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00:07:25.160generosity. And yeah, it's always nice to start the show off that way.
00:07:30.960And that said, I think that's the top of the show, you know, bits and bobs I have for us. Law Speaker, would you like to tell us about mindfulness?
00:07:44.620us? Well, little I know, I am always eager to share as anyone who has ever gotten within range
00:07:53.700of a conversation of me when I'm talking about meditation. You know, I think it has worked
00:08:01.060vast improvement on my headspace and I advocate it strongly for all those who
00:08:06.980um who have a brain and want to see it work a little better um one of the questions i always
00:08:14.180ponder when we're having these shows matt and i appreciate you having me on
00:08:18.660um but one of the things like how what does this have to do with
00:08:22.900also true and our religion and you know i think a couple of things one you know i think religion
00:08:31.300like in the bigger picture one of the purposes of having a church and one of the things that
00:08:37.780keeps me active in our church is the idea that we should be helping each other improve
00:08:44.020um you know and and certainly self-improvement um improvement for the betterment of the folk
00:08:50.500that's one of the reasons that i stay with my shoulder on the wheel as much as i do um
00:08:55.860even though sometimes I'm slow to respond to emails and texts and so forth,
00:09:01.960I do have a vigorous and healthy interest in the health of our people.
00:09:10.420And so, you know, that's one of the reasons that I put this segment together in general
00:09:17.420was because I think that we should, while certainly theology and the fine points of
00:09:24.240um that are critically important i think it's also important to you know for us to bolster each other
00:09:31.600as um and you know as members and um so i'm happy to share what insights i've developed over the
00:09:41.780last however many years i've been pondering at this problem the other thing is that i think that
00:09:47.520But the Odinic mindset, you know, years and years ago when I first found Also True, I was, one of the things that engaged me about our faith is that we have, that our primary God, Wotan, lives at the conjunction of thought and memory.
00:10:10.640so that in and of itself is mindfulness like odin is mind odin is awareness and um so that
00:10:22.680so that brings that to the fore in the way that it is not
00:10:27.620addressed in any of the faith that i've ever run across and i think in a lot of ways this topic
00:10:35.980Mindfulness is kind of a conjunction of a lot of the other things that I've talked about on these on this segment of the last few months, because, you know, any of the things that you want to talk about, like even health, for example, you know, health is about awareness.
00:10:55.980It's about how many calories have I eaten today? Should I eat this sugar or should I have a salad? Should I, you know, go have this overloaded fatty cheeseburger or should I go home and cook a chicken breast?
00:11:12.700I mean, those are the sorts of things that if you have some degree of self-awareness, mindfulness, then you can ponder those sorts of things out for yourself.
00:11:23.640in uh in so many ways this question like a question of mindfulness
00:11:31.620you know fits in with a lot of the other things that we do in also true because it there there's
00:11:40.600no line between this and that you know it's kind of a process that you have to engage in and you
00:11:47.780And by being by having self-awareness and by actually being engaged in your life, then you can ponder these questions out as you go.
00:12:01.100One of the examples that always comes to my mind years and years ago, I was in a philosophy class and it wasn't like a college philosophy class where they were talking about Heidegger that I still don't understand.
00:12:17.780or other less interesting philosophers, but it was, there's a class, and I think it's basically a derivation of Vedantic philosophy,
00:12:30.200but the teacher of the class, it's adult class, it's an adult kind of informal class, and the guy teaching it, facilitating is what he called it,
00:12:41.520But he's you know, but he used the example of driving like when you're driving, you're doing whatever.
00:12:48.160And like one of the guys says, I just zone out.
00:12:50.980You know, I'm just driving along and like that's the most boring part of my day is the time that I spend in the commute.
00:13:02.620Number one, you should never turn your brain off like that.
00:13:05.260Number two, he's that guy daydreaming when the light turns green and sitting there for three or four seconds while the rest of the line is waiting to go.
00:13:18.460Or he's driving along at 72 miles an hour in the passing lane, you know, while the rest of us, you know, are late to the food pantry.
00:13:25.640and but and all those are the kinds of things which and it's fine if you want
00:13:35.560sorry you know and matt you've ridden with me so you know i'm a veteran road ranger and um so
00:13:43.000and it's fine if you want to drive slow that is that is certainly an approach to driving in a
00:13:49.960a vehicle. Just not on the same road as Allen. You can be on the same road, but just be in the
00:13:56.120correct lane. If you're going to drive slow, drive in the slow lane. Don't make me bright my lights
00:14:03.100and honk my horn for you to get out of the passing lane. That's just being unmindful of the fact that
00:14:09.640there are other people who have a different approach to driving. On that note, I saw a guy,
00:14:16.940There was a bumper sticker on Capital Circle here a few weeks ago on the back of this guy's pickup truck, and it said, I'm retired.
00:14:36.560You know, and I wish now that I had sourced the quote, but it was either Aristotle or Marcus Aurelius or one of the Greeks who wrote the stuff that I think the Teutonic tribes were thinking.
00:15:01.400although you know there were greeks the pre-socratics who thought that even that you
00:15:07.040know writing was a an improper advance because you know if you wrote stuff down it it weakened
00:15:14.600your mind you were less likely to memorize things if you wrote it down um and there's something to
00:15:19.960that um but uh the uh but this now an attributed quote um says become such as you are once you
00:15:33.160determine what that is and that's one of the um aspects that i think um early also true
00:15:46.920suffered from frankly um and i think that a lot of other aspects of life um would do well to
00:15:57.000um pick up on and that and when i relate that to also true like when we when we were first
00:16:03.720getting started and there were many many fewer of us than there are now you know we many of us and
00:16:12.920maybe me too for a while you know it's like you you you can't be also true if you don't understand
00:16:18.360it at like some super high level unless you've read all these books and you know understand
00:16:25.080how these pieces of the lore all interact together and unless you know all these stories
00:16:30.200you can't call yourself one of us and now i realize how absurd that is and even then
00:16:39.160um you know i would tell people who were trying to take that position you know we don't need a
00:16:46.560nation of priests and we have never been a nation of priests we um you know we are people each of
00:16:54.880whom understands these matters at their own level and frankly i um am honored to serve as one of the
00:17:04.400gothar of our church and it and as we have discussed um that and the gothar you know you
00:17:15.260membership if you're a member you don't need to bore yourself with these excruciating details
00:17:24.000that we agonize over you know but we do that's our job okay and your job is to
00:17:30.440believe that we have your best interest at heart and that we have ironed the stuff out the best
00:17:36.920way that we can. If I could interject super quick, the Greek who said that was Pindar,
00:17:45.800a lyrical poet who composed victory songs for athletes. Oh, cool. So that's good. I appreciate
00:17:56.520you saying that and now i'll have to go run upstairs and write that where i have that quote
00:18:00.200written down um but uh you know so um but that certainly the victory aspect of it that's uh
00:18:06.840that's great that he's so he was one of us um an area in in uh body and spirit um
00:18:16.360so and i'm you know like i'm no athlete i'm not a weight lifter i'm not a bodybuilder but you
00:18:23.240know so but on those questions I absolutely would defer to those who have that expertise
00:18:28.040um I'm not a plumber I you know I hire those things done I you know I know the stuff that
00:18:33.080I know and I know that I don't know the other stuff I try I've tried to expunge the Dunning-Kruger
00:18:39.640effect from my, from my legacy. The, so then in the rest of it, right? One of the videos that I've
00:18:57.300watched, and again, I've saved you from hours and hours of watching videos about mindfulness,
00:19:02.700perhaps, or maybe I could encourage you to watch hours and hours of video about mindfulness,
00:19:07.520Because like a lot of other things, it's one of those, it's a topic that you can't say it is one thing and not another.
00:20:21.820And the idea of awareness and mindfulness is often conjoined with the idea that, you know, the way that sports people and even craftspeople, writers, talk about being in the zone.
00:20:42.480And that's the sort of thing that is, you know, certainly is a Zen mindful way of doing your thing.
00:20:56.800And there's absolutely nothing wrong with sitting and thinking, contemplating, meditating and acting.
00:21:06.280And if you do those things mindfully and take a mindful approach to your planning, you spend some time planning, you spend some time thinking, and then you can enact those plans and thoughts in a mindful way.
00:21:27.280And it's, and it's, and you're more fully occupying your life.
00:21:42.560You are occupying your mind so completely that you're not living on autopilot.
00:21:49.460Um, you know, like this blackberry lemonade, you know, how does it taste?
00:22:01.380You know, it tastes the same as it just tasted, but if you taste it again for the first time, then you're doing it more mindfully with a degree of awareness.
00:22:17.020And these sort of overlap in a lot of ways, and here they mean that horizontal connection, which is what we have in the church, in the Hoffs, certainly in the time that we are together individually, when we're together as a group, we have that connection.
00:22:43.600And all of us who have been to a Hoff or when we go to a national event and we see people that we haven't seen for a long time or we meet somebody for the first time, you know, so many of us have said, you know, it is like coming home.
00:23:00.260And it is because we feel that connection to people who are like us, to people who are traditionalists and have a traditional right minded approach to doing these things.
