Recovering the Soul of Our People (2010)
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Summary
In this episode of our ongoing saga, I want to talk about souls getting lost. How does a soul get lost, and what happens when it does? And most importantly, what does this have to do with you?
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This is Steve McNallan of the Asatru Folk Assembly,
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bringing you the latest on the revival of the ancestral faith of Northern Europe
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and the awakening of the European descended peoples everywhere.
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They are with us always, and now they stir, and we reclaim our spiritual birthright.
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A glorious dawn awaits. Hail our awakening. Hail Asatru rising.
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In this episode of our ongoing saga, I want to talk about souls getting lost.
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How does a soul get lost and what happens when it does?
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And most importantly of all, what does this have to do with you?
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Let's begin by describing a scene from an ancient hall.
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Packed into the smoky room, the people laughed and danced.
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Horns of beer sloshed as the toe-headed men and women jostled each other in celebration.
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The chief sat on his high seat in the position of honor,
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but beside him was the simple peasant woman who had just been healed,
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clad in his wolf skin inside the sacred circle,
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and fought the spirit that had stolen the woman's soul
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people's souls sometimes wander away or get stolen.
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Affected individuals may lose appetite, become ill, and develop strange behaviors.
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They become disoriented, unable to respond effectively to their environment.
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Today, we would consult a doctor or a psychiatrist,
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but to the tribe's members, something much more interesting and more poetic has happened.
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This spiritual specialist makes a dangerous journey to the other world
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sometimes having to battle fierce demons in the process.
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I believe that whole groups can experience soul loss just as individuals do.
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Entire clans, tribes, and nations can lose their soul,
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their very identity, thus collectively suffering torments like those of a sick individual.
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When this happens, the group is cut off from the wellsprings of ancestral wisdom, power,
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and abundance, and if contact with this holy source is not re-established, extinction follows
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for the group, just as surely as death comes to the person suffering from individual soul loss.
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I don't mean just the current inhabitants of Europe,
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but all men and women of European descent everywhere in the world.
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The malady is not one of geography, but rather of common blood, spirit, and culture.
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For European people as a whole, for people of European heritage individually,
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family, and for the other people who have to live on this planet with us.
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The bad news is that each one of us Eurofolk has suffered a personal loss of connectedness,
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The good news is that we can each gain in happiness and prosperity by reconnecting with
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Our folk are statistically rich in material goods, and we enjoy the highest standard of
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living this planet has ever seen, but we are spiritually impoverished.
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We seek to fill the inner vacuum by chasing the wisdom of other peoples, Buddhism, American
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Indian belief, anything except our own ancestral spirituality.
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Cut off from our heritage, from the holy powers, from each other, and from the world around
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Eurofolk are the most stressed people on earth and the least happy.
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For all our perceived power we are inwardly weak.
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Luckily for us, our soul is only lost, not dead.
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It cannot die unless we as a people become extinct.
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We can reconnect with the life-giving springs of spirit.
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We can touch the wisdom of our ancestors, and with it we can each have more
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fulfilling, more successful, more wondrous lives. Just as the shaman journeys to the
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other world to recover a lost soul, so each of us can make the spiritual
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journey to retrieve the European soul. This is a journey of high adventure with
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unlimited rewards for us and for our descendants. And best of all, we know the
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way we must travel if we are to succeed in this all-important quest. Eurofolk
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lost their soul because they turned away from the wisdom of our forefathers and
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foremothers, sometimes by persuasion but more often by fire and sword in the
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course of a thousand-year war waged from Rome to the Baltic as tribe after tribe
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and nation after nation fell before a military, political, and economic onslaught
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that sought to crush our heritage. It is likely that you personally had
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ancestors who died trying to preserve our ancient ways. But times have changed.
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We are more fortunate than those revered heroes of the past centuries. Soul loss
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was often bloody and hate-filled, but soul recovery is a loving, peaceful
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reclaiming of our spiritual birthright. To regain the soul of Eurofolk, we have
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only to turn once again to the way of the ancestors. And once we make that
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connection, there's a lot of good news. We find we do not need salvation. We find
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the world is not a valley of tears, but a place of beauty and wonder. We are not slaves to a
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tyrannical deity, but rather kin to the divine. The way of our ancestors is a way of hope,
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offering freedom, power, and fulfillment. When we reconnect with our spiritual birthright,
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we open ourselves to a cornucopia of gifts, a secure self-confidence, balance and grounding,
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assertiveness, wisdom, increased personal power, material abundance,
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the answers to the fundamental questions of human destiny and the nature of the universe.
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It's time to gain a sense of our identity and get right with ourselves.
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It's time to find the collective soul of our people and to restore it to our brothers and sisters,
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for our sake and for the sake of all life on earth.
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It is the role of the Asatru Folk Assembly to carry out this historic task.
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To find out more about us, visit our website at www.runestone.org.
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This is Steve McNallan of the AFA saying bye for now and we'll be back next week.