human feely appears to a
37:59
given hero and he or she must then choose to accept that
38:04
philia in their life and if he doesn't, or she doesn't accept
38:10
the philia, there's a, there's a case in halt further Saga, then
38:16
that feel you must go on on a like a You've been put on the
38:22
bench kind of like on a Hiatus in a way and wait for someone
38:25
else in the family to accept them.
38:31
Though the philia appears to know a hero's fate, she does not
38:34
seem to be able to directly change it though.
38:37
She can influence the hero to act in one way or another and
38:41
when example in the bottoms day, lasogga A Hero's philia will
38:47
cause him to get sick and thereby avoid attending an event
38:52
which might have gotten them killed still.
38:57
There is no actually escaping one set fate like I And before
39:02
the moment or the day of our death set of Our Fate is set and
39:06
none can escape it what the norns have decided and decreed
39:12
will happen in a handful of instances.
39:17
Philia is both human and animal appear to be wise and work on
39:20
behalf of the human who they are attracted to the human version
39:23
of the philia, can sometimes overlap in Form and Function
39:28
with certain Valkyries. Who become romantically attached
39:32
to a specific hero and the word, their family line, the version
39:35
of a philia likely helped to give rise to the concept of
39:40
fetch wife or a swan wife, could be why we see the Valkyries
39:47
portrayed and in the lore artistically with, you know,
39:50
Swan wings, and that sort of stuff.
39:55
Because a good example of a fetch wife / Valkyrie comes
40:00
from, But one of the three or comes from the three hellige
40:04
poems were in the sagas of Helga veto is Banda.
40:10
Hell, he was a hero who dies and appears to be Priyanka
40:13
reincarnated three times and each time his Valkyrie or fetch
40:18
wife is reborn with him through though.
40:22
Each time with a different name. Savannah, see grown and Cara
40:27
respectively in each of these helgi poems, the valkyrie fetch
40:32
wife becomes the hero's wife and protects him in battle.
40:37
But she ultimately cannot keep him from his you know, impending
40:41
doom. So, some Modern representations
40:45
of the figure concept of a philia can be a hard one for
40:50
like modern Minds to to kind of really grasp an entity that has
40:58
its own distinct shape and personality.
41:01
And his extended inextricably, woven into an individual's
41:06
family or Soul seems quite I guess bizarre and in most modern
41:14
day. Culture or in modern modern
41:20
times. But in a way to help like
41:23
understand that a bit, you can look at some pop culture as few
41:28
examples of these types of characters.
41:30
So in an aspect of ancestral, family philia, if you're a fan
41:37
of the Harry Potter series, you'll see similarities of this
41:42
with the Petronas spell. So a philia May well be
41:46
described as a sentient. Ronis as with the philia.
41:50
And the Petronas spell takes on a shape representative of that
41:54
individual or family. And it protects the one who
41:58
casts that spell and appears when danger is at hand.
42:02
Another good example, from pop culture that this time like, in
42:07
an individual versus an ancestral or family line philia.
42:11
So we have looked for an example of an individual's.
42:13
Feel like are the quote unquote demons from Philip.
42:18
Pullman's Dark Materials series for.
42:20
So for any Dark Materials fans, which which, I have no knowledge
42:25
whatsoever, I'm just reading off of this article.
42:28
There's evidently some connotations or correlations to
42:34
the north concept of philia and that.
42:37
So these are again semi-autonomous animal-shaped
42:42
Spirits. Whose form is directly shaped by
42:45
the personality of the human with They are partnered.
42:50
All right, so that that covers the article now there's more
42:57
information out there. Like I said, if you check out
43:00
some of what I put on my channel, that information will
43:02
be shared in the show notes of this podcast, as well as the
43:06
description of the video for you all to check out because I
43:10
covered, you know, the concept itself.
43:12
The the the, the idea of the self, the complexities, Of the
43:20
self. But I feel like it's a great
43:24
thing to talk about right now, especially leading up to the,
43:27
you'll Feast that we are all going to be having here in our
43:30
tribe, by the end of this week and the week of the 15th.
43:36
And for anyone that has, you know, experienced loss already
43:42
this time of year leading up to the the end of 20 21 and the
43:48
beginning of 2022. You know, there's there's plenty
43:51
of people All that I've lost in my life.
43:55
My wife has lost by my tribe brothers and sisters have lost
44:00
this year and had a felt that loss.
44:06
It's not the end and we were talking amongst our tribe a bit
44:11
about, you know, the the upcoming, you'll celebrations
44:15
and and sort of some of the things that we want to do and it
44:18
occurred to some of us, it was brought to my attention that a
44:25
special attention to the goddess or the yolk tennis, right?
44:30
The yotan hell, the Norse figure hell.
44:35
Presides over helheim, the that some special attention to hell,
44:41
should be, should be given because she holds those who've
44:46
gone on, right? She's presides over helheim
44:50
which for for anyone that's not, you know, aware of like the the
44:56
afterlife of the concept of the afterlife, like, hell is the
44:59
grave? How is the grave Mound?
45:03
It is where all of the Dead go? Go.
45:08
Not going to get into the complexities of Halls of gods
45:14
and Valhalla and all that other stuff, but suffice it to say
45:17
that. Hell is where the dead go?
45:20
And hell is the the one who presides over, obviously the
45:26
name of her the place of her namesake, right, helheim.
45:31
And so the the Dead are there. Resting.
