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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP09 - Reconnecting To The Sacred · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Hello everyone and welcome to the random Heathen ramblings
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podcast, where we discuss all sorts of things Germanic,
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Heathen re related. My name is Jessie.
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I am your host. Let's get into it.
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Welcome back, everybody. Hello and welcome to the random
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even ramblings podcast. Once again, once again coming up
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here just a couple of short days away about well, three short
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days away from the local. Heathen lesson, Heathen class.
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I guess you might call. It's more of a, it's a park
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moot, you know, it's a park meet up here in Murfreesboro at the
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casein casein lane or casein Trailhead Park.
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Doing a doing a kind of a collaborative class as it were
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an outdoor class talking about the Heathen World Views of death
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in the afterlife or calling it. Where in hell, do you think
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you're going? Collaborating with Greg from
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Raven, Moon, Hearth myself. So if you are in the area, Close
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enough to Murfreesboro. Want to make a little day trip.
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It's going to be this Sunday at 2 p.m. so check the description.
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Check the show notes for the event details.
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If you're not the Facebook type, because there is a Facebook
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event for it with the address and all that, if you're not the
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Facebook goer and you just need an address and you want to make
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it out those details will be annotated as well in the show
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notes and description of the podcast.
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So come out say Hi. Listen to hear what?
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We have to say about these very complex Concepts that seem to
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get a lot of different, you know, views and opinions on
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especially nowadays in modern times there's there's all kinds
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of stuff floating around but we're going to do our best to
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with the time that we have that afternoon focus on the
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historical side of things. What information we have I'm not
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going to be recording it so it's not going to be one of these,
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you know. Don't miss, if you don't show up
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to the event live in person, you're going to catch it later
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on in a video or anything like that.
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I'm not going to have the means of recording for as long as
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we're doing this plus it's going to be a bit more interactive.
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There's going to be more, you know, crowd work, as it were.
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We want people to participate. We want people to partake and be
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a part of it. So yeah.
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Hopefully you'll make a make a trip out and Say hi, and see.
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We got to say. So that's something to look
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forward to. And it's also the day, you know,
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that this this coming Sunday is, is when we do the stupid
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daylight saving time deal, where, you know, we do it, we do
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it twice a year here in this part of the United States.
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At least we're in the springtime, the clocks. move
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forward an hour, which The day that that happens, you know, we
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lose an hour of sleep. So they say, I don't know how
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that's possible but because to lose something you have to
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misplace it. So where did you put that hour
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of sleep? Who knows, but that's how it
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feels I guess, right? That's how people. describe it
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as you know, the you spring the clocks ahead or you move the
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clocks ahead an hour and you lose an hour of sleep and then
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on the opposite end of the spectrum on the When Daylight
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Saving Time ends. There's we set our clocks back
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an hour, and we gain an hour of sleep that day.
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Again, it's a very weird concept but it happens and it's a thing
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so that that does put us in a frame of mind of getting more
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Daylight. It's not even a frame of mind,
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it's the perception right? Because we're starting our days
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there thereafter at the same time of day as we normally would
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but but the sun is visible longer.
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So you know more daylight hours to do more outdoor activities as
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the sun warms the Earth and we get more Springtime weather so
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good times for that. That'll mean that, you know,
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when I get off of work and I want to go down to the river for
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an hour or two or something I can.
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I can do that and not have to be concerned.
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With, you know, night time coming early.
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So yay, get to do all those fun things.
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So, what are we talking about today, guys?
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This is a Gonna be a lot of. no, I know, I know a lot of my stuff
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that when I talk about things, especially the other Heathen
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nature that has any sort of backing that we can refer to,
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from historical sources, whether it be sagas or other scalded
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poems, or other medieval sources or anything like that, you know,
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We like to refer to those things here on this podcast, went as we
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can. But this topic today is a bit
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more on the just personal experience side of things
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because I think this topic is a personal one.
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And so it's going to affect and and be impactful different ways
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for different people. And so what I'm hoping is that,
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you know, by the end of this podcast, that will get a lot of
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comments either in the Comment section of the video on the
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YouTube channel or will get some people responding to the the
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question that's posted through Spotify.
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Or if you catch this on on any of my other social platforms
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will you know, Facebook, Twitter Instagram, if you want to
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comment your thoughts in the comment sections are.
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I'm hoping to get some Some some discussion around this sort of
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thing. But this this topic kind of is a
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This is one of those things where I don't.
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I don't have as much of a horse in this race as say, a lot of
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other people, but we're talking today about reconnecting to the
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sacred, reconnecting to Our God's or getting back in touch
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with the Divine. As it were, I, we can use those
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terms. Because we've lost touch with
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them or we or because we feel like we've lost touch with them
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or we've become disconnected with them, due to challenges,
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due to, you know, strife's, whether it be physical, mental
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challenges, things, that, that just plagued various people in
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different ways, or at least affect different people in
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different ways. And, you know, so this this,
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this topic is due to a question or sort of question.
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It was, it was a message that I received from a good friend of
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mine. He's been on this podcast and
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number of times, he was actually out here.
