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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP37 - Recap Of Shadowmoot 2022 · Random Heathen Ramblings

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So yeah, glad that you all could make it back today.
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Got a really fun discussion lined up for us today.
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Got some cedar incense burning And I wanted to take time today,
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to kind of do a recap of this past weekend's Shadow, mood
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event. Thought I would try to it was,
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it was kind of a last-minute thing and it was such a busy
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weekend. I didn't get anybody from The
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Hearth Raven, Moon Hearth to talk about it with me.
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But I definitely did want to mention that this week because
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it was such a great event. I just want to say that right
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off the rip, you know, the folks at Raven Moon Hearth very, very
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kind and generous hosts and, Put on a wonderful welcoming
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community events. Family-friendly, delicious food,
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wonderful Fellowship, amazing ritual.
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If you guys follow listen to anything that I do here or on my
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any other kind of platforms you know I speak well of Raven Moon
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Hearth and Greg their Chieftain Jared daun.
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Michelle everybody a part of part of that.
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Group speak, well of them, but it's not, you know, because of
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flattering, it's the most sincerest and genuine feeling
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that I have their, their wonderful group of people.
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So, if you're ever thinking of attending one of their public
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events, like Shadow move or soon upload or any other public
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gathering that they host. If you're thinking about it and
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you're maybe not quite sure. Let me just give you a surance
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to definitely Definitely make the trip.
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We have somebody from Ohio Columbus Ohio that had come down
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for the weekend and I'm sure they were other people from
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other far reaches of the state and neighboring areas that that
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came out for this for this long weekend event.
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And this is my first attempt that this is my first time
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attending Shadow move specifically.
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I've been to a couple of their, you know, soon upload In sand.
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those have always been a lot of fun, but being there during this
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time of year, The weather was great.
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Just just all around, you know, I can't think of one part of the
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whole thing that I thought was was -, you know, so with that
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being said, I'm going to kind of give a recap of my experience at
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Shadow move. So I got their mid afternoon on
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Friday. They start their three long
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three-day long weekend, three day-long celebration on.
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Friday. So, the gates open on Friday,
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the gates, I say, you know, you could start arriving on Friday,
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they had, they had a lovely dinner kind of like, you know,
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cookout type stuff. You know, like they had chili
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one night, they had pork chops, I think one night they had.
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Yeah. So like Friday night was chilly.
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I think Saturday night might have been pork chops, but they
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had like hamburgers, hot dogs, you know, stuff like that for
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lunch, they provide breakfast. Last three meals, for, if you
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stay the whole weekend, if you want to come and just spend a
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day, you get one meal, you know, while you're there, but it's the
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whole weekend, you get fed Three Square meals and it's a camping
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sort of in its kind of rustic camping.
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You know, that's Camp Outdoors, Outhouse Porta-Potty sort of
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deal, but I got there, Friday afternoon, set up, our camp.
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My wife arrived later on in the afternoon that you know around
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4:30 5:00 I believe following dinner they had.
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Well, first of all at the beginning of the in the in the
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early afternoon they do an opening ritual where they raised
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this, you know, spear with their flag, their banner and the spear
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is a representation of tear for the kind of like when they raise
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the flag and when they lower the flag you know, when they raise
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the spirit when they lower the through when they're when the
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spear is raised and And while the spear is up, it means
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everybody. That's here.
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You know, is gathering to be respectful to be courteous to be
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kind, it's a great set. You know, you're you're all here
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and play nicely together sort of thing.
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And then the closing ceremony, the the spear goes down and that
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would have that would that happens on on Sunday.
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Anyway, they raised the spear opened up the event.
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So it's officially underway. Shadow moves, officially
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underway, had our dinner. And then after dinner, we sat
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around And the community fire and had a really nice lesson or
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discussion on winter Nights from there, go the Jared and their
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Volva Michelle which is Jared's partner wife.
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I Believe by calling correctly. Really awesome.
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Again, really nice to chance to, you know, sit in fellowship with
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people. We did a drumming Circle had a
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lot of had a lot of fun with that tasted different needs.
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You know had drinks. It was it was it was great.
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It was a long night. Saturday was the day of the
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ritual when they have you know a call there he'll bloat.
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So Shadow moot is is their winter nights.
