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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP41 - Recap Of "Fire On The Mountain" · Random Heathen Ramblings

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I already said that, you heard that in the intro back again,
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too. talk about some things, so The camera angle actually looks
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Don't know how well it's going to pick up on on this Mike, but
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we shall see. So, yeah, I I'm glad to be back
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home, actually back home in my own house back in the Hey Gary,
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who's cave as I call it, which I just started calling it that
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right now. I've not called it that before
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ever. But this is my space and it's
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good to be back in my space after having been on an amazing
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three day long or three nights. You know, bore days, three
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nights long retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North
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Carolina went to go visit Papa Olufsen Who is the master
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Craftsmen behind velvet ear Workshop.
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Him and his wife run an amazing store and have their Wares
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available on their website, as well as some if you're in the
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area. Go to any local crafting events
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where it's, you know, kind of heathen Centric or Pagan Centric
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focused, you know, that sort of thing in that area of North
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Carolina. If you ever see them there, I
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always encourage encourage people to get some things to
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accentuate, their their Heathen space or their Pagan space.
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It is a very, of course Norse or Germanic Pagan focused on the
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styles of things. As you probably already know at
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this point from hearing and watching my content via over to
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your Workshop. Is my number one, go-to place
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for ritual items such as rattles drums.
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And all that he makes wonderful Rune sets as well.
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Incense burners like, you know, this one, This was made by by
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Paul listen years ago, shortly after him and I first met.
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whatever you see down there, whatever, fits your fancy,
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whatever suits your fancy so, as I mentioned last week, I was
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going to the Was known as 04 hoose which are the all listens.
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It's their place in the mountains of North Carolina.
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And so, yeah, my myself and member of My Tribe, the one of
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the original founding members of our tribe, Patrick marleau
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speaker, is accompanied me on this excursion, on this
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adventure, on this pilgrimage and I do I want to talk about
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some of the things that, you know, that occurred and and you
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know, Hopefully help encourage people from all walks of life,
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but especially pagans and heathens to find ways to
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accomplish the things that were accomplished here this past
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weekend with myself, you know, clearly the folk and and it will
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for who's so this, you know, this event this Retreat as it
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were has been referred to as Fire on the Mountain.
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So we do hope to have this become a regular Hurley
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recurring thing every year around the same time.
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Every year, we want to make this an annual sort of pilgrimage, an
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opportunity to maintain the relationships that we've
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established between the two, you know, entities as it were
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between clearly folk My Tribe and the household and unit known
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as roofer hoose. So the all of sins would love
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to, you know, do this on an annual recurring thing and this
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year was again a tremendous Just all-around experience.
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There was a lot that we accomplished and things that no
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matter who you are, nobody could probably compare.
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Like it's hard to put into words, the things that we
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experience because when you, when you have those, you know,
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personal interpersonal relationships and get a chance
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to hang out, and spend time and do things of of value of.
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Of meaning of purpose, you know, with people to put it into
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words, is sometimes difficult. So I'm just going to basically
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start from the from the beginning, and hope that, this
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retelling of things puts a spark in some people's minds to again,
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try to relive or recreate something of some of similar
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meaning in their own lives. So, The the trip started early
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early, last Thursday morning, a week ago today, as you guys are
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listening to this and watching this week ago today, the journey
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began, you know? So before the sun came up I went
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to pick up Patrick loaded. All the stuff up of his in my
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car and started the journey, you know, east-northeast ish to
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North Carolina. Smooth smooth driving,
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understand really crazy to report.
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But the anticipation was so, you know, palpable that, you know,
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the time kind of flew by, you know, like we were having
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conversation. It was a nice chance for us,
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Patrick. And I to just, you know, get
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mentally into that and prepared for what was about to happen
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because there was a lot planned, some of which specifics, I'm not
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going to talk about here, but a lot of what was planned for Russ
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involved, you know, drum circles, rattle circles.
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A sweat lodge session with with drumming and rattles and other,
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you know, primitive style, primitive, instruments primitive
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style instruments, like rattles and Bone pieces and and of
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course drums and all that. So there was there that was
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planned. There was hiking in the
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mountains hiking to Stone Mountain, an immersion ritual
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was planned meaning, we were going to Get ourselves fully
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submerged into frigid cold Waters that are from the
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mountains, you know? So we had all of this plan by
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Papa. I'll listen, you know, in his in
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his unit, his wife and I'm sure had a huge and I am sure she his
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wife had a, an enormous role to play in.
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All of this. She was the one who made sure
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that we got to you know, good meals.
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You know, had all of the accommodations needed, you know,
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if we needed you know, towels pillows blankets, you know,
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between the two of them couldn't have asked for a much better
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experience. As far as, you know, being guest
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in someone's home and having the host treat us with such dignity
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and respect and honor. It was a truly wonderful
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exchange of and tying of weird with each other.
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So, you know, the the plan to do all these things, you know, we
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were we were going to be arriving on Thursday get settled
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in With a meal, of course, you know, get our get ourselves
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acclimated into the space, have a meal, maybe soak in the hot
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tub. You know, have drinks.
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There was, there was a humble planned which we did do.
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I'm going to get into that in a moment and then the rest of the
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weekend day, you know, like Friday and Saturday.
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We're plans with hiking and other sort of spiritual.
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Activities. You know, they we had sacred
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smoke section, success sessions planned sections that two
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different sections of sessions, all sorts of things, but yeah,
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the sacred smoke. So like, you know, resin burning
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with like, you know, frankincense myrrh and cold
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copal and other sorts of sacred resins, you know, the sweat
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lodge, the immersion ritual and Hiking.
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So all of these things plus other stuff again that I'm not
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going to divulge specifically was Planned over, you know those
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those two days and then we were be departing and making our way
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back home on Sunday. So as many people may have
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remember at you know, last week there was a huge hurricane down
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in Florida hurricane the coal and there was a the storm system
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that came from that hurricane once it once it made landfall
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you know, traveled it's typical. You know, path of of hitting the
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southeast coming in when hooking back around towards the coast
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and going north Northeast. Which means that, you know, it
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was basically going to hit the section of North Carolina where
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we were staying by that weekend. And some of the plans that were
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made were to be outside. Camping and with with, you know,
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course grilling like campfire, like cooking on the campfire
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drumming all sorts of outdoor activities.
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So when we get there Thursday you know like we get settled in
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the weather was unseasonable. Warm.
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You know for being in the middle of November, essentially it was
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on seasonably warm well by the time the weekend closed out, you
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know, the temperature had dropped probably A good 30
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degrees. It was feeling much more like
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winter should feel or at least late fall.
