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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP39 - Tips For The Not-So-New Heathen (Viewer Request) · Random Heathen Ramblings

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If y'all would tear work, As you may know him from going to be
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And my tribal brother, Patrick are lost speaker, and we are
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annual recurring thing called Fire on the Mountain, and this
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being the first year Fire on the Mountain 2022.
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So we're going to be hanging out with with him Patrick and I are
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gonna be hanging out with Papa Olufsen for they say, the
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will sure to have. I'm sure we're going to have a
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lot of great stories to retell in the coming weeks.
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Very excited to be out there and participate in the things that
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were going to be doing. It's going to be a wonderful
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time. Patrick's first time course
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returning there. I've been there once before with
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my wife, but this will be Patrick's first time.
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Visiting cool for whoso. In advance a week in advance, I
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wanted to raise my glass to Papa Olufsen.
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My dear friend, my brother and thank you in advance for his
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generous hospitality and Gifts of fellowship and Brotherhood
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that we're going to be sharing in in the upcoming week and
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weekend of my birthday. It's going to be an awesome
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birthday celebration, amongst other things.
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So it's call to pop Olufsen, few Overture workshop and the family
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of goofer who's All right. So, what are you guys here for
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today for this week? What are we here for?
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Well, let me show you because this again, is a Viewer request.
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So Here we have. It's a Connor who requests to
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have the topic of a podcast. I had asked this on the Facebook
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platform some weeks ago, a lot of you is did chime in which I
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appreciate if you have any ideas for a future episode you can
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write them in or call in and let me know but Connors request is
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to have an episode about tips for the not.
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So new Heathen someone who is not new but not a 10.
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Year veteran or into it. He says he knows that some
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people like himself included that have had struggles.
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When the quote-unquote honeymoon phase wears off, So thank you,
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Connor for the for the suggested topic and I think it's great
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because a lot of I notice a lot of what I've been doing over the
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years. Have have catered and probably
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more to the newer heathens. Although I do talk a bit about
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stuff that is I wouldn't say necessarily Advanced even re,
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but it definitely goes past the, you know, I'm just coming coming
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into this. Where do I start sort of thing?
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Because like he says, you know, we become, Maybe settled and
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comfortable with, with our day-to-day practices, some of
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the things that we do tend to get us to comfy and we lose
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sight or we lose focus on the bigger picture.
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You know things to kind of keep those fires Ablaze or keep those
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Embers. Hot might be another good way to
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put it. I think it's a great topic.
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I think it's a good thing too. For all of us to be reminded of
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some of us, not so new heathens. I myself have been practicing my
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you know Keith and Marie for once they going on. coming up
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this this coming year will be you know, eight years in, you
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know, so I'm Not quite the season Heathen.
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I wouldn't call myself a seasoned Heathen.
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I'm, and, you know, I don't think that I ever will, to be
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honest with you. I've Kind of found myself
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fitting into the category of always the student.
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Never the master, you know, I do learn as much as I can and I
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like to share what I learned, you know, on platforms like this
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with people. But to me it's more of a sharing
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of knowledge. It's not, it's not
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instructional, you know, I guess you could take it as such if you
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want to, you know, you can look at it as as a being taught if
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you're if you're new or if you're learning yourself and
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you're learning new things, it's like he's teaching me this.
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He's teaching me that. I don't, I don't, you know,
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personally see my Off in that way.
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But good. Good question Connor.
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So you know tips on things to or tips for the not.
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So new healing, how do we keep those those fires Ablaze and
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keep those coals stoked, you know, so I got to thinking about
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it and I've been, I've been thinking about it and this is
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something that I always It's on my mind a lot, you know, because
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I've had conversations with people over the years even
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pretty recently where they ask that, you know, like I feel like
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I'm kind of disconnected from my, from My Religion, from my
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spirituality. What can I do to rekindle that
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feeling of connection? That feeling that I had Mike,
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you know, Connor says, you know, when you first start and you're
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in that kind of honeymoon, phase when everything is so exciting,
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everything is new and you know, refreshing and you know your I
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don't know doing your first ritual or you're attending your
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first bloats or you're assembling your first alter or
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whatever the case may be. You know, how do I find the
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things too? Breathe new life for breathe
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that kind of life back into my practices now.
