Asatru Folk Assembly - August 16, 2025


Agnostic to Asatru #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

162.15

Word count

435

Sentence count

26


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss how to get your child to open their mind to the possibility of belief in something higher than themselves. How do you get a child to believe in something bigger than themselves? What are the things you can do to get them open to it?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I noticed that you said she's agnostic and not atheistic, which I think is a really important
00:00:06.740 distinction. If she has the capacity to entertain belief in something higher than herself, I think
00:00:15.620 that's a huge step in the right direction. We're living in an interesting time. In the days of our
00:00:22.160 ancestors, there wasn't a conversion process. We're coming from a different place now. So I
00:00:26.440 think the expectation that for her to just blindly devote herself to the gods, that's a big ask and
00:00:32.600 usually not a very realistic one. What I think is really important is that she's provided with
00:00:38.020 opportunities and encouragement to develop those relationships. And if she's open to it, that she
00:00:45.020 is invited and encouraged to come along and attend different things with you at whatever level of
00:00:53.200 participation she wants to have. First, establish that this isn't some spooky secret thing you do
00:01:00.620 by yourself. This is something that she's welcome to be a part of. Secondly, I would say get her to
00:01:07.060 a place where this is not scary to her. Getting her to see that it's nice people in the daylight
00:01:13.800 doing something nice and positive and not scary is a big part of it too. And not being afraid
00:01:20.740 to express your faith on associating good changes and good growth in your life to your
00:01:28.720 Ausitru practice and expressing that in a way to where she associates your Ausitru practice with
00:01:36.660 positive things. I think that goes a long way. So getting her to be open to the possibility
00:01:44.080 And the more you can get her involved in processes where there's no expectation that she's pretending to be something she's not, because you can't fool the gods, you can't trick them.
00:01:56.740 Oftentimes, if people don't initially have a sincere faith in the gods, one of the things that is easier to get them to be open to is the ancestors.
00:02:06.840 In moments of quiet in their life, they will talk to the dead.
00:02:12.500 They may not go through a big deal of lighting a candle and going before their altar, talk
00:02:17.740 to their parents or their grandparents.
00:02:19.760 They'll reach out.
00:02:20.760 They may not think much of it.
00:02:22.540 A thing could be more natural to the human condition than to reach out to your ancestors.
00:02:27.020 I think fundamentally, it's very built into us to understand that as real.
00:02:31.660 And I think that's a good place to start with getting people to accept things beyond the
00:02:37.300 veil.
00:02:37.900 And you can build from there.
00:02:39.300 That's kind of my thoughts on it.
00:02:40.420 Lauren, do you have any?