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So we get there, Thursday, get settled in and early that
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evening is when the rain started to come in and the rain didn't
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quit until Essentially, you know, late Friday night into
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Saturday morning and then there was some more rain that came by
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Saturday. But we'll get to that here
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shortly. So we get in Thursday, get
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ourselves, you know, settled in. We get shown our respective, you
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know, living quarters for the weekend where we were going to
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be sleeping and all that. And then, you know it was it was
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about time for dinner at that point or pretty well close to
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it, you know, so we get the grand tour of the of the
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property and and, You know, have some drinks, we do some runic
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divination, you know, Papa Olufsen, qasim runes, I brought
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our tribal runes which he actually made made of elk bone.
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And, you know, we did a lot of that with some drinks and then
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there was, you know, a toast toast, toast, Oaths, and boasts
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for the sambal session. So, A lot of toast to the gods
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toast to ancestors. Boasts of great Deeds that have
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been accomplished and great things to be done, you know.
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No Oaths were sworn, you know? So there was no nothing of that
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magnitude being done but just a general you know sambal ritual
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of great joy to be shared. So so mighty words were spoken
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over our respective drinks. Papa listen had not ever.
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Or had the Highland Park Vikings, honor, single malt
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scotch and I believe he's a fan, a forever fan.
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We we polished off the bottle between the three of us that
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night. It's not that easy, it's not
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that hard to do. It's very easy to do by just two
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people with with a strong enough, you know, tolerance of
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to alcohol. There's two people could
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definitely polish off a bottle but between three of us, we make
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short order of it. Do you know?
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So we're getting into, you know, the the, the festivities of the
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night, you know, merrymaking and then it's, you know, let's go
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outside and Soak in the hot tub, which actually I'm going back up
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after after some will, you know, we retire to a section of
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Luther, who swear. Bob Olsen does, most of his work
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related stuff, so all of his crafting and everything is, in a
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van, is in a dedicated section of the house.
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And It's got a wood stove in there.
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It's got all of The Firs. That's its, you know it's like
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it's a wonderful place to be. It's like this is Heathen.
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Heaven almost in the way just, you know, The Firs the rooms,
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the Primitive style artwork and just everything.
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It's got a really neat feel and a great, you know, Vibe or
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whatever you want to call it to it.
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So, after some bull, right? We get our drinks and whatnot
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and we go downstairs too. To this place and of the house.
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And we do this, like, trying to find the right descriptions for,
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but a ceremony or ritual of sorts with the use of coal.
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So it was, you know, liquid coal bits that were added to, you
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know, liquid to make like this, this black smudge.
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Which all of us are the three of us mean, Patrick, and all of
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sudden, we marked ourselves all in the same or similar Fashions.
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There were marks done over our eyes for vision.
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I think it was eyes ears for hearing lips for speaking.
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Heart. Yeah, there was something that
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over the heart and then arms and so we'd all did that like all of
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a sudden Olufsen, and Patrick smudged.
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Me, I myself and all of a sudden smudge Patrick and them to
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smudge me. So, if you're wondering what I'm
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talking about, you're wondering what, you know, what does that
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even about? I had I did post some photos
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online. On Facebook and Twitter and
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Instagram. So I'll tell a little bit about
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that in those posts. So if you're not following me on
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those platforms, be sure that you do so that way you can be
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filled in with the with the specifics about it.
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But that point you know we we do that ceremony and that kind of
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set the tone for the weekend you know like that that was the
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thing that Kind of Kick this off into the Fire on the Mountain
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Retreat. And then at that point was when
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it was decided let's let's let's soak in the hot tub.
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So we go out there with our drinks and stuff and we soak in
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the hot tub and we get some of the residual, you know, coal ash
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or whatever, honors on ourselves, get that mainly
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cleaned off. And then one of the big points
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of the, of the whole trip that was planned for to start the the
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following day on Friday. We decided to kick off early and
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get started right then and there And all I'm going to say is that
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it was the most intense, shamanic ritual, the of shamanic
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magnitude that I've yet been involved in my first.
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Shamanic Journey was about a year ago last year and so so
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this shamanic Journey kind of You know, it indicated the the
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year had passed since the first one and it was time to revisit
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this. But again, the conditions were
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much different. The purpose behind it was much
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different everything about this time versus my first time,
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whereas You know, everything about it was different, so very
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profound the following day. Friday morning was you know, it
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was it was like being woken up from a dream in a way or being
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woken up from Being woken into I guess is probably a better word
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to describe it being being woken into a new person, a new
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experience because so much of what had happened the night
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before resulted in shamanic death and rebirth.
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So, you know, coming into life Friday morning for me was, was
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like, again, you know, waking into a totally New.
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Person a new environment, a new everything.
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And so I get my bearings and stuff, drinking some coffee just
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kind of figuring everything out figuring out life as I was at
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that point kind of like relearning things of the world
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around me down to the very simplest of things such as
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speech and being able to talk coherently and have you know
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conversations that that resulted in more than just grunts or nods
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or very basic forms of you know, communication it was it took a
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minute and it took a little while for me to get back to that
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state of normal as it were so we, you know, I hear the plans
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of we're gonna go to the waterfall, widow's Creek Falls
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and do our immersion ritual, and then dry off into clothes, for
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hiking and Hike Stone Mountain. As I mentioned earlier, right?
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We had, we had come into the state on the, on the coattails
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or just ahead of really the, the storm system that was Hurricane
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Nicole. So, of course, you know, we're
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further were far enough Inland where, you know, it was it was
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mainly just rain. That we were getting some high
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winds later on, but though, the rain is what we really got the
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brunt of so Friday, when I get up and we're, you know, talking
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about going into the river and And or the waterfall and then
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hike Stone Mountain. You know, there's it's raining
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as we're talking about this, you know, and we're looking at the
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radar and it's like, oh, you know, there's breaks here and
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there, so it won't be too bad. So anyway, we we leave the house
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and it's, you know, again, raining really good and we get
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to the Widow's Creek Falls location, and it's raining
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still, but at this point it's like, well, we're getting into
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the river, right? We're getting into the water.
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And it's, you know, raining from the sky, I was getting what's
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not going to matter here in a little bit because we're about
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to get really, really wet and cold.
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That's the other thing, it was that water was probably every
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bit of Probably not much lower than the low 50s but, you know,
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50 to 53 degrees. I'm going to guess.
