00:16:41.420So our branch of that was when the All-Father rode across the soul of Stephen McNallan and inspired him to bring the folk home, what he referred to many times over the years as an in-gathering of the folk.
00:17:05.020So, part one, the in-gathering of the folk.
00:17:14.380All right, so for what that's worth, it wasn't about, okay, again, this is kind of what I warned you guys a little bit about at the start
00:17:32.340because it's a really big topic but to condense it condense it down in ways that make sense and
00:17:37.860build upon themselves we do my best um it wasn't a mandate to bring a specific elite home or this
00:17:52.660uber mitch vanguard home it was a calling to bring all of our folk home
00:18:02.340that's that looks real different I know a lot of the time now and this is this
00:18:09.380is why we're doing this is kind of related to where we're at what we're
00:18:12.460doing people in this critique culture that we live in people like to criticize
00:18:22.980everything that's less than perfect why do you guys have fat people why does
00:18:27.900that guy have a nose ring why does this guy wear a shirt i don't like how come you know any number
00:18:35.500of things barring the obvious critique that the person who makes the comment likely has a
00:18:43.100some kind of anime furry looking creature as their avatar and we have no idea what they look like or
00:18:51.020or any reference on the person making the comment,
00:18:55.660but there's this idea that we should only have
00:19:19.520People who don't have pride in themselves, don't take good care of themselves.
00:19:23.260People who are so dissatisfied with the world that they live in that they, you know, choose stylistic choices that go against the grain because what goes with the grain is not serving them well in this world.
00:19:40.900A lot of those folks are the folks that need us the most.
00:19:43.240So the idea of calling all of our folk home, and again, when I say all of our folk, there
00:19:52.100are clearly people that disqualify themselves through choices that we make.
00:19:58.220But a couple of things needed to happen and still need to happen to a degree.
00:20:05.280And I think those come in a couple of different forms.
00:20:11.020So one thing, in order for that to be viable, our folk need to be awakened to the racial consciousness that we are a people.
00:23:50.340Let's just say white people are half of that.
00:23:52.380It's more than that, but let's just say that, cool, 150 million people.
00:24:00.820say that people watch a lot of Netflix, so half of those people are gay. They're not. But if that
00:24:06.500were the case, that's 75 million people that should be here doing this with us at the very
00:24:15.720lowest possible end. Those people don't know we exist. We do really well, and I think that we
00:24:25.040always have with people that know we exist, but getting the word out has become increasingly
00:24:34.060tricky. And it was tricky for, um, for our founding generation as well. Back then you
00:24:42.660could put up flyers and you could get on, you know, you could advertise in the back
00:24:48.160of different eccentric magazines and periodicals.
00:24:56.220You could have a little ad in there, and we did.
00:25:00.580Way back when, that was how these things happened.
00:25:03.500Later, you could have Yahoo groups and meetup.com,
00:25:08.080and you could have little things, but they're very sparse.
00:25:11.360It's very hard to get the message out.
00:25:13.180and you know it's a little bit better now but a few years back a lot of doors got closed
00:25:21.300to spreading any kind of awareness of anything that was healthy and good for traditionalists
00:25:30.020generally and for heterosexual white people in specific so it's closed off some options
00:25:36.160um so what do we do with that how i think that right now and a lot of people we could have
00:25:44.480endless debates about messaging or about you know all kind of different strategies but
00:25:51.700fundamentally the biggest hurdle to our growth is a lack of people knowing that it was an option
00:26:00.200And we have so many of our folk that are searching, that are unsatisfied with the religious options that they feel are available, but with a deep and burning spiritual need to connect with the divine.
00:26:18.600i remember when i found myself at that place and looked around as a
00:26:28.520older teenager who's in white america the options i'm aware of like well i can't really be a hindu
00:26:41.640because I'm not Indian, not Jewish, like I'm not a Jew,
00:26:47.220so I'm not going to practice Judaism, you know,
00:26:51.080I'm not Arab, so I'm not going to do Islam.
00:28:27.580we also are in a culture right now where a lot of people who advocate for
00:28:35.220betterment for white people are very scared of doxing they're very scared of putting their face
00:28:44.400or their name on something and they're very hesitant to interact with the media
00:28:49.260it has been the afa's policy during my time as alzheimer gofi
00:28:57.140to take any media opportunities that come our way we lose all the battles that we don't
00:29:06.740choose to participate in when i say that i would not knowingly walk into something where people
00:29:13.540have been disrespectful up front but yes i realize every time we go on anything that
00:29:21.660approaches any kind of mainstream media it is going to be a hit piece it's going to be negative
00:29:30.140and it's going to be about why are you the evil racist i know that and they know that but what
00:29:37.420else it's going to do is expose us to an audience of people that have never heard about house a true
00:29:43.180never heard about the house true folk assembly and if and when they do if we're not there
00:29:49.100They are either going to hear from people with values that do not align with ours, or they're going to conjure up some kind of imaginary boogeyman in their head that doesn't have a name in their face.
00:30:03.500I would much rather that the voice of Ausatru is a representative of the Ausatru Folk Assembly, looking good, presenting themselves in a dignified way, and giving accurate impressions of who we are and what we believe.
00:30:20.940finding those opportunities is very difficult but every time those opportunity opportunities
00:30:27.920have presented themselves we have been better for the exposure we have been better for the
00:30:34.020participation and that has proved to be a very useful tool when the opportunity presents itself
00:30:41.680I am open for brainstorming and ideas on how to increase those opportunities because I think
00:30:50.840they're good and they're very important. We're ready to engage in them when they show up.
00:31:00.900I've got another couple of notes on this plank one of stuff and then we'll break a little bit
00:31:07.100and I promise I'll let Trent say stuff too. But I want to get these things out before I get lost
00:31:12.560and sauce on it so when we have people that wonder you know why does the afa engage with media that's
00:31:21.680why because someone is going to and when we have the opportunity and this will go into plank too
00:31:29.760but when we have the opportunity to be the voice of aussie true not only is it beneficial to us
00:31:35.680it is an obligation that we have to step into that role and to be that voice of ostrich um
00:31:45.680so i said we use you know pictures sometimes people get uncomfortable when you're taking
00:31:52.240pictures and you're sharing pictures of the events that's how people know we're real
00:31:58.320one of the other massive tools that has helped us thus far is having pictures
00:32:05.680and having frequent pictures of all of our gatherings all of our you know lunches and
00:32:12.240dinners and events events at hoffs hikes anytime we get together as afa members
00:32:22.080where we have you know three or more adults present we want to have pictures of that out
00:32:27.840there showing a couple of things we want to show where this is taking place one to show
00:32:36.080geographic spread of hey we've got stuff going on all over and then more specifically hey we might
00:32:42.400have stuff going on near you a lot of people don't think of that a lot of people will have
00:32:46.640a conception in their head of where the afa exists taking pictures and those pictures having
00:32:53.440a location attached to them lets people know hey this is going on all over and this is going on
00:32:58.560closer to you than you think maybe right down the road so that's really important and then why the
00:33:06.400faces i know that some people in circles we run in want to blur their face or wear a mask or put a
00:33:13.360a little emoji over their faces or whatever, I understand where that feeling comes from.