00:23:13.120and then whatever these things are and so those uh those ideas all mesh together and by having
00:23:24.240that connection to each other to our family to our extended family um that helps us live longer
00:23:33.600lives every study that's ever been done demonstrates that people who have more friends live longer
00:23:40.320doesn't bode I mean I whatever I don't want to get in all that so the other part of it sorry is
00:23:48.960an other part is having an insight into your personal narrative so which again is a type
00:23:59.720of self-awareness so it's like how did I end up here you know I recognize in myself like I
00:24:09.200drive a car that's a little older than a car because I don't that because I'm even though I
00:24:14.800could drive a car that was newer and nicer but I don't want to have a car payment so that that is
00:24:21.920a way that I occupy my own space so that I can do that in a way that is healthy to me for some
00:24:29.360people they want a nice car and they are willing to live with the stress and strain that comes with
00:24:36.000a car payment so that they can have a nicer car. And that's good for them. I'm not positive
00:24:44.300that's the healthiest way to do that, but if that's what they want to do, that's on
00:24:47.480them. I have acclimated myself to rotate my car through the shop and doing a lot of maintenance
00:24:54.300so I don't have to have a car payment. And again, I am occupying the way that I live
00:24:59.240my life in a way that's comfortable for me because that's my personal narrative i am look because my
00:25:06.280profession if anybody doesn't know i practice bankruptcy law and so um you know i have become
00:25:15.400very debt averse because of seeing what debt does to people to people's health and well-being
00:25:23.160to their spirit and so i try to avoid debt and i manipulate my way around that
00:25:30.740and then the fourth aspect of this part of it is having a purpose and
00:25:39.220here again um i think for many of us um perhaps matt for you uh you know the church is uh the
00:25:51.160church and our folk gives us a purpose you know i want to see our people do well i want to see
00:25:56.720our church do well and as i throw my shoulder into the wheel and try to figure out what's going
00:26:04.700on with the phrase off or you know the problems that we try to solve every day um you know that
00:26:13.380gives me meaning and purpose in my life and um and my children the uh you know to try to help them
00:26:25.280help themselves and our members to help them help themselves that gives me purpose it gives me a
00:26:31.280reason to fight my way out of bed every morning and um you know put on my big boy pants and
00:26:39.160go down and return emails, not Matt's, but everybody else to return emails and make phone
00:26:48.220calls and talk to people and counsel people, you know, because I feel like I need that part of
00:26:54.920myself. Even my clients who frustrate me sometimes, I feel like I get a lot of appreciation
00:27:03.720internally by helping them, even sometimes against their, you know, against their overwhelming tide
00:27:13.780of mindless, you know, bad decision-making, you know, I managed to get them to a good result.
00:27:24.760And, you know, that helps me feel like I have a purpose in my life.
00:27:28.340so i'll take a breath and let you throw some stuff in i was gonna say i'm i'm i'm taking down notes
00:27:37.740and uh first note i am mindful that uh ronald blake donated 45 towards the phrasehoff fund
00:27:46.380and we really appreciate that thank you so much for that ronald um got a couple of
00:27:53.920so we've heard from in comments like advertising this episode and folks in the chat room we have
00:28:04.680heard from a i don't know a segment of the audience that we don't typically hear from it's
00:28:11.200not always the same folks that are very excited you wanted to talk about this this evening i think
00:28:16.880it's something that have been has been on folks mind uh quite a bit so a lot of people are are
00:28:22.880excited to get into it a little bit. Something that's always been, I don't know, fundamental
00:28:31.200to me with the concept of us as Aryan noble people is to make choices to direct the course
00:28:43.180of our life as opposed to aimlessly being tossed about on the, you know, choices of others.
00:28:52.880it's very important not well i feel it's a very important expression of ousatru and i should dial
00:29:00.800this back one more step you mentioned in your preamble that you know you think about how these
00:29:08.320topics relate to ousatru and i think what bears repeating is you know an ad infinitum ad infinitum
00:30:13.360often I um couple it with magic but I shouldn't I think any amount of spirituality is directly
00:30:29.260related to proportionally to intentionality if you're just happening to do the things you do
00:30:38.380because you're roped along to doing them because that's what the guy next to you is doing and
00:30:42.580that's not an intentional existence and living intentionally is the key to your efficacy as an
00:30:51.780Aryan man or woman and it builds up a spiritual might that you put into the horn when you make
00:31:00.500your offerings if you do so with full intention it is a powerful gift to the gods if you're just
00:31:08.900touching the horn because dude next to you touched the horn and you know you're going over the lyrics
00:31:14.580to a prince song in your head or something while you're supposed to be bloating that's not that's
00:31:19.860not intentional and i think you know when we talk about as gothar how to do bloat a lot of what we
00:31:28.700try to think about is the mechanics of keeping people focused and keeping their intention sharp
00:31:34.760So I think it's very relevant to the Ausitru practice. Also, the NPC thing, we believe in Ausitru fundamentally, and this is something that separates us from, I would say separates us certainly from Christianity and also from Eastern faiths of, you know, wanting to disappear into oneness.
00:31:57.020our individual expression of ourselves, the heroic ideal of being a person of agency
00:32:07.440is so crucial to all the things that we do. And you can't do that unless you are mindful.
00:32:14.900Now, there are plenty of, you know, over expressions of mindfulness, and I'm sure the
00:32:20.380law speaker will get to but as at a fundamental level being aware of the things going on around
00:32:30.420you and consciously choosing your method of engagement with the life that you have before you
00:32:37.440it is it's sad that that's a mark of distinction but in today's world it really is
00:32:46.840And I think it's a really special one. And I think it is one that is available to all of us outside of all of the different situations we find ourselves in.
00:33:04.920There's a lot of opportunities that are afforded. Those who maybe are born into wealth are in are particularly robust, are particularly bright, are particularly any number of things that are advantageous.
00:33:18.340Because anyone at any state of what they're doing, barring comatose people or the severely retarded, are capable of recognizing where they are in relation to others, in relation to the gods, in relation to the world around them, and acting with purpose and with meaning within the days of their lives and within the abilities they have.
00:33:42.820that's the first step of the heroic ideal is taking ownership of your behavior and choosing
00:33:51.480to live intentionally and I think it's it really ties in in a very important way and
00:33:57.580the other thing I wanted to say on it and I'll yield the floor is
00:34:03.740one of the things that particularly besets our folk is a over stimulus of negative information
00:34:19.160we are hyper aware of all of the things that are wrong geopolitically and in these huge macro
00:34:27.500machinations of the world that we have very little direct interaction with to change in a positive
00:34:34.860direction. When we allow that to take the driver's seat and we become nihilistic, we don't take
00:34:43.520advantage of all of the small opportunities we have to act for the things that we believe in
00:34:50.560within the circles we actually have an effect over.
00:34:55.180We become so dominated by the current of, you know,
00:34:59.860things not being the way we want them to be
00:35:02.180that we miss daily opportunities to move things a little bit better
00:35:07.260in the circles we're in, with those around us,
00:35:10.980to set ripples in the world that do good things.
00:35:15.420Alan mentioned that many people, myself included,
00:35:20.560Find meaning through our faith, find meaning through the Astro Folk Assembly, because the truth of it is so many people are atomized in the world and have, you know, maybe a couple of friends, maybe the nuclear family they find themselves in that they can actually affect.
00:35:41.220in the AFA, you have direct access to make significant effects for hundreds, if not thousands
00:35:49.680of people. And that's an opportunity that most people that you run into at the grocery store
00:35:54.300don't have. You're very fortunate to have it. What do you do with it? Many of the people that,
00:36:01.080you know, the folk builder apprentices that I mentioned at the beginning of the show,
00:36:05.300they've chosen to step up and try to make something of that positive for what we're all
00:36:10.860doing. And that's awesome that they're doing that. Alan and myself have chosen to advance that to a
00:36:17.360bigger proportionality in our lives by becoming ordained as priests to the Iser. There's a lot
00:36:25.000of ways to do it and there's a lot of opportunities, but we have to be mindful in order to recognize
00:36:30.680those opportunities. I got some more stuff for later down the road, but those are the thoughts
00:36:35.340I had so far with what you're saying. No, and I appreciate that. And for those new folk builders
00:36:40.560and for those who have been at this for a while, you'll be frustrated by a lot of that, but keep at
00:36:49.680it. It's also greatly rewarding. When I was folk building, it was almost every time I called
00:36:59.040somebody for the first time, they would say, man, you're the first actual heathen that I've ever
00:37:06.720talked to um and so it was you know it was really rewarding to be able to help them feel included in
00:37:15.360our family in that way um nomenclature aside and um you know one of the this is one of the
00:37:26.480frustrating things that that we have felt and it's odd because you know how i'm about um the word
00:37:35.680weird right and but they're one of the books that i listened to some time ago um is titled
00:37:45.200the weirdest people in the world and what they're talking and weird in their nomenclature it's all
00:37:50.480caps and it stands for western educated industrialized um and democratic so what
00:37:59.520they're talking about is the western world which has been fractionated by its exposure to
00:38:15.760that could be five shows you know dissecting that book which was you know 14 or 18 hours but
00:38:22.480But their sociological studies demonstrate that, like in Germany, the closer you are to where an early church was formed, like in the 800s to the 1200s,
00:38:37.720the closer you are to that, the more impact that you have felt because the church had a deliberate policy.
00:38:45.060And this is now sociologically just part of the rote nomenclature of the way sociology is taught now.
00:38:55.100The church deliberately broke up the tribal structure by determining marriage policy, for example.
00:39:03.200And what that did is it broke up the tribes.
00:39:06.340So instead of being a tightly knit, close community, it made people diffuse into towns and become more metropolitan.
00:39:15.060Um, and that process, um, explained one of the things that I had seen in a documentary years previous, there was a documentary about joy, about girls joining the nunnery.
00:39:39.040Okay. And they they highlighted these two young girls, one of them Catholic and one of them Hindu.
00:39:50.380And like the Catholic girl was. 16, 17, 18 years old.