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You know celebration and and hell is a focus for the ceremony
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for the ritual. Later on that night. and I had,
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you know, brought my Attire. And had me on my skull mask
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staff and stuff to really get into the whole ritual theater of
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it all, you know, and I had plans of being 100% just You
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know, cool with everything just you know, get into my ritual
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attire, kind of get into a headspace where I was, you know,
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ready for the for the ritual. Well, everything, I think that
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led up to the ritual evening prepared me for the ritual in a
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way that I had not thought of it would, you know?
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So when we woke up Saturday morning, you know, of course we
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had breakfast and and what not, and then I prepared for just
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hanging out with people, you know, visiting talking chatting
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had lunch later on that afternoon around noon or so.
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And then, one o'clock I had A lesson speech or whatever.
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To give on Heathen, reso Heathen.
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Re 101 was my class so to speak. I did record, a good chunk of
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it. I am going to try and put
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together a video to put on YouTube sometime soon of what I
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was able to capture. Unfortunately, I didn't capture
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the entire duration of everything.
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There are segments that at the event were cut out and going to
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try to make up for that. Splicing, in some content away
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from Shadow mood where I, you know, from the content that I
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was reading from, didn't make it to the video, my camera cut off
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three different times. And so, you know, it was I got
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to go back review the content and make sure that what I have
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is is going to work, but check out, you know, YouTube be sure
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to that you're subscribed and that you've got your
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notifications and all that turned on.
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So that way when I do upload it, you'll get it.
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But I did that Heathen re 101 class and then Patrick our
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tribes law speaker had his lesson where he presented his a
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grown man, see cards and system to everybody for the first time.
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You know he's talked about it to to certain people like myself
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and some others and has been working on this system of his
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for you know, the better part of 20 plus years.
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And the the lesson that he gave the introduction to it all was
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the first time that it has been seen by like the general public,
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as it were really well received. A lot of people had had
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questions and engaged with him and really, you know, really
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really took hold of what he had to say.
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And what the way he was presenting it and made it really
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worth his while. I feel so I'm really happy for
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him on that. So after like, The lessons were
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done after myself and Patrick gave our, you know,
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dissertations or so to speak. I went back to the campsite
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where my wife's and my tent was pitched and set up for my Rune
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readings told. Everybody, if you want to come
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down, I'll be set up down here and you know normally with this
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type of thing, I've set up in the past that other events I've
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set up in relative proximity to where everybody else is like,
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we're all the other vendors are where everything is is happening
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up closer to You know, the house or whatever on the property.
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Well, this time I wanted to keep away from everybody and I wanted
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my Rune readings to be without influence of other people and
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whatnot around me. Worked out really well, gave
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several ruin readings at all of of them are, most of all of
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them, had a common theme. There was a lot of A lot of
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controls destruction, a lot of Controlled Chaos within there's
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in there was a lot of ancestral connections, a lot of hog allows
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and a lot of both Allah and some of the different room readings
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that I gave well. you know, finished up with, I think I did
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about five, five or six different, Let's say about five
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different readings for different people or people's had a really
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nice interaction with a young kid.
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He's about nine years old, I believe his name was Wyatt and
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he makes pens him and his mom have this wood engraving or
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would ya wood engraving business and he He makes pens.
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So there the pens are made of different kind of wood you know.
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So inside of the wood pain is the pain cartridge and so you
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can do is you can take the pain apart and replace the cartridge
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the ink cartridge within. And so you always have this
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really awesome wooden pen and he had different ones and he was
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showing you came by and he's like, hey are you Jesse?
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And I said yeah he's like why make these pens?
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And he had different ones made of different wood and he showed
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me one and it was twelve hundred year old Bog oak wood pain.
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I said well that's really nice you know and somehow my come by
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later and whatever and buy from buy one from you and you know
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ask them how much they were any told me I said okay cool.
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Well shortly thereafter and this is all before the Rune Readings
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By the way. This was like early Saturday
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morning, well, early, Saturday afternoon and mid morning.
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He came back to me after showing me the pens and said I was
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wondering, would you be interested in trading a rune
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reading for a pen? I was like absolutely, you know,
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what about that bog Oak. You know, that bog Oak pain, he
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said, okay. And I said listen you just hold
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on to it. Don't bring it back to me yet.
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You just hold on to it. And when you when I'm ready and
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when I'm set up down, there you come, have your room Rings.