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Last year came to Tennessee. Stay with me for the weekend and
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was was in person with me on the podcast and Patrick Walsh out
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there in Missouri. He's again, he's a great guy,
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you know, he's a good friend Always has whenever I talk to
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him this despite what is going on with him, you know.
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And some of the things that he may be facing always, has an
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upbeat attitude, but he sent a message.
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And I'm going to play a small segment of that message for you
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guys to hear what that question is.
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And, you know, he had asked about it being a post over or
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video, maybe. So, here we are.
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But so yeah. So so this is, this is It's
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going to play it right now for you.
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So so here's what he has to say. It's like a post idea or a video
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idea that I wanted to mention was you know try to rekindle
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that flame after stripes and afflictions via depression or
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and the other circumstances that may arise.
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You know I think that'd be a really cool video to post.
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Yeah, you know, so Disconnect when when we when we feel as as
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human beings, you know, when we feel disconnected from anything
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right? I mean whether it's I don't want
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to hang out with my friends, I don't want to you know go out
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and be social, you know, we this is this is not a very uncommon
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thing and again it affects different people in different
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ways, you know. So we're going to be getting
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kind of visceral. This might be, you know, You're
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early trigger warning. And we're going to be talking
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about things like mental health, depression, anxiety, that sort
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of thing. So if those are triggers for you
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and you'd rather not Be a part of it then now's your chance to
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turn this one off and tune in next week for a different topic
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but he came up or he reached out to me through this message and
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which I always encourage, you know, like I've said this
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multiple times you know whatever way that you feel like you want
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to communicate your thoughts to me.
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If you are connected to me on my personal, social media is and
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you want to send a voice message.
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I don't know how that function works on.
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Like your Facebook type platforms on the public
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profiles. But either way you're more than
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welcome to send me a message through that platform.
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You can call in to the podcast which is a 24-hour hotline.
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Basically it goes straight to voicemail.
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I listen back to them and if it's something that can be added
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to this podcast, I do but that number is 6, 1, 5 6, 7 1983 to
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And it is, it's a 24 hours 7 days a week, it's always open.
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I never answer. You'll be just leaving a
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voicemail so you can remain anonymous and yeah, so you can
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do that. You can email me midgard musings
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TN at gmail.com. So That's just, you know,
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multiple ways that you can contact me.
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And I always encourage this, I'm glad, you know, Patrick and I
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have been friends for a while. So we talk almost every day at
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least in some form or fashion. Usually it's just messaging back
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and forth on a on Facebook, but let's go.
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It's always good to hear his voice and he does.
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He has some really good things and I have to be honest, you
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know, like when I hear about stuff like this, I feel like I
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am the last person in the world to be speaking about it because
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I don't, I don't want to say, I don't deal with these things
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because everybody deals with things in their life in
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different ways. But I don't, I don't.
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I don't know, I don't have as much of a problem with it and
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again I'm not using that word problem as like, it's a bad
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thing. If you're dealing with it
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because it's not it doesn't impact me as deeply or as
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heavily. And I think one of the things
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that is tough for some people to wrap their mind around is when
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somebody who doesn't deal with a certain thing, let's just use
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for the sake of this podcast and for the sake of the discussion,
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You know, it's let's talk about things like anxiety, depression.
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Whether it be, you know, any sort of bipolar illnesses or
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other sorts of mental health issues.
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Some people can maybe think that if you're not going through
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those things yourself, then you have no business talking about
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how to deal with those things because you couldn't possibly
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understand what that person is going through.
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Having not going through it. Yourself.
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And I've heard that many many times from from many people.
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People very very close to me and I so I'm very sensitive about
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talking on topics that You know, I don't have a very deep, you
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know, I don't speak from a place of experience, right?
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I think that that oftentimes validates people, you know?
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So if you're talking to someone who's going through the same
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things as you, there's that, you know, relatability so you can
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say, yeah, you know exactly what I'm going through.
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And so, can you help me with these sorts of things?
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And I get that but suffice it to say.
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He did ask And he did want to know about, you know, things
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that can help us reconnect or help him reconnect.
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And he was asking no suggestions ideas and I admire that, you
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know, putting yourself out there Patrick and or anybody for that
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matter, just putting yourself out there.
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Making yourself vulnerable in this way and asking for help
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instead of trying to just, you know, push it down, maybe bury
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it back, deep in the, you know, confines of the deepest darkest
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corners of your minds and not facing it.
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Not dealing with it that that can definitely do more harm than
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good. You know, repressing those
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things instead of dealing with them, I think had on or you know
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facing them up front, you know? So so hearing somebody put
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themselves out there and becoming vulnerable like that.
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It's admirable. So I do just want to say that to
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begin with. So again this podcast is not
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going to be surrounded about you know what is this Saga?
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Say about this sort of thing or how did our ancient Heathen and
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sisters do this? Let's look at some Source
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material. I don't know of anything that
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could even cover this sort of thing because by and large this
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topic is is while you know, things of this nature haven't
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become You know, brand new like this is stuff that I'm sure
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Humanity for for a very, very long long, long period of time
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has had to deal with in varying degrees, but the talking about
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it and facing it and actually treating it, you know, back in
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the medieval times or even not so long ago, maybe even the last
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hundred two hundred years, you know, usually people that dealt
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with any sort of mental illnesses or other sorts of
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things were looked upon as being touched.