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And so I got to thinking, I got, I do, I get to thinking about
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this on a somewhat regular basis, but I don't think about
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it so much as I am. Just doing things that keep
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keeps things alive and keeps things fresh.
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You know, when we first come into anything whether it's you
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know, will use Heathen realize that as the as the example,
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right? We first come into heat, Andre
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it's new to us, right? We were where we saw something.
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We felt something that we hadn't felt or seen and experienced
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before. So the interest that we have in
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it is like we're eager where fresh it's again that that
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honeymoon phase of new love for you know, young loves sort of
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thing. And so so everything is
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exciting. Everything is exhilarating.
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You know, we're learning so much.
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We're doing so many things and it keeps our interest.
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And then over time, we it drops down a bit from the repetition
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of it. Whatever you get comfortable,
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you get complacent. So, one thing I did want to
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mention that I thought of anyway, is that, I don't think
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what we need to do as not-so-new heathens, right?
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People that have been doing this for at least some time, but that
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may feel a little bit disconnected.
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I don't think that what we should try to do is relive the
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past. You know what I mean?
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Because the past is the past and that's what got us to where we
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are here in the present, but I understand that you can learn
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from the past, just the same way as we do.
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Now in Heathen, are in many different forms of paganism as
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you are using the past to help shape the present and then what
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we do now, shapes the future, you know, so we're looking back.
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In time, we're looking back at events, we're looking almost in
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a reflection of the past to see what was what was it that made
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this the thing back then and how do we recreate it and do it now?
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So it's not so much that we want to go back and be that new.
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He then again we just want to feel that sort of excitement or
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that refreshment that exhilaration you know and thing
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that would do that now or us is not going to be the same thing
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that did it for us then you know because then we were You know,
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we didn't know about the gods or we didn't know about the sub, we
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didn't have, we hadn't read the sagas.
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We didn't learn some of the World Views that accompany this
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religious, and practice and folkway.
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So learning about those things then is the thing that sparked
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that fire within us, we, you know, going back to that it's we
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need to recreate that feeling. And so, how do we do that?
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So there's some things I'm going to talk about that have helped
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me because I Felt it. I know, you know, none of us.
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I think are exempt from that feeling of of a disconnect, you
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know. Wow.
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You know, I'm I'm feeling a bit down or I'm feeling a bit
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depressed or whatever and and you know, I don't feel as
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connected to the gods as I once have or I don't feel as
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connected to my ancestors as I once have I just don't feel as
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connected period. You know, I feel like I'm
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disconnected from things. So, some of the things that have
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helped me. You know, over the years, you
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hear different people say different things and you know,
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this is one of those times where I'm going to say what works for
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me may not work for you and when work for them may not work for
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me and so on so forth, right? There is no real Cookie cutter,
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you know, book of instructions or manual that's going to work
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for everybody every time that being said, again, when we go to
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looking for inspiration, we go back to looking for, you know,
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what that feeling is. Maybe not doing the thing that
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gave us that feeling, but finding something that gives us
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that feeling. We look for examples and we look
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for inspiration. So my inspiration, the things
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that have helped me. Get through when the honeymoon
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phase of whatever wears off is finding a purpose.
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Okay. And I know that may seem pretty
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generic, you know, you must have a purpose in life, you know, you
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must find your purpose. So what do I mean by that?
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When we first come into Heathen re I think a lot of us have
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become enamored with all of the things that make up Heathen re
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specifically the Mystic side of things.
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You know, the the woo side of us as we like, to call it in some
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in some circles, you know, the Divination, the, the magical
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aspects of it, right? Because that's It's so on the
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mystery behind it all makes. I think the to where the appeal
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is we don't know, a whole hell of a lot about it of of
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necessarily how it was done without a lot of extensive
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archaeological study and not everybody is so academically
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inclined to want to explore that side of things but the hints or
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the or the stories and stuff that we hear some of the things
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that we read about in some of the sagas, That, you know, bring
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this air of mystery around the void of has and of it keys or
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the some of the other sather, right?
