00:02:06.120We could literally feel the electricity in the air.
00:02:09.580Those of you that missed it and haven't gotten a chance, if you can make it, if you find your way towards Linden, North Carolina, you need to check out Thorshoff.
00:02:23.880But it's ours, and we are building immortality. It's not going anyplace, but if you can get there, I would highly encourage anybody who can go check it out to go see that truly holy and amazing place and see all of the hard work and all of the love and dedication that our AFA family in the Upper South region has done for that place.
00:02:49.280We have members coming from Virginia, from the Carolinas, from Maryland, a lot of people traveling a long distance to make sure that place is loved and taken care of to prepare the property that we purchased and turn it into the beautiful off that we have today.
00:03:14.400And it's a labor of love that they continue to do just about every weekend out there, putting in effort, putting in blood, sweat, and tears to make that place truly shine for us and for Thor.
00:03:26.900And we're very, very thankful for that, very thankful for all of the hard work that they've put in, especially Iron Guard and especially Donner's Oak.
00:03:38.920those two kindreds have really spearheaded that uh that effort they've been out there
00:03:46.560they've put in they've put in so much work and you can really tell um and something
00:03:54.000trying to describe it it has uh quite a bit more property in the back and on the side than you'd
00:04:01.840think looking at some of the pictures and it's really really a special place um get a really
00:04:08.880good feeling there the main hoff building itself has a lot of extra rooms with a lot of potential
00:04:16.400for our ladies for our children a fantastic office space and there's a lower floor with a lot of area
00:04:23.280for storage i think the guys there are maybe gonna put up a heavy bag and have some weights down there
00:04:28.480as well so a lot a lot of really special things we can do there in the main sanctuary area of the
00:04:35.920hof itself the crowning achievement of that place and something that truly truly dominates the room
00:04:44.160and dominates the space is the most amazing magnificent mural of of thor and it was it was
00:04:54.080painted by Gothi Svahn Harald. And if you look at this, we use the word awesome far too often,
00:05:04.080and it's become commonplace. But when you walk in there, it is truly awe-inspiring.
00:05:12.800That fantastic mural is an amazing testimony to our devotion to Thor, to Svahn's devotion to Thor,
00:05:24.080and really makes that place something special um i could talk all night about how great that place
00:05:30.880was and how great getting to share that with so many of you was we are living in very very special
00:05:38.640times so i'm looking on you on here uh thank you for everybody who is has joined the conversation um
00:05:50.240looking to see if we got any uh initial questions here looks like we're we're starting off with a
00:05:59.380few if i'm looking down it's because i've got to look at the monitor and my phone and have
00:06:04.860mandy help monitor to make sure we get all the questions as best as we can
00:06:08.580um folk builder trent east wants me to explain for any new folks that may be tuning in because
00:06:27.240of our recent acquisitions of those two offs why also true is an ethnic faith why that's important
00:06:34.680and uh to talk a little bit about that
00:06:37.440I think for any people the best and most efficient route to their higher selves and to the divine
00:09:52.700uh mrs williams is asking uh she says somehow so true or say they don't worship the gods and
00:10:02.220goddesses instead they honor them what's the difference i think arrogance is the difference
00:10:08.420um it's funny that we find ourselves finding a need to play semantic games um i absolutely
00:10:19.340worship our gods and i worship our ancestors and i worship our heroes that's certainly what our
00:10:25.420ancestors did and i think that we do a disservice to the divine forces of our people to need to
00:10:35.740come up with some different word that somehow implies we place less reverence in them we honor
00:10:43.260them as well as worship them and i think the true practice of also true is very much worshiping our
00:10:49.340gods and goddesses now our form of worship may look very different to than some other faiths
00:10:57.580in a lot of i think what some of that hang up has to do with is a lot of the faiths the
00:11:03.180abrahamic faiths that i mentioned in the west place a lot of emphasis on debasing yourself and
00:11:13.260I don't know, viewing yourself as unworthy and supplicating and groveling before their
00:11:22.000divinity. And I think that's the nature of how their religion is structured and how they do
00:11:27.060things. Our gods want us to be proud and stand tall and to make ourselves be worthy of them.
00:11:36.260But that pride in ourselves shouldn't hold us back from giving worship to our deities.
00:11:45.460And I think that's a real fundamental difference.
00:11:48.360We don't have to feel unworthy and feel small in order for them to be great and large.
