Asatru Folk Assembly - July 2019 Facebook Live Discussion

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00:00:30.000 anybody watching this said okay here we go he's giving it a few minutes to get

00:00:37.800 some folks in here it looks like we got oh wow it's picking up about seven

00:00:41.700 people watching right now eight hey guys thanks for everybody who uh who's

00:00:47.880 joining me this evening I always look forward to having these talks with y'all

00:00:51.900 every month I hope the I hope y'all got a chance to listen to Steve and Sheila

00:00:59.820 over on God's Folk and Destiny did a fantastic fantastic YouTube show just a

00:01:06.300 few minutes ago I'm kind of kind of sad that this conversation we're having cuts

00:01:12.240 it short it was a really fascinating to listen to all the things that we're

00:01:16.620 talking about and Sheila kind of tell the story of where the AFAs come from so

00:01:22.300 Excellent.

00:01:23.900 Hey, Zach, good to see you tonight.

00:01:26.480 Thanks, Rob.

00:01:27.220 I do what I can.

00:01:32.940 Good deal.

00:01:34.100 Any of y'all that are hanging out watching the very end of God's Folk and Destiny, I don't blame you.

00:01:40.080 Were I not here, I would be there.

00:01:45.280 All right.

00:01:50.720 Well, something I've just got to say to start off with, Midsummer at Odenshoff was absolutely amazing.

00:02:02.380 I believe it is my 11th AFA Midsummer I've been to, and they're all unique, they're all different.

00:02:11.020 But the feeling that I get leaving this one was much different than the other ones.

00:02:15.800 folks like to talk about coming away from midsummer very energized and I think that's

00:02:21.800 I think that's true and I think it's something we all do to a degree or another and I've said

00:02:26.340 it for many years but I've never been quite as energized after midsummer as I have been this

00:02:30.700 year I'm absolutely trying to hit the ground running the AFA is you know internally we kind

00:02:37.440 of reckon the the AFA year by midsummer to midsummer and I'm absolutely ready to get this

00:02:43.720 going and moving moving in the right direction huge thanks to everybody out

00:02:53.980 here in AFA West that made midsummer possible anybody who's been to our past

00:02:58.660 midsummers or has volunteered knows that there's a lot of work that goes into it

00:03:02.380 it doesn't always run smooth this was the smoothest running midsummer of any

00:03:08.680 have been a part of. Jessica Rosner in the kitchen making sure we all ate. It is

00:03:14.140 thankless. It is her spending a lot of time in there cooking while we're out

00:03:18.160 having a good time and enjoying each other's company, but I assure you that

00:03:22.780 sacrifice is much appreciated by the folk. We all really appreciated it and

00:03:28.180 Sean Sandon and the Viking Brotherhood just blew everyone away with being able

00:03:33.700 to take care of things manage logistics make everything work out clean and beautiful and

00:03:40.340 amazing all you guys that made it out there it was awesome to see you and uh fantastic midsummer

00:03:48.500 at odontop anybody was not able to make it go to fall fest we got fall fest coming up in september

00:03:56.260 it's in minnesota i believe this is going to be the fourth annual fall fest it's absolutely

00:04:01.780 amazing we would love to see everybody out there fantastic events some of the

00:04:06.260 most generous most giving most hospitable members in the entire Astrid

00:04:10.500 Folk Assembly are right there in Minnesota and I'm looking very forward

00:04:13.900 to seeing them here in just a couple of months

00:04:19.160 thank you Astrid so how's everybody doing tonight does anybody have any

00:04:25.660 questions they want to start us off with or anything I want to make sure I talk

00:04:28.840 about trying to keep track of this over on on the Facebook too because sometimes

00:04:40.120 it sometimes it shows me things that I can't see here in the room so if I'm

00:04:46.080 looking down that's what I'm doing I'm gonna make sure I don't miss don't miss

00:04:49.680 comments from folks got go through Brian Wilton saying he's going to be at fall

00:04:56.940 fest it's an exciting reason enough to go there is here one of Brian's talks

00:05:03.900 Hey, Steve, glad we got somebody watching us in New Mexico.

00:05:19.900 Well, until we get some questions rolling here, one thing that I wanted to talk to you

00:05:27.620 little bit about is from this midsummer until next midsummer those some of you may not be aware of

00:05:39.860 this but eight years ago Steve McNall and our founder put us on a nine-year cycle for growth

00:05:47.620 and development of ourselves and of the Austria folk assembly its first three years were dedicated

00:05:54.080 to the idea of awakening the middle three years were dedicated to the idea of empowerment the

00:06:02.080 final three years are devoted to the idea of immortality each of those years is guided by a

00:06:09.020 certain symbol oftentimes it's a room sometimes it's a it's an ancient solar symbol and this year

00:06:17.660 we're in year eight so right in the middle of that immortality phase and the symbol that's

00:06:23.360 going to guide us this year is Othala. And so we're going to be focusing about immortality

00:06:32.200 and how Othala guides that and relates that. One thing that I noticed this year that's

00:06:39.240 very special, since I've been involved in Alistair Truth, we talk a lot about Othala,

00:06:45.020 but we talk about it in an abstract way. We talk about it as our blood inheritance, as

00:06:52.040 spiritual inheritance that we're trying to recapture and and stake a claim to i think all

00:06:59.080 of those things are are very valid very important but now we get to talk about othala in the most

00:07:08.040 literal sense it being a sacred land it being our house being our odal lands and for one of the

00:07:17.320 first times in the history of austral we actually have sacred space now the austral folk assembly