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So we stripped down to just our boxers while it was from swim
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trunks, right? We had dry clothes over top and
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then swim trunks underneath. so, we Barefoot and and that was
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like I said, this was one of the many things that that occurred
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on this whole trip. That was just so Enriching, you
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know, and invigorating to stand out in the rain, in the
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mountains, when it's, you know, in this in probably low 60s, it
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wasn't very cold. But then to stand in the water
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that is in, you know, 50, some odd degrees and not to just
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stand in the water. But to climb Barefoot once
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again, climb rocks and climb the The base of the waterfall to
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reach. Like, there was this, the kind
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of like this. I in the, the the face of the
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waterfall that we climb too. Bare hands, bare feet.
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And then dumped our whole bodies like a whole upper body, just
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immersed ourselves in the waterfall that was coming down
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and it's in, it's icy coldness, you know, 50, some odd degrees.
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Talk about talk about an experience that will wake you
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up. Like I said before, you know, I
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was woken into a world that I had to kind of relearn some
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things or, or figure out my place.
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Get my bearings right. Being the passenger to widows.
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Widows Creek Falls. You know, all of this stuff is
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just going through my mind. I'm processing things and then
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to step into that water and get my head in, my upper body.
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Just everything. Immersed into this cold water.
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Talk about a shock of like now I'm awake.
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Now, I'm back. You know, it, it, it was like
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the most, it was kind of like a, like, a physical I don't know.
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Like not as you know how like a. Let's see what they call those
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things though. Defibrillators.
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Where they they shock you back to life.
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It was like that. But obviously without the The
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medical personnel. It was like, Nature's
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defibrillator. What does Creek Falls was?
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Nature's defibrillator. It is, it did give me a jolt.
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You know, takes your breath away.
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When you, when you get met with those conditions, the the cold,
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cold water. It like it shocks, you literally
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shocks, you takes your breath away.
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And for a minute, you're like, you know what, man?
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Right after that. Like within seconds I was like,
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yes, I I can take on, I can just run up this whole Mountain if I
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wanted to. So spend a little bit of time in
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the water. Kind of like riding the current
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because it you know what, I said it had been raining.
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So the water level was up, it was rushing really well and it
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like, you know, lands and into certain parts of at the base of
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the waterfall where they're like, you know, pools of deep
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water. So you can almost like slide.
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It's like a it's like Nature's water slide, you know, Nature's
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Splish Splash or or Splash Mountain or whatever amusement
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park of the water variety that you want to call it.
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But it's exactly that it was This is, this is great.
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You know, if it wasn't, you know, 50 degrees out there.
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I could see spending a whole day afternoon, just enjoying it, but
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this part wasn't about the enjoyment of it so much as it
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was about the what needed to be done.
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And what was what was interesting is you know, the the
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shamanic ritual that took place Thursday night, originally in
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the plans, it was that we were going to do that Friday night
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after the immersion Ritual after the hiking, after all of that.
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well, clearly that it was reversed and I'm so glad it
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worked out that way because You know, knowing what I went
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through Thursday night and into Friday morning.
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I don't know how well I don't know how it would have turned
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out. Had that been the thing I did
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after hiking, you know, several miles in the rain and in the
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cold and then being in the river and stuff, I don't know how
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things would have reacted, for me that way.
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So having it done the way we did.
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I felt was the way it needed to be done.
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It was, it was As it should have been.
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So, you know, we get out of the immersion ritual, dry off.
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Put our clothes back on, and then head stone mountain.
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And again, it's raining on and off on the way there.
29:26
So it's like, well we just got out of this River, you know, dry
29:30
it off a little bit. Now, we're about to From the
29:34
looks of things. Get soaking wet again.
29:37
Sure enough, we get to Stone Mountain, get to the trail that
29:40
we're going to hike, you know, and we're still literally at the
29:44
base of the mountain. We're not, you know, five
29:46
minutes out of our out of the vehicle.
29:49
And then, man, the bottom just opens up.
29:52
And it's, pouring down, rain, not just pouring down rain, but
29:54
like, sideways rain, you know, it's raining sideways.
29:59
Yeah, it was raining sideways, you know?
30:03
And I had a rain jacket on, but because it's Rio blow And around
30:07
you and stuff. I, I got soaked to the bone
30:10
about halfway up the mountain. You know, there were a couple of
30:15
breaks or reprieves of the rain where, you know, the hood that I
30:19
had on to keep my head somewhat dry.
30:21
I could take off and let my head breathe and stuff.
30:25
Because, again, like I said, it was, it was not a very cold day
30:31
by temperature standards that, you know, you got to see you get
30:33
wet and it's windy, you're going to feel cold.
30:35
But it, it was, that was actually refreshing.
30:38
Because hiking up this mountain when it was, you know, 60
30:40
degrees or so. You build up a sweat, especially
30:43
with like a rain jacket on. I was, I was I was hoping I was
30:46
puffing, man. I was, I was like a man but you
30:51
can't quit at that point, you know, like you like, well, I'm
30:53
already committed to this. So the only thing to do is to
30:57
keep going, you know, and we and we keep going, we make it to the
31:00
summit, which is, you know, I think probably 3,000 feet or
31:04
whatever elevation 3000 feet or more elevation.
31:11
Thick with fog up there like it was we was while you we would
31:14
stand on these, you know, Granite shelves of the rock
31:20
Nova. Billion-year-old just to think
31:23
that the age of this mass of land that we're standing on and
31:31
and the things that it has been exposed to over, you know,
31:35
Millions upon millions of years standing there yourself.
31:41
Putting your feet on that Earth again, just just an invigorating
31:46
and enriching experience and then you get up there and you
31:48
know, and you're like 13 thousand, whatever feet above
31:51
everything, and but you can't see 10 feet in front of you
31:54
because the fog is so thick. And then with the wind whipping
31:58
around you at the fog clears a bit.
32:00
And then next thing, you know, here you are like I see a 600
32:04
foot drop into the valley below and then the fog comes in and
32:08
it's concealed again and you can't see straight in front.
32:10
Nia just an alarming just I mean it was like whoa you know that's
32:15
you know and then you look back back down the mountain and you
32:18
see, you know, way way, way down there, a little little, little
32:23
little bitty blip of a building or something where you started.
32:25
It's like puts you puts lots of things into perspective, you
32:29
know, you think you're this, you think you're that and then you
32:31
see, you know, comparison and size and it does, it puts things
32:37
a lot into his perspective. So you know, you're at the
32:39
summit. I'm drenched like a rat.
32:42
Just, you know, and now it's like, well, the only way to go
32:45
back. The only way to go is back down
32:47
the mountain. And, and it's like that
32:54
Fleetwood Mac song. Climb the mountain.
32:58
Now, turned around Landslide, write lyrics and Landslide.
33:05
You've got to go back the way you came.