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Act right, we're possessed or or having things that required,
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some extreme form of treatment and it wasn't approached or
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dealt with holistically up until more or less very recently. so,
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I would hate to have to go back and look at, you know, or try to
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dig up anything of a historical nature.
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That's it, you know, how was this dealt with?
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Because it's probably not pretty and we don't want to revisit
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that. I don't think we want to look at
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modern medicine and other ways of dealing with these types of
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things in a more holistic, and helpful, sort of way. now, I
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will say though that I think That the dynamic has changed a
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lot. There's a lot more going on.
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Nowadays that can feed this. Or feed varying degrees of
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mental illness. You know there's all sorts of
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things that can trigger responses from people and
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there's a lot more going on in this world now than what was
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going on, you know, back in the day and what I mean by that is
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all these distractions. All of these so-called modern
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conveniences, all of these you know ways to make life seemingly
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more convenient and helpful that that often backfire, right?
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So social media is a big one. I've alluded to some of this and
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other podcasts before where I've talked about how there are.
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There's definite benefit to having things like this podcasts
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and social media platforms. That allow people who with a
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voice to speak it and and share their thoughts and ideas and be
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heard by a vast audience. You know, of hundreds, if not
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thousands or more people across The world and that can be a good
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thing and it can also be a very terrible thing and a damaging
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thing, you know, because people are cruel and when they are
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protected as it were by anonymity or when they don't
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have to face someone and look someone in the face, they can,
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they can say whatever they want. You can do whatever you want and
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speak in any sort of way behind a keyboard behind a computer
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screen behind a camera. And and have little to no
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consequences for your actions. I've even been accused of this
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by some of the content that I've posted out here, where it's like
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a, you wouldn't say that to their face.
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I'm like bet. You know, I've said things to
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people's faces before I've called people out on their
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things. I've, I've you don't, you know,
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my background from a professional angle, because has
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conditioned me me to face confrontation and and deal with
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it, you know when you can deescalate but when the
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escalation is Impossible because it's gone too far beyond that.
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Then the only way that you are able to, to address the
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situation is to confront it head-on.
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And to run basically Into the Fire, And I've been conditioned
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for that for years so no, you know, having a voice, having a
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platform to speak, I speak my mind and I speak it with, with
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consideration of, you know what those ramifications are.
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But I don't, I don't say things behind a camera that I wouldn't
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say to someone's face, you know? So, when I say things about, you
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know, onanism or or whatever it's like, yeah, no.
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But best believe. I'll say that to anybody's face.
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I'm not gonna sugarcoat it or pussyfoot around the topic, just
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Was there in front of me now? But anyway going that's you
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know, going a bit off topic. Having having these platforms as
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a source of enjoyment, you know? But again people can take
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advantage of it and all of these things, this is just one example
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of of ways that, you know, our minds can be so inundated.
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And so, overwhelmed and saturated with just nonsense and
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bullshit. You know, where, as back in the
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day, you know, we didn't have these things.
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Sure there might be television or whatever, I'm talking, like,
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even before all of that. Where you know your your your
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free time was spent either resting in between work that
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needed to be done or you were constantly doing something to
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keep your homestead up and running because again, it was a,
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it was, you know, if work wasn't done and then you didn't eat,
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you didn't have shelter, you didn't, you weren't protected
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from the elements. You didn't have all of the
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things that we as a modern society for the most part tend
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to take for granted We flip a switch.
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We've got light, we turn a faucet on.
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We've got water, we're cold. We turn up the thermostat where
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hot we turned down the thermostat, you know, we're
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hungry. We open up a refrigerator or a
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cabinet and there's a slew of things available to us for the
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most part, right? The again, just the modern, the
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dynamic of things have changed. So we've got all of these things
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that have that have really helped in terms of advancing a
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society, as we think of it as being more, You know, Carefree
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or having a better quality of life, but I think in the interim
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we've lost the sense of what that quality of life really
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means. Have we really improved our
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quote quality of life or have. We just giving ourselves more
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toys and more conveniences that have allowed us to disconnect
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and become disconnected with what is truly important.
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So thinking of it along those lines, right?
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If we look at or when I should say, look at the way life was,
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you know, a couple hundred years ago even and then much earlier
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than that. We talked about like the Viking
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age or before thousands of years ago.
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So much about how life was the quality of life.
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Again, it it mattered, the things that you did like you had
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to do all these things. You had a tender, your crops you
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had to make sure you're, you know, you had a good thatched
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roof that your walls were secure that you're, you know, had
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enough wood to last you for the winter to keep your warm your
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house warm and all these various things, right?
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But aside from that. So I from the physical doing of
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these things, these people had a very dependent attitude upon Or
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on the sacred, on their Divine, on their gods and on the spirits
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of a tier, one of the topics, you know, that we just talked
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about last week and last last podcast, land bit here.
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These spirits that cohabitate in and around us.
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These people had a very connected and deep appreciation,
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adoration veneration for them because they felt that without
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them They would suffer there. Their quality of life would
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would would be less, you know, they would not have good crops
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so if they didn't want to didn't want to upset and they didn't
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want to make anyone mad, you know.