00:07:22.680 has odin's hop we have a a piece of land that's our odal space to call ours and that's fundamental

00:07:31.400 in what we're going to be focusing on this year and how we're going to look towards

00:07:36.680 immortality by having that permanent spot in midgard and so with that in mind i said about

00:07:45.640 two things that are going to happen between now and next mid-summer and i'm going to need your

00:07:50.920 help to make those things happen but they will happen those two things are securing the afa's

00:07:59.080 second half and that's number one and secondly establishing a place for us to inter our dead

00:08:10.440 both of those things are happening we have plans in the work for both of those

00:08:15.980 Matthias no I am unaware of the new product that you're talking about

00:08:34.100 Katie you definitely want to go to Fall Fest 5 if you can't make it to Fall Fest 4

00:08:38.480 Also, you've still got an extra month

00:08:40.120 if you want to plan to try to make it out

00:08:41.320 to Winter Nights in the Poconos.

00:08:42.980 That'll be amazing, and we would love to see you there.

00:08:50.820 Brian Wilton is, in fact, the man.

00:08:54.280 And speaking of Brian Wilton,

00:08:55.960 he's asking us, how do we help people

00:08:58.380 make the change from keyboard to real life?

00:09:00.960 I think we've made huge strides in that lately.

00:09:03.420 um over on uh god's folk and destiny a few minutes ago there was someone commenting that

00:09:12.520 they wanted to join the afa but they can't because they don't have facebook you don't need

00:09:16.460 facebook to join the afa um unlike some groups we exist in real life uh it was amazing to come

00:09:23.640 back from midsummer and see all of the pictures and all of the all of the things about everyone

00:09:29.340 else's spectacular midsummers they were celebrating and now that we have folk in south africa and

00:09:34.860 australia and new zealand we have folks that were celebrating yule at the same time we were

00:09:38.540 celebrating midsummer in 15 countries now around the world all across the united states we get

00:09:46.380 together in real places talk to your local folk builder they would love to help you get together

00:09:53.740 with actual afa members part of your afa family in real life and that makes all the trivialness

00:10:01.500 of the facebook groups and people on the keyboard just go away and disappear into irrelevance

00:10:09.180 so please that's why i push so hard to get you guys to go to these events because once you do

00:10:13.100 do it'll change everything for you Katrina is asking what to expect what

00:10:28.160 kind of things happen at fall fest glorious things happen at fall fest

00:10:33.340 what you can expect for sure and I'll go from kind of the the general to the

00:10:38.840 specific, what you can expect is warm and inviting AFA family, treating you like they've

00:10:45.320 known you for a lifetime, and welcoming you with open arms. Absolutely some of the best

00:10:50.640 people. There's going to be bloats. I will probably be doing one of my Odin bloats in

00:10:57.460 the evening, in one of the evenings. There will certainly be a high sumble, an AFA formal

00:11:04.680 three-round sembles gonna happen I know I'll be talking looks like Brian will be

00:11:10.380 talking as well I'm sure we'll have a lot of several talks I'll definitely

00:11:17.940 have a Q&A session for people there to look me in the face and ask me anything

00:11:21.480 that they want or address things that they may want to talk to me about we're

00:11:27.960 gonna have people traveling in from not just that region but from all over the

00:11:31.320 the United States and hopefully around the world to see it I'd love to get some

00:11:34.860 of the Canadian members down for fall fest you can expect expect great food

00:11:42.000 can expect tater tot hot fish I sure expect tater tot a hot dish tater tot

00:11:47.160 hot dish is amazing and if you know what I'm talking about then you you obviously

00:11:51.660 agree or you're wrong it's fantastic and I'm looking forward to it again this

00:11:56.100 year I believe they'll probably be something special for the ladies for you

00:12:00.780 guys to go off and do I don't know what all you guys do by yourself and it's

00:12:04.200 probably best that way you guys have some special things y'all are working on

00:12:07.280 and those are those are the things that I plan for and you know bring something

00:12:13.980 to take notes in if you'd like yeah just just bring your devotion to your gods

00:12:21.660 and your folk and bring a big heart and you'll fit live in the fall fest hey

00:12:27.560 Harley, glad you made it. Hey, Vanessa.

00:12:49.160 Um, Steve, that's not quite what we have in mind right now as far as a place to

00:12:53.240 enter the dead what we're looking at doing on the grounds of odin odin's hof is a more of a

00:12:58.760 traditional cemetery setup where the ashes will be interred in a in a grave spot we're looking at

00:13:05.240 doing it inside of individual stone ships we're still designing it at this point but that's the

00:13:10.360 idea with you know with a tombstone or a runestone or whatever kind of a plaque or monument people

00:13:16.040 want to make in the center of it and then a ship surrounding it on a traditional size

00:13:20.200 burial plot, even though we will be interning ashes.

00:13:30.320 So, Matthias Boothark just put up a link.

00:13:35.540 I'm gonna trust it and say it's probably okay

00:13:37.940 for you guys to check it out,

00:13:39.080 but I haven't gotten to look at it yet.

00:13:50.200 Okay, we've got, how would I guide folks in heathenry from leaving the, I'm the biggest edgelord, to living a deep and spiritually meaningful life available to folks in Ausitru?

00:14:11.200 I think it goes hand in hand with what we were talking about earlier, about getting out of the basement and getting out there and meeting people.