00:11:54.180They want us to be the very best we can be.
00:11:57.480And so in that sense, and with hearts full of dignity and pride, we absolutely worship our gods.
00:12:06.260uh mark now that we have three hoffs are we looking at a fourth absolutely we are we're
00:12:26.200looking at a fourth we're looking at a fifth in a broader sense we're looking at knocking out the
00:12:31.420first 12 and then coming up with what our plan is after that. But yeah, we're absolutely looking
00:12:39.820at the fourth half. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves. We do want to be responsible. We need
00:12:43.320to go ahead and pay off these two halves. We were able to work it to where we didn't have to incur
00:12:48.980any additional debt for the third half, but it is important for us to be responsible. So I do want
00:12:54.160to get these, these halves paid for and taken care of before we, we extend ourself on a fourth one.
00:12:59.760But yes, we're absolutely looking for that fourth one.1.00
00:13:02.700I told you once we get one done, we're going to immediately start trying to figure out on the next one because we're absolutely going to have Hoffs across this country and around this world.0.57
00:13:14.000Wherever our folk gather and worship our gods, we want to make sure there's Hoffs there to shelter our people and to honor our gods.
00:13:29.760uh folk builder rob stam is asking what's a good book for new folks for folks interested
00:13:49.680in learning about their native spirituality the question's so broad and it gets asked a lot there is
00:13:56.640you know almost infinitely many books that are great for that and a good place to start if you
00:14:04.080want to find out about um also true in general or about the afa and and how we practice um also true
00:14:14.080a native european spirituality by our founder stephen mcnalen is is a great book on that
00:14:21.040we sell that on the website um it's something that steve put a lot of time and effort into
00:14:27.700and that's a really good book to start with um a book of trough by uh edrid thorson is also a very
00:14:36.660good book um that gives you a different perspective on kind of the practice of also true and i think
00:14:43.980that's that's foundational and really good and uh for anyone out there who wants to know about
00:14:49.220runes and things in that sense um the runes workbook by leon d wild is a fantastic beginner's
00:14:58.420first book about runes so younger people or anybody who are just starting the runes fresh
00:15:04.740i really love that book and i always want to plug that as best i can so those those are a couple of
00:15:10.260the suggestions I have. So I'm looking, I'm continuing to look for questions. I'm not
00:15:39.340to have dead air but i do want to make sure i get everybody that's asking something um
00:15:45.500something that i noticed i touched on briefly when i started this conversation um
00:15:56.060things are going crazy out there there is a lot of a lot of messed up things in the world and
00:16:03.340And for a lot of us, it's very concerning.
00:16:08.920And I know for a lot of our AFA family, it can be really scary and it can cause a lot of anxiety and a lot of stress.
00:16:17.140And I get that. And I want you guys to know that I get that.
00:16:20.520um please don't think that mandy and i don't often find ourselves you know sad about what's
00:16:31.440going on in in the world and here in the united states where we are there's a lot of stuff that's
00:16:36.960not recognizable to us and the values that make any sense to us but the thing is that's most
00:16:44.020important i feel in coping with any of that stress or any of that anxiety we have about the world
00:16:49.820around us is what can we build what gaps in that system can we fill with what's ours
00:17:02.300something that i found that's very special one thing that's been very hard has been the social
00:17:09.260distance and the mask wearing and kind of a dehumanization of people don't get me wrong
00:17:16.220if you have a medical condition or if you're genuinely very scared of this and you you need
00:17:23.660to do what you're going to do for your family and to make yourself feel like you're doing the best
00:17:28.780you can and i don't mean to disrespect that but for a lot of folks that alienation and that
00:17:34.380distance has been very difficult while in society that's increased in the afa when we get together
00:17:42.940we don't have to do that we don't have to do that it's been so nice to get together
00:17:48.220and hug one another and share the horn and we have that normalcy and we have that because we are
00:17:56.860building our own community within the shell of whatever's going on around us there's not a lot
00:18:04.540we can do about that readily but there is a lot we can do about this and it
00:18:13.020it may sound trite if you haven't felt it and you haven't tasted it
00:18:17.820but it's been a tremendous thing to be part of that building we've got so many great things
00:18:22.140going on in the afa and our family is growing we're getting stronger we're doing more we're
00:18:27.740being more we're building that momentum three hoffs now it's a special thing and we're building
00:18:35.260something really special so everybody who has that anxiety and that fear and that that discomfort
00:18:40.140with the state of the world around us do whatever you're going to do uh if there's you know vote how
00:18:47.100you're going to vote take part in things in your community that you think will help absolutely
00:18:52.700but be part of this. Make this a priority. Come out to this. Your AFA family is here for you,
00:19:01.740and while things out there may be worse than you're used to, things in here are better than
00:19:05.740they've ever been. So take strength in your AFA family. Let's all take strength from each other,
00:19:12.060and not only can we do great things, but we are doing great things. So take heart in that.