00:39:57.500And, you know, they showed her going through the process of talking to her family, talking to the members of her church, talking to the hierarchy within the nunnery about joining the nun.
00:40:09.040about joining the convent the other one was this hindu girl much younger 14 or so
00:40:17.520um but when they what struck me was the
00:40:27.680um when each girl took her i forget what it's called but when you take your oath into the
00:40:39.040Catholic convent, right? The girl joining the Catholic convent, her family was there, a few friends. There were 30, 40, 50 people in the church.
00:40:48.780But when this Hindu girl gave herself as a member to the temple in her village, there were 5,000 people in the streets of her village watching her take her vows because she was part of something that the whole village was a part of.
00:41:17.300And so that's that meaning through, you know, meaning and purpose and connection all in one thing.
00:41:26.220And that's something that has been lost largely in Western civilization.
00:41:32.860And we, you know, we've been lied to about our purpose and about the, about what Western civilization is,
00:41:43.560as if we are some, I don't want to get too far down that tangent, but the, but it makes
00:41:56.860me rededicate myself to our people so that we can find that connection to each other
00:42:06.080and across that, you know, across those divides again.
00:42:11.480So I apologize for taking so long to make what maybe is sort of an obscure point.
00:42:19.700So part of the other stuff that I want to talk about with mindfulness, and it is, you know, and it's about the cell phone.
00:42:27.820Like my cell phone went off. I thought I'd left it in the other room.
00:42:30.820My cell phone went off a few minutes ago. I'll get to it later.
00:42:34.240But but so if you if you read them, if you watch the videos on mindfulness, right, one of the things that they talk about is having your phone with you all the time.
00:42:47.080This is something, first of all, that, you know, has only been a thing.
00:42:51.040We haven't evolved the right decade about, you know, being too available too much at the time.
00:43:04.240You know, I remember when I was a child and it was it was considered rude to call somebody during the dinner hour and that's that sort of thing.
00:43:14.580So we're, you know, hopefully we will evolve to a point where our technology is not ruling us like it is now.
00:43:20.780But one of the things that I picked up, one of the stats here, I wrote it down.
00:43:26.500It must be true. But one of the things that they that they studied was.
00:43:34.240People who have their phone with them, but they turn it on silent, but then they would text them while they're trying to accomplish some other task, solving a simple puzzle or doing something like that.
00:43:47.960And just having your phone with you on silent increased your error rate 30%.
00:43:55.240So, you know, that's why I'm such a bear about not having your phone in there with you when you're doing Hoff stuff.
00:44:02.980I, you know, I want to go back to leaving your phone off for the whole weekend.
00:44:07.220The other part of that is this idea of multitasking, which was never something that, you know, if you try to talk to some writer or craftsman or something like that about, you know, that's, you know, what that is, is a form of distractiveness.
00:44:27.620It's mindlessness to think that you can do two things at one time.
00:44:35.060And again, this is one of the things that psychologists have studied.
00:44:42.460And what they show is that when you think you're multitasking the brain, your attention is a single thing.
00:44:51.740And when you're multitasking, and I hate air quotes usually, but when you're multitasking, you're not doing two things at once.
00:45:01.700You're alternating, and the term that they call it is task switching.
00:45:07.260So I would say if I was to text and drive, you know, it would not be that you're texting and driving.
00:45:16.780It's you're texting and then you're driving and you're texting and then you're driving.
00:45:20.100And so every time that your brain switches from one task to the other, there's two or three seconds that's lost going from one task to another.
00:45:34.080So multitasking, you know, if you're trying to write an email while you're texting something else, it's, you know, you're losing time.
00:45:44.660minute, but your attention, which is that one thing that you have there at the conjunction
00:45:50.220of thought and memory, that one thing that you have, your attention is focused all the
00:45:54.780time, so it seems like you're doing two things, but you're not doing two things at once, you're
00:46:01.020doing two things alternately, and your attention is being used all the time, but it's not being
00:46:07.680used in its most productive way when you when you're jumping back and forth like that so um
00:46:15.760you know that that sort of task switching is part of the modern era where we've come to think that
00:46:26.160that the only way to because that's that's the model that we're that we're force-fed
00:46:34.320in this modern computer over connected age is to you know is that we have to be doing
00:46:42.560uh you know we have to have a phone in each hand while we're you know voice texting or whatever
00:46:49.420that is so that we so that we can maintain maximum productivity and all that's just you know it's
00:46:55.340just wrongheaded. And what that has led to is, again, this is a different study, when
00:47:09.700people are asked, where is their mind? Like, where are you right now? If you're waiting
00:47:17.580in line at the grocery store or you're driving or you're at work or whatever you're doing
00:47:27.020according to these studies people are only occupying their space about 47 percent of the time
00:47:36.440so what that what that says then is that the other 53 percent of the time more than half the time
00:47:45.340you're not in your own headspace. You're thinking about the future.
00:47:50.220You're regretting something about the past. And there's time for that.
00:47:54.800Don't get me wrong, but it's not 53% of the time, you know,
00:48:00.900you, you know, 88% of the time you should be in your headspace.
00:48:05.920You should be where you are doing what you're doing, being with your family.
00:48:10.420You know, it hurts my soul to go out to a restaurant, as I did last weekend.
00:48:18.740I met a friend of mine for dinner, and I came out, and there's a family of four in the waiting area waiting to get seated.
00:48:26.920And each of them is on their own phone doing their own thing.
00:48:32.320And, you know, that's time that they will never have and that they'll never have back.
00:48:38.600And they're spending it, you know, somewhere far, far away with people who do not care about them.
00:48:53.280So that's an interesting thing that you bring up because we live in a time where stimulus comes at us at an unprecedented rate.
00:49:07.200um for good or for ill we are bombarded with stimulus most of us from the moment we wake up
00:49:19.920until the moment we put our head down to sleep if not after that and there's a lot of information
00:49:25.800coming in and it becomes one of the challenges of the modern age is to maintain focus or to be able
00:49:35.100to and as alan kind of rightly points out your brain doesn't really multitask it bounces back
00:49:43.980and forth quickly between different tasks but the more of those you stack and in the closer
00:49:52.140proximity the more your ability to handle them begins to degrade um so if you find yourself
00:50:03.020and i often find myself there to where you are attached to your phone and attached to your
00:50:09.600computer and attached to things you have to and this is also part of mindfulness you have to
00:50:15.020build in time to take a break and be mindful and that's would have gone without saying
00:50:27.100in our ancestors' day, and it's not what a lot of us face as our reality. So having to
00:50:34.540make a special point of not doing those things is something that we should seriously consider.
00:50:45.940You know, Alan mentioned the thing about you go out to eat and everybody's stuck to their phone.
00:50:51.360it's, and again, I'm not, I'm not that guy. Law speaker might be. I'm not that guy. I'm on my
00:50:59.300phone a lot. You may have plenty of circumstances where you need to be on your phone at dinner.
00:51:05.300Maybe that's the time you can do something with people in the same room, but you're still on call.
00:51:10.980Maybe you have loved ones in the hospital. You need to be able to get alerts on.
00:51:16.260There's a lot of circumstances, but there's also a lot of times you can just leave it in the car.
00:51:21.360All right. I'm going to let that pass.
00:51:29.740I'm being mindful. I'm choosing not to respond to that stimulus.
00:51:34.180So what I was going to say is that there's a lot of times you can put your phone in the car and you can carve out chunks of time to be very present at stuff with your family.
00:51:47.000and it's one thing if you're with these people 24 7 but in the world that we live in very often
00:51:54.480you may just have a few hours a day that you get with your spouse or you may have a limited time
00:52:00.100that you have with your children as alan did rightly point out it's time you'll never get back
00:52:05.160And when you're able to, finding ways to engage in, like, taking a break from the overstimulation is really important.
00:52:20.000Now, something that I find myself having to do a lot, having to be kind of aware of,
00:52:26.580the more that we do and the more that we grow and the more that we succeed, these are all awesome things.
00:52:35.160But it adds more and more and more and more stimulus. So learning how to manage the stimulus that comes in and how to take breaks when necessary and find time in your life to do the things that are important is really crucial. And it's an interesting challenge.
00:52:58.320i'm sure that this probably come up later i'm talking more about it later but one thing i did
00:53:05.000want to mention that i found really helpful with it is the gym and the dojo
00:53:10.740you can be in spots where you're just not connected to your phone and everything else
00:53:19.560you have to be in the moment and what is useful is things that put you there by the nature of
00:53:28.100by just the inherent nature of what you're doing as opposed to you choosing to set it aside like
00:53:35.200no if you're in the dojo and it's in your gym bag and you're doing stuff you are focused on what's
00:53:41.820going on or else you get hurt or you might hurt someone else you have to be very focused on
00:53:46.580something physical that is a very good trigger for me to be very intentional very mindful and
00:53:55.760very in the moment. And I also feel that way at the gym when you're working out.
00:54:00.660When you're under the iron lifting and doing things,
00:54:06.240your mind may go to stuff, but it's much more focused on what you are doing. And the more
00:54:16.920intense the lifting you're doing, the more you are highly focused on that ever-present activity
00:54:22.700that you were engaged in i think that helps to train to train yourself to be mindful and be
00:54:31.740actively engaged in the thing you're doing right 100 and you know there are
00:54:44.060there are guys who come in you know i do i'll work out at the quoon is the term for a kung fu gym
00:54:51.420rather than dojo, which is also a perfectly respectable term, but the term quen in the unlikely event that you care is actually the Chinese word means workout temple.