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And I say anyone talking about like the guys, I didn't want to
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upset the gods, you know, and it wasn't so much out of fear of
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consequence, I think, but I think it might was it wasn't
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like fear. I'm afraid.
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I'm deathly afraid. I think it was more of a, again,
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a healthy veneration of, keep them happy.
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Let's stay connected to them. Let's do all of the the right
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things that we should be doing based off of our Traditions, off
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of our cultural and Regional Traditions, that we know are
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keeping Our God's whatever names they put to him as satisfied
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with us and in their favor and this goes across multiple
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cultures, right? Look this is not a foreign
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concept across many cultures and religions even. so, I think one
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of the, one of the things that we have to Face, you know, that
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we can't avoid is, why are people feeling disconnected?
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And is it really due to this? You know how to say, is it
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really? I'm definitely has to do with,
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you know, some of the things that Patrick was mentioning,
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right? Just the the stripes, the
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trials, the challenges of having different, whether it be
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physical, or mental maladies maladies.
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Yeah. But is the other contributor.
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The fact that, you know, we've got these, you know, these
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phones, these, these Electronics, these all these
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things that take our Focus away from doing things that kind of
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force us to get back in and connected to the gods.
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And how do we connect to the guys?
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I've talked a lot about this in the past two as well, connecting
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to the Divine connecting to the sacred connecting to Nature,
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right? Because now you, you know, you
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want to get Call her you know, fluffy bunny.
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Woo you know he even raised in nature religion and all paganism
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is a nature religion. I mean, yeah, the the importance
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of Nature's is definitely there but he then read definitely has
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a very high importance on that which is holy that which is
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sacred. You know there's plenty of
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accounts, don't remember the name of the Saga.
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But there it's a skull B poem. I'll find it and I'll annotate
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it down in the description for you guys to look at.
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But there's is a particular Saga of this, this this He was like a
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skull door or Muse, or something.
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He was an important guy. He was, he he was under the
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employ of a king more than one king actually several Kings and
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he was going to, he was on some sort of official errand.
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You know, so he's hanging out in the king's court, he's doing
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what he is supposed to be doing there.
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And then he's been sent. He sent out on this, errand, to
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go talk to a yarol or somebody and he, and along the way, we'll
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leave. This was in Sweden, too.
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Along the way he's looking for shelter, looking to, for places
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to stay and three different times, three or four different
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times. You know, he comes to somebody's
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house, gets denied, goes to another place.
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Gets denied, those to know, Place gets denied, he's getting
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turned down left and right because at this particular time
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when he was traveling was during Alpha bloat It was a winter
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nights celebration, I believe if I remember correctly that time
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of year. But anyway, it was it was an
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alpha blow celebration and it was explicitly forbidden.
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For Outsiders, that weren't part of the family, part of the clan
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to be there. And there's there's a statement
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made in one of the verses, the standards of The Saga that the
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woman that answers the door tells them to go away.
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Calls him a bunch of names. One of which is, you know, your
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something like a filthy Christian or something like that
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because he was, he was, he was a Christian.
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He wasn't Heaton. And again I may be misconstruing
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things so don't take my word for it.
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I'm going to leave the information down in the
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description and in the show notes for you guys to find the
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Saga itself. But she says, you can't come in
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here. You're not Heathen and you're
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not going to. We Fear The Wrath of Odin.
27:14
We don't want to piss him off or or do anything that's going to
27:19
ruin. What's going on here we are.
27:20
We are celebrating our Alpha bloat and you are not welcome
27:23
here. you know, so there's there's definitely That's,
27:33
that's crazy. I'm over here, just rambling on
27:36
about a saga and I lost the track of where I was going with
27:41
it. And why?
27:44
Go figure but the point being is is I'm sure I'm going to
27:49
re-watch. It seems like yeah just so you
27:51
know. Get ahold of yourself your man
27:55
and you're going to, you know, be listening to watch it.
27:56
But anyways, you know the the point being is These people were
28:01
connected to their gods, to their ancestors, to all the
28:06
various. Spiritual bodies that that they
28:12
believed in and they were so devoutly connected to it and
28:16
into that, to those Traditions, that they would refuse to to
28:20
sway, and they didn't allow, you know, just anybody to come in
28:25
and ruin that we've lost that. Now, in today, I think a lot of,
28:29
I think, a lot of people and I've been guilty of this myself
28:33
to, you know, in the spirit of hospitality in the spirit of
28:36
wanting to be just, you know, Actually welcoming and open to
28:40
anybody. And everybody, you know, what is
28:43
that actually doing for the well-being for our spiritual
28:47
health for our, for the well-being of how we connect
28:50
with the gods? Are we being to open and are we
28:53
being too hospitable as it were to just anybody?
28:57
And everybody are we keeping up? Those safeguards are we guarding
29:01
ourselves and our nearest and dearest to prevent nefarious and
29:05
unwanted things from infiltrating Are our space now.
29:10
You can literally you could put that in the literal sense, you
29:14
know, opening your home to people letting just anybody and
29:19
everybody come over because, you know, you're lonely.