00:19:21.820uh we got a guy reaching out who is uh wants to apply he is in the navy and stationed in japan
00:19:37.620uh no absolutely we would as like i said earlier the afa wants to be wherever our folk are
00:19:47.080And if we find our folk deployed and overseas, that's where we need more members.
00:19:53.640You're not currently being in the United States.
00:19:56.940It doesn't affect your ability to join the AFA at all.
00:19:59.780As a matter of fact, we have members now in 16 different countries around the world.
00:20:04.960And so it's a very special time to be part of the AFA.
00:22:48.680and like i said while we go through all these finding uh finding comments that may not show up
00:23:18.680Please don't take a personal I do try to go over the next probably day or so reading any messages and if there's something that I miss, I will absolutely try to get back to it for some reason I don't get to it.
00:23:33.680It's not because I don't like it it's because I'm having trouble navigating the technology here and finding your question.
00:23:39.680I know we've had people in the past that, you know, were frustrated that they couldn't get to me on it.
00:23:46.940So I want you guys to know we are doing the very best we can on finding it.
00:24:06.460Um, the vast majority of AFA gathered gatherings are, it's not only okay if you bring your family, but we want you to bring your family, please.
00:24:18.640You know, we, we may have a group of guys that gets together for their own thing by themselves sometimes, but an AFA gathering is always family friendly.
00:24:27.460If you're coming out, we always want you to be able to bring your family with you.
00:24:31.460Um, watching the growth and, uh, just flowering of all these families has been amazing watching
00:24:42.880that bloom. We've got so many AFA babies being born, so many kids at these events, and it's so
00:24:50.100beautiful to watch these kids play together. Um, you'll see kids that never met before and, you
00:24:55.400know, within just a few minutes, it's like they're old friends. That's a really beautiful and a
00:25:00.600really special thing. We work really hard to make sure that the atmosphere at AFA events is family
00:25:05.780friendly, that we have stuff that supports being able to have children there, that, you know,
00:25:13.440the increase in that men and women both feel comfortable being there. And yeah, it's,
00:25:21.360it would be a tremendous sadness to me if you felt that your family wasn't welcome.
00:25:27.960um and it's a it's an amazing thing that so many families are coming around
00:25:32.440absolutely family friendly please bring your families out
00:26:07.680I'm still going through here trying to look for stuff.
00:26:11.200I appreciate so many questions and so many people.
00:26:14.200chiming in tonight with stuff they want to say and things they want to ask
00:26:19.300Lane uh when I mentioned that we're looking at we have ideas don't think that that doesn't come
00:26:29.120to mind all right best way to find others in your area um ask Cliff Cliff I don't know where you are
00:26:37.200um let us know in the chat and we'll try to get you in touch with your local folk builder for
00:26:41.640anybody out there, there's a contact page, www.runestone.org. That's got your folk builder,
00:26:50.080that's got local Gothar in your area. That's going to be your best way to get in contact with local
00:26:56.620people. Your folk builder in your region is your prime AFA local contact. Not only is it good to
00:27:05.220get in touch with he or she, but they can get you in touch with other people in your area and really
00:27:10.480help solidify that and make that real for you and they're more than happy to help that's literally
00:27:16.620what they're there for so please do reach out to your local folk builder like i said cliff if you
00:27:21.680share with us where you're from over in the sidebar uh mandy or myself or one of our folk
00:27:26.620builders will chime in and get you get you where you need to be
00:27:40.480Okay, we've got a couple of different comments here.
00:27:51.020Cody's asking for new members if I could explain the role that the ancestors and the gods play in our everyday lives.
00:28:02.980I'm trying to think of the best way to put this.
00:28:04.540One of the tendencies in Western civilization has been a, certainly in Christianity, has been an idea that Jesus is your personal Lord and Savior and cares about everything all of us do, even to kind of a creepy degree how much he cares about the details of our personal lives.