00:55:03.940And it was always a place where the ancestors and the progenitors of the style were revered and rightly in their place.
00:55:12.400um but you know it it makes me cringe just have those guys in there and you know when they're
00:55:21.620working out and touching hands and doing their stuff and their phone rings and they go answer
00:55:26.160the phone i'm like and with the rare exceptions that you mentioned like if you have a loved one
00:55:33.460who is in the icu or if you're a heart surgeon who may be called away at an instance notice
00:55:41.540for a life-saving procedure, then yes, you should have your
00:55:45.560phone with you. For all the rest of us, all the
00:56:08.720um satisfaction and frustration for you to um to to have to do all of that all the time and i
00:56:16.880although i gently put fun at you occasionally for having to do that um i recognize that uh that you
00:56:26.080do it in a in a purposeful way so you know thank you for being my no i appreciate you saying so
00:56:34.440something I was going to mention too that I try to figure out ways to deal with. I thought about
00:56:43.120this the other day. I am constantly connected to my phone, but I had to turn off my notifications
00:56:48.840or else it would just not stop. Right. So I have to do these little frequent check-ins to kind of
00:56:58.620make sure I'm not missing something, but the notification's not stopping. Now, one thing I
00:57:03.020want to, I do want to stress that as Gothar, we try to do one of those things that we try to do
00:57:12.680is to be available for our folk when emergencies happen and stuff. So we try to plan coverage when
00:57:20.200we're not able to be by our phone. We try to rotate that around and do different things to
00:57:26.520manage that. Because I do realize there's some people that are attached and there was a
00:57:32.860There was a time that was managed through like beepers. I say this theoretically, not personally. I'm aware it's a thing. But when you had people and you had like a beeper, it was less than, oh, I'm getting this message. Oh, perhaps it's a member in distress. But wait, look, there's this funny reel.
00:57:53.100what's this guy doing that's crazy look there's a puppy what's the puppy doing oh he's look how cute
00:57:59.660he is oh the next thing you know you're completely off on that and i'm being silly but not not that
00:58:07.100silly we see the stuff pop up and you click on it you get you get lost in it um and that's hard
00:58:13.980enough just when you're doing normal stuff i one thing that i hate women you guys know you do this
00:58:23.980don't hate women don't don't get it twisted i there's a fuller thought here but they have
00:58:28.860a tendency justified though hey what hey what what are you thinking what's what's on your mind
00:58:35.820what's going on nothing truth is one of our virtues so this is a preamble to set this up
00:58:45.420i enforce that rigorously at my home we don't do that so somebody asks hey what are you thinking
00:58:53.500about you know where are you or whatever if you're zoning off and looking off in the distance
00:58:59.340i make real sure i give an honest answer to it all the time and it leads to really strange things
00:59:05.420especially when you articulate them out loud. I remember one time Mandy and I were driving.
00:59:10.300She's like, Matt, what are you doing? You're just like gazing off into space. You're not
00:59:15.660paying attention. What are you doing? I'm like, I'm training my imaginary baby bear.
00:59:22.940The whole process in my head about this whole fictitious situation.
00:59:28.860and uh yeah that so i think if i ever asked you that and that was your answer i would never
00:59:36.020ask you again that would be a way of life i will never have it
00:59:40.240it's a valid option these these are the things um
00:59:46.280there is also something that i wanted to mention though while we're on that really
00:59:53.740i want to say really special um perhaps valuable we have an ability to
01:00:06.300imagine and be creative in our minds and recognizing that and choosing to make use of it
01:00:18.260for purpose versus getting lost in it is an interesting an interesting thing being able to
01:00:30.340take control of the immense ability that we have to think to plan to reason to imagine to create
01:00:42.660All of those things are really special, and finding an ability to harness them intentionally with mindfulness is a very potent part of being human, a very potent part of being Aryan.
01:01:02.480And I don't know how it displays in other varieties of earth fauna.
01:01:32.480it's a really beautiful thing so it's neither here nor there it's just something that came to
01:01:36.960mind while we were on it and before i relinquish the floor gilbert donated 150 towards our phrase
01:01:44.080off fund thank you gilbert we appreciate you appreciate your donation and i appreciate your
01:01:49.840generosity overall thank you so much and i know how you made that connection from the wonderful
01:01:55.600craftsmanship that gilbert displays and is so generous with you know taking a little block of
01:02:02.080wood and turning it into a that is impressive yeah that was just a happy synchronicity that was not
01:02:11.200not sketched that was not baked in that's the holographic way in which thought and memory
01:02:16.800coalesced i uh oh while we're on that to to continue to overplay that hand i think um
01:02:24.560Um, often I talk magically on this show about one of the benefits of the runes and a number
01:02:38.880of other things in our circles is the lens that we perceive the world through.
01:02:46.600When our head is in a spiritual place and we're in a place of mindfulness, we notice and we pick up on those special, perhaps weird little synchronicities and points of connectivity that bind us together as folk, as friends, as family.
01:03:09.980but that bind us also with our gods, with Ausatru, with our AFA family in the things that we're doing.
01:03:20.080When we're in the moment and we are mindful, we can see these subtle currents in earth.
01:03:27.820We can see, you know, the weave in the tapestry, and we can make note of it, and we can, you know, manipulate has a bad connotation.
01:04:02.760You know, one of the, and it's funny how these synchronicities work themselves out.
01:04:08.980My interest in Monty Python led not only to me doing several long but hilarious recitations, sometimes unprompted, but also one of the things that I read an interview with John Cleese years ago.
01:04:32.440And one of the things that that that he mentioned is that he was reading the philosopher Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff is one of those obscure philosophers.
01:04:44.460He was a Russian or Serb. And but that was his emphasis is that people are asleep, you know, and that they have to be awakened.
01:04:59.960And, you know, and honestly, for a long time after reading, yes, I do sometimes say me, and I love shrubbery.
01:05:12.220But the two shrubberies with a little path, the after reading Gurdjieff, again, very difficult to understand.
01:05:26.900um but one of the things that i did was i thought that like if i was rough you know if i was you
01:05:35.140know kind of that scowling and what you know back in those days you know we didn't have this
01:05:42.260black belt but that was kind of the thing you know like i'm going to present myself as
01:05:47.620aggressively as possible in order to try to jolt these people into some kind of awareness
01:05:54.020But what I've learned low these many years later is that really happiness is the best way to to bring people out.
01:06:11.980Right. Like I stopped by Aldi on my way home today. And, you know, I had like a four minute conversation with the checker at Aldi.
01:06:22.340And you could you could you know, he's just how you doing? How you doing? You know, right.
01:06:27.680Ringing stuff through the dinger. And, you know, but I just engaged him in a way that I could tell it made him made him happy.
01:06:36.600And it made it made his day a little better. It made my day better because we talked, you know, whatever it was, it made it, you know, it made our day shine a little better.
01:06:48.900And I think I've said it on the show before, but I'll say it again now. I think we need to move into like a post ironic means of conducting ourselves.
01:07:00.780You know, an irony or ennui is that, you know, that sort of that holdover of, you know, the posh put on, you know, you're too cool for this world and all sort of stuff.
01:07:16.360that's all just a little fabrication you know what here we are here to engage with
01:07:27.400and bolster each other and you know in that way and by and by doing that at every opportunity um
01:07:36.280you know when i picked up the pizzas from domino's i mean i you know whatever there's there's there's
01:07:43.960a way to do that and there's a way to stand glumly in the corner scrolling through your phone looking
01:07:49.800for a cat video to put a thumbs up to that you know that it just it erodes your humanity
01:08:01.240to do that and every time you do that you're a little bit less of a human i think
01:08:14.280i've earlier i was talking about like the tremendous power our minds have to do different
01:08:22.440things one of those is to dilute ourselves um we have a lot of tools at our disposal now to
01:08:33.800compensate for lack of social skill by artificially engaging in social things on social media
01:08:49.960that in a way alleviates the all we as it were of not being able to engage socially and feeling
01:08:59.880isolated it's nice that we have that solve if that's what we struggle with but it's very easy
01:09:11.560to get lost in that and to live a virtual existence as opposed to a real existence
01:09:18.600and i think that you know many of us have through the circumstances of
01:09:24.280of, I don't know, last few years we live in, I keep going back to 2020 and the COVID lockdowns
01:09:33.140and social effects that they have when we deal with younger people. At, you know, at my stage
01:09:41.080in life, in my mid-40s, doesn't feel like that was five years ago, but it was. But for people who
01:09:50.880were coming of age in that time or developing their social skills in that time they have a
01:09:55.520significant obstacle to overcome that the rest of us didn't have to deal with when we were developing
01:10:00.160those skills i think it's really apparent i think it's easy to like poke fun at or you know look
01:10:07.520down on that but i think that the greater challenge is to pry our brothers and sisters away from that
01:10:16.240and i could drag them out on the dance floor of life and get them to engage socially
01:10:22.880that was hard enough to do for introverted people before that it's much more difficult now for a lot
01:10:29.840of introverted people one of the things i was talking about okay so side note one of the cool
01:10:35.040things about um doing things at baldur's hoff is the hot tub sample so a bunch of people coming in
01:10:43.680or whatever hanging out at the hot tub after the event talking about life talking about stuff
01:10:50.640perhaps aided by uh by spirits um one of the things we were talking about last weekend was
01:11:02.000was just that was you know we had and this is something that we are building through the astro
01:11:09.040folk assembly and i've also come to the realization that we're never going to be where i want us to be
01:11:18.560because i will always find a new horizon where i want to elevate us to and i think that's just
01:11:25.920part of how i'm wired and my drive for some of these things but what i said to say this we are
01:11:32.640making big strides they may not seem earth shattering but they're very significant to
01:11:38.160individuals in regaining that social structure to where we help the introverted amongst us to
01:11:46.320engage socially by providing context you know there was a time where if you didn't have you
01:11:56.640you know, if you weren't outgoing, your friend would drag you along. You'd have people that put
01:12:03.140you on double dates that you, you know, whatever, you'd get thrust in there. You'd have a brother
01:12:07.840or a sister that would, you know, get you involved. You'd hang out with their friends.