33:06
There's no, you know, there's no, like, all right, I'll take
33:08
the elevator back now or hey, can somebody come get me?
33:12
Nope, you know, you got to walk your own, two feet back down the
33:16
mountain. And again, it's continuing to
33:18
rain my feet, my legs, my knees, just everything.
33:23
I was like, I am just ready to stop all of this.
33:27
But you can't give up. You can't quit.
33:29
You got to keep pushing and we did made it back down the
33:33
mountain, and I realize look like we're talking, like, think
33:38
overall. We're talking a little bit over
33:40
3, less than three and a half miles from, for you.
33:44
For the whole thing, round trip from the bottom, top top to
33:47
bottom, round trip, less than three and a half miles but add
33:52
to that. It's three and a half miles in
33:55
the rain in the Wind and, you know, you're soaking wet, it
34:01
puts things into perspective, you know, your morale gets
34:06
beaten down when you're when you're feeling uncomfortable,
34:09
and when you go through those ordeals, The first thing you
34:13
want to do is find a way to, to be relieved of it.
34:18
You know, it sucks out here. Getting rained on my feet hurt.
34:22
My legs hurt, you know I'm out of breath.
34:26
I'm sweating, I stink whatever. Like, all of these things that
34:30
you're going through that make you feel just like like garbage.
34:35
You know, that ordeal those ordeals and I've talked about
34:40
this on this podcast and I talked about on other, you know,
34:44
and other content before about ordeal breeding worth, I'm not
34:47
the only one that's It said, it matter of fact, I'm not the
34:49
first person to say it, but it's, it is an important thing
34:52
to remember that adversity or deal.
34:54
These are the things that make people find their worth and that
34:59
make people worth something, they find that the cuts of their
35:03
jib. They find what they're made of
35:06
Through difficult deeds and through difficult times, we all
35:11
do. But it's when you hear somebody
35:14
talk about it, you know. So, like as listening to me,
35:16
hear me talk about this ordeal of having to, you know, be
35:21
subjected to, you know, frigid cold Waters and then climb a
35:26
mountain in the wind and the rain.
35:27
You know that all may sound like wow, that sounds incredible.
35:31
Let me tell you at the moment and at the time I did not think
35:33
it was incredible. I thought it was incredibly
35:35
stupid and a matter of fact, I The thinking what kind of
35:38
Maniacs are we to be doing something like this at the time
35:42
that we're doing it? Because I remember I remember
35:44
sitting here thinking like there's not even the animals
35:46
that live out here, this stupid, you know, like they're over
35:50
hunker down somewhere, you know underneath you know bushes or at
35:55
the base of a rock lean-to or something like they found
36:00
shelter and they're waiting this storm out there not out here,
36:04
you know, exerting energy but That's what you, that's what you
36:08
face in the moment, and it's okay to feel those feelings.
36:11
It's okay to be mad. It's okay to be, you know,
36:14
distraught. It's okay to feel the feelings
36:16
that you're going to feel when you're in during adversity.
36:20
And when you're going through ordeal just remember.
36:25
When you get through it because it's going to, it's going to
36:27
stop like, you know, it's for a moment when you get past it,
36:32
when you get through it. You're going to feel such a
36:35
reward after it because you're, you know, that that moment is
36:39
what you need it to be tested. So we made it through the
36:45
mountain, we survived, we survived the immersion, we get
36:49
back to Old for Jesus, there was some time left for, you know,
36:53
dinner to be finished, which was an amazing ham ham dinner, that
37:00
that that night. And it was that Thursday night.
37:03
Yeah, Thursday night was the was the ham and then Friday night
37:06
was pot roast. So the pot roast had a little
37:09
bit, you know of time left on it to cook in the Crock-Pot.
37:12
So we killed some time by heading into town visited, the
37:16
liquor store, grab the bite to eat for lunch and then came back
37:22
and just kind of relaxed and got ready for the evening.
37:25
Friday. Night's dinner was again a
37:27
delicious pot roast that all of sins wife made in the crock pot
37:33
all day A it cooked in that crock pot for like seven or
37:36
eight hours. And then we went into the.
37:43
Remember, if that was the that was a sweat lodge night, or was
37:49
that the Yeah, that was the sweat lodge night because
37:54
Saturday night was our camping. So yeah, we did our sweat lodge.
37:57
We did, you know an hour in a room that we got heated up with
38:03
because it's again, approve heated by a wood stove so we got
38:07
the we got the wood stove up to It was hovering between like the
38:13
high 80s to near 100 degrees for like an hour.
38:18
You know, where you're just sitting there drumming and
38:20
stuff. And I posted a video of one
38:24
moment that I captured of that hour long session.
38:29
So if you haven't seen it yet, it's here on the YouTube
38:31
channel, so check it out. But yeah, we spent an hour in a
38:35
nearly 100 degree room, sweating. yet again, another
38:40
ordeal and trust me guys, like all of these things safety was
38:46
was was key, right? So before we did anything, you
38:50
know, all of sudden was very attentive to making sure we knew
38:57
the safe ways to do things, right?
38:59
If we slipped, if we fell or whatever on the mountain, you
39:01
know, because of the hazards of the altitudes and whatever, you
39:06
know, one wrong, step one wrong move.
39:09
If you're not paying attention, and, you know, your ass is
39:12
grass. You're toast.
39:13
So, you know, making sure that we knew what to do.
39:16
If we had a misstep, you know, same way with like the sweat
39:21
lodge. You know, if we got to feeling
39:23
too uncomfortable, we had an out, we could step outside, we
39:28
could open the door, we could do whatever we needed to do to get
39:32
some relief, but I'm happy to say that that was not needed,
39:36
you know, we didn't need to call upon any of those lifelines as
39:40
it were, you know, we ended Nerd.
39:42
The ordeals that were presented to us and in the best way
39:47
possible that we could have. Like I say we stayed the whole
39:50
hour in the sweat lodge, we did our shamanic Journey Thursday
39:55
night into Friday following that.
39:57
We all of us immersed ourselves into, you know, frigid cold
40:02
Waters and then dried off and immediately went for a three and
40:04
a half mile hike in the wind rain.
40:08
You know, slept really good. You know, on Friday obviously it
40:13
was it was an early night for for all of us because we just
40:16
accomplished so much. So we, you know, called it
40:20
called it an early night. After that, was I say early was,
40:22
you know, 9:30 10:00 p.m., it's like 9:30.
40:24
I think called it a called it a night.
40:27
The following morning, get up. And it's, you know, time for a
40:30
bit of a relaxing, sort of less than strenuous hike.
40:36
And at that point, The weather had cleared.