00:33:24.680We're not doing anything wrong. We're worshiping our gods, and when you don't show your face,
00:33:33.980you show fear. When you do show your face, you show your smiling face with what you're doing.
00:33:40.520it shows the world that you are proud of who you are you're proud of who you with you're with
00:33:45.880and you're proud of what you're doing and we owe it to our gods at the very least to be proud
00:33:52.200that we are that we are their folk and that they're our gods so we show our face you see happy
00:33:59.640for the most part normal looking folks out there practicing also true and that's hugely important
00:34:05.800So seeing that, hey, these are real people that look just like you and me.
00:44:56.820And I want to, I guess I want to reiterate a couple of pieces again.
00:45:04.500Again, something special happened, and I think in the world that we live in, where we are so immersed in the mundane,
00:45:15.620sometimes we forget to acknowledge, or it's out of our normal speech patterns to talk about the transcendent when we're talking to other people.
00:45:33.120So it has, the secularization of our society has made that more of a problem than I think it has been in previous times.
00:45:45.300Something miraculous happened and the Allfather whispered in the ear of Steve McDowell to make this happen, to re-forge out the truth of burning our folk home.
00:45:57.680Now, that is the foundation that the Obsture Folk Assembly is built on, and it's literally
00:46:14.660There came tasked Steve McNallan with this, and through his ordination and through the
00:46:21.000church that he founded, Trent and I are tasked with doing this.
00:46:26.100If you're a member of that church, then that is a part of, you have a role to participate in that task too.
00:46:37.220Maybe not in the same ordained capacity or the same oath capacity, but it's laying there before you and it is something that we need your help to do.
00:46:46.760so think about that it's not just a practical boon for the growth and development of the afa
00:46:54.200but it's literally responding to the directives of the iser of what the all-father would see
00:47:00.460happen for his folk um so i talked a little bit about the history on the first part and
00:47:10.000and this will lead us to the second part so i mentioned that the isir um activated
00:47:18.720a selection of heroes throughout different nations at you know slightly different times
00:47:26.880in a period there and planted a number of different seeds and each of these people
00:47:34.160at a very legitimate charge to go and make alsatru happen and a part of that and it's what i want to
00:47:43.600refer to as the great contest and it wasn't adversarial but it was hey there's you know
00:47:54.000countless different ways this could work there's all these different ideas in different you know
00:48:01.760places to put emphasis different um cultural interpretations
00:48:10.240we hear on this program a lot like how come you guys don't do it this way or how come you guys
00:48:16.400don't do uh anglo-saxon reconstruction or why don't you guys do um you know a german flavor
00:48:26.240you know why is it uh old norse flavor well why don't you guys do why aren't you guys hellenists
00:48:33.840or why aren't you guys celtic all of these questions could have been all of those are
00:48:40.000valid things that that's a direction we could have gone and this was a time where we were figuring out
00:48:48.800what's going to work what's going to be the best each of the people that i mentioned in that
00:48:53.920founding generation or a couple of generations there had opportunities of what this would look
00:49:00.000like what would be the most effective what was going to win the uh the support of the icer in
00:49:06.880their endeavors and those brave courageous noble um men and uh and woman
00:49:18.960they all gave it the best shot and they did lasting beautiful things for our folk and our
00:49:29.280development but in this time of testing it was to see kind of what works what was going to win out
00:49:38.840what was going to be the formula that was selected for victory
00:49:44.520and that has turned out to be the Aus True Folk Assembly. It's turned out to be the seed that was
00:49:52.860planted within the soul of Steve McNallan that has grown and blossomed and born fruit in our
00:50:02.860Aus True Folk Assembly. Each of those other organizations founded by those noble and amazing
00:50:08.780and people over time have drifted away
00:50:11.920from their original purpose or have collapsed
00:53:55.300So, you know, I'm in my feelings, and I'm going to get up and bless the horn as I do.
00:53:59.940So I stood up with the horn, and someone put a hand on my shoulder, too.
00:54:04.960And it was, it's one of those things that you feel in a moment without, without, without words, much is communicated by a very basic, very visceral gesture.
00:54:27.520and it was really nice and uh you know i thought surely it was alan or you know one of my other
00:54:34.180colleagues that had been part of this with me putting a hand on my shoulder to reassure me
00:54:38.800and it did i was sitting up and i was nervous i was in my head man that's great so i looked
00:54:44.640around to thank whoever it was there was nowhere anywhere close when i said someone put a hand on
00:54:49.980my shoulder i don't mean i felt like someone put a hand on my shoulder in that moment the gods put
00:54:55.900their hand on my shoulder. And with that, I was tasked with solidifying and immortalizing
00:55:10.580the institution of Ausatru, the Ausatru Folk Assembly in Midgard for our generations yet to
00:55:19.040come and doing the best I could in my time here on Midgard to build that into something that is
00:55:28.600lasting and that will stand solid and not waver and be here for my children, for my children's
00:55:39.120children, for all of our children's children into the future. And that is a tremendous
00:55:47.020task and there's lots of ways to go about trying to make that work and there's tremendous
00:55:55.880responsibility that's carried by that but it's that understanding and that very sincere belief
00:56:04.020that guides guides the things that i do in my stewardship of the australian folk assembly
00:56:11.600so where to go with that and I do have some notes but again it's literally lots of different
00:56:25.740right answers on what to do with it but that is the mission and it is why all of these things
00:56:33.800a lot of what I want to do tonight not that there's been a bunch of questions but just
00:56:37.100just to clarify why we do the stuff we do and maybe why we do it the way that we do.
00:56:45.920So one thing, when I got involved with AUSA True way back when, and it's hard to put this
00:57:05.180in the words of what it was, but the question of what is also true was still evasive. And
00:57:13.040a lot of people, especially a lot of people in our founders generation knew what also
00:57:18.180true was, but to sit there and explain it to someone was incoherent because it's everything.
00:57:26.500It's life. It's who you are. It's all of these things. How do you explain that in a statement?
00:57:33.620You know, how do you, you could define what that word means, troth to the Aesir, or loyalty
00:57:38.780to the Aesir, loyalty to the gods of our people.
00:57:42.680But, well, cool, what do you guys believe?
00:57:47.380And, man, anybody would have, anybody you'd ask would have different answers that mostly,
00:57:54.880you know, mostly would kind of match up, but would go from a bunch of different directions.