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You bring it to me as your, you know, and we can exchange it
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that way. And that's exactly the way it
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happened. You know, he came by the the
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canopy little by our tent, gave me the pen.
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Give him his reading really Ross.
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Probably one of my favorite readings was was for him.
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So why it? And, and Sarah, Sarah engraving,
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Sarah's Engravings. I believe it is.
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Thank you. For that opportunity.
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Thank you for the pain, looking forward to using it.
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So anyway, you know, after all the readings were done and it
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said, okay well you know, it's time to go back up and get some
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dinner and then prepare for ritual. so, I had gone back up
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to the camp or back up to the, to the grounds where they
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everybody was eating, or about to eat sat down with my wife and
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socialize, the bit more, right? And then had dinner, sat around
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and I had like a just a cvd gummies or whatever and a couple
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of sips, I mean just like literally a couple little right
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of scotch. So it's getting dark now or it's
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about to get dark. And I said, I need to go down to
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the campsite and get my ritual stuff put together, bring it
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back up here. So that way, when they start the
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ritual, I'm ready to go. Well, go down there, bring my
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stuff back up, sit down and all of a sudden, man.
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I just start feeling not so hot, like the feelings that I was
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getting Were almost like I was about to pass out like I was, I
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wasn't feeling overheated but you know how like you kind of
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feel like clammy and like closed off a bit when you're when
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you're about to almost pass out like when you get that.
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Almost like that. That the sounds.
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I remember the specifically sound was very muffled, they're
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like, you know, your hands are cuffed over your ears and you
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start talking at it, everybody's voices, sounded like that, and
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I'm sitting there and I'm looking around like something,
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something just doesn't feel right, you know, And I'm like,
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look at it, you know? Can't be the CBD.
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You know, it wasn't that much and it will Camp, definitely,
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not, definitely not the scotch. And I've, I've combined the two
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before, much greater quantities and haven't had this much
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trouble. And I'm over here just like
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something just doesn't feel, right?
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So, I get up and start walking around thinking, maybe, you
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know, moving around, getting the blood flow will help.
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And I really just It didn't really go away.
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It didn't really subside, I just kept felt feeling like I was
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about to pass out. Sound was muffled, but the the
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sound part. What was interesting was that at
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some points and at certain points, I could hear different
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conversations very vividly and it wasn't like the whole
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conversations. They were bits and pieces of the
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conversation that I was kind of like pulling and extracting from
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this muffled noise. And it was almost like the those
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those bits of those sentences were being directed to me.
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There was like certain phrases or certain things that people
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were saying that. Just made it sound like they
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were talking to me. I think I remember hearing one
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person. Say He's pretty far out there or
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he's a, it's out there, he's out there and I'm like, I know they
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weren't talking to me and, you know, I would like looking over
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in that direction or whatever and they were talking amongst
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themselves, but like, certain things from like, people that
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weren't in my proximity. I could hear the sound like they
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were talking to me or at me. Anyway, I get back up again and
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I was I was up and down, sitting down standing up walking around.
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And Patrick and and another dear friend of ours is whose name is
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oof? I like you.
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Okay, man, I'm like I'm not. Okay, and I'm like all now as we
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are about to start ritual, like I've got to get it together.
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Something's got to give here man because I'm about to walk down
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to this wood line for this ritual.
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And I feel like I'm about to I'm having a really hard time here,
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just doing basic things, you know basic foot in front of the
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other. What kind of stuff?
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Well. I said, you know.
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All right. Well, enough's enough and I sit
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down and I put on my skull mask and I put on my Mantle when I
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take and I grabbed ahold of my staff, and I put my hood on and
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I just sit there and just start to I don't know, like meditate
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breathe a little bit. I'm like, whatever is going on
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physically, whatever, I'm feeling, whatever, whatever all
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this is, that's causing me to feel this way.
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This is how it's going to be in. This is how I've got to go into
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this ritual, so let's just embrace it.
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You know, let's Embrace that kind of death.
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Feeling that I'm that I'm encountering right now, right?
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So, I have my skull mask on and I'm really getting into that
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mindset and, you know, next thing, you know, I hear, you
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know, horn blow from vitamin Greg, the chieftain.
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Yeah, I think was Greggy, blue horn.