40:38
So it was a beautiful sunny day, the temperature dropped a tad,
40:43
and it was only going to continue to go down later on in
40:45
the day. So, you know, we're down in like
40:47
the 50s or so now I think Still kind of warm but not nearly as
40:52
warm as the first day and a half that we had been there.
40:57
And this time we go and we check out some of the sights off of
40:59
the Blue Ridge. Parkway don't remember all the
41:03
names of them, but they were, they were less.
41:05
Like I say, strenuous hikes, you know, hikes across pastures, you
41:14
know, not nearly as steep grade inclines and stuff to get to
41:18
places. And it was, it was pop Olson and
41:22
his wife, Patrick. And I saw the four of us did
41:23
that. The the hike on Stone Mountain
41:26
the day before it was just the three of us Cindy hadn't
41:30
accompanied us. So we go off on that hike.
41:35
It some really great photographs in and on the way back to the
41:42
house, we stopped by a few locations to to check out New
41:48
River. And the funny thing about New
41:51
River is if you guys search or just Google search new, And you
41:56
know, North Carolina would say New River is the name of the
42:00
river but it is one of the oldest rivers in the world.
42:05
It existed for blessed something like I don't know several
42:13
hundred million years or longer and it is also one of the oldest
42:18
sorry, one of the only rivers that flows south to North.
42:25
So, so that's really cool. And again after the rain like
42:29
the intent was to originally go to to New River.
42:34
Get our feet In The Water wade, through it a little bit and feel
42:38
those energies, but the river was moving quite fiercely.
42:41
Again, from all the rain, that happened over Thursday and
42:44
Friday, there was a lot of extra water flowing through there, so
42:50
that wasn't that wasn't feasible but I did get a chance to get to
42:53
the riverbank get my hands in there, splash some on my face
42:58
and at least touch those Waters and be there by so that was
43:01
special. And then when we get back to the
43:07
to the estate 2004 hoose, it was time to set up our camp because
43:10
we were going to be camping out there on the property that
43:14
night. So as we're getting our camps
43:17
and all that set up, the majority of the structures, like
43:21
there was a couple of canopies. So basically all of that was
43:25
done prior to us arriving, all the polis and made a really cool
43:28
like fur or Evergreen lean-to. Be sure to keep the camp area
43:34
dry. At least one side of it you know
43:36
from the from the wind and stuff that would blow.
43:39
And that way we had some sort of primitive shelter near the fire
43:44
pit. When we were grilling if in case
43:46
it did rain which it did so but but it fortunately did not start
43:53
until we at least got all of our tents and stuff set up but once
43:58
it did start like we had we had just brought up a bunch of dry.
44:03
Wood to start the campfire with. And we had just started the
44:06
campfire and then we start feeling a little water droplets
44:11
from the sky, which turned into not like a torrential downpour,
44:14
but there were moments of it. Raining pretty good.
44:18
So I got, you know, all that dry wood that we brought up it got
44:21
wet. Papa, listen stayed Vigilant
44:26
over the fire with this, like massive beach umbrella to try to
44:30
keep the the wood as dry as he possibly could and and keep the
44:34
the camp clarifier area dry as well.
44:38
But the temperature went from like I said being in like the
44:41
60s and 50s over those days to be in like down in the 40s and
44:44
30s and then ultimately I think it got down until the 20s or at
44:50
least hot. You know, high 20s upper 20s low
44:52
30s. So and windy like extremely
45:01
windy, there was probably gusts of you know, 30 to 40 mile an
45:05
hour winds that would come through.
45:09
So we sat out there, you know they did it eventually stopped
45:12
raining about the time that it got dark you know surrounds six
45:16
ish maybe 7:00. The rain has finally stopped.
45:23
I think it stopped even a little bit beforehand because I
45:25
remember getting up there sitting down and it being, you
45:28
know, not not raining anymore. You can see bits of blue sky.
45:32
So by the time it got dark, we were, we were not having to deal
45:36
with rain anymore, but it got cold quick.
45:40
Yet another ordeal right? The real the unexpected rain, we
45:43
had to put up with and then the cold so You know, I had full
45:50
intentions of sleeping in the camp in the tent that was raised
45:55
that night and had it not been for just you know 40 mile an
45:58
hour gusts of when I would have because I was bundled up really
46:01
good. I had, you know, blankets and
46:05
sleeping bags and Furs and all kinds of stuff to keep me warm.
46:10
But that wind was just jarring and knowing that I had, you
46:15
know, to get ready and leave the following day and I wanted to
46:17
make sure that I got The best chance of getting good rest.
46:21
So feeling like a, I got nothing else to prove.
46:25
I took my butt into into the house and lay down on the futon
46:28
where I've been sleeping the last, you know, couple of
46:30
nights. So and there were some moments
46:36
throughout that night because of the wind like things getting
46:39
knocked around outside and noises that I wasn't familiar
46:43
with. You know, I still what getting
46:45
woken up a few times throughout the night, made it made it made
46:48
an interesting. In sleeping experience but
46:52
Sunday morning rolls around, I get up you know loaded up and
46:58
everything and we enjoy ourselves, you know.
47:05
Shopping for some vitamins for like, I got some stuff from My
47:09
Wife and Patrick got some stuff for himself, you know, some of
47:15
the feel of a tear items, one of which is actually right here.
47:23
The other one is over here. I haven't forgotten.
47:26
I haven't forgotten, I'm not going to I'm going to get it
47:28
here in just a minute. But this one is a really cool
47:31
bone sax. and it's half of a Was this a whatever the part of
47:41
like. So this is an elk bone, by the
47:42
way. But it's the part of the Elks
47:45
bone. That's that is like the forearm.
47:48
It's not called The Format Cannon, maybe, Cannon bone?
47:51
I don't know, but it's the part of the bone that's like right,
47:55
you know, right here on the arm before they get to the to the
47:58
hoof and it's normally like I get like I said again, the this
48:03
is half of it. It's split half down the middle.
48:09
Which is a very common practice in a lot of primitive tribes
48:15
because you get more use out of the animal.
48:17
If you You know, use parts of it and then so in other words
48:22
instead of having one limb that you would make one knife or
48:25
whatever out of you have again half and then you have another
48:29
half. So you have two knives instead
48:30
of one or two utensils, instead of just one.
48:33
But the tip is, is super sharp. You're not going to, I don't
48:37
think really be able to see it so well, but it is.
48:42
It's a if I were to really poke somebody good with this, they
48:47
would probably draw blood. And even the Edge, like the edge
48:50
is not. you know, razor sharp but you know you again you
48:56
stabbed somebody with that or whatever you poke somebody,
48:58
whether it's definitely going in and it's really cool like the
49:02
texture of the of the bone Right there.