00:28:27.920and now it's true that's not the case our gods have other things to do and
00:28:34.820I don't wish to discourage any personal practice of interacting with the gods on an individual
00:28:43.360basis I certainly have always done that myself and I think it's important I think that too often
00:28:50.540in our individual private practice we focus all on our gods we neglect our ancestors
00:28:56.320as far as beings in the spirit world that care the most about us individually
00:29:03.920your grandmother or grandfather that passed probably cares a lot more about your personal
00:29:10.660life and how you're doing and your family than the great gods of the Aryan people back to the
00:29:18.180dawn of time just due to proximity and familiarity I think your ancestors take a very important
00:29:26.300personal role in your house in your family and your children and i think they're the best point
00:29:32.220of contact to reach out to the beyond for for help and for for for blessings in your personal life
00:29:41.180now we all reach out to the greater gods of our folk and i truly believe that sometimes they do
00:29:46.460listen um what i think the best way to reach out to the gods of our folk the great gods of our folk
00:29:54.460is through practice in a community with the Astru Folk assembly. When we all gather together
00:30:01.740and in one voice and bloat, stand there, you know, a hundred of us raising our voices in praise
00:30:09.680and hailing our gods, I know they listen and I know we have their attention. And we're building
00:30:17.480on the back of 25 years of a group hymenia that we've built of a relationship between the gods
00:30:25.960so through the afa and through our group practice i think that's the best way of of approaching
00:30:31.640the gods of our folk um and i think our ancestors are really really important in our day-to-day
00:30:37.960life in our family life with those kind of smaller in the scope of things or more personal rather in
00:30:46.600the scope of things concerns and i hope that gets to it uh northeast louisiana cliff
00:30:56.360who you would like to talk to is michael foley m foley at runestone.org
00:31:04.040he's our folk builder he's in louisiana and he would love to help you get connected
00:31:08.120um we got a question about inter-religion marriages um
00:31:19.720i'm gonna be honest with you it's um it's important that we be honest
00:31:24.040that's not the optimal situation but um that is a situation that a lot of
00:31:29.080as a true or find themselves in in a household that with divided religiosity
00:31:37.320i think the best case scenario for that is for the spouse that is not also true to
00:31:44.520realize the beauty of what we're doing to see the light and to become house true
00:31:52.520i think there's ways to make inter-religion marriages work1.00
00:31:56.360but i think the best thing to do my best advice is to try to expose the spouse that's not also true
00:32:02.760to also true to show them the uh the great things that we're doing and the effect it has on your
00:32:10.520life because working together is so very essential in a marriage and i found this in my own life
00:32:18.920once i found a partner that was also true um everything clicked and everything became so much
00:32:26.600better i would advise everybody out there if you're in a spot to build relationships with
00:32:33.480people who are going the same direction that you want to go so that you guys can journey through
00:32:38.200life together in one direction instead of gradually over time moving apart and if you
00:32:43.640find yourself apart when you get together i'm very hopeful that uh that you can work with your spouse
00:32:51.960that you can work with weird and that you guys can grow closer together so eventually you guys
00:32:56.680are on the same path being on that same path is extremely important and it's especially important
00:37:29.120He's in Louisiana and can get you squared away.
00:37:31.900Also, Lane Ashby, who is on the side listening to us right now, he is a folk builder for
00:37:37.480the region mississippi's technically in the deep south region and he can certainly get
00:37:42.120you squared away on other members in mississippi and help you get something going there if you're
00:37:45.960interested roy there will absolutely be events around yule at thorshoff now that we have thors
00:38:02.120we're going to have seasonal events at all times of the year at Thorshof.
00:38:06.120So yes, absolutely. You want to reach out to those folks.
00:38:09.120There will be a Yule event at Thorshof, guaranteed.
00:38:21.120Got a question about the well and the tree as it relates to our folk.
00:38:27.120And if you're completely brand new, I'm not sure who all we've got in the audience tonight or who may be listening.
00:38:32.120In our worldview, in our cosmology and view of the world, existence is thought of as being in the body, the roots, and the branches of a great world tree.
00:38:50.680And that world tree is fed by a well, the well of earth.