29:23
And you want to hang out. Or you can take it to another
29:27
level and allow and and say are you allowing people into your
29:32
heart into your mind into your space into you yourself?
29:35
Are you are you are being too hospitable to welcoming to open?
29:38
Are you to just universally accepting because of reasons?
29:43
You know. And again, it's not that that
29:45
could be the reason why or that it is the reason why but could
29:48
it be a contributor as to why some people are feeling
29:51
disconnected to the Gods. Disconnected from the gods and
29:56
how to rekindle that connection? How to breathe new life into
30:01
those fires. You know, I've talked about it
30:03
before you guys have, I probably sound like a broken record, but
30:05
you know, I've said it before, I get your feet bare foot,
30:08
anchored connected and grounded into the Earth, even if it's
30:10
just for a few minutes a day, put your feet on bare Earth, get
30:14
out of your shoes, get out of your socks, get out of your
30:16
house, get out of the pavement, and put your feet on Earth.
30:20
Get out back into nature, right? Doing all these things, which in
30:23
the Moment for the moment can and have been proven to really
30:29
be beneficial to physical health mental health, right?
30:33
So I'm going to, I'm going to elude that to that.
30:36
Right now, I'm just going to say, hey, don't forget those
30:38
things, but the religiosity of it.
30:40
The the how we're practicing our Heathen re or our paganism or
30:45
are our ways, you know, are we just is the reason that we've
30:51
become so disconnected with the gods is because we've not
30:56
safeguarded their presence when they are nearer when we want to
31:02
be near with them when we create Sacred Space, when we either,
31:07
you know, do whatever we do in our, in our individual cultic
31:12
practices, the things that are sanctimonious, they know that
31:17
their sanctity involved there, there is, there should be
31:19
privacy, there should be, you know, Limited view of the
31:25
outside world to it. And I've had to think about this
31:27
to a lot myself over overtime, you know, I look to as a, as a
31:35
as a content creator, you know, and as as a someone in content
31:39
creation I feel like there's a an obligation for me to share
31:48
maybe a bit more than what I would be inclined to share, and
31:53
I've had to really rethink that and put some Ask the hard
32:01
questions, you know, are you know, what is more important is
32:04
it? Maintaining the Integrity of
32:08
your Sacred Space and being connected to, to the Divine, in
32:13
the Gods in my way, is that more important?
32:16
Or is it more important for me to post a picture of something
32:19
that, you know, gets, you know, x amount of reactions, x amount
32:24
of likes, x amount of comments, you know, people love it.
32:29
People enjoy it. I appreciate the engagement
32:32
again. It's kind of like the name of
32:33
this game. You know, you got to do things.
32:35
That people enjoy and that people like otherwise you get
32:38
buried under the minutiae of every other, you know, Viking
32:44
want to be, broce a true dude with a mjolnir that he bought
32:48
off Amazon type. So again, as I was mentioning
32:56
before, like I may not be, I may not be subject to the same
33:00
feelings of depression, or anxiousness, or anxiety, or any
33:07
of the other things that really have a, have a hold of people,
33:12
you know, I can empathize. Because I want to, I don't, you
33:19
know, my wife is one of those people who battles with a lot of
33:22
these things and, you know, it hurts me to see her hurt in that
33:26
way. And I wish I could just take it
33:28
all away, and I can't really relate.
33:30
I can't sympathize because I don't experience that in the
33:33
same way. But again, going back to, you
33:39
know, Patrick's deal or Patrick's question.
33:41
I should say. And what he was what he was
33:43
asking for suggestions on is you know, what can we do to get that
33:48
reconnection when things like depression, anxiety, mental
33:54
health. Take it take its toll on us and
33:58
that is the thing that is causing us to feel like we're
34:01
disconnected with the gods. Again, I want to go back to is
34:06
It is it that? Or is it just a symptom of it?
34:10
You know, like that's their there's things going on that
34:14
maybe you're overlooking. Again, I don't know.
34:18
I'm not, I'm not I'm not the best person.
34:20
I feel to talk about this because I can't come from a
34:23
place of experiencing the same thing.
34:26
So my feedback and my discussion around it is going to be based
34:31
off of just things that I know. And the things that I've
34:33
personally felt. So, you know, maybe the
34:36
disconnect from the gods is because we've allowed ourselves
34:40
to just be a bit too frivolous with our time and space and
34:47
energy. And maybe we just need to lock
34:49
it down a little bit more. Maybe we need to put up those
34:52
safeguards. Maybe we need to keep the gates
34:55
a bit more guarded, you know? And and and not You know,
35:03
welcome in people, welcome in energy, welcome in things that
35:08
could be in Tropic to what we're trying to build.
35:14
Or destructive, and what we're trying to maintain, you know.
35:20
Yeah, one of the other things that Patrick had mentioned to me
35:25
in a separate message was and I can relate to this too, is the
35:30
use of substances to either enhance or embellish upon the
35:36
feeling of this. You know, connection to the
35:42
sacred. Right?
35:43
And I know that there's plenty of Substances that can be
35:48
consumed, right? This is one of them alcohol
35:52
cannabis and and other sorts of hallucinogenic or psychoactive
35:59
substances that can put us into a frame of mind into a state of
36:04
mind that makes us feel like we're more in tune with with the
36:10
sacred and that were more connected.