49:08
Like it's going to what do you call it?
49:14
It's not going to focus that well, but this is this was a
49:17
really neat gift. and then, This thing behind me.
49:27
Don't know how well this is gonna.
49:30
Work. So this is this is a cool story.
49:36
Friday was my was my was my birthday.
49:37
I want to show you what this isn't a man, you probably
49:39
already know. Obviously, I moved out of the
49:40
way. You know what it is.
49:41
I'm gonna tell you the story behind it.
49:43
So, Friday was my birthday right and Thursday.
49:50
Papa, all of Simmons and his wife presented, this gift to me
49:55
and this is what they presented me with at first This is
50:02
obviously a drum beater. It's got a wool beat her head.
50:07
This is Holly branch and this is coyote fur, you know.
50:14
So they present this to me and I'm like, alright cool.
50:19
You know, I got another, I got a drum beater for my drum, which
50:22
is, you know, not my drum but the the drum for our tribe
50:27
they're really Folk. So I'm like cool.
50:29
I've got another beer for that drunk.
50:33
And it was funny because as they're presenting this to me,
50:37
Cindy was like, we need a drumroll.
50:40
So, the next thing they grabbed is this Okay. now again, Only my
50:56
head down for a minute at this stuff.
51:00
I can't even get it all in frame here and guys.
51:03
But anyway, they picked this up and, you know, office and Cindy.
51:08
Hold each side of it and Patrick holds a side of it.
51:12
And they start little bit of, you know, just drumming with
51:16
their hands like drum roll. Please, you know, and they go
51:20
well, here you go. And I'm like, cool and I'm
51:22
thinking this was it because they go.
51:23
Here you go. And I go well, great, I got this
51:25
beater and they go. Yeah, well, yeah, but you need
51:29
something to play it with. Or play on it.
51:31
You know, they need you need something too.
51:34
Play it on and then they like all look down.
51:37
Of course, Patrick had no idea but like popovers and you look
51:40
down. I'm like No, right.
51:44
And so what we've got here, folks.
51:50
Is 38 inches around. Of goat skin goat hide drum.
51:57
So I don't know how well this is going to Resonate on the
52:05
microphone. I don't know if this is going to
52:08
don't know if this is going to work or not.
52:09
So just kind of bear with me a minute.
52:16
See, if this see if it sounds any certain way.
52:19
But anyway, again, I don't know if
52:47
it's coming through on the mic or not.
52:56
If not, they'll be more footage that I can try to share actually
53:01
have some, some something planned for this, this coming
53:05
weekend. My wife supposed to Go with me
53:12
outside and maybe get some, get some footage.
53:18
This is not going to work out. I'm trying to figure out how I
53:20
can get this. Like, I had it before.
53:27
Maybe that'll work. All right.
53:31
Put that there. So there you go.
53:35
That was quite an ordeal another ordeal.
53:40
There's that word again or deal. So anyway, 38-inch goat, hide
53:47
drum for my 38 trip around the Sun.
53:54
To say that I was flabbergasted, I was left speechless.
53:58
I was brought to tears, I didn't know what to think.
54:03
I didn't know what to say. because I've had, I've been,
54:08
I've been so Into the drumming thing recently.
54:13
But that specifically like a big big drum like that, that just
54:17
sounds like Rolling Thunder when you play it.
54:22
I've been having my eye on one of them for a while and you know
54:28
to have one now as a gift for my birthday.
54:35
There's I still get like emotional just thinking about it
54:37
and knowing, you know, not even really fully appreciating the
54:44
kind of work that goes into making these things but just
54:47
knowing The caliber of the gift that I was given, you know, such
54:53
a high high honor and I intend to to use this in a lot of
54:59
future content as best. I'm able to in the area that I'm
55:04
able to do it and you know, get the river nearby that I like to
55:07
go to. And I think that playing this
55:09
drum on that river is going to make for some really good
55:14
content that I hope you guys will look forward to seeing.
55:17
So You know, to try and condense four days or three and three,
55:23
three three nights four days of stuff.
55:26
Into just one video, One podcast.
55:30
Those are, those are the highlights, but I guess, you
55:32
know, I could sit here and tell you guys all about how great the
55:36
trip was and how much fun I had and how much fun Patrick had and
55:41
how much we just had fun with the Olaf sins.
55:47
But what I wanted to do is, I wanted to tell you guys about
55:49
this experience, because an experience, like this doesn't
55:54
come very often for many people. As a matter of fact, there will
55:57
be people that will never experience anything even
56:01
remotely close to what I experienced this past weekend.
56:07
You know, But what I want people to know is that it takes work.
56:15
It takes effort, it takes ordeal to make something like this
56:20
happen. If it sounds so amazing.
56:22
If you're listening to this and you're like, I don't know, you
56:28
know, I feel like I was there through your retelling of it,
56:31
you know. A lot of times when you tell a
56:32
story, you try to Provide people with enough details, that put
56:39
them in the position that you were in when retelling the
56:42
story. And I hope that at some points
56:44
in time, you know, you kind of felt like you were on that
56:47
Journey with me and but to realize that that didn't come
56:53
without a cost, it didn't come without sacrifice, it didn't
56:56
come without hard work. It didn't come without ordeal,
57:00
but the reward for it, you know, don't get don't give up.
57:05
Up. If you're going through
57:06
something that you have a goal in mind, you have like I want to
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accomplish this and you know, you know, in your heart that
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it's going to happen and then you run into these snafus you
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know you get you get rained on you, get You know, he gets
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soaking wet, you get cold, you get sweaty, you get miserable,
57:27
you get upset, whatever. The roadblock is, that happens
57:31
in your life. Don't let that deter you from
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continuing on with the with the project, with the thing that
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you're doing, see it through. You're going to feel so rewarded
57:46
after the fact, if for no other reason, other than that, you
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know, you can say I did it. I made it through this ordeal.
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I made it through this Challenge and now I'm better equipped to
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handle the next challenge. That comes my way over the next
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ordeal that you know, that that's that I've been I'm faced
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with It's the only way to grow is.
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It's the only way that you're going to grow, you're not going
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to grow in times of ease, in times of, you know, relaxation
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growth happens. When?
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Times are tough. You're growing in those moments
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and you made, it may feel like you're getting torn down.
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It may feel like you're getting beat down and there may be
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moments in there. May be times when that that is
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literally, what is necessary in order for that growth to happen.
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I've used the analogy before that trees.
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Bushes, plants, flowers, Etc. You know, require pruning from
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time to time in order for, for for strong growth to occur.