00:38:55.880and the idea is that the things we put into the well affect the health of that tree
00:39:06.180and this is a microcosm macrocosm thing there's a lot of symbology there between the entire world
00:39:15.800tree of our existence as people and between the various trees of our family of the austral folk
00:39:24.860assembly of any groups and circles that we might be in the idea is your deeds your words the past
00:39:35.340goes into the well and it feeds that tree now if you feed it with glory if you feed it with
00:39:42.220heroism if you feed it with nobility then it grows healthy and strong and beautiful
00:39:48.060And if you feed it with ill deeds or with carelessness or with mistakes and dishonor and disrespect and garbage, then it withers and it grows unhealthy and gnarly and it slowly dies and it rots.
00:40:10.460But here's the thing, it grows and it sheds off its leaves and they fall back in the well.
00:40:15.440and we can we can keep this cycle going so just because there was a bad batch of stuff in the
00:40:22.520well and the tree got uglier than it should be if you want to make it better put better stuff in
00:40:28.940that well we can't erase the negative that finds its way in the well but we can absolutely dilute
00:40:36.220it with as much positive as we can and we can make something beautiful and we can make new health
00:40:42.980new growth, and new beauty in that tree. And that's a really important concept in Alcetru.
00:40:48.580It's very essential to our ritual of sambal that we do, where we have ritual drinking out of a horn.
00:40:54.340The words said over that horn are likened to the things that we put in that well.
00:40:58.580And by sharing it, we're all made strong by the good things put in the horn.
00:41:03.140Or if people were to put bad things into the horn, we're all made weaker by it.
00:41:08.020I hope that made a little bit of sense.
00:41:12.980Roy, yes, there is already a date set for the dedication of Baldershoff.
00:41:25.960That is going to be coming up in November.
00:41:28.900Guys up in Minnesota, guys coming down from the Dakotas, have put a lot of work making that place really special.
00:41:35.720It was already a beautiful, beautiful building and a beautiful place.
00:41:38.920and with the love these guys have shown it it is it is shaping up to be really remarkable and it's
00:41:45.100going to be really something to behold so yeah keep your eyes open for uh in November having
00:41:50.200that dedication of Baldur's Hoff I will be there and I'm very excited for that
00:42:08.920All right, I'm looking to see if I'm catching any questions that I may have missed.
00:42:25.880If I haven't gotten to you, please ask again or something because I'm looking and I'm very eager to answer anything you guys care enough to ask.
00:42:38.920yeah for uh folks that don't know we do have a youtube channel so if you search on youtube for
00:42:55.000the astro folk assembly we have a channel there where after we're done with these i save these
00:42:59.880and i and i put them up in there um there's other content besides that but there's you know any of
00:43:05.640these that i've done and if anybody needs to catch them later or whatever the case may be
00:43:14.200like i said i appreciate you guys joining me for these i look forward to them every month
00:43:19.320this is a really nice opportunity to be able to interact with all of our afa members from
00:43:25.960from across the world um also like to mention i'm not sure if i mentioned it last month but
00:43:32.760But we have a new kindred that has joined us in Brazil that we're very proud of, the fighter folk kindred.
00:43:44.360And I'm very excited to have those guys with us.
00:43:47.900As I mentioned earlier, we've got AFA members now in 16 countries around the world.
00:43:53.640Truly, wherever our folk are, that's where we want to be.
00:43:57.000And we'd love to see kindreds grow and flourish in those places.