36:12
I want us to all be cautious of that because that is not
36:15
necessarily what is happening, you know?
36:18
Yes, you're going to your emotions are going to be, maybe
36:22
more in tune to feeling certain feelings, and that can be masked
36:27
or disguised as a feeling of connection to the Divine.
36:33
But I think for the most part if consumed, Hazardous,
36:38
hazardously, or haphazardly, then all you're doing is just
36:42
you're just getting fucked up. You're not you're not doing
36:46
anything ritualistically too. You know, put you in a state of
36:51
mind that get you closer to the gods with a tree connects you to
36:55
the gods. If anything your Doing the very
36:59
thing that keeps you disconnected from them in the
37:01
first place. So, be careful with it.
37:07
I would say, be careful with it. I've been guilty of it, you
37:09
know, I've been guilty of that plenty of times and we have to
37:17
be careful. You know, the world is a
37:21
dangerous, place went on and offline.
37:25
But as I mentioned before, you know, when you get out here and
37:27
you start putting your putting your face, putting your voice
37:32
out here for the World to See, You Have To Tread carefully.
37:36
I have to tread carefully we have to tread carefully because
37:42
it can consume us, you know, whether it's a you know,
37:47
somebody's message or somebody's comment or or reaction that we
37:52
get, you know, things that kind of stroke our egos give us some
37:57
sort of validation I guess it kind of goes hand-in-hand like
38:04
you have to, you have to have a bit of an ego.
38:09
To want to do stuff like this. Like I mean I'm just going to be
38:11
real like if you're not the type of person that wants to talk to
38:14
nobody essentially in the room and just stare at a camera and
38:17
speak for an hour or longer, you got to have a bit of an ego to
38:23
want to do that. It's like you know, that that
38:25
that old saying I'm not just listening to here - I'm this,
38:27
I'm not just talking to hear myself speak.
38:31
Well with right now, in the moment I am talking and I'm
38:33
hearing myself speak, you know? There is a, in the moment, it's
38:38
that. So is it a bit egotistical?
38:42
I think there has to be like you have to.
38:43
There's part of the ego that is it is okay to feed.
38:50
No but it's it's again it's a fine line and the more you you
38:54
feed that ego the more chances. I think we run into of Being
39:00
overtaken by it and then we're off on this trying to figure
39:06
out, why do I feel disconnected to the gods?
39:08
Well, you kind of brought yourself there buddy, you know,
39:10
you kind of took yourself out of the equation, you you over
39:13
shared you you made what was a sacred thing to be?
39:19
Just open to the world. and, That, that could be, you know, a
39:29
big reason why people are feeling disconnected.
39:32
So there's the problem right now.
39:35
Will we do the solve it? Like there, we figured out
39:38
potentially I'm not going to say we did figure out the whole
39:41
problem out because again, this is such a complex thing.
39:44
It affects different people in different ways but here's yet
39:47
another thing to consider So that's a problem, right?
39:54
Opening things up too much. Well what do we do to solve it?
39:56
How do we rekindle the fire rekindling the flame Riri
40:01
breathing new life back into that dot those dying Embers,
40:05
Maybe Let's lock it down people, right?
40:10
Let's shut the windows a bit. Let's close the doors.
40:13
Let's regroup recalibrate. You know, make those course
40:19
corrections. I mean I look at it in a way as
40:22
navigating through the sea, navigating through the land, I'm
40:27
going to actually bring up a very the.
40:30
I'm going to bring up a real life scenario.
40:32
That happened to me last week, all right?
40:39
Want to talk about making course, corrections.
40:42
I went on a hike in Savage Gulf which is in Grundy County,
40:49
Tennessee. It's a vast.
40:52
Network of trails like 40-something miles of different
40:56
Trail heads and loops and stuff that you can go on minute.
40:58
But anyway, I went on, I went on a about a 10 almost ten-mile
41:04
hike with my Thule, his name is Patrick also different Patrick
41:09
but great guy and we were coming up out of the gulf you know?
41:16
So the way the trails are you can you can take different paths
41:19
to reach different. Points of interest and we took a
41:23
particular trail that that it brought us down into the Gulf,
41:28
you know. So we descended into this lower
41:30
area, there's a big creek that's what's called Big Creek and then
41:33
to get out and back to your cars and stuff.
41:36
You now have to ascend the gulf and it's basically just a
41:39
two-mile uphill rock climb, very very tough, very physically
41:45
demanding. And throughout one point on this
41:49
2-mile Trek back up, there was I think maybe about a mile left in
41:52
the hike. I was First of all, those last
41:56
two miles were, we're brutal. It took me way longer than it
41:58
should have. I was my legs were cramping up.
42:01
It was I was hating life. Big time.
42:04
I was like, fuck all this I, you know, never doing this again
42:07
Lala well again about a mile or so left of the of the hike I'm
42:13
basically by myself because Patrick and made his way way up
42:17
ahead of me and I lost the trail, which you might be
42:23
thinking, how do you lose a trail?