00:14:16.880 um it's really easy when your connection to us is true is is books or things you see online to

00:14:25.100 build up an image in your head of what you think it is or what you think it should be

00:14:29.540 and when you go to an actual event and you see how it works in real life and you become part of

00:14:35.300 practicing it in real life those preconceptions fade away and things change and you reconceptualize

00:14:41.640 how it really is. And what about it you like? What about it's important to you and how you fit in

00:14:47.640 that equation? And I think that's the biggest difference between a lot of this edgelord thing

00:14:52.820 we see and spiritually fulfilled people is how they interact with the community in the real world

00:15:00.220 and not the one they've imagined in their head. And I say that with no condescension. I certainly

00:15:06.540 did that before i met my first you know other house of true it was all by myself you have no

00:15:11.420 choice but to come up with an idea of your head of what you think it'd be like but where the rubber

00:15:17.260 meets the road if you go with an open mind and open heart to one of these events and you see

00:15:21.100 how see how it is then everything changes

00:15:30.140 mandy is replying to a lot of comments i'm not seeing so i'm trying to check these comments

00:15:34.220 guys if i miss you like i said i'll go back through the comments and answer them

00:15:38.140 i promise i'm doing my very best to answer everyone i see

00:15:53.260 zach i think a lot of folks do that they keep their family's ashes in a place where they know

00:15:58.300 they can take care of them especially when we don't have a sacred spot for them come this fall

00:16:03.180 we will have a secret spot for them we've looked into legalities we've looked into things to the

00:16:08.140 best of our abilities to ascertain it to the best of our understanding we are completely fine

00:16:14.700 and we're going to break ground and uh enter one of one of our loved ones in uh in a plot

00:16:22.540 at odenshoff come this fall that's certainly the plan

00:16:28.460 well thank you lane i'm glad you like it those uh the odin blood means a lot to me and i

00:16:32.940 I try to put a lot of myself into it, and I'm glad that you enjoy it.

00:16:40.220 I'm not sure water cremation.

00:16:43.440 Do you mean like on something floating out in the lake, or I'm not sure if I follow?

00:16:56.640 Steve, as far as the columbarium thing is concerned,

00:17:00.640 that's an idea down the road in a different location it's not what our

00:17:04.180 plan is right now but as we get hops across the country and around the world

00:17:08.260 they're gonna be different some of them out in the country may have a lot of

00:17:11.920 space to to inter bodies some of them more in town may we may need that we

00:17:17.080 may need a smaller situation or like a mausoleum or a columbarium like you were

00:17:22.300 talking about little McHale all right guys I'm quick looking to see if there's

00:17:36.220 anything I might have missed here in the comments but yeah if anybody has

00:17:41.860 anything please please say so thank you Ashley I try thank you Jessica it's good

00:17:50.440 Good to see you here tonight.

00:17:58.440 Hail the AFA indeed.

00:18:07.440 Daniel, can you join the Swedish branch, even though you're a Norwegian?

00:18:11.440 Our AFA situation over there regionally and administratively is AFA Scandinavia.

00:18:20.360 That would certainly be your region if you're in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark.

00:18:25.520 Your folk builder's the same, Anders Nilsson, and I'm sure they'd love to have you come

00:18:30.700 over to one of their events.

00:18:32.860 When we were just over there, there was a Norwegian gentleman, Hans, that hung out with

00:18:36.580 us the whole time, and he was one of my favorite people that I met over there.

00:18:39.600 Fantastic guy.

00:18:41.200 He drove my wife and myself from the Oslo airport down into Sweden

00:18:46.260 where we're meeting the rest of folks

00:18:47.540 and really enjoyed that little tiniest little snippet of Norway that I got to see.

00:18:53.600 But, yeah, reach out to Anders, and that can absolutely be arranged,

00:18:57.620 and I'm sure folks would love to have you over there.

00:19:03.100 Wow, there's so many comments I'm not seeing on this thing.

00:19:06.220 When I'm looking down at my phone, please don't think I'm ignoring anybody.

00:19:08.840 I really am trying to get to all your comments

00:19:10.460 because it's an entire different feed

00:19:12.200 than I'm seeing over here on the side of the screen.

00:19:16.300 Where the AFA would like the second hoff.

00:19:21.540 Internment site's going to be on the grounds of Odin's hoff.

00:19:25.260 The first internment site, internment site rather.

00:19:28.560 And that's certainly as we grow

00:19:31.820 and as we establish more hoffs,

00:19:33.360 we'll have more of those as well.

00:19:34.880 But that's our first goal for a place to put our dead.

00:19:37.080 second half it's no mystery we've really been looking at the Northern Plains region we've been

00:19:44.640 looking in the Minnesota area specifically pretty heavily we've got committed people there that have

00:19:50.160 put in a lot of years making that a very stable place for us so we're talking to people who are

00:19:57.000 having to make deals behind the scenes as far as real estate and financing and things we're set

00:20:02.760 we're just finding the right spot and the right people who are selling that

00:20:08.040 house on the way and it's happening I assure you I talk about that behind the

00:20:12.840 scenes doing the work on that daily so that's absolutely happening and yeah

00:20:16.320 that's where we're looking at it a hundred percent for sure I don't want to

00:20:20.340 make promises but that's we're pretty solid on that's where we're looking for

00:20:25.240 that second off you know what Daniel there will be Hoffs there in time if I

00:20:36.920 have my way and if the AFA can keep pushing forward the way we are there

00:20:40.340 will be Hoffs everywhere in time we're very much committed to that and we're

00:20:43.560 not gonna stop working until they are we're not gonna stop working until at

00:20:47.560 you know far beyond that we'll move on to the next bigger and greater goal

00:20:55.240 How can you become part of this group?