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And I'm like, okay, well now they're summoning people to
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assemble, to start the ritual and give people what the
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expectation is and they do that. And so I'm standing there and
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they're giving everybody instructions, you know, how to
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how to approach Is this the space and the whole meat like
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them, the the ritual theater aspect of things, you know, like
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they really made it feel like you were walking the road to
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hell. And you know, talking about how,
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you know, not everybody that goes down their returns, you
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know, some people stay there. And if you are having
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reservations about going now and you should stay here and not the
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company, I was like they really made it serious enough.
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Wow. So here I am.
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You know, still feeling kind of the way I'm feeling hearing what
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he's saying. We start the procession I was.
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Not like in the front of the procession.
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But you know there was Greg and there was Patrick kind of close
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to time. Patrick was second to he was
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like right behind Greg Greg led the procession down and Patrick
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was right in front of behind him.
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And then there was maybe one other person wolf than me and my
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wife behind me and so on down the line.
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So we start, you know, walking and, you know, 2 by 2 or, you
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know, a breast from each other. So we're side by side walking
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down. And I don't know man.
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Like the whole feel like I had walked down that yard during the
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day time. I've walked in that yard during
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the night. I've been in that rituals area
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where we've done things before. But walking through the yard and
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walking down that pathway into the wood line, where the ritual
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was held. I was, I did not feel like I was
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walking in this places that I've ever walked before.
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Like, I felt like I was literally in the darkest.
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And and dimly lit. Pathways leading to the
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underworld. Has it worry, you know, or
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leading to that place of rest and it was so quiet.
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It was so close. When we entered the ritual space
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where they had it all ordered off with fire and lights and
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stuff. And from what I remember seeing,
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you know, it was, it was so It didn't look like the tree line.
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Like I said before, I've been down there, you know, at
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different points in time, in four different rituals.
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In the never seen it, the way I saw it that night, you know, the
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wood line to me look like Walls of a of a of an apartment
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building or a complex as it were and they were lights that
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reminded me of Windows, you know, and it made me think of
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Windows that belonged to different ancestors homes.
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Like they were the Huts or the, or the halls, or the cells, not
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the cell. But like the, you know, the
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quarters, the living quarters of all of our ancestors and I could
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see them in the tree line. What is I do know now as the
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tree line but I'm looking there. I'm like, this, this looks to
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me, like, almost like a royal chamber, like there was fire.
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There was a ritual fire there. There was an altar.
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There was all kinds of imagery that when I was in my mind's eye
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and in that state of mind that I was in, I looked and it looked
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like the Royal chamber, you know, with smaller housings kind
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of You know, position throughout.
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So to me, I was like, I'm literally in hell right now.
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Like I see the halls of my ancestors and I'm and I'm here.
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you know, it's hard to, it's hard to describe the feeling
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that I had, but I absolutely felt Like I was in Hell him and
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then each, you know, they they they run through the ritual and
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which I'm not going to go into great details because that is
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that is something that I feel can't be just about.
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You can't do it. Justice by retelling, the
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ritual, but it was so powerful. So powerful, guys, if you, if
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you are ever again, like I said before, thinking, About coming
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to Shadow Moon. Specifically, Shadow move but
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any other Hearth house did a event that's public.
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If you're ever thinking about, it definitely do it.
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It's worth it. But the ritual itself was so
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well done, so moving, so powerful.
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Tattoo to command. An audience or to lead an
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audience maybe or to guide people into a state of mind that
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puts like to be put into a state of mind.
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Like I was in like yes granted. I there were things that I did.
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And in ways that I put myself into that frame of mind, you
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know, that that ritual State of Mind to be ready for such a
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thing. But the everything else that the
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Hearth did from the procession to the ceremony to the walk back
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up everything just it was so well done.
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So well done here I mean Jared really Jared and Michelle.
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Both really did a wonderful job with leading the ceremony and
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having getting people involved in the ceremony and feeling and
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bringing that feeling to the whole assembly there.
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Is very inspirational, you know? It's like that's what a ritual
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feels like. That's how it's properly done,
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you know. And Again, I'm not going to go
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into the details of the actual ceremony.
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What that was all about. But it was a proper bloat.
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I'll tell you that much. You had that option.
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Anyway, so After the ritual, we come back up and then they have
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this big again, Community fire. Just like it was kind of on
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Friday night where we all go and there was a mead drink there
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were not drinking, but there was a maid contest.