42:26
Well, you lose a trail when the trail markers are.
42:30
Laying down instead of standing up and you're not familiar with
42:33
the area, you've never been there before.
42:35
It's not like there's traffic lights, and road signs out here
42:39
telling you where you need to go.
42:40
It's a white piece of metal, stapled to a tree or nailed to a
42:44
tree. And when that tree blows over
42:45
falls down, you know, your So a situation like that happened
42:51
where I lost the trail and I got off Trail and you know, here I
42:55
am several miles. Deep in the woods, can't hear
42:59
anything except the creek. There's no other people out
43:02
there. It's mid-afternoon I'd say early
43:06
afternoon maybe at that point in time, but I for all intents and
43:13
purposes of that moment I was lost and the reason I'm bringing
43:17
this up is course Corrections. Right.
43:19
If I would have kept going in the direction that I was
43:22
heading, I would have landed way, way way off Trail farther
43:28
away from where I needed to go. Already wore out, tired and
43:31
hurting. It would have been bad, it would
43:34
have been really bad. So what did I do, instead?
43:38
I realized that I was off trail. That I had been off Trail now
43:42
for probably a few hundred feet, trying to find my way back.
43:45
And I realize if I keep going in the direction, if I if I don't
43:48
stop and correct myself, if I don't figure out where the
43:52
problem is and find out what to do to fix it, I'm going to dig
43:56
my hole deeper and I'm going to, you know, potentially put myself
43:59
in a really bad situation. So you stopped or I stopped
44:03
rather sat down, got my breath. And said, all right, well I know
44:08
that I've been walking into essentially a straight line when
44:11
I felt was a straight line, I look behind me.
44:13
And I saw some things that I knew that I crossed over and I
44:16
retraced my steps. I went backwards.
44:21
Found the trail again, got back on the trail and eventually made
44:26
it out of the gulf, you know, complaining and hurting every
44:30
step of the way for the last, you know, mile mile and a half o
44:33
have a long. It was my point being is these
44:36
course, Corrections. These these these points there
44:39
where we are realizing something's going askew.
44:43
If we don't stop for the moment and figure out what needs to be
44:48
done to correct it, if we just say, well, I'll figure it out as
44:50
I go, you could be going further and deeper down to the into the
44:54
hole. And then you're, you may never
44:57
find yourself back out and then or the way out is going to be
45:00
much longer and much more arduous and much more
45:04
challenging than it had a than it would have been had.
45:06
You just stopped Figured it out, major course Corrections there.
45:13
And then maybe if you have to go back a little bit, then you go
45:16
back a little bit. You know, as I said before, I
45:18
had, I had to go backwards. I went forward too far and then
45:21
I had to go backwards. But that backwards, travel put
45:25
me where I needed to be. I needed to retrace my steps, I
45:30
needed to revert back to where I was before I started going off
45:34
course. So you know, we talk about this
45:36
all the time paganism. Even rewrite, all these It's a
45:38
path. It's a journey.
45:39
We're on this journey where we're walking along this path,
45:42
will guess what sometimes you may.
45:45
Get off Trail. And you may need to backtrack a
45:50
bit and get back to that place where you wandered off from and
45:53
figure out some things or maybe need to figure out some things
45:58
over here off Trail before you get back on the trail to
46:01
continue on your journey and continue on your path.
46:03
Totally okay. And then a lot of times I think
46:05
that's what people are missing. Their just like, I'm just going
46:08
to keep no hacking and slashing my way through this jungle.
46:12
Well, you know, you could be just putting yourself deeper
46:15
into a web of vines that you'll never find yourself out of.
46:18
And then it's, you know, it's going to be, you're going to be
46:23
bogged down tied down by all of this tangled up mess, right?
46:28
Sometimes just stop, pause. Correct.
46:33
What needs to be corrected there?
46:35
Take a few steps back. And then move on your way, get
46:39
back on the trail, it's okay to venture off Trail a bit.
46:43
I mean to that point about five or six miles into Patrick's in
46:47
my hike through Savage golf. You know we hadn't quite made it
46:49
down into the Gulf yet but we were we were making our way down
46:52
there. We look to our right and we saw
46:55
off Trail, you know, about 30 meters or so, this is just a
46:59
giant boulder. And when I say giant I mean was
47:02
like the size of a house. In the middle of these of these
47:06
woods and the sheer size of everything out there.
47:08
Comparatively was like you know these things have been here for
47:12
thousands if not longer of years, right?
47:14
Thousands of years, millions of years, maybe even and here we
47:18
are standing on the same ground and it's in, it's it's humbling
47:22
and it's, and it puts you, in puts things in perspective, but
47:24
again, that Boulder was off Trail, he thought Wouldn't it be
47:29
cool if we could climb up that Boulder?
47:31
And and leave some gifts to the vets here because this Boulder
47:36
is again as big as a house. So you know, the very top of
47:38
this Boulder that we're looking down on was probably a good 15
47:42
or 20 feet above ground down the side of this mountain.
47:47
So we went off-trail scale down the side of this mountain,
47:51
climbed up, this Boulder, laid up there for about fifteen
47:54
minutes to relax and have a small, you know, private ritual
47:57
as it were Do our little thing and made it back on trail.