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The save money or save, gonna all these various, for lack of a
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better term. Sorcerers witches Wizards,
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whatever of the Norse, persuasion, the dramatic side of
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things. It does.
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If you know, they they seem like unreal Heroes, you know.
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So there's that appeal to things, but it's not for
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everybody. And so when we, when we, when I
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say like find a purpose, is find, your purpose, is your
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purpose to explore that and to feed that sort of Passion that
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you may have about is is it is it, is it something that is deep
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within you? That's been dormant for a long
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time that needs to be awakened and if so, are you going through
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the right processes to wake it up or wake yourself up to
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connect to that side of things, you know, whether it's shamanic
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healing, whether it's trance, worked, save work, whether it's
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Rune readings read, whether it's, you know what?
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Her the mysticism side of the Heathen ring, you know, is that
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your purpose? And if it is, are you pursuing
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it? And if it's not, are you leaving
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it? Be where it is and and
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discovering your purpose, is your purpose to be.
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The shaman or the Mystic among your people or is your purpose
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to be the Weaver. among your people is is your purpose to be
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the Storyteller among your people, is your purpose to be
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the Builder, the carpenter the Smith, Is your purpose to be the
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Rune reader is your purpose to be.
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What is your purpose? You know, everyone has a purpose
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and not everyone's purpose is the same.
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So I think that's one of the things.
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I think that we can see happen with especially newer heathens
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is this tendency to fall into the traps of well, just because
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it's in the stories and just because it's in the sagas and it
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must be the thing that is a part of my even read as well.
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You know whether it's again the the whatever mysticism it and
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it's not. I've said this before in other
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videos I've done and just in conversations with people is
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that, you know, you are not a worse or better Heathen because
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you practice or don't practice. Some form of divination or
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magic, you know, just because you don't know how to read runes
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just because you don't know what the runes mean, doesn't make you
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less of a pagan you know, leave it to the people who know the
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thing, leave it to the professionals.
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As I say, you know, I wouldn't call my electrician.
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If my leaky pipes were leaking, you know, if I needed Plumbing
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done, I wouldn't call my mechanic, you know, I would call
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the plumber called you call upon the person you call upon the one
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that knows the a thing to do that needs to be done.
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And that's not the same person for everything, you know, just
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because the man is good at reading rooms doesn't mean that
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he or she or just because a person is good at reading rooms
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and they may not necessarily mean that they are good at the
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you know trance work saved, work, shamanic, healing.
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Yes. A lot of those things tend to
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kind of become part and parcel with each other and you get kind
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of this expectation. I think a lot of times that, you
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know, those people are good at all of those things but not
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necessarily, you know, so I think 44 again, going back to an
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answer for the question, you know, tips for not so new
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heathens is find your purpose and don't think that your
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purpose needs to include everything about divination
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mysticism. And I'm using that as an example
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because it seems to be the thing that, you know, I almost find
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that on a regular basis. A lot of folks that eventually
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at some point in their paganism go.
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Well, I think it's time that I learned the runes.
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Why? Is that is D.
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Did you give yourself this false expectation that by year?
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Five of your Pagan Journey, you should be learning the runes?
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I know plenty of folks who've been begging for a very long
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time, who don't know the first thing about runic divination or
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saith work or they're not shamanic healers.
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You know, those are those are very specific specialty.
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Roles in our communities, I think.
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And, you know, if you're not called to that, if you've not
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been given any sort of indication that that is your
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purpose. Don't Force It.
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Don't don't make something out of nothing.
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You know if it's not there, another one that I would say for
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those that are not. So new heathens, how to bring
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that bring that spark back is When we first start out as
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pagans we, I think we jumped the gun.
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Not everybody. Okay, obviously this doesn't
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apply to every new Pagan, or Noob newbie Heathen, right?
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Whatever term. We want to put to him, but I
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think one of the Tendencies is we, you know, we see people that
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have become so excited so an average.
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So, you know, engrossed in the the aesthetic or or the
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romanticized perception of Germanic. practices that they
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skip and they look over the and miss the important parts of
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Building establishing and maintaining a hearth.