00:44:00.500we'd love to see hoffs there and with our third hoff having happened we're
00:44:06.260we're well on our way to making some of that a reality
00:44:14.580so i mentioned we have uh fall fest coming up in just about a month from now so everyone absolutely
00:44:23.140do what you can make it there but also if for some reason you can't or if you want to do both
00:44:28.500which i'd highly encourage winter nights in the poconos coming up in middle of october
00:44:35.300if you can make it there that's an amazing event it's very special it's a beautiful place
00:44:40.340a beautiful time of the year uh we've checked there's no no worries about the camp everything's
00:44:46.500great um everything is squared away and we're very excited for it this year um
00:44:53.060um so personally uh winter nights is a very special event for me it's where i met my wife
00:45:00.500mandy i have a lot of good memories from that site and from that event so if you can't make
00:45:06.740it out to fall fest or even if you can go to winter nights in poconos it's absolutely amazing
00:45:12.900and uh cliff and his wife katie erickson they they do so much to make that event special so uh
00:45:20.260looking forward to that this year too we've got a lot of really exciting things in store
00:45:26.340we're still celebrating our 25th anniversary all year so these events are all very special
00:45:31.860and they all mark a very special time in our history and uh it's another thing i wanted to
00:45:38.020mention um we are well on our way i've talked about this few times we are working behind the
00:45:44.900scenes we have some pretty amazing volunteers working to compile and write a history of the
00:45:51.300Auschwitz folk assembly knowing our past knowing the amazing story of how we got to where we are
00:46:00.980is really important gives us something to build on and that's something that when I first joined
00:46:06.580the AFA I wanted to find out more about and it just wasn't available we're going to have
00:46:11.940a history of the astro folk assembly and we're going to get that going as soon as we can we're
00:46:18.340going to keep adding to it compiling it history is so very important to us and we're really focusing
00:46:24.100on that from this year on into the future one thing that we're making sure we have at each of
00:46:29.860these hoffs is a hoff historian to write down our history at these hoffs to track the things that
00:46:38.340happened at these really special places and to learn and compile some of the history of these
00:46:44.500sites before they were ours the buildings that we've that we've taken over the land
00:46:49.780where what it was beforehand how it developed how it grew and we're going to add our layers
00:46:55.540to that story as the years go by so history is really important and we've got some really great
00:47:00.580volunteers putting that to the forefront lately got any more questions tonight
00:47:15.140suppose questions or just any any broad things that you you may want to want to hear me comment on
00:47:30.580Oh, what I recommend for daily practice.
00:47:38.740So some of this may not sound particularly spiritual, but everything is spiritual.
00:47:47.420Some of it may not sound particularly religious, but our religion is something that we practice in all that we do.
00:47:54.360Daily practice, live nobly and live heroically.
00:47:59.580Be a good man, be a good woman, be a good father, be a good son, be a good husband,
00:48:06.620be a good employer, be a good employee, be a noble person in the things that you do.
00:48:13.380And I think that's the essential to daily practice.
00:48:16.360For the more overtly spiritual, I would really encourage altar work.
00:48:22.600Coming before your altar once a day, lighting candles, burning incense,
00:48:27.020addressing the the gods and also making a space and addressing your ancestors
00:48:33.160um we often think that when we approach in prayer either our ancestors or the gods that we need to
00:48:40.140be asking for something it's not the case we can just be thankful for something we can just say
00:48:47.000thank you what else we can do is in that holy space in our home we can make affirmations we
00:48:56.440can affirm our goals and things that we will do. We can say these things out loud in the presence
00:49:04.240of our gods and in the presence of our ancestors in a holy place. That in and of itself is a sacred
00:49:11.840act. And I think having that touchstone to come before your altar once a day is extremely important
00:49:17.440in your daily practice. A lot of people include an amount of meditation with that. One thing that
00:49:24.760I've found very useful in meditating and altar work has been Galder. For those that may not know,
00:49:33.080Galder is basically chanting a rune. When you chant a rune and you Galder that rune and think
00:49:40.500on its shape, the sound after a while, if you do it long enough, ends up taking on a life of its own
00:49:47.620and your mind frees up and goes to a very special sacred place i've found a lot of value in that i
00:49:55.480have some trouble stilling everything with silence but galder work which is very similar to what in
00:50:02.660the east they would call mantra work does a lot for me and has helped me a lot throughout the
00:50:07.580year so i really recommend that too in your daily practice to center you to focus you on a room that
00:50:13.940you wish to galler, to elevate your mind to a different place. So I would highly encourage that.
00:56:08.680your spiritual might that is built up of
00:56:16.240I guess the best way to describe it is a combination
00:56:26.260or the sum of your your defeats and your successes your hymenia is the spiritual
00:56:39.200might that you build and you build it strong through right action through heroic things
00:56:45.580through fame through doing good and you diminish it by moral compromise by degeneracy by by bad
00:56:54.760behavior um and this can increase and it can decrease depending but your hymenia is that value
00:57:04.360and we believe that when we function as a group a group has a hymenia as well your family your
00:57:12.200kindred the afa in general um in a huge sense our folk in general um but your hymenia is the
00:57:22.040spiritual might that you've built and it's not just by being a good guy or being a famous guy
00:57:28.680but it's also by right practice and consistent ritual practice if you do consistent ritual you
00:57:34.760do consistent meditative work you offer to the gods regularly you interact with your ancestors
00:57:40.920regularly as you grow in spiritual power your hymenia grows as well and when you participate
00:57:48.200ensemble and you share your spiritual energy in the horn with other outside true are they benefit
00:57:55.720from your hymenia and you benefit from theirs so it's important that we we share good hymenias
00:58:03.240amongst each other so that our group of minion gets strong whereas if we were just made of a0.97
00:58:08.600bunch of jerks then we have somebody who's great that that gets together with us their hymenia goes0.99
00:58:15.240down because they're hanging out with a bunch of losers that's why it's really important in the afa1.00
00:58:19.960that each of us tries to be the very best we can be so what we share with our family what we bring
00:58:26.520to the table is the very best it can be by us all being great we spur each other to even greater
00:58:35.480even greater heights by us all doing our very best we come together with the
00:58:41.560best hymenia and the mightiest hymenia that's kind of a real quick way of explaining it
00:59:11.560all right guys well that hour went by very very quickly um if you guys have any any last things
00:59:26.680you want to ask that i didn't get to um yeah any any last questions or any last things that you
00:59:37.240If you want any kind of comment on before we call it a night.