48:03
So it's okay to venture off Trail to figure out some things.
48:08
But if you know if you've entered so far off but now
48:10
you're getting you know your feet are falling into rock
48:14
holes. And you the Thorns are grabbing
48:18
ahold of you and things are starting to come dicey.
48:22
Maybe, maybe you took a wrong turn.
48:24
Maybe you made the wrong step. Maybe it's time to stop.
48:28
Get back out. Figure things out before we move
48:30
on. So there's some, there's some
48:32
physical things that happened to me this past week that you could
48:37
interpret and, and put into a, you know, a lesson as it were a
48:42
life lesson, metaphysical aspects.
48:45
And and if it applies then, then then boom, there you go.
48:48
So rekindling things You know, to rekindle that connection.
48:54
I feel can often times. Require less require us to
48:59
retract a bit, correct? The course.
49:04
Figure it out before we move on. Don't just keep blindly going in
49:09
on things, just for the sake of, oh, I'm on my path.
49:11
I'm on my journey. I'll figure out along the way.
49:14
Yes, but sometimes we fuck up along the way and sometimes we
49:18
gotta unfuck ourselves, right? So, there's my suggestion.
49:27
There's my bit of advice that I have no business giving because
49:31
I don't come from a place of experience on things of what
49:36
Patrick is dealing with. But maybe the way that I think
49:39
of things, it could be applied for others and maybe the things
49:44
that you're dealing with because I'm sure everybody that listens
49:48
to, this is deals with things differently, their own way.
49:50
Everyone's an individual, You know, so there's going to be
49:53
some people. That can definitely relate to
49:56
what Patrick is saying, and then they might be other people like
49:59
myself, who maybe can't or don't have the same degree of
50:04
appreciation for it, that's okay.
50:08
But that's what I've said, this is what I've said, this is where
50:11
my thing is coming from. And so, you know, keep doing all
50:14
the things, right. But your bare feet in the Earth,
50:19
Go for nature walks. Do those things they will they
50:23
make you feel better, at least for the moment.
50:25
I've never gone outside walked Barefoot in the ground, going on
50:29
a nature walk. I've even when I did that 9, 10
50:32
11 Mile hikes, you know, when I do those hikes with Patrick,
50:34
when I come back and my legs are killing me.
50:36
And I'm cramping, you know, from from using muscles that I don't
50:40
normally use and I'm tired, I still feel invigorated.
50:44
I still love the feeling of it, despite the pain of it.
50:48
There's no nature walk that I've gone on where I came back.
50:51
Not feeling better than before I started.
50:54
So there's that right? Don't neglect it, even if it's
50:57
just a small park near your area, anything is better than
51:02
nothing, you know. And then this other stuff that
51:07
I'm talking about right disconnect from the digital
51:10
stuff, put your phone away, get off the computer, start watching
51:15
the video, stopped watching the movie, stop, you know, and do
51:18
something of a maybe of a more wholesome nature that that
51:23
forces you to get back in touch with why you feel connected to
51:28
the Gods in the first place. What was it about that?
51:34
First time that you held ritual. What was that first experience
51:38
life for you that that Drew you to this and that inspired you to
51:42
be there and to continue on that Journey, you know, retrace your
51:47
steps, go back to that point and then feed that area and then
51:51
figure out, oh, okay. I need to turn this off.
51:53
I need to shut this down a little bit tighter.
51:55
I need to close these doors. I need to open that window.
51:58
I need a tie. This shoe, I need to loosen this
52:01
belt, right? Find those things that you need
52:02
to correct those Course, Corrections recalibrate.
52:07
You know if substances are going to be a part of that equation,
52:11
be careful with it please. I'm not a doctor, I'm not a
52:15
shaman and I'm not a an advisor on such matters.
52:18
So before you get into that Find someone who is find someone who
52:25
can be a guide for you with things of that nature.
52:31
You know, I'm been fortunate enough to partake of things.
52:39
With. shamans, you know, with with with people who are trained
52:45
to guide It's invaluable. It's one of the best things I
52:51
think that people can experience with the right.
52:55
You know under the right circumstances in with the right
52:58
application, but don't be Reckless with it.
53:02
Don't just think that you can Be your own guide.
53:09
Unless you are unless you are the shaman and who am I to say
53:16
otherwise? It was anybody, right?
53:17
So anyway that wraps it up for me today, I guess, guys.
53:23
I said it wasn't a lot of historical stuff, but here, I
53:26
was actually finding a way to fit in something from a saga.
53:31
About how, you know, Outsiders weren't, welcome, during Alpha
53:35
bloat. And we're actually turned away,
53:37
because they didn't want to anger the Gods. and that
53:41
translated back to me saying well these people actually had a
53:44
sense of what is Holy and what is sacred and how it should be
53:48
venerated, how it should be treated with reverence and
53:55
respect to the to the degree that you know, you won't Your
54:00
devout. In that practice.
54:03
So if it fits right if it works, think about it, not saying if
54:08
you're not doing this, you're wrong.
54:10
I'm just saying that Then maybe this is, maybe this is really
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Maybe it's the fact that there's just other things going on in
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