01:12:13.380You'd have people that would help pull you up instead of you feeling like there's a gap that
01:12:19.820you can't master to get out and engage in the world in the way that you want. In the AFA, you
01:12:25.480have that. You have men and women who have been through similar things than you might be dealing
01:12:36.480with. You have folks that are happy to bring you along and help facilitate and ease your engagement
01:12:45.180in situations that you might not be used to. And I urge all of you guys to take that opportunity
01:12:52.400and allow, you know, allow your brothers and sisters to pull you along with them
01:12:58.980and to help facilitate those kind of real connections and, I don't know, authentic engagement in life.
01:13:10.740And I think that is absolutely true for those who come to things.
01:13:16.920And I think it's even more true for those who are just outside, like they're waiting to come to their first thing.
01:13:25.580You know, it's like, you know, those people are kind of interesting, but I don't know if I could, you know, we will we will enfold you with love and acceptance.
01:13:37.300You know, this is the place where you can be. What is it? You can be you can become yourself having determined what that is. Right.
01:13:48.960Right. You are because for a lot of us, you know, having reached a lot of conclusions, rightful conclusions about, you know, the traditional way of life and the metanarrative of history and so forth and so on.
01:14:08.640you know, this is where we are, right?
01:14:13.320This is the religion of those who have found their way across the wide gulf of
01:14:22.140obstacles that have been placed between us and the truth.
01:14:32.080You know, because once you see, once you've, I wish I could remember the brand of sunglasses that Rowdy Roddy Piper gets in the, I need to look that up, you know, in They Live.
01:14:45.980And once you've seen that advertising is just a way to suck your soul out of your body and, you know, bring you into corporate obedience.
01:14:57.080obedience you know there's a um show that i've uh there's a youtube channel that i've watched with
01:15:07.320some and it's i can't remember exactly what it's called but it's like the medieval lifestyle or
01:15:12.520something like that and you know that that medieval peasants were freer and happier than we are now
01:15:20.120that they worked 15, 20 hours a week and paid like 10% of their total net income was taxation.
01:15:31.800And they lived in close proximity to their closest friends and family. And we think we're
01:15:38.760free working 60 hours a week and paying a 60% tax rate. It's just, yeah, we have better stuff.
01:15:45.480you know the air there's air conditioning and internet but man you know there's a there's a
01:15:52.860lot to be said for and i've been listening to a book about the avish lifestyle right and like
01:16:00.140it's the same thing they have a 90 percent recidivism rate or whatever you know like
01:16:08.880like at the one things about their culture is like when you start to come of age when you're
01:16:15.04025 or whatever. They kick you out for a year.
01:16:18.980You have to go see the world. They call it like
01:16:22.900Romspringa or something like that because they
01:16:26.500use a lot of Swedish words. They're from Sweden.
01:17:04.620And that's honestly what we're trying to do in the AFA.
01:17:07.520I mean, that's the way I see this, you know, and one of the reasons I'm willing to throw
01:17:12.640myself at it like I am. I certainly feel it. I know you do, man. I do. I want to throw out this
01:17:18.480caveat. One of the things, and this is something I really believe, it's why my family and I are
01:17:24.360going to move to Sigurheim in Jackson County, Tennessee. There is a beauty to having that
01:17:36.800home base of people that genuinely care about you that you can share meaningful experience with
01:17:43.920and that you can have the the fuse that tied together traditional community that have been
01:17:50.960lost to most of our countrymen whatever country whatever country you were watching this in um
01:17:59.120um that matters and is huge and the thing that i would say you know as a point of variance with the
01:18:08.480Amish they get there and stay there i think it's really valuable to have a home base from which to
01:18:17.180operate from to be a force in the world around you it's really not only is it refreshing and
01:18:25.940healthful but i think it's essential to have a place to recharge to experience and to enact the
01:18:34.740world you want to have and then to take that perspective and that wholeness in your you know
01:18:45.060battles with the struggles of life i don't think we should disengage from the world around us but
01:18:51.220But I think our engagement in the world around us should be, you know, mindful and of our choosing and for us to have home base of community from which to operate from.
01:19:07.280I think that keeps us sane. I think it keeps us oriented and grounded and gives us a stable base from which to approach the challenges of the world around us.
01:19:18.200I think that was I think that's been lost as part of the I think that's the downside of the Faustian bargain, you know, and when founder, when Father McNaughton said that, you know, sometime back, you know, that we are the people of exploration.
01:19:37.120Well, you know, that's the downside. As we have plunged into these new horizons, we've left all that behind. And hopefully we're, you know, we in the AFA are trying to heal that rift and bring that back together for us.
01:19:52.340Yeah, the balance of those those two impulses, I think, is really important.
01:19:57.100And we've we've come so far with that.
01:20:02.560We've we've built we have built meaningful community in so many places for so many of our folk.
01:20:12.040And we've got a long way to go, but it is it's beautiful what so many of us have experienced.
01:20:18.720And I think this is as good a time as any to make the sales pitch.
01:20:22.340And it's what you do on these broadcasts, but I'm not trying to sell you a product.
01:20:29.840I want you to seriously consider if you're hearing this, better yet if you're seeing this, if you are heterosexual and white, you should join us, get on the team, be part of the family and help make all these things happen.
01:20:48.400and i say that as somebody who sat on the fence for a long time like i get it that's not it's
01:20:54.860not aimed negatively at folks i get it but happiest best thing i did in my life was get
01:21:02.760off that fence and get on team afa um obviously it's a beneficial thing for me to say as i'm you
01:21:11.160know running the house true folk assembly but it's what i said when i wasn't and it's the reason i
01:21:19.480joined the afa to begin with it really is like coming home we're doing so many important things
01:21:27.780together when you have something really beautiful in your life
01:21:34.380you want to share it we would like to share that with you i think that you know if you're
01:21:44.200if you're thinking about joining best time best time to join is 30 years ago second best time is
01:21:50.880today so uh think about that so while you're looking for the next question to answer i want
01:22:01.700but I do two things that I keep forgetting to do.
01:22:04.760One thing is I feel like I should throw a little bit of my chops in here,
01:24:09.840And I can tell you that being in a mindful, meditative place is, you know, is a better place to be.
01:24:24.780There's just, you know, that's just the simple way to say it.
01:24:27.440The other thing I want to do is, because I will forget if I don't, is, you know, well, no, but I'm going to skip that.
01:24:44.640What I do want to say, though, is that when you're talking about having your cell phone and the way that it sucks people out of their life,
01:24:58.200One of the things to recognize is that Meta and X and TikTok and all that stuff, they have teams of psychiatrists who are manipulating their data.
01:25:22.240they're manipulating their websites and they're there because and it's the shorthand way of
01:25:29.280that i've saw it was that you are the product it's your eyes that that it's your attention
01:25:36.560that they bring to their advertiser you know it's you know it's free to you but it costs you your
01:25:42.960soul because you know that's you know they they you know what color blue will be the exact thing
01:25:50.400that will make people most likely to stay on this site for 62 seconds instead of 38.
01:25:59.440And those are the kinds of questions that they have, high-paid people doing big studies to try to
01:26:10.000suck your brain out of your head. So when I talk about this being a sole bifurcation device,
01:26:16.560i don't mean that entirely metaphorically
01:26:23.520sorry that's that's today's rant sponsored by luddites for america
01:26:52.640What I think is a really important message on today's mindfulness, and I'll get into questions directly after this, but we as noble Aryan men and women are the choosers.
01:27:10.640don't get sucked in because you fell for the tricks engage because you want to
01:27:19.920if it is an expression of your will that you want to spend the next three hours looking at
01:27:24.960cat videos go for it share them if they're cool um but do that because it's your choice
01:27:33.040not because it's something that you've been sedated into like falling into
01:27:40.120um we've talked about this you know i've said this a number of times we always have new listeners and
01:27:48.280as i age you guys are gonna have to bear with me more and more with my old man stories that i
01:27:53.160repeat uh when i was running uh security with the bouncers i tell the new guys like
01:28:01.800i'm down like if you want to go pick a fight with people or whatever you want to do
01:28:05.720okay i got you but don't stumble into one because you're stupid if you have a situation that you
01:28:14.280choose to engage in all right but if you fall into something because you're dumb and now i've
01:28:21.720got to bail you out of it that's the abdication of your job um we don't want to spend our lives
01:28:29.080counter punching or being at the whim of other things engage in things on your terms according
01:28:36.900to your will and not because the current around you suck you into it and that goes for a lot of
01:28:47.640different things it goes for the doom scrolling it goes for you know stupid social media things
01:28:56.520on your phone, but it goes for everything else too. It goes for getting wrapped up in, you know,
01:29:03.320the whims of the people you surround yourself with or in unexamined emotions that you may be
01:29:13.240feeling for any number of reasons. Wonder why? Like, are you really depressed about something
01:29:20.180or is it just crappy weather outside? You know, are you really, is there really a problem
01:29:25.440or are you just reacting to something silly and can you reset and readjust i make it sound way
01:29:32.880easier than it is it's not easy at all but that struggle is part of our obligation as aryan men
01:29:41.500and women is to engage in our lives as the hero in our story and not as the npc and elevate and
01:29:52.440And this is, it's perhaps most annoying because he is typically right when he does it.