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Cult, your Hearth practice is your individual cultic
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practices. And I think personally that
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that's one of, if not the main reasons why we lose we see
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people lose interest or we see people get burnt out or Need to
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rekindle their their connection after the honeymoon phase
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because they've skipped the good.
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They skip to the good part, right?
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Like I don't want to read the the forward, I don't want to
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read the lore. I just want to know what happens
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to the heroes, you know, and they want to get to the end,
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then they get to the end. It's like now, what do I do?
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Well, you missed all of the, the beginning, the leading up to
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every, you know, I mean, like you missed up all this good
24:35
stuff that happened. That led you to the to the
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exciting climax. The good part, right?
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It's kind of like you know, you're going to just get in
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there hitting quit, are you going to spend time?
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Enjoying yourself with the foreplay?
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It's, you gotta, you gotta enjoy the journey more so than reach
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the destination. And part of the journey.
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That is that, you know, the, the longevity of it is in the
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individual cultic practices. Do you have your own Hearth
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cult? Do you even know what a hearth
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cult is? Well you ought to know because
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your Hearth gold is going to be different than my, I know it.
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My heart's Colt is I know what I do when I get up every day and I
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know what I do at certain times of the year and I know what I do
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just randomly and I know, you know, some of the the
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idiosyncrasies or the habits or the customs.
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A tour part of my hearth. You should too.
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And every Pagan should every Pagan should have their own
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Hearth cult established before they really get into the The the
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wide world of Mystic gods and spirits and all this stuff like
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yes, the spirits are present. They are with us that they tear
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the whites. I mean, our ancestors that all
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encompasses the spirit realm, or it's all included in the spirit
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realm. But without without first
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establishing, where our place is amongst them and where they fit
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into our existence and how we coexist with them.
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You're going to I think that that's again, one of the big
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reasons why so many folks, Feel disconnected at some point
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because the novelty has worn off.
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You know, I don't feel so connected to Thor anymore.
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I don't feel connected to Odin anymore.
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Well, did you ever really connect to the spirits that live
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in exists around? You were you too busy?
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You know, trying to recreate what you saw on an episode of
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Vikings or the last Kingdom or any other sort of, you know,
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re-creation of a saga? You know, you watch Beowulf too
26:42
many times. And you think you can, you know,
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fight, Grendel, naked or whatever?
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I don't know. Just all These like romanticized
26:49
Hollywood eyes over embellished inaccurate, many times versions
26:55
of the stories and it's like, that's that's that's cool for
26:58
the entertainment value. That's cool for the aspect of
27:01
what it is for, but it's not a, it's not an accurate
27:03
representation of anything that was, that was done.
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At least not so much as we can. As we as we know.
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Yes. There are great stories of
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Heroes and Feats of wonder that have allowed those people.
27:16
All to have their names spoken in story and song and songs long
27:23
after their bodies have died. You know.
27:26
It goes back to We hear about in the Hall of a mall where cattle
27:30
die Kinsmen Die. You yourself also will die.
27:33
One thing that will never die is the fair Fame of one who has
27:35
earned it. That's not a Verbatim, quote
27:37
course that's paraphrasing. But you get it, it's, you know,
27:42
that the fair Fame, that is one, it's our reputations.
27:44
You know, these people, these stories are here because of the
27:47
reputation that was one through their great deeds and it's so
27:52
exciting to read those stories and to find those Examples of
27:58
valiant people you know makes you like man.
28:03
That's what I want to be when I grow up kind of thing.
28:05
You know, I want to be, I want to be that renowned I want to
28:07
have my I want. I want my enemies to tremble
28:11
when my Name Escapes their lips and all this other kind of
28:16
thing. I mean, let's be real.
28:19
It's very rare and it's it's not for the majority it's that's not
28:23
the purpose. But most of us, sir, most of us
28:26
are just here, you know, too. Provide for our families and be
28:33
good providers and for our communities.
28:35
And but some of us some people out here, some, some folks in
28:40
the communities out here are built for great things, and they
28:44
are doing great things and they're using their Fame, and
28:46
they're using their the luck. There, humming you their main to
28:53
do those things and if that's you, if that's what you don't.
28:57
Don't, don't let anybody stop you.