00:21:03.880 If you're talking about the Ask True Folk Assembly, please go to www.roomstone.org and

00:21:10.860 there you can submit an application, but there you can also find information about who we

00:21:15.440 are, what we stand for, you can find our Declaration of Purpose, our Statement of Ethics, and really

00:21:21.240 make sure that you're on board with our values and the things that we believe.

00:21:24.400 you can also find uh in our history section we've got a library there of runestones and issues of

00:21:31.680 you know our newsletter and things we've got some issues the runestone going back to the 1980s so

00:21:37.520 far so please check that out also uh on there you can look and you can find what gothar are next to

00:21:43.840 you and you can find your local folk builder and they're the the face of the afa in there in your

00:21:48.640 area and they would be very happy to assist you and to answer any questions

00:21:53.440 you might have and if you do decide to join to help get you connected with

00:21:56.680 people in your area. Karen there's absolutely stuff in the St. Louis area

00:22:03.400 you want to talk to Melissa Mills and hopefully my wife is adding a link to

00:22:09.340 her for you but she would love to help you she's the local folk builder there

00:22:13.140 and surprisingly we have quite a bit of applicants just recently from that area

00:22:18.220 so that's a that's really an area of growth for us lately

00:22:25.260 uh matthew i'm not sure about your statue of the all-father i'm not sure if that's a question or a

00:22:30.780 or a statement um what's up jason

00:22:39.900 is the afa in illinois yes we absolutely are um we have members in illinois actually we have a lot

00:22:45.100 of growth in illinois i was just talking to the folk builder for that region earlier today and

00:22:50.620 and that we've seen quite a bit of growth in illinois anybody in arizona yes we do have people

00:22:58.220 in arizona uh any of you that are mentioning where you're at or reaching out that way we will make

00:23:03.660 sure to link that area's folk builder to your comment either during this during this chat or

00:23:08.700 afterwards so you guys can can make that connection it's very important and i think you'd be surprised

00:23:13.900 We may not have people right next to you, but if you're willing to drive an hour or so, I'm sure we have people pretty close to most of you guys.

00:23:22.760 I'm just streaming here, Michelle, as far as I'm aware.

00:23:31.680 No, Daniel, universalism doesn't make sense.

00:23:35.900 What those folks call oustertrue is not oustertrue, and it's unfortunate that there's so much of that in your country.

00:23:43.900 Jay asks how does one talk to a friend who is on the fence about joining the faith honestly

00:23:57.660 and heartfeltly it's less specifically what you say often and how more how you present

00:24:05.420 it and how you present yourself if you look serious if your life is conducted in a serious

00:24:12.400 way and you're finding success, you need to be that example and that way they'll take

00:24:16.960 what you're doing seriously and legitimately. If you can show them that altitude has helped

00:24:21.840 you in your life and illustrate to them that it helps you with the struggles you're going

00:24:27.280 through with your soul and how you, you know, how you address the problems of life, that's

00:24:33.040 going to be what sells it. I think another good way if they're having trouble getting

00:24:40.300 with the metaphysics of it is talk about the ancestral aspect worshiping your ancestors if

00:24:46.000 they don't quite believe that the gods exist well certainly their grandparents existed certainly

00:24:51.520 their great-grandparents existed so it's natural and right to honor those that have come before

00:24:58.180 you your grandparents your great-grandparents and beyond eventually and if they come with an open

00:25:03.880 heart then they'll realize the truth of our gods they'll they'll feel that in their heart and they'll

00:25:09.880 feel that in their lives but you got to get them to to open up to that first and

00:25:14.200 I found that talking about our ancestors helps get them there

00:25:28.740 our recommendations for reading it would all depend on what you're trying to read

00:25:33.080 I'm not sure not sure exactly where you're going with what you're trying to

00:25:39.500 read right now as far as general understanding of just also true principles now of course you have

00:25:45.580 to take these principles and find ways to apply them in your life in the times that you live

00:25:50.300 but i think that culture of the teutons by bilhelm groenbeck is a really great one to start with

00:25:56.540 if you want more of the modern practice hey tony i would suggest that you read

00:26:02.460 also true a native european spirituality by steve mcnalen it's a really good basics of who we are

00:26:08.780 and what we do and how it's practiced now um those would be my first suggestions uh follow

00:26:14.620 up if you have something more specific you're looking for a good book on

00:26:24.140 you guys are awesome i'm getting a lot of questions tonight and i really like that

00:26:27.500 and I'm getting some a little bit meatier questions, so really appreciate it.

00:26:39.020 Will, as far as has a particular god slash goddess been chosen for the new Hoth,

00:26:43.340 or will future local kindred make that decision?

00:26:49.580 Yes. No, that's a current discussion that I'm having. As a matter of fact, that's something

00:26:55.820 going to be talking about to uh the witten about here in about a half an hour um we're having one

00:27:01.900 of our meetings and we're going to discuss that a little bit there's there's absolutely a plan

00:27:07.660 short answer to your question is yes but i want to want to solidify a couple of things before i

00:27:12.940 make that announcement and i think it's also kind of like a uh in the sense of a baby naming it's

00:27:19.020 one of those things that you want to wait until the actual the actual moment to do it and it's

00:27:24.780 It's not something you wanna reveal beforehand

00:27:27.020 in that regard.

00:27:35.080 Excellent question.

00:27:36.580 Jason asks, how would I describe the sacredness

00:27:39.340 and significance of sacred burial space

00:27:41.380 and what value will add to our spiritual practice

00:27:44.240 in the context of the hearth cult?