01:29:59.980One of the things that I appreciate about our law speaker, one of the reasons I am very glad to have him on my witness,
01:30:08.500when we are succumbing to silliness or things around us, he is very quick to remind us of intentionality,
01:30:19.780of a need to elevate the discourse or the thought process to be mindful of things we say or actions
01:30:29.000we take. And again, I may want to counterpunch and just be disagreeable, but stopping and processing
01:30:39.300and be like, it's kind of being a jerk, but he's also right. So, okay. I mean, that's,
01:30:46.720that's important it's funny and it's and we're both chuckling but i absolutely he does that
01:30:53.600i absolutely do think that way and i'm better for it so i think that's really important to do
01:31:02.800we've got some questions stacking up and i think it may take the conversation in
01:31:06.640in different ways um human slayer says uh would that be a trinity of ours the priest the warrior
01:38:15.860Um, I have taught, uh, and would be willing to teach, you know, and especially now that I'm
01:38:22.720entering quasi retirement, um, you know, I would be happy to teach. I don't, I would be happy to
01:38:29.920teach my meditation class, which Matt has suffered through. Um, and I would be happy to bring that
01:38:36.540to you um you know do it over a weekend um i will i will add to the part that i said you know where
01:38:46.240i've started where you know meditation blah blah last 15 years um one of the things about
01:38:53.740and it's not all the meditation that's done in kundalini but the the meditation the type of
01:39:00.800meditation i was drawn to was a mantra meditation um but what i've done is i bring i've brought
01:39:08.740galder into that um meditation that i do every day and so the the the kundalini meditation is
01:39:22.280done with runic galder and i think this would this would be a good spot for that
01:39:28.960bucket picture the um the you know i i think that our folk meditated and um you know because you
01:39:38.300can't reach the types of insights that our people brought about the soul um without you know having
01:39:46.380turned your mind inside and uh sat on the mat spend a lot of time on the mat which you used to
01:39:53.780able to do when you lived as a peasant and only had to work 15 hours a week but the um but yes
01:40:00.660absolutely i think that um the restoration of the combination between meditation and galder
01:40:13.780is in is here i mean i i'm i'm trying to do it there are others who are doing it
01:40:23.780Um, and I appreciate you asking that question. I think it's important to know that, um, that many of us are trying to recombine, um, insight, meditation, and Runic-Galder.
01:40:43.580Yeah, I'd say this on, uh, well, okay, pause, because I forgot to mention it earlier, and I don't want to forget again.
01:40:49.680uh ronald blake also bought us a uh five coffees it's $25 donation thank you ronald we appreciate
01:40:57.520it um so one of the things that i have found and i don't think that meditation is never something
01:41:10.640that has come natural to me it's very hard for me to
01:41:19.040banish all the just thoughts of logistics and business and everything else going around and
01:41:30.240songs that get stuck in my head and whatever else it's hard for me to consistently keep that
01:41:37.680at bay and what i found is very helpful is galder in meditation um galder allows me to start with a
01:41:48.880focus on an intonation of something that's inherently spiritual that puts me in a spiritual
01:41:55.440place that directs me towards whatever intentionality has caused me to meditate
01:45:28.520that outside perspective to say you know this thought is not me you know and this is a negative
01:45:37.960thought that is coming into my head and that give that that bit of awareness gives you the opportunity
01:45:43.800to deflect it the um and to think this is not me you know this is a thought that's being imposed
01:45:51.080from without you know i i am not a bad person i am a worthy person you know uh my folk like and
01:46:02.340love and respect and need me you know so that's the kind of thing that can help you overcome that
01:46:08.120is but but i think one of the important things and this is one of the things i learned in my
01:46:13.820meditation practice is that you can't do it from a an oppositional place like you can't
01:46:22.940push back against it that just creates resilience you know it's more of a judo you deflect it
01:46:29.580when i'm on the mat and i have a thought come in i just think
01:46:36.940i i let that thought go by saying i'm not doing that now we're not i'm not doing that now this
01:46:42.620is not a time for me to think about the way this work problem is right now i'm meditating i'm just
01:46:51.100let that go and that's the you don't give those thoughts power over you because those you know
01:46:57.180those thoughts are not you you know that's you just go that's not me and let it go right back
01:47:03.580out the door yeah i think um and i've i've read this about meditation practice a lot i don't know
01:47:21.180if your question is specifically about meditation or about things in your life but
01:47:28.300But if you reactively run and hide from it, I don't think that's effective because you're too smart for that.
01:47:45.260You can't hide from it. It's there. It exists.
01:47:48.300exists, you spend more time being scared of it than you would addressing it. So an acknowledgement
01:47:58.960of it and then a dismissal of it is a much better thing. And I also think, and this is part of
01:48:11.880mindfulness. I think a sober, what is it that is haunting you? Is it something that you, and I
01:48:23.100think this is a first thing that needs to be tackled. Are you living wrong and do you need
01:48:29.680to start living right? Is there some thing that is haunting you that you do need to correct
01:48:36.760or is it just mistakes of the past or unpleasant things that are trauma that you there's not an
01:48:45.040action item you need to do to fix them because again if you have something wrongs that you need
01:48:51.300to make right then I think you should embrace those and do that if not an acknowledgement
01:48:59.140And then a dismissal, much like Alan said, like, okay, but I'm not doing that right now. Okay, back to what I'm doing. I think that is much more effective than a, a frantic fear response of trying to hide from them or, or something.
01:49:22.120And I know that suppression is sort of what I was thinking, you know, like, I'm not that I'm, I'm good. I don't need this thought. You know, that's, you know, how so some of the unhealthy behaviors that we learn from other sources.
01:49:39.700Anything that, it's funny with kids or with toxic people or immature people that haven't developed, it's funny when things need attention.
01:49:54.800Often it doesn't matter to them whether it's positive or negative attention, they need attention.
01:50:00.160if your intrusive thoughts seek to get your attention
01:50:05.940oh wow i suck why it's horrible that's a way of giving them intention but like no i'm not
01:50:15.300gonna do that i'm not gonna think that that's not true that same frantic nonsense is attention
01:50:21.560giving it the like, okay, that's there, but that's not what I'm doing now.
01:50:32.280So I'm going to set that aside and re-engage with what I'm doing.
01:50:35.660And I think it's also important, you know, as another aspect of that is,
01:52:28.000when because it has to do with depression and i think that often
01:52:38.880goes hand in hand with unpleasant intrusive thoughts so if you are struggling with
01:52:48.160depression in your life with events that are very unpleasant or with whatever
01:52:55.760However, I have noticed that a great many of us, myself included, want to curl up in a ball and hide from the world and, like, isolate when we are depressed or when negativity is overwhelming.
01:53:25.760You know, get your mind off of negativity, being around good people who are engaged in positive purpose. Do that. If there's nothing you can do, again, sometimes we've got good instincts to where if you're plagued by something, maybe you need to fix something.
01:53:44.160But if you can't, if you can't fix it right now, or if it's not a thing that you can do anything about, put your mental effort into engaging with the folk in something good.
01:54:00.600And get your mind off it, but more importantly, get your mind on to something beneficial.
01:54:07.480Especially if it's not something you can undo.
01:54:11.860But another thing is, you know, if you if you are genuinely struggling with these sorts of things, call one of us go thaw.
01:54:21.160I mean, you know, one of the things that I've learned in my 42 years on this planet is that, you know, I feel like I'm like farmers insurance.
01:54:33.260Right. I've seen some some things that I've done some things or whatever it is that they're saying is.
01:54:39.280And, you know, all of us seasoned veterans have, you know, we've been up and down and, you know, we faced a lot of this stuff.
01:54:48.020And talking through these problems with somebody, with one of those old guys, with somebody more your own age, that's what we're here for.
01:54:58.780You know, don't feel like you have to struggle with this stuff on your own.
02:07:46.620I assume that he's talking about the two ravens behind you.
02:07:51.480One of them's got something in his beak. Tell us about it.
02:07:58.020Well, you know, this is my personal banner, and so I don't give a lot of the meaning of this because I like people to, you know, just ponder it and wonder.
02:10:09.980to honor to support or to to reward the the brave the wise and the true
02:10:21.380it's really important to understand equality isn't a thing if there is a party that is
02:10:32.840victimizing someone else, we're going to side with the party that is victimized if that's
02:10:40.740what has to happen. But what's a lot more realistic is couples that experience that at times
02:10:51.680want to address it in a way to where their relationship is preserved.
02:11:02.840If that is the case, then certainly our GOTHAR do our very best to help for everyone in that circumstance to be safe and to be healthy and to get back to a place of healthy family interaction.
02:11:25.100And that's very complex, and the details really, really matter.
02:11:29.140no domestic violence is not good it is not acceptable it's not tolerated yeah it's not
02:11:39.540something that we tolerate or deal with but it is something that we try to correct and try to get
02:11:43.900people to heal and move forward from depending upon the circumstance and depending upon the
02:11:50.520intention and the will of the person who is aggrieved by it it's also i think important
02:11:57.840to say that that also true for all the good that we try to do i mean we're people you know what
02:12:06.160we're doing is not perfect and the people who come to us are not perfect we try to we try to do our
02:12:12.800best to make our people better um just if nothing else as matt often reminds us you know that we are
02:12:20.240we are the people of light we are the noble aryan people who should be above that sort of thing
02:13:51.160The word Aryan is an ancient, ancient word,
02:13:54.340And it predates concept of fascism is a 1920s Italian term to talk about the relationship between corporation and state.