00:58:00.800and it was very, very hard for people to pinpoint and put their finger on
00:58:07.000and express in a way that was coherent and consistent.
00:58:11.820And that remained that way for a long time.
00:58:16.580Something that I think is very important to the solidification and immortalization of our faith
01:20:26.300um and there are other times where it's kind of but frankly there are other times where it's said
01:20:35.160almost explicitly anyway but the sigdrift mall is the best like clear-cut explicit and concise
01:20:43.260time we have where we see someone praying uh you know in our ancestors time so that's that's the
01:20:53.240uh main significance i assign to it right now where i can't remember much of the story outside
01:20:59.640of that but uh since celine asked if i read it again sometime soon i'll uh let you know
01:21:07.560what other significance i find there sorry i put you on the spot because it entertains me to do so
01:21:14.360so um yeah what trent said all of those things but i also think
01:21:23.240There is something to be said there, and I don't want to get out of my depth with Jungian psychology, but there is a meeting of the hero with his completion, with his shadow self, with his counterpart to where he becomes a fully integrated and evolved hero at that point.
01:21:53.240When he has that moment of interaction with the Valkyrie, he gets a memory draft and he gets an enhancement of his powers that makes him mightier.
01:22:20.840that has runes of forget all the different runic incantations of it but there is a completion of
01:22:28.840self that elevates him by going through ordeal and interacting with the valkyrie and it's
01:22:37.160it's a special moment of um actualization and ascension i think is spoken to there a lot
01:22:47.300Everything Trent said about that prayer. And the prayer is a cool example because it's one of the very few examples we have of kind of an explicit prayer from our ancestors.
01:23:00.800Our ancestors were reverent people. Don't let bros of true people fool you on that. Our people had piety and reverence.
01:23:10.840appreciate our audience that is uh when i was
01:23:18.320talking about you know do it now because you know for people someday often never comes
01:23:27.200i appreciate somebody else immediately thought of uh ccr on that i absolutely did so good for you
01:23:34.140You guys, listen to me now, each and every mother's son.
01:23:38.640Better learn fast, better learn it young.
01:24:03.200don't look perfectly the enemy of good. Today is always the right time to start. We always have an
01:24:07.920artificial goal in our head and we have a tendency to push that goal further and further out
01:24:14.920because making commitments and engaging in something takes, it's scary. You get outside
01:24:25.140of your comfort zone. It's much easier to put it off. This is something you shouldn't put off.
01:24:31.460You know, I wish, I wish so much that I would have joined the AFA earlier.
01:24:38.140I regret all the years of my adult life that I, before I came to the AFA, that I didn't know about it sooner, that I didn't get involved earlier.
01:26:44.000And when I heard about Alcestru, and the AFA specifically,
01:26:48.280the idea of being able to venerate my Anglo-Saxon ancestors sounded cool,
01:26:54.420even though I wasn't racially aware at the time anyway.
01:26:59.420I just thought it, you know, I was kind of in this headspace of, well, every people deserves to have their space and venerate their own ancestors and their own traditions.
01:27:10.920And I still believe that. I just, you know, care about mine a lot more than anyone else's.
01:27:18.100And so I came to my first AFA event, the OSTAR 2016, that the Ulster Agoti mentioned, actually.
01:27:26.020and i did not feel immediately that i believed in the icer but i wanted to and i think that's
01:27:33.000important not even wanting to but being open to wanting to is the bare minimum i would say
01:27:42.060you frankly you cannot join the afa if you if you say no i'm racially aware i love my folk
01:27:48.820but i will never ever believe in the icer or whatever then like no you would not be allowed
01:27:54.160to join. I wish I could say there was a place, you know, for that, but there's not. You need
01:27:59.200to at least be open to the idea and be willing to give it a chance. So yeah, that's the answer
01:28:06.020to that. So I'll pull it back a little bit from that. You do need to want to, not just
01:28:16.200be open to wanting to. And I think that's a nuance that people miss, but no, we're a
01:28:21.800church. I think that people, and I answer questions, keep in mind, I answer them for
01:28:33.020everybody listening, so I'm not aiming every comment at the person who asked, but I, I
01:28:42.800mean, I'm certainly doing that, but I'd like to also say it for anybody else who's listening.
01:28:48.360And I think that people who, I'm trying to be respectful with it, but if you're not, if you don't feel that you are necessarily religious or you don't like organized religion, get religious.
01:31:34.780in any relationship for us to expect that day one you immediately devote your whole life to
01:31:44.780one of the gods sight unseen that's not how relationship works
01:31:51.340but we do want you to go into it with that in mind and we do want you to go into it in a place
01:31:59.220where you are open to letting the gods work in your life
01:32:03.440and building upon a gift cycle with them.
01:32:09.540And having that open-minded and open-heartedness
01:32:12.580is what's going to facilitate your ability to grow in our faith.
01:32:18.160But yeah, being racially aware is going to absolutely put you in good stead
01:32:22.640with the vast majority of our members,
01:32:26.320certainly depending on how you express it.
01:32:29.020but no that's fine it's a fine place to start and a lot of people came to the austral folk assembly
01:32:34.460from that kind of a mindset of that kind of a place many of those people have built a really
01:32:39.020strong belief in the gods and are currently members of our of our organized religion are
01:32:46.620currently you know folk builders or gothar within within uh austral folk assembly so yeah don't
01:32:53.580it's not a closed door but i do want to be clear on no we're trying to be being organized is a big
01:32:58.460part of what makes it work a lot of things go together i noticed that people have these pick
01:33:04.780and choose things i'm like man i like all of these things that organized religion brings but
01:33:11.900i don't like organized religion you can't always have one without you know i i see that um anecdotally
01:33:22.540there's a former troth steward um the truth was this universalist lefty
01:33:29.820group that at one point in time was trying to practice house of true um
01:33:35.660but you know this woman would come over to my house when i'd have people come over to
01:33:42.460do bloat or to share a meal when i first got involved in house troops she was local there and
01:33:47.100And she had a daughter, and she was very uncomfortable with the traditionalist stance on race and sexuality because we're surrounded by this, you know, quote-unquote tolerance culture to where we're supposed to be accepting of things that are unacceptable.
01:34:11.420but she liked what we were doing she liked hanging around around good people and she felt safe and
01:34:19.580she felt that her daughter was safe when she was around the people that thought like you're supposed
01:34:25.480to think or that she's comfortable with you know hearing in the media to think she did not feel
01:34:31.720safe around those people and certainly did not feel safe with her child around those people
01:34:35.980and that really tells you a lot of things some things just go together and you may not
01:34:41.160like all of those things up front, but they're part of a pattern, and they're connected for a reason.
01:34:48.660An organization is definitely something that's very important to our advancement as folk.