00:27:48.620 In a very fundamental and tangible way,

00:27:52.320 our dead ancestors and loved ones

00:27:54.480 be with us while we celebrate and while we practice things in a sacred space there's something there's

00:28:02.080 a spiritual might that develops in a sacred area that's one of the beautiful things that i got to

00:28:07.680 see in a in a different way when i was in sweden and before that when i was in denmark when you're

00:28:13.440 in the stone circles you're in a burial place over there you're amongst grave mounds there is a

00:28:20.080 presence there that is palpable that you can feel and it said that those with

00:28:24.040 second sight see things there there's a spiritual energy and and there's a part

00:28:29.500 of a lot of those that have passed that that occupy those places and add to the

00:28:35.020 might and the power of those places one of the things that you can feel when you

00:28:41.260 go to Odin's off over the years we've just been making that place sacred for

00:28:47.880 four years now and we can already feel the might that's accumulated through continuous ritual

00:28:54.040 through more ritual through more sacred things being done on the grounds when that place is

00:29:00.920 permanently occupied by our loved ones and our ancestors that will increase the the spiritual

00:29:07.880 power of that place it will keep a portion of what they bring when they participate in ritual

00:29:15.080 a little bit of that will always be there when we practice rituals there a little bit of that will

00:29:19.800 always be there when we have our friends and family that have passed there and we do a wedding

00:29:25.640 or a baby naming or or anything it'll be as if those people are in attendance because in a way

00:29:32.040 the way they are, and I think in a very significant way they are.

00:29:47.040 David, yes, the Amazon Smile thing isn't working anymore.

00:29:51.040 It's not working anymore because, unfortunately, Amazon has us on a naughty list

00:29:58.040 because the SPLC has defamed our character unjustly.

00:30:28.040 So Rob, to talk a little bit about fate and free will, it's a bigger conversation than

00:30:48.540 we have all of the time for here right now, but I will say this, so much of the interplay

00:30:55.060 between those things and things that have to do with our both magical practice and spiritual

00:31:01.380 practice have everything to do with synchronicity um one of the mysteries of the room right oh

00:31:09.060 and a lot of people just see that as meaning you know man on a horse or journeying but one of the

00:31:14.660 aspects of that mystery is doing the right thing in the right season it's consistent cycles of

00:31:21.540 right action i think that we have there are things laid out and destiny laid out before us in a

00:31:31.300 certain way or certainly trending towards certain directions i think there's a lot we can do in our

00:31:36.580 life to synchronize with that and to move towards those things i think that if we have a bad

00:31:43.860 direction that we are headed towards there's a lot we can do to become aware of it and to try

00:31:48.740 to alter that course but i think the key is recognizing and aligning ourselves with synchronicities

00:31:56.660 and navigating our lives in that direction to where we're acting rightly consistently we're

00:32:02.500 building up that habit and i think the more that we act right and do those things that's the more

00:32:08.580 we become aware of the divine and the more we're aware of the divine we the more we move in the

00:32:15.140 best and most beneficial destiny that we that we can have versus if we go willy-nilly and we don't

00:32:23.140 pay attention to those things if we don't heed the call of the divine if we don't practice the right

00:32:28.500 things at the right time then we we lose and we become adrift in things so i i know that

00:32:34.580 that doesn't completely answer your question,

00:32:36.280 but I think that touches on it.

00:32:57.780 Yes, Jason, I think that our ancestors

00:33:00.920 are connected very often with the mound.

00:33:03.440 think even those ancestors that get a level of heroic ascension still are

00:33:09.280 aware and connected in a way with where the remains are certainly where they're

00:33:13.100 being you know remembered and I think that connection will only serve us well

00:33:17.720 I think that drawing attention from the ancestors drawing attention from the

00:33:22.280 divine by having that link to the other world there that is only beneficial

00:33:27.920 assuming that we're worthy to stand before them sorry guys I'm looking on

00:33:53.540 here for for other comments because we're getting a lot of them I appreciate you

00:34:01.640 guys going so hard participating on on this tonight

00:34:23.540 So, um, Bodhi is asking if I can speak a little bit on the soul complex and the parts of the soul. And, uh, not, I don't want to go too in-depth on that tonight, other than to say that one thing that's very special about our, our faith is that there is a soul complex.

00:34:50.100 there are different parts of the soul i think different places you are at different times our

00:34:55.020 ancestors had a slightly different understanding of which part was which but some things are really

00:35:01.680 really important to note about it the fact that your physical self is directly related and is a

00:35:08.400 part of the whole complex that makes you a whole person and we don't just see the soul as something

00:35:14.240 that exists out here and the physical is not connected the fact they're connected makes really

00:35:19.440 important i think it says something about how we take care of our bodies how we take care of our

00:35:23.360 health how we take care of how we look because that physical part of ourselves is an essential

00:35:29.120 part of our soul complex and it being part of our soul complex makes it something sacred

00:35:36.640 i think something else our soul complex acknowledges is a difference between

00:35:41.120 thought and memory like the all father has human and munin um i think that's really interesting

00:35:49.120 because there's there's certain things that we are that we get at different times in our life

00:35:54.160 for that are bestowed upon us an ancestral memory is one of those things i think left to its own

00:36:00.240 devices often it works its way out but very specifically when we do a baby naming we affix

00:36:06.400 a part of the soul to that child we take something that's not fully complete yet and we imbue it with

00:36:12.880 something special to fill that space and to add that to that person's soul matrix um i think also

00:36:21.600 we by that exact same token we have elements of our soul that are passed down in our family lines

00:36:28.160 that accompany us at birth and that go down the line and i think something else that's really

00:36:35.120 interesting to our soul complex is the idea of the philia the idea of the fairy godmother or of the

00:36:42.400 cross gender spiritual force that looks on and helps guide us and that repository of of sacredness

00:36:54.880 that we work our lives to integrate with to connect with and to form a form a unison with

00:37:01.760 with. So I think that's really interesting and very much a part of our soul complex.