28:59
You know, keep that. Keep that momentum forward but
29:03
again without having without having the strong route, the
29:06
strong Foundation established at the hearth level.
29:13
All right, I know I'm not the only one that's spoken it and
29:15
I'm not the first one that has spoken it.
29:17
That Heathen re is where the Hearth is the heart of heathen
29:22
re. Is in the Hearth.
29:26
It's in the home starts at the clan at the house, the roof
29:30
tri-level. Alright and yeah I mean I'm
29:37
not--that's not to say that when you do have that established
29:40
when you do have those things strongly, you know, maintained
29:46
and strongly built in and maintaining and practice in your
29:49
life that there's not going to come times where you feel
29:51
discouraged, that you feel like you need a boost.
29:54
You know, but that is definitely.
29:58
I believed to be one of the big reasons why as I mentioned
30:02
before, it's not that with our that we filled that disconnect
30:06
is you're going to feel disconnected more.
30:07
If you don't have something strong to take, hold of and
30:11
something strong to sink your teeth into and to plant your
30:15
feet in. So the next part of tips for Nur
30:19
heathens talking about planting, our feet into things is getting
30:24
back into nature and this may sound a bit Neo-pagan in your
30:32
whatever, but go out and walk Barefoot in the Earth, get your
30:39
bare feet on earth, right? Even if it's just for a few
30:43
minutes, even if it's just your grass, anybody anywhere?
30:50
I don't care if you live in the city can find someplace that has
30:55
grass soil, dirt whatever, within a Be close distance,
31:03
right? Even if you're not you know,
31:06
living in a kind of a Remote area.
31:10
If it's residential if it's an inner city living, like, there's
31:13
a park, there's there somewhere nearby that you can go.
31:18
And even if there's noise pollution, even if there's
31:20
traffic. Okay?
31:21
A lot of the places that I go a nearby here, where you guys have
31:24
seen a lot of my videos and posts is I mean, you could throw
31:32
a rock and hit the highway, you know what I mean?
31:34
Like, it's it looks very remote and it looks very peaceful and
31:38
quiet and the feeling of it is is there but you've got the
31:42
noise pollution and you're like, yeah, you know, it seems
31:45
pristine but you also got that constant, reminder of just how
31:50
close to, you know, civilization you really are but it's the
31:56
point of getting your feet. On bare Earth and it's the point
32:01
of getting yourself anchored connected and grounded into the
32:07
Earth. If if everybody that listens to
32:12
this podcast hasn't already today, right?
32:18
At some point before the end of this podcast, I want you to go
32:21
outside, go somewhere, take off your shoes, take off your socks.
32:27
Walk in the grass, walking the Earth.
32:31
Five, ten minutes. If that's all you can spare.
32:36
And then come back and tell me. That, that didn't make you feel
32:40
better to some degree that it didn't elevate your mood, that
32:45
it didn't increase. If you felt sad prior to doing
32:49
it, tell me that it didn't make you feel just a little bit
32:54
happier that your emotions were elevated after doing it.
32:58
I, I wouldn't believe you if you told me that it didn't and why
33:02
do I believe that? Why would I, why do I stand by
33:06
that statement? It's because I do it nearly
33:08
every day. You know nearly every day for
33:14
four part of if not most of my, you know, lunch break because I,
33:20
you know, I work from home and that might be, you know, an
33:26
added bonus to being given the opportunity to have more time
33:30
than just a few minutes. But it doesn't matter if you
33:32
work from home, if you work, you know, in a store.
33:34
If you work at a factory, if you drive over the road, whatever
33:37
you do for a living, you're going to have downtime at some
33:40
point and if you are using your downtime, Productively you're
33:48
going to have at least a few minutes to spare to do what it
33:51
is and I'm saying, and you're not going to regret it because I
33:55
do there are plenty of times where I feel like I want to, you
34:00
know, punch a baby. Or I want to strangle a kid I
34:03
wanted, you know, just, I'm so frustrated right.
34:07
And what's the thing that I do? I don't.
34:12
And I have in the past, you know, I don't take on
34:16
destructive habits. I don't, you know, drown myself
34:21
in a bottle of whiskey, I don't, you know, take on violent
34:26
tendencies, it's, you know, raising your voice, you know,
34:29
expelling that anger, that sort of thing.