01:34:58.800It seems much evidence exists that cults to certain deities were always a thing. Does that
01:35:05.920seemingly touched too closely towards monotheism in some way that we feel we have to say that was
01:35:12.340irregular i think this builds off of a statement that some people have glommed on to from a couple
01:35:19.980weeks ago trent what would you say to that stand alone i would say no it it let me look at the
01:35:27.620question so i can word it okay no i wouldn't say it was irregular i don't think we need to say it
01:35:36.100was irregular and i don't think it leans too closely towards monotheism i get why people
01:35:41.460would ask that and i can't go back in time and read you know my 45th great grandfather's mind
01:35:51.040or whatever about how he felt about you know his devotion to thor specifically or whatever
01:35:59.840but no they're being cults of gods or goddesses specifically to uh different areas or within
01:36:06.000different occupations or whatever that's just it that's still a thing that happens we wouldn't
01:36:13.040call it a cult now because of the negative connotations of the word but you could almost
01:36:17.760look at each of our hoffs as almost the center for a cult of that god or goddess and it doesn't mean
01:36:22.960that we don't worship the other gods at those hoffs uh for example we don't have a major holy
01:36:28.960tide centered around the order uh but as the hoff go with the mjords hoff i do have a specific
01:36:35.120devotion to your there as do most of my people there uh but of course we still give blow to
01:41:13.180And I think when I say they take it more seriously, it's not exactly what I want to say, but like they're more mature in their approach to it, I guess.
01:52:01.360when you chop down trees to build a house
01:52:04.480And I think those are kind of important distinctions, and I may go really far afield from your question, so I apologize if they do.
01:52:12.400There is a sacrality in nature, but there are spirits with specific personality, with agency, and ability to participate in the gift cycle that inhabit those spaces.
01:52:28.180And those deities, those persons, are what we direct the worship to, not the physical object that symbolizes them or that, you know, is relevant to worship.
01:52:46.220i i guess in a similar way in some cases you know our murals at behalf we direct worship
01:52:53.700towards the mural but the mural is a painting of odin it's not open but we worship him through
01:53:02.420the mural or through the representation of him in a natural setting sometimes you will have that
01:53:09.220with a special tree or a special rock or a special location but it's like when i go and make offerings
01:53:15.960at my mom's tombstone i'm not worshiping the tombstone i'm making offerings to my mother who
01:53:21.480is symbolized and who the tombstone is a portal or a gateway to that connection if that makes sense
02:07:40.520by kind of sharing the trauma that put them in that position.
02:07:45.800uh and it's yeah no uh do you think homosexuality can be overcome
02:07:51.560if you're actually homosexual no um nowadays a lot of mostly women i'm sure it happens to
02:08:01.040men as well but more often than not this happens to women and this will kind of
02:08:07.460lead to the answer to the next question as well but
02:08:10.020actual homosexuality cannot be overcome no um there are women occasionally that'll
02:08:16.820kind of flirt with the idea of being a lesbian or bisexual or whatever because they have bad
02:08:20.740experiences with men and whatnot and for those women that thought they were homosexual just
02:08:29.660used it as an edgy personality trait or whatever then kind of come to the the truth and realize no
02:08:37.400they're not um we're willing to talk about that with them and let them be members depending on
02:08:44.540things uh if an af member cannot act on it and that'd be okay no if you are homosexual and you
02:08:52.280just don't act on it no it if you're homosexual you've acted on it right and uh we've talked
02:09:00.860about it before the ulterior gothi will surely explain it better than i can at the moment but
02:09:06.020But we do have a double standard for that, kind of as I mentioned. So for a man to be homosexual, and I won't get graphic, but for you to copulate, right, in that scenario, you are, it's like cut and dry, you're gay.
02:09:25.960You have, you know, soiled yourself in that regard, right?
02:09:33.100You've kind of stained your soul or whatever, however you want to word it.
02:09:39.180And it's a physical thing that happens, right?
02:19:52.080But again, I don't want to overextend myself on something I'm not an expert on.
02:19:55.820But I would say in general, it's not a problem if you practice some kind of, some form of traditional witchcraft within an altitude context as an AFA member.
02:20:08.240But again, with that, please make sure you recognize the asterisks there.
02:20:12.920I'm not an expert on that, but the areas that I am familiar with, that's okay.
02:20:20.560Trent, what is your favorite Mjolnir design?
02:20:26.340I've not been looking forward to this one. I don't have one. I think they're all cool.
02:20:32.720Every few years I'll try and pick out a new builder and I have a hard time picking because
02:20:39.280they're just all, well, not literally all of them. There are some pretty like over the top,
02:20:45.160really garish ones, but for the most part, they're all really cool. The one I'm wearing now,
02:20:50.280I'm not going to hold it super close to the camera or anything, but it's recommended to me
02:20:55.080by a member of it, Freyshoff, one of the helpers there.
02:21:01.060And it's got like this, not based on a real petroglyph, I don't think,
02:21:06.940but it's kind of a petroglyph style of Thor and his chariot,
02:21:10.100and it's got the sunwheel above it, and it's pretty cool.
02:21:16.300The one, the All's Hairy Goathe's wearing there is a fairly common one.
02:21:19.400I have a similar one in bronze that I wear when I'm not wearing a suit.
02:21:24.240is kind of like my daily one like right now i have it under my undershirt for example um
02:21:30.000any of literally any of the historical finds i just uh i'm a huge sucker for that i'm in love
02:21:36.800with all of them honestly uh as far as has the afa thought about having an official mule redesign
02:21:43.120i know there's been a couple times that uh you know in our 31 32 years that we'll have someone
02:21:50.560and kind of step up to that and think they can handle that and kind of be like, Hey, I have this
02:21:54.940idea, you know, we can mass produce these. And like I said, I'm a sucker for any non over the
02:22:01.100top design. They've always been cool designs. Uh, and you know, they'll try to kind of get that
02:22:06.620going and it'll sort of fall by the wayside after a while. Uh, I don't think any of us would
02:27:29.880there's an element to it of you know our gods and the all-father especially value uh
02:27:41.080not only wisdom and intelligence but also cleverness right and that's seen all throughout
02:27:46.860the stories and there is a a cleverness to being able to kind of navigate a situation
02:27:56.780no matter the hand you're dealt and kind of find the best option there for yourself
02:28:05.500uh of course there's all kinds of caveats with this specific like legal stuff
02:28:12.340If you've the noble thing to do, if you've committed a crime is, of course, make up for that crime, depending on what it is and how you go about making that up.