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You know, you start letting things just not get take care of
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if you're not out there pruning every now and then if you're not
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taking care of yourself in that way and allowing the storms that
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that need to come through and, you know, glean a little bit and
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take away some of the the dead unnecessary matter.
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Then you're just going to be stuck.
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You're not going to be gross. You're not going to be allowed
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to grow. If it hadn't been for.
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All of the things you know and it didn't just start when we
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left and and headed out there on Thursday it didn't just start.
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Then there's been ordeal there's been things going on leading up
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to this most recent event Fire on the Mountain.
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Right there were things going on and leading up to that which
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were tests and, and part of the ordeal as well.
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You know, 100%. But all of us knew that
1:00:05
regardless of the challenges, regardless of how difficult
1:00:08
things could be made, we were this was going to happen and it
1:00:14
was going to happen in the way that it was meant to happen.
1:00:16
And it was woven, and in the threads for it, to happen this
1:00:21
way. But we had a part in weaving,
1:00:24
those threads, the threads weren't just sitting there ready
1:00:28
to be, Played with, you know, part of that work landed with
1:00:34
us. Because if I hadn't done the
1:00:37
things with my car to get it ready, we wouldn't have been
1:00:39
going in my car. You know, if Patrick didn't make
1:00:42
the preparations through his job and finances or whatever, right?
1:00:46
Same way with me. Like if we hadn't made those
1:00:48
preparations and accommodations, we wouldn't have made it out
1:00:52
there. If Papa Olufsen, didn't do some
1:00:57
of the crafting work. And stuff to help with, you
1:01:02
know, funding this whole trip, you know, doing the things that
1:01:07
were needed there, it wouldn't have happened just like
1:01:13
everything about the trip. Proved to me that ordeal really,
1:01:19
and truly does breed worth sharing space with him and his
1:01:24
wife and seeing his kids for a little while to, but just
1:01:29
sharing that expect that the experience exchanging of gifts,
1:01:33
exchanging of knowledge, wisdom, love, you know, all of it.
1:01:43
You can't replicate that. By talking with somebody online,
1:01:48
not even a phone call. You know, you can only get so
1:01:52
far. You can only reach a certain
1:01:54
point with interactions like that.
1:01:57
I know, we are modern heathens and we are, you know, practicing
1:02:02
old ways in modern times, many of us are But part of the, of
1:02:10
the part of the old ways that need not die, are the things
1:02:12
that we experienced. With each other, you know.
1:02:20
Encouraging each other being there for each other.
1:02:23
So that way we don't fall or slip in the river, you know, and
1:02:26
we're, when we're crawling, Barefoot bare hands on slippery
1:02:29
rocks. Finding our footing, but knowing
1:02:32
that a brother is reaching out his hand or his arm to catch you
1:02:36
for you to hold on to that way. You know that I'm not in this
1:02:40
alone. I'm here with my with my Kent
1:02:42
with Mike. If I'm here with a brother, I'm
1:02:45
here with family in the most Pure sense of the word family,
1:02:52
you know, and that's and that's where I go back to hold the
1:02:55
whole like that talked about before familial titles and
1:02:58
calling people brother this and brother that like dude, I'm
1:02:59
sorry, but I'm not going to call you brother unless I've shared
1:03:03
some moments like I've shared. Like I had this past weekend,
1:03:07
you know, or something similar that.
1:03:08
I can't. I can't bring myself to doing
1:03:11
that just because I think you're cool.
1:03:13
Just because you think I'm cool. Just because we share a similar
1:03:17
belief system in. In, you know, northern European
1:03:22
paganism. Without content without without
1:03:29
the in person without the boots on the ground, without the
1:03:32
Grassroots level experiences. Family, is that that doesn't
1:03:40
exist. It doesn't happen without it.
1:03:43
You've got to have it. And again, not taking away from
1:03:46
what value there is in long-distance relationships,
1:03:50
because modern heathens, you know, modern times where we got
1:03:54
modern amenities modern conveniences.
1:03:56
It's it's part of the whole bit. We We do things that are a bit
1:04:04
archaic maybe at times or feel archaic, but again there's
1:04:08
purpose behind it, you know. People say well, why worry
1:04:13
about, you know, heating with wood, when you could just, you
1:04:16
know, crank up, your electric furnace or whatever.
1:04:19
It's like, that's not the point. It's, unless you've experienced
1:04:25
it yourself, unless you've gone through those things, you know,
1:04:28
I don't know. To me, it's like a meal taste.
1:04:31
So much better when you know you've earned it.
1:04:32
When you've worked hard to earn a meal, the meal tastes so much
1:04:37
better. Tell you right now.
1:04:39
The first thing that I ate after the big ordeal Thursday night
1:04:45
into Friday morning, the first thing I ate after all that was
1:04:48
great trail mix, you know, and and beef jerky. but I tell you
1:04:54
what, I felt like I was dying on a five-course michelin-star
1:04:59
meal. You know things that are
1:05:02
normally just you know that the types of snack foods that you
1:05:04
sit and you know, Nosh on when you're watching a movie those
1:05:09
items tasted like the best thing I ever ate and water, you know.
1:05:17
I drink water every day but the water that that moment was like
1:05:21
the best water I've ever tasted, you know.
1:05:23
Like those things again, you're not going to experience that by
1:05:27
hearing about it by talking about it.
1:05:30
You know, I've had people respond to some things that I
1:05:33
posted recently and being a bit. I don't know if they're just
1:05:37
trolling or genuinely curious, but like, you know, and I talk
1:05:41
about immersion rituals in the shamanic ritual and what's an
1:05:45
immersion ritual? Who, what's the shamanic?
1:05:47
ritual, who well, if you have to ask me then I then then half of
1:05:53
me is Thinking that you're just, you know, you're just trolling,
1:06:00
you're just trying to get a rise because then it and then again,
1:06:08
you know, the parts of me are like, well, there may be
1:06:09
genuinely people who just don't know what I'm talking about.
1:06:13
And so, either way, it's engagement right on the
1:06:16
platforms. It's the thing that I always ask
1:06:19
people to do is hey, like comment, share and subscribe.
1:06:21
You know, I don't care what you comment, okay.
1:06:24
What'd you say It's an engagement.
1:06:26
It's something that engages me and engages everybody and puts
1:06:32
something out on the table for potential discussion to or
1:06:35
conversation to stem from it. You know, because I'm not the
1:06:38
only one that looks at these comments.