00:37:22.220 Mandy is replying to a Corey about something and I have no idea what they're talking about.

00:37:28.420 to a spouse about house a true that's tricky because it's it is highly preferable to start

00:37:41.440 out a relationship with someone who already shares that in common with you and that helps

00:37:47.300 for you and your spouse to grow in the same direction and grow in a unified way it's much

00:37:52.920 harder when you guys were all in one place and then one of you drastically

00:37:58.080 changes your conception of the world and then tries to integrate that or tries to

00:38:03.060 do it separately or what I think is the best method is try to bring that spouse

00:38:08.460 along with you one advantage is hopefully your spouse knows you knows

00:38:16.140 who you are where you come from what kind of a person you are and hopefully

00:38:20.100 you've established a situation where they trust your judgment um and where they uh

00:38:31.300 where they have confidence in choices that you make and i think they're much more apt to take

00:38:35.380 a big life you know bearing of course like embracing ostrich with some seriousness i think

00:38:41.540 what is essential is you find a way that they take you seriously and open their mind to it

00:38:48.260 i think that the world we live in today austria is so different than a lot of things we find

00:38:52.900 surrounding us that there's a knee-jerk reaction to not take it seriously and the more we can do to

00:39:01.860 show a loved one a spouse a family member a friend the seriousness of what we do and how

00:39:08.580 we relate to divinity that opens a door and i think once they go through it certainly with

00:39:14.180 with the AstroFolk assembly they can see that it's a serious thing and I think

00:39:17.840 that's that's a major selling point and I've seen that work very well for other

00:39:21.460 couples yeah we're absolutely loading these on YouTube I just started loading

00:39:28.460 all of the ones I've done onto YouTube Sunday and have them all up can't see

00:39:33.000 them live there it's one of the other I can either do a live YouTube thing or I

00:39:36.500 can do a live Facebook thing the Facebook gets a much bigger audience

00:39:40.880 right now so it's just the more practical of the two to do if anybody

00:39:44.840 has any different suggestions on that I don't claim to be a tech wizard that way

00:39:49.340 please let me know and maybe we could do something different but right now this

00:39:52.640 is the best way to reach the most of my AFA family yes any West Virginia people

00:40:02.760 talk to Rob Rob would love to help out in West Virginia

00:40:07.820 one second guys I'm gonna look on I get different things on my phone than I get

00:40:15.060 on the little sidebar as I was saying

00:40:37.820 In the meantime, while I'm looking for any of these ones that I may have missed, does

00:40:54.840 anybody have any questions I want to ask or anything that's on their mind for the ones

00:40:59.160 that I can see on here. Yes, this is in place of Thursday. Thursday is the 4th of July.

00:41:16.580 It's American Independence Day, and it just seemed like not the most opportune time. I

00:41:22.920 know a lot of people are going to spend that time with their family. There's a lot of people

00:41:25.780 gonna gonna go and camp and get outdoors and do a lot of stuff seemed like tonight be a much better

00:41:31.540 night for it i appreciate mandy pointing that out to me because i spaced it when i posted about it

00:41:35.940 this morning so yep this is this is the one for july uh but we'll move back to thursday uh come

00:41:42.980 August yeah Matthias red ice is fantastic those people have always been great to us

00:42:05.060 Henrik and Wana are lovely people those guys have been fantastic to the AFA and

00:42:11.600 and we'd love to see them out in the afa event sometime i've appreciated opportunities

00:42:16.960 had to be on their program so yeah those i think those are some fine people

00:42:41.600 Yeah, Zach Cato, I'm not sure what you'd heard, but we've never had any plans for a

00:42:49.220 Hoff in Missouri. We would love to get a Hoff in Missouri, but I think that's, you know, 0.99

00:42:54.660 it's not going to be this Hoff number two, and it's probably not going to be Hoff number three 0.60

00:42:58.520 or four, but if Missouri really ups its game before we get Hoff, you know, before we move

00:43:03.160 that far, then I would love to have one there. Any place that can build a stable AFA community

00:43:10.280 that's dedicated, that's regular,

00:43:12.780 and that's capable of having a Hoff and taking care of it.

00:43:16.040 We would love to see that happen.

00:43:18.180 But yeah, I'm sorry if there's any confusion with that, Zach.

00:43:33.620 William, you're in central Illinois

00:43:35.280 and you wanna look for a kindred.

00:43:36.280 You go to www.runestone.org

00:43:39.880 and you look under contacts, it's got a page for kindreds

00:43:42.920 and it shows the kindreds close to you.

00:43:44.640 If you don't find one that's close to you,

00:43:46.320 or even if you do, you wanna talk

00:43:48.280 to our kindred coordinator.

00:43:50.320 He can be reached at kindredsatroomstone.org

00:43:53.820 or at jgallagheratroomstone.org.

00:43:57.520 Jason would love to help you find the closest kindred to you.