34:31
You know, you got to let it out some floor, but you got to do so
34:33
constructively. But one of the best ways I'm
34:36
telling you, one of the best ways to help bring your mood
34:38
back to where it needs to be in kind of check it, right?
34:42
Way to heck up here. You need to get back down here.
34:46
Go outside, take off your socks and shoes walk around in the
34:49
grass for a bit. Or even just stand there.
34:53
You know, part of its part of, you know, the electrical -
35:00
currents that that exist in the earth, scientifically speaking,
35:03
right? It balances us out perfectly.
35:07
It's what our ancient Primal ancestors did day in and day out
35:10
that and they didn't have, you know, half the problems that we
35:13
have now, granted, right? Like that was however many
35:18
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years ago, when we
35:20
talked about like our Primal ancestors, you know, some of the
35:23
predecessors of the homo sapiens species, whatever.
35:27
But still like there are still today, modern-day primitive
35:32
tribes, you know, that live off the land and that that are
35:37
walking barefoot. In the land, almost all the
35:41
time. If not all the time.
35:44
They're out there in nature, the getting the sun on their skin,
35:49
Through The Eyes on the face in own skin.
35:51
They're absorbing that life-giving energy.
35:55
You know yes we've heard about it a whole lot of other songs
35:57
good for you, you know. Don't not too much but this you
35:59
know, in quantity, do Tim quality doses, the the vitamin D
36:05
and all the other good things that come from sunlight, you
36:10
know, wonder why our society is so sick, what we feel.
36:13
So depressed, while we So most of the time it's look at where
36:18
we are in, you know, in our in our professional lives.
36:20
I wear in these artificially lit.
36:24
Boxes. That give know sort of
36:27
stimulation to our Primal selves we are we are so disconnected.
36:33
now, in today, That it's no wonder everybody so depressed
36:38
and everybody's feeling like shit and everybody feels
36:41
disconnected from the gods or from their ancestors are from
36:43
things. This is you could you, we do it
36:46
to ourselves. You know, we go to a job that
36:51
most of us hate, we sit in the car, we drive we commute or we
36:56
go to into our offices at home. You know we sedate ourselves or
37:01
we stimulate ourselves with enough artificial substances,
37:05
whether it's caffeine, whether it's alcohol, whether it's
37:07
prescription drugs, whether it's non-prescription drugs, right?
37:12
We do all these things to ourselves just to help get us
37:14
through to the next to the end of it, right?
37:17
Where Can turn off our vehicles, come back to our homes, or turn
37:22
off our computers, our clothes, our office doors, right?
37:25
And then, what do we do? We eat crap.
37:29
You know, processed foods, you know, sit down and watch Netflix
37:35
Television, right? Scroll through.
37:39
Rrrr, Instagram, or YouTube feeds, our Facebook feeds, all
37:43
of these things that are just they are they lack the mental
37:46
stimulation that we need to thrive, not just survive, but to
37:51
thrive. And then we wonder, what are we
37:54
what are we missing in our lives?
37:56
But we're missing the fundamental basics of what are
37:59
human Psyche what are human physical form?
38:03
What would we as a species? But we as a living being need to
38:08
thrive and survive? So when anybody says, you know,
38:13
what can I do to reconnect and, or how can I rekindle those
38:17
fires, man. Get Back To Nature.
38:18
Get back to your connecting, to your Primal self.
38:23
You know as much as you can spare make it a habit, make it a
38:27
practice, make it a living. Make it a part, turn it into be,
38:32
make it become. Your Hearth cult to get out
38:36
there. Get your bare feet, anchored and
38:40
connected, and grounded back into the Earth.
38:41
Stack the sun on your eyes, Through Your Eyes on the face,
38:44
and on the skin, eat better, take care of yourself lift,
38:49
heavy things walk. Even if it's just a little bit
38:53
the next day, walk a few more steps the next day.
38:55
Walk, a few more steps than that, do something.
38:57
Get out there and do something I've talked to.
38:59
So, you know about this recently to about how doing something is
39:05
better than to do. Nothing in action is a crime.