02:28:27.660if it can be made up um yeah it would it would depend on it's a case by case basis thing i would
02:28:43.780say uh so yeah i would i would just say it's the cleverness involved in being able to make a better
02:28:53.660deal for yourself even if you have to admit to something you did in fact not do is certainly
02:29:00.620there but there is definitely an immorality in some of those scenarios if it you know you're
02:29:07.740avoiding paying for a crime that you did in fact commit uh what do you think sir
02:29:14.140i think it is grossly immoral that our legal system is structured to
02:29:20.140knowingly force people to lie about stuff it is common practice for police and district
02:29:30.860attorneys to over to over like over arrest and then overcharge in order to force you
02:29:40.700to take a lesser charge that you will be 100 convicted of rather than fight a bigger charge
02:29:47.020that's immoral than having things like the alfred plea where you've got to like
02:29:55.020i'm guilty i'm telling you i'm guilty because i have to tell you i'm guilty but you and i know
02:29:59.740i'm not guilty so you're letting me go but i'm going to officially admit that i'm guilty so
02:30:03.820that you'll let me go all of that is dishonest anymore but it do so here comes and it's funny
02:31:30.420There are a lot of people that plea to sexual offenses with an understanding that something will be expunged or that, you know, somehow they'll get out of being registered or whatever, and then they'll get out and somebody will find out and they'll say,
02:31:55.000No, but I only did that because my lawyer told me to or whatever.
02:31:59.560The rest of what society has to judge you on is no, under oath and in front of people.
02:32:05.460You said you were guilty of doing X, Y, and Z.
02:32:10.400I'm going to believe you did X, Y, and Z because you said you did.
02:32:15.080And so you're forever going to be known as that guy.
02:32:19.180If you're like, hey, I got to fight with this guy.
02:32:22.540It wasn't my fault. It was self-defense. It was whatever, but they were going to prosecute me on something, you know, felony assault or attempted murder or something. But they said that if I pled to disorderly conduct, I'd get off. I think that's a reasonable thing to consider.
02:33:07.700but my lawyer said so i said that i was don't do that because the rest of us have to go on what
02:33:15.060we know and when you've sworn that you did something it's real hard to commit somebody
02:33:20.100you didn't do it um but that's the thing it's way harder than it seems and it is done this
02:33:28.500way intentionally it's terrifying if you're looking at a list of charges that you're going
02:33:33.380to spend the rest of your life in jail or you can just admit you did this lesser thing and get out
02:33:40.740i wouldn't put that weight on somebody it is less than the perfect thing to do certainly
02:33:47.220but you have to navigate the situation you find yourself in and try to carve out within it
02:33:52.580the best and most honorable path you can choose within reason
02:33:58.420not getting to spend the rest of your life with your family and raising your children and
02:34:02.500And doing all the other things you have commitments to do because you avoided pleading to drunken disorderly when you don't think you were that disorderly is, it's worth considering.
02:34:16.300So I don't think it's a standalone never do that, but it's certainly something you need to give very serious thought to and what it does to your reputation.
02:34:24.820also fun fact listening to vns while you drive through rush hour reduces your road rage i'm glad
02:34:36.860you find that it does that i'll prescribe it to any of you out there who are driving
02:34:41.240listen to vns it's always a good choice
02:34:43.540question victory is a virtue and cowardice is immoral how then do we fall back from losing
02:34:53.480propositions when are we allowed to say this isn't working i'm out when does it become cowardice
02:35:03.000uh cool question again it's kind of a case by case basis of course uh you were correct victory
02:35:10.040is a virtue and that cowardice is immoral there's a certain point where if a battle is truly a
02:35:16.120losing battle and the victory would be to make it out alive rather than be on some kind of suicide
02:35:24.580mission then you know you kind of have to ask yourself is it cowardice to save my life and
02:35:31.340live to fight another day so to speak rather than you know go out in this blaze of glory but all is
02:35:39.300lost and whatever else happens in this hypothetical battle scenario i'm throwing at you
02:35:45.660uh when are we allowed to say this isn't working i'm out depends on what it is uh
02:35:52.240and it depends on if it really isn't working and if it won't work
02:35:56.400it becomes cowardice though when there is a chance and you're just letting fear
02:36:04.980and only fear not even rational fear but fear rule your decision making process when you let
02:36:11.840uh fear or other kind of base instinct things rule your decision making that's when it's cowardice
02:36:23.120rather than thinking calmly and strategically and in accordance with right action
02:36:30.800So, I think that it's important to understand that we have this rigidity built into us from a Christian, Jewish, Ten Commandments kind of thing.
02:36:57.100And our faith isn't like that, and things are a bit more nuanced.
02:37:04.980Cowardice has never been defined as being afraid of something
02:37:09.880or choosing not to engage in an overwhelmingly losing proposition
02:37:49.960But in the Saga of the Arms Vikings, they were known for their excessive courage that was marked, and their code was, it was something overwhelming, but it was like never to retreat unless there was 10 to 1 or something.
02:38:11.320But even in an extreme case, they acknowledge, like, no, you can retreat because it's dumb to get your entire force wiped out for no reason, but you can't retreat unless it's overwhelming or unless it's, you know, a tactically sound thing.
02:38:28.960I don't think in our reality we find that a lot.
02:38:34.120And again, some of our servicemen and women do find that.
02:38:37.080Some people in, I guess, riot situations might find that.
02:38:43.000But in general, in personal stuff, it's not cowardly to walk away from something that's not working.
02:38:53.600If the reason that you are doing it is honestly a tactical assessment of, all right, this isn't working, I need to try something different.
02:39:02.000if you allow fear to paralyze you that is cowardice if you need to choose something else to be
02:39:11.920victorious at succumbing to the sunk cost fallacy isn't courage it is delusion and it's irresponsible
02:39:24.700if you keep trying at something and you keep trying just to overcome losses that you keep
02:39:31.180taken, being reasonable and realizing that this is not productive, packing it up and trying something
02:39:39.600that is productive is not cowardice if it's done with a tactically sound reason. But here's the
02:39:46.760thing. The second you say that that's okay, then all the cowards, aha, see, I'm not a coward,
02:39:55.020and they flee from the slightest danger of anything.
02:40:00.300The fact that you're asking the question is good.
02:40:04.880Yes, you should tend towards an excess of courage
02:42:58.020i'm gonna all right trent do you have any thoughts on the military dropping the number of religious
02:43:08.240classifications from 211 down to 31 specifically the 31 that exclude us uh yeah it's the gayest
02:43:18.720thing i've seen the army do or the military excuse me uh in a year of lots of gay stuff
02:43:24.800from our military now uh on a more serious level it's you know i don't mean to sound like a christian
02:43:32.240and claim everything is oppressing us or whatever else but you know uh our founder and others worked
02:43:39.360really hard to get alsatru recognized um and this you know this comes at a time when we're
02:43:48.720I don't know how political I'm allowed to get, but I'm just going to go for it as comes at a time where we're really trying to tie ourselves closer to Israel.
02:43:56.840And so the religions where you bow to their gods, such as Christianity and even Islam, by the way, which we act like is the worst thing ever, those are allowed.