02:14:09.420Now, in this day and age, it means a lot of different stuff and trying to parse out the meaning of, you know, politically charged terms doesn't really get us somewhere.
02:14:19.060What I will say is the term Aryan is a very, very ancient term.
02:14:24.900And the reason that it's cool and that I use it is it's not sterile.
02:16:56.920All right. So, in a historical context, fascism doesn't have to be inherently ethnic. There were a number of competing political ideologies in the early 20th century.
02:17:18.040And the idea of fascism was simply that state was in control of industry and all were working together under the unification of state leadership that could be applied and has been applied in ethno-national circumstances, but it certainly doesn't always have to.
02:17:48.040And I think that's one of the things that you see a tremendous variety of in the 20th century on how things play out.
02:17:56.420But again, in today's world, fascism is a mean name that you call people who like rules and you don't like rules.
02:18:07.720That's not really something that's, I don't know, meaningful to fight about because it's often not a historical reference.
02:18:20.960It's a pejorative to use against people who like tradition and like order versus people that don't like those things.
02:18:37.720What is the AFA's interpretation of the Black Sun, and how do you explain it to outsiders that only connected to the bad mustache man?
02:18:49.780Which is unfortunate, because he had a really tiny mustache.
02:18:57.180I think that Tom Selleck is much more of a mustache man than the person being referenced.
02:19:03.220so I looked at I saw this coming down the coming down the pipe and I think this is worthwhile
02:19:10.480the black sun is a symbol of solar of solar might it is a sun wheel as is used in all
02:19:24.700Aryan face since the dawn of time what you see really specifically in Germany in
02:19:31.860hundreds of years B.C. is the Zersheba, which is the decorative circle.
02:19:46.840But if you look it up, and I should have sent Nick a link to this, and I did not.
02:19:51.200z-i-e-r-s-c-h-e-i-b-e you will see a variety of these discs with patterns that will be very
02:20:07.540familiar to you they're all radiating patterns they're all you know beautiful solar patterns
02:20:16.460of our folk some of them are very very similar to the black sun design with any number of different
02:20:23.980spokes to it some of them are artistically different in different ways but it's the
02:20:32.540idea of movement it's the idea of the solar um solar aspiration and solar movement as we
02:20:40.700We come to know more and more that idea of rotating around a center and of consistent and perpetual movement is the core of our folk.
02:20:59.380So it captures the steadiness of the sun paired with the movement around a sacred center that's so fundamental to our worldview and our cosmos and almost a great many of our sacred symbols.
02:21:19.220And Nick's throwing up a couple of them. There's a variety of them from the Alamani tribe. And it's a very common motif. And again, some of them look really different.
02:21:33.680But what's captured with the bent spoke is the rotation. And that's fundamental moving forward, because if we're not moving forward, if we stay stagnant, then we suffer entropy and we move towards, you know, our lower selves, towards disintegration, towards negativity and disillusion.
02:21:58.460we always want to want to be moving forward it's the idea that i in a way is inspired and encompassed
02:22:05.340in victory never sleeps you don't stop you have to stay in motion you can't rest on your laurels
02:22:12.460so that's why we use it in a in a sacred way that's the exact same reason it was used by
02:22:19.660folks with mustaches is its potency to our full potency towards those things it's a very ancient
02:22:28.380symbol it's like the most modern version of that symbol but you can see the similarity and it's
02:22:35.500it goes back to ancient times and again it's that solar might radiating and in movement
02:22:41.580that's why we use it as a halo around our gods and our heroes
02:22:44.780if mindfulness is about being fully present in the moment
02:22:53.340does practicing it change the way we relate to our memories and expectations of the future
02:23:01.000does it diminish our connection to the past alan what say you uh i think it enhances all of that
02:23:10.060um by giving it its proper place like we like one of the things that people who are mindless
02:23:24.700tend to do and i and and one of the best examples i think of mindlessness is that
02:23:32.700people when you when you're talking with someone they're not listening they're waiting
02:23:40.060One of my favorite all-time expressions, you know, people who are not listening, they're waiting for their mug to be refilled.
02:23:51.280The, you know, they've already decided what they're going to say.
02:23:55.620They're just waiting for you to stop talking so they can start interjecting their side of the story.
02:24:01.420The rest of it, I think, falls into place in there.
02:24:06.620and and and i think some of it is a mix and match of terminology i think that there is absolutely
02:24:13.820a place for recollection um you know to to recall the the times that you know and to tell stories
02:24:22.540and to think back through happy times and to think back through mistakes that you've made and to do
02:24:28.940that in an organized way that's not anything wrong that is spending mindful time in recollection
02:24:38.940spending mindful time in nostalgia the same thing in you know in the to think about the future
02:24:46.780there's absolutely it is absolutely 100 okay to plan to spend some time planning so that's
02:24:53.500absolutely absolutely what you do is you know i've been working on some stuff out here a thousand
02:25:00.620i've drawn you know you make a plan and you draw it out and you so but the but what you what where
02:25:07.580where and that's mindful time spent in planning but what but where you lose the mindfulness of it
02:25:16.380is when you're lost in thought when you should be you know like you're you're daydreaming about
02:25:25.020the future when you should be engaged in the present you're ruining the past when you should
02:25:30.460be engaged with the people around you so all those things even um i can't think of a way
02:25:40.940of presentism being harmful but it but any of those practices in and of themselves are not
02:25:50.860wrong it's the it's the it's the way that they interfere with your ability to be present in the
02:25:59.740moment um you know another example might be you you know you you run into you have a conversation
02:26:09.100with somebody and you're so lost in the last conversation that you had with them.
02:26:15.760Maybe, you know, they offended you in some way that they didn't even know.
02:26:21.860And you're so engaged in your misery over that last conversation that you don't notice
02:26:31.420that they're trying to engage with you in a meaningful way right now, right in this
02:26:37.160Um, the, so the, you know, so those thought patterns are absolutely okay, but you, but you have to do it in a way that's, um, that's organized in your, you know, in, and not just a mishmash of, uh, the past, the present, the future all at the same time.
02:27:05.380Um, you know, and I, and I think that's one of the other things that, um, that one of the reasons I don't like pictures in ceremony or really too much in general is it leads to this sort of instant nostalgia that we've developed.
02:27:28.460Remember a couple of minutes ago when we were doing this?
02:27:31.340I mean, when I was a kid and, you know, you'd have to take the pictures that you took and send them off to the lab and develop them.
02:27:42.740And then like a couple of weeks later, when you got the pictures, you could say, oh, remember a couple of weeks ago when we went to this thing and we did these?
02:27:51.200You know, so it's spending too much time in too tight a circle that can cause problem for your mental abilities.
02:28:05.400You used to have to stand really still when you'd take the pictures, and you had to hold it there for a few minutes while the flash went off.
02:28:13.060Yeah, and then you'd have to get another bulb and script.
02:28:15.620Wait just a couple minutes till we get another bulb in here.
02:28:57.160She's five now, but watching as she learns different things and as she grows as a person and suddenly out of nowhere is able to have, you know, meaningful conversation and stuff.
02:29:17.080If you haven't done it yet, I would encourage you to do so, 10 out of 10, long as they look like the rest of us.
02:29:28.960So, I heard some of what Alan said, some of it he was covering.
02:29:35.560What I would like to say on it, though, is I think it provides context and meaning and enhances all of those things, your sense of past and your sense of future.
02:29:47.080having the perspective of being mindful of where you are implies a
02:30:00.560positioning of yourself in relation to other things.
02:31:25.100And I've done that and still do occasionally.
02:31:33.100Like if I have trouble falling asleep, I will really do kind of a reverse
02:31:40.740kundalini meditation but but no i have never taken any sleep medication if i i mean there are
02:31:48.100now there's a lot of process involved in avoiding that i think i think it's taking medication
02:31:59.740especially for something that is as rudimentary as sleep can take you down a dangerous path
02:32:05.540Not that it always is, but, okay, so here's some more of this mindfulness stuff that ekes into all of my headspace, right?
02:32:15.660One of the things I read about some time ago and try to practice is that as it starts to become, so, like, think about light, right?
02:32:30.400Because we've been indoor people only for like the last 50 years, where we have this phenomenon now that you have bright white light directly overhead that is on like that up until right before you go to sleep.
02:32:51.160and studies have shown that that's harmful and that what you should do by like you should your
02:33:00.980inside light should start to imitate the light outside so like so like by late afternoon or
02:33:11.020in the evening you should be using lamps that are at a lower level so that your the your eyes
02:33:18.200then become acclimated your eyes into your brain become acclimated to the idea that the sun it's
02:33:26.280the same sort of concept that the sun is sinking the sun is not directly overhead beaming down
02:33:32.520noon daylight at 11 o'clock at night the sun is over here and is you know it is sinking down into
02:33:39.400the horizon so now it's evening and so your body's natural rhythm can then bring itself
02:33:48.280into a place where sleep will come naturally um so you don't need that sort of medication um
02:33:58.040now all that being said sometimes i have a night where i can't sleep and i'll get up and
02:34:02.200read i mean i'm finally about halfway through war and human civilization um which disabused
02:34:12.360a lot of anthropologists about the idiocy that brousseau thought about native american
02:34:19.040civilization such as it was um but you know those kinds of things if you can't sleep get up
02:34:25.660for a while and do something else. I think another item of interest that
02:41:15.220I'll still do it if I need to, because it's better that I have sleep and I'm able to function the next day.