39:09
Lisa was considered as a crime in dramatic, you know, our teeth
39:13
and times and times, prior to, when Scandinavian, and some of
39:19
these dramatic countries became christianized, like, it was just
39:22
a common worldview that if you didn't do anything, you were
39:25
committing a crime because in action, stasis isn't doing
39:30
anything to build towards betterness and builds and or to
39:35
build, or even support what is already there, you know, so if
39:40
you're not doing anything, if you're just letting things go
39:43
and if you're being lazy about and if you're not Hungering
39:47
after it thirsting after it fighting for it even defending
39:51
what you have in fighting for more.
39:55
You're losing your purpose, your you're losing, the very core of
39:59
yourself from where you came now.
40:05
Are these going to be the things that fix?
40:08
Your life. I don't know.
40:11
Is it going to be the thing that helps you in your attempt to
40:17
feel that fire again that you once had when you were a newer
40:21
Pagan, I don't know. But I can tell you that he's
40:25
that these are things that helped me and that continued to
40:28
help me. It's a reason why I come back
40:30
and I do this stuff every week. It's one of the reasons why I
40:34
put my content out when I do because I'm not just sitting
40:37
here talking about it. I'm showing you guys the things.
40:41
While I'm doing them. But guys, I had a great, you
40:44
know, walking the river today. As I sit here in my hooded cloak
40:48
with you know a nigga she Elmer Banner behind me and incense
40:52
burning with all this artificial light, it's nighttime right?
40:55
It was a great walk. Today will go W go back and
40:57
watch my content. I was out there doing it.
41:00
You guys see it? You know, I'm not just I'm not
41:04
pitching something because I want people to like it.
41:08
I want the views, I want the reactions, I want the
41:10
interactions, I mean, y'all, that's great, because, hey, I
41:12
mean, what do we, what am I here?
41:13
For two, but to, you know, build this Brand as it were I mean it
41:21
I would be lying if I said it's not that it has become that.
41:25
I've worked hard for it to become that so the hard work
41:29
that was put into it requires harder work to maintain it,
41:32
right? So yes, there's going to be
41:33
those things but I'm not going to just sit out here and put out
41:36
content and tell you guys about the greatness of things that I
41:40
don't personally believe in that I haven't vetted in practice
41:43
myself. kind of a kind of a And I hate this term will influence
41:51
our a, but what kind of influence what I'd be?
41:53
What kind of example is a better word?
41:55
What kind of an example would I be setting?
41:59
If I wasn't practicing the things that I, you know, preach,
42:02
right? That's why again, not an
42:04
influencer, not a preacher I'm not sitting here from a an
42:08
exalted Throne of lies to tell you things.
42:11
I'm sitting from a humble seat of experience sharing with you
42:17
those experiences. In hopes that maybe if you're
42:21
unsure about what to do and you're just looking for ideas
42:24
that you take my ideas and you think about it, and then put it
42:27
to put it, to put it to work. Plan that work.
42:32
Work that plan and see how it fits, because what have you got
42:37
to lose at this point? You know, if you're looking for
42:39
something and you don't do it, then that's your loss.
42:43
But if you're looking for something and you do it, then
42:44
it's either a, it's going to work for you and you're going to
42:47
continue to do it, and then you're going to be inspired.
42:48
Out and find more things to do that work for you and then maybe
42:52
share those things with other people and then they're going to
42:54
be inspired and on and on it goes right to that that's either
42:57
going to happen. Or you're going to do it, you're
43:00
not going to feel anything from it and then you're left with.
43:03
Well, at least I tried. And hey, at least you tried.
43:06
Right? At least you came here.
43:07
At least she listened, at least you watch this video.
43:10
Least you like this video. At least you shared it, you
43:13
know. Maybe it doesn't hit you in the
43:16
same way that you think. Well, I know somebody who really
43:19
would like this. That's what this is all about
43:22
guys. It's about sharing and if it's
43:24
about interacting holistically and and and not being selfish
43:30
about it, you know, if we get too selfish about these things,
43:33
when we start looking at it as as a competition, I want to be
43:37
like him. I want to be like her.