02:44:10.120but uh anything that honors white people's native faiths specifically no matter how you word it
02:44:17.180by the way is not allowed uh so yeah my thoughts are that's really gay it's really lame and i'm
02:44:25.520hoping we can go ahead and start kind of getting some folks together maybe some
02:44:30.580veterans uh in our among our go tharan folk builders to look into restoring that i'm sure
02:44:36.520that'll be an uphill battle with this current administration but that's my
02:44:41.840thoughts on that so I got a couple of thoughts like I get reducing frivolous
02:44:58.700things that find their way on the list and this is something sort of something
02:45:02.120has always come up a little bit of background i guess in we get over years we have gotten all
02:45:12.600these different little requests to certify people's absurd things the most common is
02:45:19.080can you say it's religiously necessary that i have a beard so that i don't have to cut my beard
02:45:24.040because i'm supposed to in the army no we have never certified that because it's not and that's
02:45:31.800frivolous when people have really frivolous things it makes the serious things seem dumb
02:45:41.400and like more frivolous nonsense so the beardos have done a lot to mess up things for us another
02:45:50.760thing when you have that list there's a number of things on there that people don't take very
02:45:59.560seriously even the ones that have requested them when you have every special snowflake have absurd
02:46:08.680things that they have there and i don't know again i'd have to comb through the 211 things on the
02:46:15.560list but when you group stupid things that atheists do to poke fun at religion on the
02:46:23.560same list that you have sincerely held faiths it's very hard for someone who doesn't have um
02:46:32.600the inside scoop on those things to separate out one from another
02:46:38.360yes i it is it is horrible that also true is no longer on that list
02:46:45.960i sincerely hope that we can get it back on that list at some point
02:46:50.520what would help for that to be a serious situation is if we didn't have alsatru and troth and heathen
02:47:03.240and foreign saver and this and that and whatever the flavor of the week thing to call it is
02:47:10.560and odinism and botanism and this and that and this if all of those people got together
02:47:18.160as members of the afa and this is part of point two that we talked about tonight with
02:47:23.340the building the immortal eternal religion of aussitrew if we just all chose aussitrew on there
02:47:30.640instead of our own special snowflake thing well what is this cool go to the aussitrew folk assembly
02:47:38.540this is our church it's organized it's structured we can provide a comprehensive definition of who
02:47:44.320are and what we believe i'm not saying in this case it would do anything or not but it is helpful
02:47:50.880when dealing with institutions i've learned that when dealing with military situations with
02:47:56.960members i've learned that when dealing with the correctional system dealing with people
02:48:02.880if we're incarcerated or with medical establishments hospitals or anything else
02:48:10.000when we're all united around one unified term and unified conception of what our faith is
02:48:18.020that helps and it gives a legitimacy to the things that we do if we had you know i don't
02:48:28.340know how much those numbers add up but if every troth norse pagan aussitru odinist
02:48:36.520wokenist foreign savior um theodish if all of those people were in one category
02:48:48.600i think it would make it much harder to discriminate against that one category of
02:48:56.680but that's not how it was and hopefully the next time we make the attempt
02:49:01.960But we can do that all under a unified conception, a unified banner.
02:49:07.120We become strong and important when we stand united.
02:49:11.240When we stand fragmented, we sacrifice all of that.
02:49:16.960And again, there's other things at work.
02:49:19.460There is certainly all of the Judaism preference, you know, Abrahamism preference that is clearly on display.
02:49:32.540But if we were a very significant group that stood united, and if everybody joined up,
02:49:37.760everybody out there that claims to be this, that is Ausatru, stopped calling themselves something other than Ausatru,
02:49:45.520and then once more joined the Aussie True Folk Assembly,
02:49:50.920we would be able to do all of these things much more effectively.
02:52:55.180I grew up, I think, you know, I think I grew up whoever, I can't even really remember who taught me how to tie a tie because I was really young.
02:53:04.380But I grew up doing like half Windsor or single Windsor or whatever.
02:54:45.340I'm going to lean towards yes, because our ancestors, our Germanic ancestors specifically wore, you know, Thor's hammer sometimes.
02:54:56.680So back when everyone was just their native faith or thereabouts, they didn't wear it for the purpose.
02:55:03.980Most people would say they wear it now to identify themselves as Alcetru.
02:55:06.920There was no need. You were a white guy in Germania or greater Germania.
02:55:12.120you were also true right uh they wore it because it was it's a holy symbol and they felt that it
02:55:19.480would ward off that it had power and it would ward off um jotnar i suppose for lack of a better word
02:55:27.320and so if we include vampires kind of in that realm of not jotnar per se but malevolent things
02:55:37.480And if they are afraid of a dead Jew on a stick, I would assume they're also afraid of the hammer of literally Thor, son of heaven and earth. Yes.
02:55:48.260um yeah uh absolutely and i think that it's a it's a fun question and i don't know how serious
02:56:03.760the person who asked it was or if it's just kind of a fun little question to say but i think it's
02:56:10.260something really worth uh worth considering and worth considering the mechanism of why
02:56:15.120So first point to make, Thor's hammer is used in the lore and traditionally as a device
02:56:32.460to hallow a space, so in a really specific way invoking Thor's hammer symbolically with
02:56:44.760the image of it or motion of it or the invocation of it to mark out something as holy and sacred
02:56:52.200and to ward off evil spirits is attested to and as a time-honored thing
02:56:59.640an invocation to thor on runestones like don't mess with this or may thor curse you
02:57:05.640or whatever also with depictions of his hammer is i've seen runestones with that on it in person
02:57:12.840in denmark that's a real thing so sure i think they'd be afraid of mjolnir in the same kind of
02:57:21.400way the other thing is i think that magical items or talismans are
02:57:34.920not just important for what they symbolize like a demon or a ghost or a vampire recognizes like
02:57:42.440oh that's the you know that's that's the crucifix i think there's that but i also think there's the
02:57:50.920might that you channel through it and that you put in it like the little gold cross that you
02:57:59.640have around your neck isn't what's scary it's the invocation of you know their jewish god that's
02:58:07.480scary um my silver hammer i don't think scares them i think also thor scares them and my
02:58:17.800invoking him as his follower with some kind of authority bestowed from him scares them
02:58:26.120so i don't i think it is the seriousness and the might in with that something is
02:58:32.840imbued with that makes it potent against malevolent forces and i also think that there is an inherent
02:58:40.440recognition of them of the power of db in the spirit world that is channeled through that
02:58:50.680for matt and trent if every member watching tonight could do just one thing over the next
02:59:05.48012 months to strengthen the future of our folk what would you want that one thing to be trent
02:59:12.200bring your family and friends at least one into the afa really sincerely put forth the effort
02:59:21.860and show how excited you are and how devoted you are to the iser and how much you love being with
02:59:30.220your folk and coming together to worship your gods of your people and being passionate about it in a
02:59:40.920way that obliterates that earlier mentioned cynicism in someone and brings them home to the
02:59:47.720gods easier said than done i know but still
02:59:56.400it's hard because it's the question sure there are lots of things that i would want them to do
03:18:39.040and in the northern hemisphere that's how the sun appears to move when you face north
03:18:44.240but if you face north in the southern hemisphere it goes counterclockwise does that mean that we
03:18:50.560shouldn't do bloat counterclockwise if we're in australia or papa new guinea trent let's say
03:18:57.500i say no because uh australia or papa new guinea i don't know much about papa new guinea but
03:19:04.160Australia is part of the Anglosphere, and the people there, and I don't want to say indigenous, but the Australians, the actual Australians, are Anglo-Saxon or Celtic or some combination thereof, mostly, largely, right?