00:44:09.880 Brandon you're asking about how to determine true faith and whether it's

00:44:19.480 internal you or something that you should be outspoken about I don't think

00:44:25.780 it's necessarily something you beat everyone else over the head with but you

00:44:30.040 know as much as there are subjective truths there are objective truths as

00:44:34.780 well and when you know something to be true when you feel it when you've

00:44:38.640 experienced it i think that you should be humble enough to accept the depth and breadth of what

00:44:46.560 you might know and what you might not be sure of but i think you should absolutely speak the truth

00:44:51.840 that you know to be true and you should speak it boldly when it comes to issues of faith you

00:44:56.480 shouldn't equivocate or you know to each their own with some things perhaps but having the discernment

00:45:03.760 to know the difference between you know these things are absolutely right and these things are

00:45:08.960 absolutely wrong and then all that gray area in between it's a lot of what comes with maturity

00:45:14.560 of being a man of growing up in our faith of evolving and and becoming a better a better

00:45:20.800 also true are and in a better man in general you get that wisdom over time i know i have

00:45:27.520 um not there yet but i better than i was this time that year at or last year at it so we always

00:45:34.320 want to get a little bit closer but there is right and wrong and you shouldn't be you know

00:45:39.120 ashamed to speak up and say hey this is bad no this over here is good um people ask oh well 1.00

00:45:46.160 who's to say what's right and wrong you are that's part of being an aryan man is making a choice

00:45:53.520 and deciding the difference between right and wrong and moving forward with willpower and you

00:45:59.760 never want to do it arrogantly you want to be humble enough to take direction from your elders

00:46:03.680 and those you know those above you and those who've done more than you or know more than you

00:46:09.280 but you also need to have steely determination to go the right way when you know i'm going to find

00:46:23.520 getting so many comments here and it's very hard to do this interface on my phone I know you guys

00:46:38.020 are tired of hearing me say it but I do feel bad if I'm gonna you know if I don't get to your

00:46:43.520 question if you guys do have a question that I don't answer I promise I will go back through

00:46:49.600 and I'll look at all of these

00:46:50.580 and try to answer them best I can afterwards.

00:46:56.540 Brian wants me to mention the newly accepted

00:47:00.180 Gothi slash Githya students

00:47:03.540 in our Gothar program this year. 0.99

00:47:08.300 I'd like to announce that as students,

00:47:11.120 we have James Dover of South Carolina.

00:47:14.700 We have Christo LaRue of South Africa,

00:47:18.740 and we have Katie Allen of Idaho and we wish those three students the best it's

00:47:24.680 a very difficult very challenging course we hope you learn a lot from that course

00:47:33.440 and we hope that you prove yourselves worthy of that course Katrina if you 1.00

00:47:39.500 want to go about training to be a Githya what you would need to do is contact

00:47:43.400 to blaine qualls vqualls at runestone.org he runs our dothar program and the next time you have an

00:47:51.880 availability to apply would be next sometime before next midsummer we start our classes on

00:47:57.480 midsummer there are some prerequisites and things he'd probably like to talk to you about to see

00:48:02.600 where you're at and and get you on a road towards success whether you're ready to apply or rather

00:48:09.320 or if it's something you plan to do down the road,

00:48:13.120 he can get you on the road towards where you want to go.

00:48:18.140 Off in every state, that's the plan.

00:48:20.940 Not going to give up until it happens.

00:48:23.480 Not going to give up after it happens.

00:48:35.340 Buying land.

00:48:36.240 Has there ever been a thought passed around about buying land?

00:48:39.320 Yes, there is frequently thoughts of that. It's certainly been discussed as long as

00:48:47.060 Oustru has been around. It depends on what you want to do with the land. People have

00:48:55.080 often talked about, you know, communal living, about, you know, having our own farms and

00:49:01.180 livestock and things, and turns out that most of us here in 2019 like to talk about that

00:49:08.000 stuff but very few of us are committed to actually living the lifestyle to make that work and i don't

00:49:12.720 say that disparagingly i don't know how to go out and raise barns and you know feed hogs and that's

00:49:19.440 not that's not what i'm you know skilled at doing and i think very often we talk about that but

00:49:25.760 don't realize exactly how hard that is you're talking about buying land to construct a hoff

00:49:32.480 that's also been talked about a lot but to build a hoff worthy of our gods that meets you know

00:49:37.840 a modern stand standard is very very difficult and it's also very cost and effective at this

00:49:43.920 point in our ability to fundraise and our ability to handle that so perhaps in the future that's

00:49:48.880 something that we'd like to do but as it stands now we're much better served we found purchasing

00:49:53.920 existing structures.

00:50:23.920 uh joe i think in a lot of senses in a lot of ways i think frigg does serve um the the earth

00:50:42.520 mother aspect in a lot of ways i think as she's depicted in our lore as you know the wife of the

00:50:49.620 Allfather, I think it puts the relationship of Skyfather and Earth Mother in proper balance

00:50:56.640 or in a proper ordering. I can't say that I'm an expert on Rydberg's theories, but I do

00:51:06.980 think that there is a lot of aspects of Frigga that meet the basic understanding of any of

00:51:16.140 the Aryan concept of Earth Mother.

00:51:17.960 I think that Earth Mother is something

00:51:19.600 that our people have always understood

00:51:21.140 under different names and different guises.

00:51:23.160 And I think that Frigga carries

00:51:25.140 a great deal of that with her.

00:51:46.140 Hmm, so Flintknapping, are you talking, when you talk about government land, are you talking

00:51:58.320 about homesteading, or what are you talking about with the land, I guess is a question

00:52:03.560 I'd have for you.