43:39
I wanted, I want to have that what he or she has.
43:42
Instead of, I want to be the best version of me.
43:45
I want to have the things that I want that.
43:49
I enjoy for the reasons that I enjoy, that.
43:51
I want the things for my family that they enjoy.
43:53
I want it for us. I don't want it to be in
43:57
competition with him or her anything, you know.
43:59
Like that's great that they, that their success.
44:01
So successful, I feel inspired to be my own great, great.
44:08
You know, version of myself, you know.
44:10
Don't try to be me, guys. Don't try to be this.
44:16
Be the best version of yourself, find it.
44:18
And if it just so happens that what I'm doing and talking about
44:21
helps you be that way and helps you reconnect with the gods or
44:24
with your ancestors, right? Whatever happens.
44:27
Happens out of it but it's not because you're trying to be me.
44:30
It's because something that I said or did.
44:35
Yeah, I don't beat me. Don't poke yourself in the eye
44:36
in front of, you know, a dozen people or hundreds of people who
44:40
are many people are watching this.
44:45
Because that ain't cool man, it tight cool.
44:50
But so yeah, you go Connor and everybody.
44:55
Those are those are just some things off the top of my head
44:57
that I could. Come up with you and last
45:02
however long it's been too. Maybe give his ideas and, and
45:07
hopefully inspire you to find your own ways.
45:11
So, now that I've given you my answers and what's worked for
45:15
me, I'm curious to know what's worked for you because I know
45:18
that I have plenty of not-so-new heathens out here that are
45:22
listening and watching that have things themselves that work.
45:26
So share in your knowledge head down into the comments section,
45:31
reply to this wherever you see it.
45:34
Right in Colon to the random even ramblings podcast.
45:39
And share what works for you. If you do call in and leave a
45:45
voicemail on the midgard musings, hotline your voice,
45:47
could be featured in a future episode which I would love love
45:50
love to do think it's a great way to expand and, you know,
45:55
open up this to other people and then give that opportunity for
46:01
the masses to hear your voice. So you can do that, you can
46:04
write it in through the email address, you can At me on
46:09
Twitter, you can tag me on Facebook or Instagram.
46:13
Dif definitely do the things if you're thinking about doing it.
46:18
Don't not do it. Because like I said before
46:21
you're in action, could be a crime and you could be
46:25
preventing yourself firstly from from growing and you could be
46:29
may be preventing others from I'm learning from you as well,
46:33
so don't be shy. Get in the water.
46:36
Feels great, might be a little cold at first might shock you,
46:40
but you're going to be okay, it's going to be okay, you'll be
46:43
all right. Come from a hearty line and a
46:47
strong. Generation of ancestors that
46:51
have done great things. Now it's up to you to leave 1:58
46:57
live on with that Legacy with their legacy and make sure that
47:00
their legacy does live on. So you are responsible for that.
47:03
You can do it and it would be appreciated if you did at the
47:07
very least at the end of this episode, be sure to give it a
47:09
like, share it around engage with the algorithm gods and
47:14
appease them because they are fickle, they change almost daily
47:17
guys. I'm being a bit funny right now
47:19
but when I Tell you that. What I thought worked to keep
47:23
the algorithm engaged, you know, yesterday or week ago, ain't the
47:27
same thing anymore. Like, they move on.
47:29
They figure out other stuff. It's crazy and it's nuts.
47:32
The way the algorithm is here on this particular platform.
47:35
I don't know if I don't know what they're doing out there.
47:38
You guys, still trying to figure that out.
47:40
But anyway, what you can do is like these videos engage share,
47:45
right, comment, subscribe, I don't know what's going on.
47:49
With the subscriber thing lately but it's like, it's just been
47:51
kind of sitting there still all the stuff that I've been doing
47:54
to keep the algorithm engaged and keep people engaged.
47:57
It's just kind of like, we're just sitting here, we're just
47:59
chilling, you know, more in half thousand until the end of time.
48:05
But there you guys go. I hope you did enjoy this
48:07
episode and thank you once again to Connor for the great idea.
48:12
So until we talk again May the gods continue to notice you.
48:18
And may your ancestors smile, upon you.
48:21
See you next time?