03:19:21.760so they're native to the northern hemisphere and you know our faith is about roots and and home
03:19:30.080in uh a physical and spiritual more sacred sense so no i would do it the way we would do it in our
03:19:39.660original homes clockwise and also because our sun wise we call it but yeah also clockwise
03:19:47.180works because it's kind of that idea of moving forward and upright correct action we don't move
03:19:55.820backwards we don't move against the grain to be edgy we do the right thing we do the correct thing
03:20:02.280no matter what hemisphere we're in cool question though
03:20:17.180So, yeah, what Trent said, it's, it is largely symbolic, and it's aligning ourself with tradition and with order, and it is done with a clear understanding of kind of why we do it, and that it goes along as symbolic.
03:20:47.180i think that if our people collectively lost all of our lore and you know a thousand years from
03:20:58.060now white people in australia decided oh well the sun moves this way down here this is how
03:21:03.100we're going to start doing it i don't think that that would be wrong but it's not our current
03:21:08.620tradition and the point of that is that we've taken our traditions with us to the areas that
03:21:16.620we have conquered and colonized and so we do it our way and not the the native way we export us
03:21:25.580to the places that we go and i think in that sense it's similar to how we celebrate our holidays
03:21:33.340um yes it is awkward to celebrate midsummer in the middle of winter in australia i get that
03:21:41.420but i don't and there's been debate about this over the years and sometimes some people do it
03:21:49.700one way and sometimes people do it a different way they lose track when they celebrate yule down
03:21:56.520there like well it's all of the symbols are natural and about winter they make it about
03:22:06.700jesus so they can celebrate it at that time of the year but it's not about
03:22:12.600it is transcended to where it is about our folk custom and not about aligning ourselves to
03:22:20.700a biome that we're in it's about aligning ourselves to a tradition and a connectivity
03:22:27.600with our ancestors and with the original practice of our faith so again i don't think that it is
03:22:34.220wrong, but I don't think that there's a compelling reason to do so. And I think that, again, it
03:22:41.540speaks to the fact of where we come from in our heritage and our tradition, not where we find
03:22:47.680ourselves. But again, I don't think you're gonna, you know, I don't think that you're doing some
03:22:54.160horrible wrongness by doing it that way, especially if you have a thought out reason to. One of the
03:22:59.800big things too. Whatever you do, have a reason that you're doing it. I think it is much better
03:23:06.060to do something incorrectly, but with a clear and coherent thought process of why you're doing it
03:23:13.160that way than to do something haphazardly where you haven't given thought to it or didn't take
03:23:18.300it seriously or didn't care about it. So I think that's a good and interesting question. It's not
03:23:23.220one I had thought about. Next question, are men who practice Sather on a regular basis
03:23:32.700considered effeminate? Trent? Yeah, I don't know that effeminate fully covers it, but
03:23:39.500yes, effeminate among other things, I guess. It's essentially a breaking of natural law,
03:23:49.360right in the same way that being a transvestite would be and yeah i know that's what not what
03:23:57.940they prefer to call themselves that's why i use that word before anybody says anything uh
03:24:03.120it willingly going beyond the the pale of what is correct and normal and
03:24:14.380again natural law is bad and effeminate you know i'm going to say no not effeminate because
03:24:23.780that implies i at least i think a kind of uh genuine femininity maybe
03:24:31.960so if that connotation is there then no not effeminate because there's nothing genuinely
03:24:38.220feminine about a man doing female things if a feminine does not have that connotation and it
03:24:44.780just means and it implies like a fake femininity then yes so depends on what you mean when you say
03:24:59.020seder and i think that we have i think when we get precise terms it becomes different
03:25:07.900one of the aspects and i'll put this there
03:25:13.020there is a receptive aspect of saver where you are inviting
03:25:20.220other forces to work through you in a mediumistic kind of way
03:25:30.600magic that men practice is inherently operative and directed and the men are the one inflicting
03:25:42.300the magic through will not giving over their will and their presence to be
03:25:48.260this cuts to the meat of what i'm talking about i don't intend i'm not trying to be vulgar but
03:25:55.900to be penetrated and a receptacle of things in that sense, you know, it's an any-outy
03:26:07.040kind of situation, and I do think that's a very real connotation to it.
03:26:13.200For women to be the submissive partner in a safe practice to where the gods or the spirits
03:26:19.680I think it's one of the reasons that you would have women who were more often mediums than men in modern spiritualism or anything else.
03:26:30.600The way that they connect with divinity is in a very different way.
03:26:34.260And they have a tendency to channel things or have the spirits ride them, as it was called, or work through them or, you know, take possession of them.
03:31:02.000And do you prefer historically accurate designs?
03:31:04.960I'm going to answer that backwards. I always think I prefer historically accurate designs until I see a non-historically accurate design that looks cool. So, I don't know. I don't have a good answer for that one. All of them are cool, like I said.
03:31:18.300uh if i had to explain to somebody who isn't alcatru what it means to wear the mjolnir
03:31:22.460i would kind of give the same spiel i gave regarding how a vampire would react to it but
03:31:30.520to reiterate uh nowadays it's worn for two reasons uh one is the more uh profane reason of
03:31:43.060It says, hey, I'm Alcatru, ask me about this, you know, but the other reason is, of course, you know, I am a devout follower of Thor and his kin, and this means something, this gives me courage, it gives me a sort of strength.
03:35:38.340It's kind of a big deal, but a very, very special place.
03:35:41.240So if you can make it to Brownsville, California, June the 19th through the 21st,
03:35:46.020I would love to see you there and worship our gods with you, and it's going to be a great time.
03:35:51.300If you can't, I would encourage you to celebrate Midsommar at your local Hof.
03:35:56.340We have five. Odenshoff in Brownsville, California. Thorshoff in Linden, North Carolina.
03:36:03.380Baldershoff in Murdoch, Minnesota. Njordshoff in White Springs, Florida.
03:36:09.000And most recently, Frazehoff in Austintown, Ohio.
03:36:14.160So love to see you out there and look forward to having an amazing midsummer.