02:41:20.640Because, again, I'm a father. It'd be different if I was a single guy by myself or I didn't have that kind of a schedule. It is what it is.
02:41:31.960What I would say that helps sleep in a way that I think might be law speaker approved is the magnesium.
02:41:42.240and rather than letting yourself be at the whims of whatever repent like i'll just get stupid
02:41:52.380songs stuck in my head it's one thing if you are plagued by regret or stress that's awful and i
02:42:01.380hope that you're not there and i'm very fortunate that that's not where i am with my sleep but it's
02:42:07.680also hard to turn my brain off from all the other things. I'll be up all night contemplating
02:42:13.580Tiershoff design. Many nights I've been up for hours just thinking of cool stuff.
02:42:21.820Still makes me real sleepy in the morning when Aubrey insists on waking me up at seven. So
02:42:27.880I think focusing your thoughts on something intentional and important
02:42:36.060helps creating a story or a narrative in your head
02:42:43.000or a thing you're trying to think about intentionally
02:42:46.960as opposed to just being at the whim of random stuff
02:43:32.980you have to take the meditation coefficient and you multiply it by your
02:43:41.620mindfulness factor squared with the X bone.
02:43:50.280I am mockingly referencing the quantification aspect of that question.
02:43:55.760So, and it is, but the honest answer to that question, as far as it can be answered, I think, is that there's no, there's no easy way to answer the question.
02:44:20.820And that may be where that's the way that sentence completes.
02:44:25.320Like for a long time, when I was doing meditation, I don't mean like for like the first couple of weeks.
02:44:31.660I mean, like for the first couple of years that I was meditating, I was doing it out of momentum.
02:44:39.980And, you know, this is supposed to help me, so I'm going to keep doing it.
02:44:43.840And then eventually, I guess in a certain way, it's like exercise, right?
02:44:51.220Like the first couple of times you exercise, it's like, man, this is just a waste of time.
02:44:56.300You know, I could be doing something else that's more fun.
02:45:02.480But eventually your body is better and you are better with it.
02:45:12.120And, and I think that meditation is that way that yes, it takes a while and it's, and the, and the, and the change is slow, but like eventually now the days that I skip my meditation, I can tell like in my head is less orderly.
02:45:40.020and my interaction with people is less coherent.
02:45:50.820So, I mean, there's certainly not any one-to-one quantification that you can make.
02:45:59.500And it's funny because I've had to answer this question a couple times in different contexts.
02:50:58.080I, to those who do practice it, I would have certain specific questions if I ran into anybody that practiced that in a serious way.
02:51:10.340So the answer is, I don't know enough about it to have an opinion, although I would, I guess I would say I'm skeptical, given some of the deep reading that I've done on it.
02:51:26.100I question it. But again, that's, you know,
02:51:31.740it's easy to say from an outside perspective,
02:51:33.900like that doesn't seem like the thing,
02:51:37.080but maybe to the guys who do it, it works.
03:03:38.220I don't know that Hindu is the right word.
03:03:42.180Kundalini is the Indian word that has been used primarily to refer to that energy, the energy, the subtle energy that can't be seen or detected except internally by the practitioner or any individual that flows through the body.
03:04:01.520It's not blood. It's not the other stuff, but it's like the electricity that makes life happen.
03:04:21.900um the uh wilhelm wright called it owned so the so kundalini then as a is a word for that energy
03:04:36.120um and what we've seen in the west is like the traditional seven i mean there are thousands
03:04:49.360millions of pictures of that out there where, you know, it's the spinal thing where there are seven
03:04:53.780energy words that are shown in the body, but that's just one chakra system. There are
03:05:02.360dozens or hundreds of different chakra denomination systems, and that one system
03:05:10.860system is just one way of looking at that.
03:05:17.940Another related system is the the Daoist system talks about the three cauldrons and this is
03:05:30.180directly parallel to Founder McNallan's work in his book where he talks about the three
03:05:38.660Three self-same cauldrons where the energy is brought up from the lower center up through, you know, there it's basically the Dantian, the heart center, and the pineal gland center.
03:05:55.400Okay, that's sort of the Taoist system.
03:05:59.860And so those systems parallel each other.
03:06:04.000So I don't think that, you know, that either one of them is right or wrong.
03:06:08.200I think they are just different expressions of the universal human existence, right?
03:06:21.240That there is an energy that underlies life, which to me is the meaning of the black sun.
03:06:33.000You know, that is the life energy that the sun expresses through fusion, give us life and to breathe life into our existence here.
03:06:51.140And so the body, our body takes that and kundalini meditation then is a directed form of taking that energy from the lower centers, which is the center of physicality, reproduction, and eating, but, you know, engorgement, right?
03:07:19.100like gluttony so you're talking about those lowest possible centers and you
03:07:24.200raise it up like to your heart center where you can start to feel empathy and
03:07:33.620you know like as if there are other people on the planet for example that is
03:07:38.780a new concept to lots of people many of whom blah blah and so and then so bring
03:07:47.360Bring that up into your place where then you can interact with the highest power.
03:07:52.580And that's kundalini meditation or the purpose of kundalini meditation.
03:08:16.680Nick, I posted a link. Anybody who is curious, this, The Metaphysics of Sex, Eros, and the Mysteries of Love by Julius Evola, it's more than just that, and I think it is a really interesting read.
03:08:34.300I think, you know, anything that he wrote is very well thought out.
03:08:40.760This one was, you know, off the beaten path of what we often interact with.
03:08:47.320But I do think it was an interesting read, and there's a lot of stuff to consider there.
03:08:51.360I don't agree with his conclusions on that, but I also have the use of my lower extremities.
03:08:59.620I didn't like his book on yoga for what it's worth.
03:09:01.900all right so all right you you brought this up so we'll take him aside the yoga of power
03:09:09.340i disagree that's one of my favorite evola books it has zero to do with yoga in the sense that
03:09:21.120we're talking about yoga i think it is a very misnamed book i think it's a very good book
03:09:28.640but again if you maybe if i reread it as as not a book about yoga i might but when i read it i was
03:09:37.500trying to like grasp the esoteric essence of yoga no i don't fault that at all it is horribly
03:09:45.820horribly named for what it's about um it's not about yoga that we're thinking about as yoga it
03:09:55.660It is yoga distilled as a concept on a lot of different things.
03:10:01.460As I recall, I think it's a lot more about self-mastery than it is about what we would think of as a yoga practice.
03:10:13.180It's like I don't think all of metaphysics of sex is about copulation.
03:10:18.760I think a lot of it is about gender as relates to metaphysics.
03:10:25.240I think it's a really interesting read, but I don't know if you got it thinking it's going to be dirty or some kind of erotica or something.
03:13:27.060I mean, he was at the very last stages of his life, but to see the author of the works that I've read in his own voice say things was really interesting that we live in that time period where we can see and hear some of these people speaking.
03:13:48.880it was really interesting but yeah no it just takes a little bit of deciphering but once you
03:13:54.320get it it's it's very much a quest worth taking i think uh yeah i would certainly not say i think
03:14:02.400evil is a is a worthy read and you know a lot of the stuff that he says i just you know i just
03:14:09.200thought that one book was errant but you know i may i may try to reread it actually i don't
03:14:15.760I probably don't even have the book anymore.
03:14:20.780You should get it if you genuinely want to reread it.
03:20:41.660supported by our lore, but I also think it's something that we see
03:20:45.620In folks that have had near-death experiences, very commonly it's expressed that your ancestors who passed before you are there to welcome you and to help you in that transition.
03:27:04.620So trying to help them to be comfortable without lying or being dishonest, but comfortably easing them into the transition they're about to make, I think is a really good, dignified thing to do.
03:27:22.240reassuring them about anything else they have in this world that they're
03:27:27.320stressed about, you know, the care of their loved ones
03:27:31.500or their estate or whatever else they're worried about, reassuring them
03:27:35.460hey, we got it, it's okay, we'll take care of so
03:27:39.360and so, we'll take care of such and such
03:27:41.960helping them to be at peace with that transition I think is a really
03:29:58.400cauldron, which is widely believed to be primarily Celtic, which is a close cousin of the Germanic
03:30:11.240Teutonic Aryan tribes. But you can see this shaman seems to be conducting a type of meditation
03:30:20.220specifically directed at, you know, merging himself with his animal selves. And there's
03:30:26.500certainly an aspect that if you got too literal, you could think, well, you know, he's raising his
03:30:34.480kundalini by, you know, picking up the snake and raising it up toward his god point. And then
03:30:44.180there's also the, um, the bucket of whatever it is, that bucket that, um, was part of the
03:30:52.640Oseberg Ship Burial, where, I mean, that is a guy sitting in meditation with both forward and reversed swastikas on his chest plate there,
03:31:11.400which there are not a lot of that type of artifact around
03:31:18.540and the fact that the folk decided to manifest that exact image
03:31:26.220into something that would be memorialized with a king in his burial mound
03:31:37.980that strongly suggests that there were meditative practices that were used by our direct lineage of Germanic tribes back into the before the dawn of time.
03:31:55.400So so there are those lineages out there. And I and I think that, you know, the I certainly have a certain admiration for the Indian branch of the Indo-Aryan people because they were able to preserve their culture more or less intact and wrote down a lot of this stuff.
03:32:20.560And I think if we had been able to do that, that our, you know, we would look, you know, that our, our, the manifestation of our religiosity would look a lot like that culture, just paler, bluer eyes.