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So everybody, you know, had different kinds of mean that
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they were entering in to be judged and determine who was the
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best, so they had a meat contest.
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And everybody came back around and pass bottles of meat around
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and drummed around the fire, some more, some of that content.
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I posted on my YouTube channel. So if you want to catch what
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what I was able to catch from my phone and go ahead and check
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that out and yeah man it was this, it was such a good time.
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And in the feelings that I had from when I was started the
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ritual and went down there to when I came back like I felt so
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much better coming back, but the better feeling that I had was
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kind of like, that feeling that you have, when you Drop
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something that you no longer need.
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And it's almost like a relief, you know, you feel like you've
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been relieved of this burden. That's kind of how I felt, you
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know? Like, I felt like I was relieved
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of this ailment relieved of that illness relieved, of some sort
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of sickness that I was experiencing.
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I left that part of me. inhale, this is the only thing that I've
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been able to come up with, you know, like I literally I didn't
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just. Pretend that I was going to
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hell, you know, it wasn't just, you know, in my imagination, it
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wasn't make-believe. That was real for me.
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I was there. And then a part of me stayed
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there, this physical form, and the rest of of myself came back.
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But that sickness that illness That.
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Feeling of being disoriented sad.
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I remember before the ceremony, like, I was getting, you know, I
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was telling you guys, I was like, walking around, trying to
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collect myself feel better, like I remember walking.
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To this one area. And I don't even it was in the,
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it was in the yard, but I was like, walking, a circle and I
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hit this one part of the circle that I was walking, not even
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really trying to walk a circle. I was just Meandering about, you
27:40
know, just trying to get my mind on something that I could focus
27:44
on and not feel ill anymore. So I hit I reach this one place
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on my walk around the inner yard there and I had like stop and
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look to my left and the feeling of just tremendous pain and
27:59
sorrow like the most heart breaking sorrow that you could
28:05
possibly imagine. Hit me like that for no reason.
28:09
Like I'm walking around just kind of feeling woozy.
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And then all of a sudden, I hear, you know, I turn to my
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left and I just start crying like I couldn't help myself.
28:16
It was, it was like, just a heartbreak of pain sorrow so I
28:20
keep walking. Actually, I think I walked
28:23
behind. I like, I walked up.
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I kind of backtrack a little bit like I'm not going down there
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anymore. Am I walking in that direction?
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After feeling what I'm feeling? I need to figure out a different
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way to go. And that, that part of the whole
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thing, like the pre ritual, ritual, that that the ceremonial
28:38
aspect of me like wandering about figure myself, feeling
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this illness. Feeling that sorrow.
28:43
All of that was brought down. To the ritual space, brought
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down to Hell and left there. Because when I came back up, I
28:54
was feeling much better. Physically got his chance to sit
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down drum. The drumming session was so
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intense. And again, like I said, guys, I
29:04
wasn't, you know, I wasn't under the influence of any sort of
29:07
substances that would have made, what I was feeling as strong of
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a feeling. I was, I was again, if you want
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to consider, you know, CBD and a couple of drinks, a scotch
29:19
mildly intoxicated, right, or or Having some sort of substance
29:24
that alters your State of Consciousness.
29:27
You want to call those things? That's not what made me feel the
29:33
way I was feeling and it's not what made my drum sessions.
29:35
Feel the way I feel because we got figure walking down to that
29:38
ritual space being part of the ritual, like, that was a good
29:40
hour or so. Maybe, I mean, maybe that, or
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maybe just time was skewed. My sense of time was skewed.
29:46
I don't know how exactly how long we were down there for but
29:49
it felt like it was a while, you know?
29:51
So if you want to make the argument that, well the effects
29:55
of the CBD and the scotch as little, as you might have had,
29:58
you know, took effect on you. I was down there for an hour.
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Not drinking or doing anything, just standing there.
30:05
When I came back up and felt so much better and sat around the
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fire, the, the drum sessions that I had that I shared with
30:12
other people in like I was zoned into it man.
30:15
Like I was, I didn't know what the people around me, what they
30:18
were doing all, I could hear were the rhythm of the other
30:20
drums, feeling that vibration and getting lost in a trance.
30:27
And I've done drum sessions, I've done, you know, my smoke
30:30
sessions, I've drugged under the full moon of, I mean, all kinds
30:35
of things that I thought was similar to the two that are, or
30:39
at least would have prepared me for that, but it didn't boy.