03:36:20.500And I hope you guys be wherever you find yourself.
03:36:26.340So, Trent, I'm kind of curious to hear your thoughts on this myself. Are the land spirits of America benevolent or malevolent? Are the land spirits identified by the old natives worthwhile to study and interact with? How do our land spirits come into play here?
03:36:44.460uh i i've never thought about whether or not they're benevolent or malevolent
03:36:52.440um i would say it probably depends on how you treat them you know uh pretty much
03:37:00.840i mean all of our hoffs are built in these north american land spirits uh territory so to speak
03:37:10.320and i you know land spirits have not harmed any of these hoffs that could be because their sacred
03:37:17.740space is due to the isere and so if they had tried to harm them it simply would not work
03:37:23.220it could be because the pious and righteous folk of the afa just simply don't bother those land
03:37:32.260spirits maybe the land spirits hated the engines and uh are happy with the pale faces for
03:37:38.900teach them a lesson or two i don't know um are the land spirits identified by the old natives
03:37:46.680worthwhile to study interact with uh i mean anytime i do bloat at a place that is not
03:37:55.220afa sacred ground you know like my house here in georgia i you know i i do the old
03:38:02.300hallowing the the area and i mentioned to the land spirits uh you know those that wish us well
03:38:10.420are welcome in the space those that wish us woe when you're away from here as uh speckinger spawn
03:38:16.960taught a bunch of us as gothar students uh that is the only interaction i have or will have with
03:38:25.920them likely uh as far as studying them yeah it sounds fascinating like uh appalachia specifically
03:38:33.040has a really interesting history those kinds of things like uh skinwalkers uh window is it
03:38:39.400wendigoes is that it i think i was gonna say wendigoon but i think that's a youtuber
03:38:45.060that studies wendigoons so or wendigoes whatever those types of things are really interesting to
03:38:51.640study i haven't put a lot of time into it because i'm busy with afa stuff uh how do our native land
03:39:00.120spirits come into play here so i assume you mean from europe or hyperborea before that
03:39:05.140i don't know for certain that they do you know if they're spirits of the land and we didn't bring
03:39:12.360the land with us to this side of the planet i don't i don't know that they do come into play
03:39:19.000all right so pause in the chat room for a second because i'd like to add to the ongoing
03:39:28.240conversation because i want to clear something up and i think it's important to but i want to
03:39:32.740answer this question first um this is really interesting to me
03:41:47.680people will make offerings of tobacco i don't think that's bad i don't think you are like
03:41:55.360worshiping dead engines i think that respecting the spirits of land you find themselves
03:42:01.360in and forging a new path that way is probably a very good thing i think being a respectful
03:42:10.420person when you go somewhere or when you arrive in an area or when you interact with any
03:42:17.420kind of life form is a nice thing to do be noble in your interactions in the mundane world and in
03:42:24.780the spiritual world um to the uh no i think spawn cleared it up over in the side but i just want to
03:42:37.160add a couple of things. Guys practicing girl stuff isn't bad because girl stuff is less than
03:42:49.440or is lame. Guys practicing girl stuff is bad because it's gay and unmanly.
03:42:58.780Women magic is highly respected throughout our history. Tacitus writes in Germania,
03:43:07.160How the tribesmen of the Germans used to put a special emphasis on women's wisdom when it came to magic, because they have a special proprietary way of interacting with the spirit world that men didn't.
03:43:24.280I think that more often than not, women tend to be gifted with second sight in a way that men usually aren't.
03:43:31.920Powerful female saithkona or, the other word escapes me regardless, a vulva.
03:43:48.040The female magicians were prized and sought after by kings and by chieftains to come amongst a largely male-dominated place to speak with magical authority to those assembled, and their wisdom was trusted and was highly prized.
03:44:10.480So it's not that female magic is less good or bad or less holy or whatever.
03:44:19.300When we answered the question earlier, it's sacred to Freya and something you really have a lot of respect for.
04:05:44.240I'm trying to figure out how to characterize it.
04:06:01.600I don't know the right word to say it.
04:06:03.360I don't mean it disparagingly, so hopefully you take my meaning.
04:06:07.360Mine is more off the cuff from the heart and less hocus pocus.
04:06:22.340There's a lot of people that have a lot of different things they do with fire and with salt, with smoke and with banishing rituals and whatnot.
04:06:35.780And I may incorporate those theatrics into it sometimes, but one thing that I think is really important, I make it sound too simple, and I apologize, but dealing with spiritual forces, it's not that it's not more complicated,
04:07:01.200but we have a tendency to throw out the things that we know
04:09:46.980Don't sell yourself short, but don't overblow your abilities.
04:09:52.500I think that invoking your ancestors and loved ones who are beyond the veil to help you is a very valid thing to do.
04:10:03.900I think in treating your philgia to help you in the spiritual realm is a good thing to do.
04:10:12.420And I think calling upon the gods to help you is a very good thing to do.
04:10:19.240But I also think that you standing tall and proud and looking things in the eye and being assertive with your spiritual might is worth doing.
04:10:31.700I think you have a spiritual presence.
04:10:34.940I have found in my dealings with things that if you act over-cautious or over-scared of spiritual forces,
04:10:45.680they have power that they would not otherwise have if you assert yourself confidently
04:10:52.420and you recognize their existence and deal with them not as an unknown force that has power over
04:11:03.480you, but as a known force that exists in your life. I don't know if this is coming off as clear
04:11:14.440as I would like it to be, but in my experience, if you talk directly at the thing that is
04:11:25.980malevolent, and you set ground rules on stuff, and you invoke the gods to help you, and you
04:11:37.060stand confidently when scary things are happening, there's less of an ability for that negative
04:11:46.180thing to affect you. And if they want to prey on things and you are a hard target, most
04:11:54.700predators will prefer soft targets to hard targets. If you make yourself a hard target,
04:12:03.840they will move to softer targets um i think this is true in a crowd i think this is true
04:12:12.820when wolves are going after a herd i think this is true when you're dealing with black bear
04:12:20.020not that they're typically predators but like you have an ability and the more you make yourself
04:12:27.160unpleasant the less likely they are to hurt you um but yeah know what you're dealing with if it's
04:12:35.620something overwhelming by all means entreat one of our go-thar to help you um there's stuff that
04:12:41.540can be done but don't abdicate that you have spiritual efficacy beyond yourself if you're
04:12:47.000living right if you have a relationship with the ancestors with your gods and with your filia then
04:12:53.080you have supporters on the other side of the veil you have things in your favor you're not just at
04:12:58.180the whim of malevolent spiritual forces don't if you let them in and you abdicate your power to
04:13:06.560them they will oppress you that's kind of what they feed off of and what they do and i worry
04:13:13.700that my answer kind of has gone real far afield here uh but that's that's my reaction too