Asatru Folk Assembly - March 03, 2021


Drink From Your Own Well (2012)


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

111.98

Word count

748

Sentence count

52

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

sentences flagged

Hate speech

8

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Summary

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The gods and goddesses never went away. They are with us always. And now they stir, and we reclaim our spiritual birthright. A glorious dawn awaits. Hail our awakening. Hail Asatru Rising. Steve McNallan

Transcript

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00:00:26.000 Hey!
00:00:28.000 This is Steve McNallan of the Asatru Folk Assembly,
00:00:38.400 bringing you the latest on the revival of the ancestral faith of Northern Europe
00:00:42.780 and the awakening of the European descended peoples everywhere.
00:00:47.760 The gods and goddesses never went away.
00:00:51.220 They are with us always, and now they stir, and we reclaim our spiritual birthright.
00:00:59.800 A glorious dawn awaits.
00:01:02.280 Hail our awakening. 0.73
00:01:04.340 Hail Asatru rising. 0.99
00:01:09.800 We European-descended people want to drink from everyone's well except our own. 0.94
00:01:15.880 Many of us are uncomfortable with Christianity, but keep going to church because it's the right
00:01:23.040 thing to do, or because I want the kids to have good morals. Those who do leave the church find
00:01:30.300 themselves adrift. What now, they wonder. Some check out Buddhism, others try Wicca or Theosophy.
00:01:38.800 Unitarianism is an easy out. If all paths are valid, then you don't have to make a choice.
00:01:44.840 Many seekers give up altogether, decide there's nothing to the cosmos except matter and energy, and become atheists. 0.97
00:01:52.960 And, of course, some try Native American religion. 0.99
00:01:57.920 I can understand that.
00:02:00.320 There's a lot that's appealing in Native American spirituality.
00:02:03.940 We do see it through the lens of our modern culture, of course.
00:02:07.640 It's natural, environmentally friendly, noble, uncontaminated by modernity.
00:02:12.840 white guilt adds to the equation and maybe we have an urge to submit to a
00:02:19.140 people we have treated harshly even a need to acknowledge them as wiser than
00:02:24.300 us our superiors most euro folk have no idea that we too have ancestral religions
00:02:32.120 for many of us it's called also true it includes many of the things that we
00:02:37.620 admire in Native American belief.
00:02:42.280 More than a few people who are now Alsatrew started off as members of the largest Indian
00:02:46.980 tribe of all, the wannabes.
00:02:50.420 Here's the story that one of them has to tell us.
00:02:55.520 In 1975, I was at a powwow on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
00:03:01.980 My girlfriend and I, and another couple, had been there for a couple of days enjoying the
00:03:06.640 dancing, drumming, and craft work. I had struck up a conversation earlier with a gentleman
00:03:12.320 who turned out to be one of the Sioux elders who had helped organize the event.
00:03:18.080 Later on that evening, he came over to me and asked me if I had had a good time.
00:03:22.640 I answered, yes, very much so. Then he said, I'm glad to hear that, but you'll have to leave now.
00:03:29.440 Now, afraid that I had violated some rule, I asked why. 0.55
00:03:35.700 He replied, because we're about to perform a religious ceremony and it's only for Indians.
00:03:42.700 I replied that I understood.
00:03:45.800 As we were walking away, he walked beside me.
00:03:49.360 At the entrance, he put his hand on my shoulder, smiled and said to me, you're not going to
00:03:54.920 find what you're looking for here.
00:03:57.820 You need to drink from your own well."
00:04:00.680 I shook his hand and left.
00:04:03.920 It would be another twenty years before I would understand what he meant by this statement.
00:04:08.880 I had discovered Edred Thorson's A Book of Troth in a Bookstore, and was reading through
00:04:13.800 it when the Sioux elder's words came back to me and struck me like a thunderbolt.
00:04:19.460 This was it.
00:04:20.460 I was finally drinking from my own well.
00:04:23.800 I had found my way home.
00:04:27.820 Home. For us, that's what it feels like to find Ausatru. The cool, clear water flowing
00:04:35.540 from our ancestral stream is the elixir of our spiritual life.
00:04:41.300 A very wise American Indian activist, Vine Deloria, wrote a book called God is Red, in
00:04:47.960 which he said,
00:04:49.380 Most probably religions do not, in fact, cross national and ethnic lines without losing their power and identity.
00:04:58.040 It is probably more in the nature of things to have different groups with different religions.
00:05:05.660 Now, to me, this has nothing to do with superiority or inferiority, only with diversity, real diversity,
00:05:13.260 not the pseudo-diversity of modern political correctness, which argues, incorrectly,
00:05:19.220 that human groups are all the same, interchangeable with identical spiritual needs.
00:05:24.780 Differences are real, and it is in accepting and honoring those differences
00:05:30.700 that we find true diversity, tolerance, and respect.
00:05:36.380 The spiritual thirst of my European-descended brothers and sisters 0.98
00:05:40.800 will only be slaked when they find their people's well 1.00
00:05:44.820 and drink deeply from it.
00:05:50.160 This is Steve McNallan of the Asatru Folk Assembly,
00:05:54.100 www.runestone.org, saying thank you for listening in,
00:06:00.420 and I hope you'll catch us next time.
00:06:10.800 We'll be right back.