00:59:45.240Oh, I didn't mean to ignore that question.
00:59:48.240Hollander's translation of the Eddas is a is a really good one.
00:59:54.240I think there's something a little bit to be gained out of all of them.
00:59:58.240I don't I've yet to run into a translation that I really dislike.
01:00:05.240But I think that we're best served if you can take a couple of translations and put them together, and then you get kind of an idea of where they, where everybody's in agreement, where there's something a little bit different.
01:00:17.660So I would encourage, you know, take a look at a couple of different translations, especially if there's a point that really sticks out to you, either positively or negatively that really speaks to you.
01:00:26.700I'd take a look at a couple different ETA translations to see what the different translators have, how they've interpreted the language.
01:00:35.240And thank you for chiming in on that, Blaine and Mandy.
01:00:42.240So I'm going to check here one more time.
01:00:47.240I hope that I've answered everybody's questions.
01:00:49.240If for some reason I did not get to something you asked, I apologize, and I will try to try to get to them best I can here in the next day or so.
01:00:58.240Okay, last question. Got a gentleman. Daniel, you asked about has the AFA considered buying land
01:01:13.560to build an AFA community on? Yes, absolutely. That has always been something that our people
01:01:22.040have dreamed about doing and thought would be a good idea the idea of it always seems to be
01:01:28.280better than the practicality of actually making it work um i don't say that to squash any dreams
01:01:35.720maybe one day that'll be a great reality um something that our people tend to do is fantasize
01:01:42.600about you know getting some big spread of land somewhere and building a little afa village on
01:01:48.040it and doing all these things and that's great and beautiful i myself really bought into a plan on
01:01:52.760that about six years ago and what i found is what most people run into is you'll have one
01:01:59.480one or two people that are very very committed and then you'll have other people that the more
01:02:03.880it becomes a reality it's just too big of a jump it's too big of a jump for most people
01:02:09.880um maybe we'll get there i'd love to see us get there but what i think is is much more reasonable
01:02:15.880is in the in the regular lives that we're in have our people move closer together an AFA
01:02:22.520community doesn't have to be a set aside you know 100 acres off in the middle of nowhere
01:02:29.720you start with an AFA community if you got AFA members that move to the same state move to the
01:02:35.000same county move to the same town you have an AFA community when you got AFA members that decide to
01:02:42.040moved to the same street or the same neighborhood or heck if you're in an urban environment you have
01:02:47.560an afa community if people live in the same apartment building the closer we get together
01:02:54.120that's where afa community is and what i would really encourage is while while we plan for you
01:03:00.760know the big afa intentional community somewhere in the meantime let's not let perfect be the enemy
01:03:07.240of good and those of us that are mobile or if you're you don't have anything going where you're
01:03:12.120at move next to some other afa members i think a really great idea if you want afa community
01:03:18.680and you're mobile and you don't know where to put down roots um get near brownsville california
01:03:25.720get near linden north carolina get near murdoch minnesota and let's start building
01:03:31.000communities around our house that's what i'd really encourage
01:03:36.600it's been great talking to you guys tonight it's always great talking to my afa family i love you
01:03:41.320guys um i look forward to seeing everybody at fall fest and i will talk to you guys again next month
01:03:50.840if not sooner um this is an amazing amazing time to be part of the outstreet folk assembly
01:03:57.720and I'm glad you guys are here to, we can share that together. Hail the gods, hail the folk, hail the ASA.