1:06:41
Other people seem to. So my response is your comments,
1:06:45
you know, these are the things that can spark conversation,
1:06:48
amongst people and get our brains in gear and thinking
1:06:51
about things along the snake. Along these along these lines,
1:06:54
and in the Nature to experience what I'm talking about for
1:06:59
yourselves, because I can sit here and talk for an hour or
1:07:02
more about how much fun I had. But that's not really what this
1:07:06
was about. It was about a retelling of the
1:07:09
most one of the most impactful and profound experiences of my
1:07:12
life that I shared with other people.
1:07:15
And and it was one of the most profound experiences of their
1:07:20
lives individually. And then collectively, because
1:07:24
we were all there together. Together with each other and we
1:07:27
all did things to support one another and we experience these
1:07:31
you know, challenges and or deals together.
1:07:34
The the experience was not just profound for us individually but
1:07:37
it made for a profound experience collectively.
1:07:40
And it's and it's something that we'll never Escape our memories.
1:07:45
We will live with These Memories Forever.
1:07:48
They will be a part of us and they are apart of us forever.
1:07:54
There's one other thing that I wanted to show you guys maybe
1:07:57
live. Sort of life.
1:08:06
So you guys know, the Heron is my feeling I've talked about
1:08:10
this in on recent episodes of the podcast before and all of a
1:08:15
sudden. Papa, all of a sudden made this
1:08:18
shamanic ritual masks for me in the style of a heron.
1:08:23
These are goose feathers, I believe his coyote fur and it's
1:08:28
an animal skin face mask. But You know, the the
1:08:34
representation of the Heron and I'm just going to put it on so
1:08:38
you guys can see see it in real time, you know I can do this.
1:08:47
I can't even do this, I wanted to, you know, but I don't know
1:08:56
how good my voice is coming through here, because there's
1:08:58
not a real mouthpiece here. But yeah, imagine if I did my
1:09:01
podcast just like this all the time, Talking like this and
1:09:08
such. So anyway, there's there's that
1:09:14
too, Patrick got one and kind of like in the form of the shape of
1:09:19
an owl. Getting a phone call.
1:09:27
As I'm recording a podcast. Never fails.
1:09:29
I'll call him back later. But yeah, guys, again, why am I
1:09:35
talking about it? Why am i showing you all this
1:09:36
stuff? It's because Yes.
1:09:39
I mean it was a great time and I do love talking about it, but I
1:09:42
hope that the experience that I shared the retelling of it is
1:09:48
something that inspires you to find a way to experience
1:09:54
something of similar profoundness.
1:09:58
You know, it may not be a shamanic Retreat for four days,
1:10:03
three days, whatever. Three nights in the Blue Ridge.
1:10:06
Mountains of North Carolina, Maybe it's a small camping trip.
1:10:10
Maybe, maybe it's a one-night Rich, you know, get away in in
1:10:15
in the woods or something nearby.
1:10:17
Or maybe you take a vacation day you know and have a long weekend
1:10:22
away in the in nature, somewhere, whatever it is,
1:10:25
right? Whatever it is that you're able
1:10:27
to do, do it with somebody that you have strong ties with or
1:10:33
that you can have strong ties with find a way to Build those
1:10:38
bonds with people and don't give up just because it gets
1:10:42
difficult just because it gets hard, just because there's a
1:10:44
challenge, you know about it. The challenge is what makes it
1:10:49
great, the hard. Is what makes it great not to
1:10:53
be, you know, funny how that's what she said.
1:10:57
But, you know, it makes me think of like, you guys have ever seen
1:11:01
that movie A League of Their Own.
1:11:05
You know, Gina Davis Rosie O'Donnell Tom Hanks.
1:11:10
You know. Where she quits?
1:11:17
She quits the team. And Tom Hanks his characters
1:11:22
giving her, you know, a bunch of crap for it.
1:11:26
And she just kind of says, you know, it just got too hard.
1:11:31
I couldn't handle it anymore. I quit because it just got too
1:11:35
hard. And Tom Hanks, his character
1:11:39
says, It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone
1:11:46
would do it in the hard. Is what makes it great?
1:11:51
It is man. It's what makes things so great
1:11:55
is the challenges that go along with it.
1:12:00
Because it conditions us guys, If It prepares us for those
1:12:03
times and then when we get a breathing when we get a chance
1:12:06
to breathe and get that Breathing Room, you know, we
1:12:10
feel almost all the more accomplished for having gone
1:12:13
through it. It's like, yeah.
1:12:14
Now I can earn this steak. I can earn this drink.
1:12:18
I can earn this rest So go out and earn it.
1:12:23
You know, you're going to suffer through life.
1:12:24
Anyways might as well suffer in a tactical way and do things
1:12:28
that are gonna prepare you for greatness.
1:12:31
So I do hope that you guys enjoyed this episode of me, just
1:12:35
talking about my own experience. Maybe one day I'll get Patrick
1:12:40
or all the sudden on here either together or separately to kind
1:12:45
of recap and talk about it together.
1:12:46
It would be great to get their thoughts and everything about it
1:12:49
because it's more than just me sharing it from my angle.
1:12:52
But yeah, in the meantime, you know, you guys have got this.
1:12:57
And yeah, so thank you so much for listening and watching
1:13:00
today. Wait to see what happens with
1:13:03
next week's episode. I know we're coming up on some
1:13:05
holiday times of the year. I got the Thanksgiving holiday
1:13:08
in the u.s. coming up and then for so many heathens here in
1:13:11
about a month and a half, you guys have got your, you know,
1:13:15
midwinter celebration is coming up.
1:13:17
So we'll definitely see what's on the plate for next week and I
1:13:21
know I still have some viewer request to go through.
1:13:26
So, I haven't forgotten if you put a comment or a request out
1:13:30
there and I haven't got to it yet, maybe just put it down in
1:13:33
the comments or whatever below or you can write in or call in.
1:13:36
But I do still have some more to go through from a recent post on
1:13:42
the Facebook page so we'll be getting over to that here soon.
1:13:48
Yeah I think that pretty well wraps it up so you guys have
1:13:50
been great. Thank you so much for tuning in
1:13:51
watching and listening today. Don't forget to like this video,
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share it around, comment down below your thoughts.
1:13:58
And until we talk again, May the gods continue to notice.
1:14:01
You and may your ancestors always smile upon you.
1:13:37
I do still have some more to go through from a recent post on
1:13:42
the Facebook page so we'll be getting over to that here soon.
1:13:48
Yeah I think that pretty well wraps it up so you guys have
1:13:50
been great. Thank you so much for tuning in
1:13:51
watching and listening today. Don't forget to like this video,
1:13:54
share it around, comment down below your thoughts.
1:13:58
And until we talk again, May the gods continue to notice.
1:14:01
You and may your ancestors always smile upon you.