30:41
Like it was, I was on a different level, man, away,
30:45
different level and I think that that feeling transfers.
30:51
When you're in, you know, that Community sort of setting, it's
30:55
contagious. You know because when I would
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come back into my awareness State, not being so entranced
31:03
with the rhythm of the drums and the fire and the bells, or the
31:08
tambourines or whatever else was, what's going on?
31:11
I look around and I would see, you know, people doing their
31:14
thing with the drums or whatever and seeing them.
31:18
Captivated by whether it was the Fire or the Rhythm or their own
31:24
thoughts or whatever, you know they got caught up in it too.
31:30
You know, and some of the pictures that were taken in
31:32
captured whether it's by myself. My wife took some really great
31:35
photos. There was this one that she took
31:37
of me where I was drumming in front of the fire.
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It's actually my social media profile picture.
31:44
It's as its if you look at the picture it's I'm standing
31:49
looking at the fire and there is a definite feminine figure.
31:52
It's almost like a woman in a dress holding up a finger like
31:56
in. It's like a like, like the side
31:57
profile view of a woman looking at me holding up a finger.
32:01
And I'm looking at this figure, right?
32:04
And she's like, standing there face me.
32:05
Holding up, what appears to be a either.
32:08
A hand like this, or finger like this. gets a finger because like
32:16
it that to me, looking back at that was like this was your
32:20
first time You made it. This was your first time you,
32:25
you went there. This is your first of many time.
32:31
You know, so I'm sharing this, I'm sharing some of these things
32:34
because the the the effect that it had on me was so profound
32:37
that. I'm like I can't not not sure
32:40
you exact can't not share this. I can't keep quiet about this.
32:43
I can't just you know, keep it all to myself and not sure
32:48
people because this is so, I mean, I don't know man.
32:50
Like if I were to listen to someone, tell a story like this,
32:53
I would be blown away, I would be invigorated, I would feel
32:57
renewed myself, you know, and wanting to find ways of
33:02
Connecting with the community or connect connecting with more
33:04
people and doing more the work and it has man.
33:06
Like it's it's wild how these events can can can really spark
33:13
something in the community We met a lot of new folks, you
33:23
know, sauce, plenty of familiar faces, but met a lot of new
33:25
people. 11 of which actually he lives in the same town as I do,
33:32
and he's looking for, He's looking for something, he's
33:37
looking for mentorship, he's looking for an opportunity to
33:41
prove his worth and my, wow, you know, that wouldn't have
33:46
happened if we don't go and we don't do these sorts of things
33:48
and we don't. And that's, that's what I've
33:51
been talking about for so long, guys.
33:52
You know, about how, you know, it's easy to sit back and listen
33:55
and hear somebody say that, you know, he even re is, is where
33:58
the heart is, and where, and it starts in the home and starts
34:01
with the Hearth. And, you know, Grassroots
34:05
Heathen re is the future of Henry it's all well and good to
34:07
hear somebody say it'd be like yeah that makes sense so that
34:10
really speaks to me. But it's a totally other thing
34:13
and when you're living it, when you're doing it when you're a
34:15
part of stuff like this, it's not being said just because it
34:18
sounds cool guys. It's being said, it's being
34:21
talked about because it's the truth.
34:24
The proof is in the pudding, dude, right?
34:27
The the metal and the metal meets the meat.
34:31
This is where this is where things happen at, it's not in
34:34
the books, it's not in the studies, granted, all that stuff
34:38
is fun. It's great conversation starters
34:41
and it's a great thing to have to contribute to the social
34:46
aspects of these types of events that I'm talking about.
34:49
But the growth, the activity, the building, the the fostering,
34:56
the all of it, the growth, it happens in person, it happens at
35:01
the Grassroots level, it happens in real time, it happens when
35:03
you do it. You know, so you can be the most
35:07
academic smartypants out here if you're not living it, it's,
35:12
there's no, there's no worth. Or there's not as much worth,
35:16
you know, worth is determined and is placed on You by you by
35:20
your people. You know.
35:21
So yeah I guess if you're if you're a teacher in the
35:25
community then your academic knowledge makes you worth a lot.