00:52:05.320 And David, thoughts on Narana Society, Mark Puryear is a great guy, a friend of mine,

00:52:14.180 always done, you know, as far as I know he's always done right by the AFA in

00:52:19.760 general. Norena Society, I like a lot of the things they're doing. I really like

00:52:26.720 the effort they're putting in to get the scholarship down and it's great that

00:52:31.160 we've got people out there discovering these these nuggets in our lore that, you

00:52:35.780 know, add a little bit different spin on things or a little bit different

00:52:39.560 perspective or they further perfect linguistics and translation and I think

00:52:45.500 that's great don't like everything that they do I don't agree with you know

00:52:51.540 every conclusion that mark has come to but at the end of the day I think marks

00:52:55.180 a good man and I think his heart's in the right place and he is trying to

00:52:58.360 advance house a true for everyone and discover knowledge and pearls of wisdom

00:53:04.340 that we all can can make use of to to perfect our faith and move it in a good

00:53:09.500 direction you know I endorse I don't know if there is the right word but they

00:53:15.980 seem like good folks I know mark is a good person and I'll tell you this his

00:53:20.660 hearts in the right place so for what it's worth

00:53:29.740 All right, guys, is there any last questions you have?

00:53:39.260 And again, if I find your comments somewhere else

00:53:41.420 and I haven't responded to them, I will look at them,

00:53:43.560 I will reply, I'll do my very best.

00:53:47.580 In about six minutes, we have an AFA Witten meeting

00:53:50.540 that I need to go conduct, so.

00:53:54.180 But for the next six minutes, you guys got me.

00:53:56.400 If there's any last questions, any last things

00:53:58.260 wanted to make sure i commented on while i have you today

00:54:10.660 you just have a bunch of folks that just popped in joining us

00:54:15.140 you're very welcome rob i look forward to these i love doing these

00:54:19.460 i feel like this is a really nice chance to get to talk to you guys and hopefully

00:54:22.420 answer some questions clear some things up or

00:54:25.540 you know just have a chat with i genuinely uh believe in the whole afa family concept you

00:54:34.180 guys are my family i love you guys and i look forward to a chance to talk to you about

00:54:39.300 about our church about our faith about our community and our family

00:54:43.220 okay so never get what you don't ask for Matthias raises a really good point I

00:54:56.840 should definitely be plugging the various things we need donations for on the room

00:55:02.720 stone site if you go to www.roomstone.org have a number of things we're trying to

00:55:09.440 raise money for first and first on there we're trying to raise money for our folk

00:55:16.220 in South Africa a lot of you know about the persecution of the white farmers in

00:55:21.500 South Africa we've got folks that have been viciously persecuted because they

00:55:27.360 share the same ancestry in the same folk soul that we have those people have been

00:55:33.500 impoverished humiliated and reduced you know people that built that country have

00:55:38.060 been reduced into a state of crushing poverty and depression now for the first

00:55:43.760 time in it in the history of Austria folk assembly we actually have a kindred

00:55:47.720 over there and we have people passing out the the relief supplies that we've

00:55:54.080 raised money for be them blankets warm clothing food we have AFA members on the

00:55:59.600 ground passing out AFA supplies to these people and letting them know the

00:56:03.380 Austria folk assembly loves them and cares about it so anything you can do

00:56:06.860 with that the dollar goes a long way over in south africa you'd be surprised so every little bit

00:56:11.420 helps another thing we're always raising money for is folk services if you guys don't know folk

00:56:16.780 services is program we have to where we can help out members of our afa family if they fall on hard

00:56:22.060 times there's natural disaster if somebody loses a job if something unforeseen happens through you

00:56:28.860 guys generous donations we have the ability now to you know step in and try to help people maybe

00:56:34.940 it's helping to make a payment maybe it's you know helping with some bills maybe it's replacing

00:56:40.140 something small that they lost uh maybe it's getting a hotel room or a meal for a night it

00:56:46.060 it depends we can't fix somebody's entire life but the more we donate the more we contribute

00:56:52.300 the bigger force we can actually be in helping these people in times of need and i'm very proud

00:56:57.340 and thankful that you guys donate to that and then last but certainly not least big fundraising

00:57:03.260 effort hoff too it's coming it's happening i vowed to make it happen within this next calendar year

00:57:09.980 we're working very hard on it but we need your help you need your contributions and i'm committed

00:57:16.940 to making hoffs occur it's absolutely something we're gonna do it is all that much easier with

00:57:23.420 every dollar you guys give it's that much easier so please if you can donate we certainly appreciate

00:57:30.220 it um if you can donate in uh you know large dollar amounts we'll get your name on a plaque

00:57:38.300 there as far as a donor plaque um as we move forward with the project we'll have some some

00:57:44.140 more ideas as far as generating donations but if you go there and you donate to hoff too

00:57:49.020 you will really help accelerate this process forward thank you guys very much

00:57:53.580 much, like I say, I've got my Witten call that I've got to get on here in just a second.

00:58:02.340 I'm looking at any last questions I can quick throw out an answer to.

00:58:17.380 Alright guys, thank you all so much, I appreciate it.

00:58:20.360 look forward to talking to you guys um first thursday of august if you know if anything

00:58:29.080 you guys need to get a hold of me between now and then reach out on here or matt flabel at

00:58:34.120 runestone.org please don't hesitate to reach out but if i don't talk to you guys until then

00:58:39.320 we'll see you guys in August. Hail the gods, hail the folk, hail the AFA.

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