45:34
The dead are, they're living in their way.
45:38
The physical data of gone on and they've moved into hell and so
45:41
she is their host. She is their kind of sort of
45:44
like, caretaker in a way and it's I think appropriate to
45:50
think about honoring, hell, or paying homage to Hell during
45:55
you'll whether it be through a specific bloat or whether it be
45:59
during bloat to the gods, that a special hail is given to Hell
46:04
think about that. You know, think about
46:06
incorporating hell in maybe a future, you will bloat, amongst
46:12
yourselves, or with your people. It's something that I never
46:16
really put too much great thought into Um, but having
46:19
faced so much loss recently and where some of my loved ones and
46:24
the loved ones of my people have have have felt those losses.
46:29
She is taking care of them. She is.
46:31
She is giving them a place of rest amongst their ancestors in
46:35
amongst the hall there and stares at least in our world
46:37
view, you know. So why not, why wouldn't we
46:45
Recognize her. And it's interesting too, if you
46:49
think about, you know, transitioning from one room to
46:54
the next transitioning, from one plane, from the sacred, from the
46:57
profane to the sacred or, you know, within the profane into
47:00
the spirit realm. There's all these talks about
47:02
Transitions and how the veil is thinnest in the veil is, is on
47:06
one side of things or the other. And if you and if you read the
47:09
description of Hell's appearance in the Laura, she is, you know,
47:13
one side isn't his, as the living in the other side is of
47:16
her is as blue as a Corpse and in most artistic
47:20
representations, that's like a represent eight.
47:23
Like if the way it's represented artistically is literally half
47:28
of her face looks and appears as that of a corpse, whereas the
47:31
other half peers as that of the living.
47:34
So there's that transition. There's that, there's that
47:36
separation between the living and the dead.
47:39
The physical living in the physical dead that she is
47:42
described as looking like, right?
47:45
And so, Where we talk when we're talking about all these things.
47:48
Everything just really ties in. Well, I feel and we're going to
47:51
be looking at that in our upcoming.
47:55
You know, you'll blow and having hell a part of it.
48:00
And I know, you know, a lot of folks who are especially drawn
48:05
to the the yotan line, you know, especially those that are that
48:10
are followers or have a big attention drawn to folk the to
48:14
like low-key are also drawn To Loki's children, you know, so
48:18
I'm the board as well as his wife and and, you know, fenrir
48:23
and your men gone under and he'll course being another one.
48:27
But you know, it's something to think about man like it's
48:32
something really to ponder. And I like to put these little
48:37
thoughts out as I get them and as they as they're given to me
48:39
as those seeds are planted, I like to you know put these
48:44
little giblets out here for you guys too.
48:47
Nan and think about so, Yeah, I think that pretty well sums up.
48:54
Today's podcast. I don't keep track of these solo
48:59
podcast for like time but I think we've I think we've gone
49:06
on for at least close to an hour.
49:09
Now, at this point, so, We'll just, we'll call it will call
49:14
it. I'll her, I will, I'm sipping on
49:18
a blended Scotch that I haven't had in a really long time.
49:22
And it's mainly because I haven't, like, most of what I
49:25
get that the blended Scotch that I get, it's like, when I find
49:30
light, you know, I stick to one thing and I don't really Venture
49:34
off into. This is one, it's called
49:36
MacGyver. Used to be one that I would get
49:39
quite often. I don't see it much anymore for
49:41
some reason and I just happened to be at a local liquor store
49:45
that I frequent it's you know, locally owned and operated.
49:55
Great fella name is Vishal. We call him.
49:59
He goes by v p. So shout out to VP over here at
50:03
the Georgetown Liquors and Murfreesboro Tennessee for
50:06
stocking MacGyver. It say, It's just a blended
50:10
Scotch and nothing fancy, you know, I mean if you like you get
50:13
into like things like Cutty Sark and envy, you know, doers is
50:16
like a little bit of a mid-shelf, the mid-range blended
50:19
Scotch the like look if I'm going to just get blended Scotch
50:23
I'm not looking to like have a mind-blowing experience.
50:27
I'm just looking to enjoy a drink, you know, or 2 or 3 or 9
50:31
depending on the day, drink responsibly kids, don't drink
50:35
and drive and all that fun stuff.
50:39
Don't don't Be an idiot. But anyway, MacGyver is one of
50:43
those along with climb McGregor that I just, you know, we all
50:47
have our favorites. Like, we all have our go-to
50:49
thing that when we are looking just to for that everyday, sort
50:52
of drinking of some of it. Some of you guys, you know, it
50:55
might be Jack. Daniel, some of you might be
50:57
Evan Williams for some, you know, I might be a little bit
51:00
higher end, you know? But for me right now, right?
51:04
I mean, I just, I get along just fine with, you know, an
51:07
inexpensive decent. Well, you know, blended Scotch.
51:12
I don't need, I don't need the single malt stuff.
51:14
My day-to-day. I can't afford it even if I did
51:17
like it. Now, I do keep the single malts.
51:19
A bit longer will be picking up another one for you'll hear
51:25
coming up, but anyway, I rambled on enough.
51:30
I think about little kitty about the philia about.
51:38
Now just that random thing about blended Scotch has And inhale,
51:47
you know, and the afterlife and the concepts of the self concept
51:53
of the soul, and all this kind of thing.
51:56
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51:59
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52:02
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