35:29
So I don't mean to say that just being an idiot out here and
35:34
having no sort of Education or knowledge or smarts is makes you
35:39
more worth than person. Who is, you know, got a PhD or
35:43
whatever, not not saying Guess what I'm saying is that don't
35:46
get so lost in the books, don't get so lost in the Academia
35:49
don't get. So rooted in the past that
35:52
you're not actually doing the things that are are are
35:57
applicable in in the modern time and in the here and now, right?
36:02
that ritual guys on Saturday, probably the most profound
36:09
profound ritual, that I've been a part of one of the most at
36:12
least side from one or two, from my own tribes events, you know,
36:18
stuff that we've had, but this one was incredible.
36:23
Just the amount of work, the amount of effort that went into
36:25
it. It was palpable, you could tell
36:30
You know, they didn't just pull this out of their asses.
36:33
They didn't just come up with this that weekend and be like,
36:36
Oh, I'm going to download this article and read about this
36:38
story and then boom. Here we go.
36:39
Know this was, this is deeply rooted in their Traditions.
36:43
They've done such a good job, at creating, something for
36:47
themselves, living it and sharing it with the community.
36:53
Really, really good stuff. So Hail to the Raven, Moon
36:55
Hearth, you know, congratulations on another
36:57
successful, Shadow moot year, I can't wait for next year.
37:00
I'm very excited about next Shadow move and hoping to attend
37:05
more Hearth events that are open and use that inspiration.
37:10
Use that. You use those times to do?
37:15
Stuff are on our own do stuff, ourselves for Hillary, the folk,
37:18
you know, make things happen that way. so, yeah, like
37:24
Saturday night was great, we all did that and then drums for a
37:27
while and Came up Sunday morning after pretty good, night's rest.
37:32
You know, I was exhausted, boys. I after that whole ritual and
37:37
just drumming. I mean, I was, I was spiritually
37:41
exhausted. I was always wore out and slept
37:46
good, came out Sunday morning had breakfast.
37:49
Did the closing ceremony, it just barely started to rain, as
37:52
we tore down our and started like leaving.
37:56
Like we had torn down our camp packed everything.
37:59
We're heading down the road and then it started to sprinkle and
38:01
then we hit rain on the way home, the whole weekend, though.
38:07
Perfect weather. Beautiful sunny day on Saturday.
38:12
Friday was great to like the, the Friday during the day and
38:15
then Saturday was phenomenal, was it was, it was great.
38:20
Then then Sunday, you know, woke up and it was cloudy and of
38:22
course it rained. But yeah, the timing of it.
38:25
All was perfect, you know, didn't have any rain to deal
38:28
with for setup? Didn't have any rain to deal
38:31
with for tearing down? Had a lot of good conversation.
38:37
A lot of fun. Good good times man, good times.
38:43
But yeah, that's about. That's about all there is to it.
38:46
Like I said, before, what I was able to get for my Heathen re
38:50
101 class, I should be working on that.
38:55
Probably this weekend. I'm going to try to get it up
38:58
beforehand, but just like I said, make sure you subscribe to
39:01
the YouTube channel, turn on, turn on all your notifications.
39:04
And I'll share it on my social medias about when it's going to
39:08
go up. But I do have some work to do
39:10
for it or on it because again, like I said, the video cut out
39:13
three different times. So I got to re-watch the content
39:16
and see well what was left out. And that way it kind of makes
39:19
some some sense and I can fill in some of those gaps a bit.
39:22
But yeah, that's that's coming up here soon.
39:28
And, yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed that, that retelling of
39:31
that recap of Shadow mu, and that it is has given you.
39:36
If you had any doubts, if you thought, well, is it worth it?
39:39
You know, I live x amount of miles away, x amount of hours
39:42
away, you know, distance, whatever.
39:44
I'm telling you guys, you got a whole year to plan for this, do
39:48
it It'll be right around this time of year next year,
39:51
somewhere in the same ballpark or vicinity, they do it, you
39:55
know, around the same time within a week or two every year
39:59
and if you know, you're not on Facebook and you're listening to
40:04
my podcast, you can always stay tuned for me here because I'll
40:08
be talking about it next year, too, because REM planning to, to
40:12
be there and attending and doing what we did last year again.
40:15
So, we're doing what we did this year again.
40:17
Next year, I should say, So make those plans.
40:20
Make it so do it. You you won't regret it I
40:22
promise. But yes.
40:25
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41:04
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41:06
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