Asatru Folk Assembly - September 19, 2023


Worshipping the Gods is in Your Blood (from VNS Episode 1)


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Length

7 minutes

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152.69092

Word count

1,115

Sentence count

61


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00:00:00.000 we talked about getting out and practicing real as a true in the real world and you mentioned
00:00:12.440 earlier that that real life as a true versus internet as a true is something you wanted to
00:00:16.640 speak on so go ahead and tell us a little bit about your thoughts on that i do so a lot of the
00:00:23.180 time and it's it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek funny not funny joke within as a true communities that
00:00:28.960 you're constantly being told you're doing it wrong. You're doing this wrong. You're doing
00:00:33.480 that wrong. I can sort this source from this book, from this publication date, from this author.
00:00:39.100 You're doing it wrong. As a true is not in a book. Worshiping the gods is not in a book.
00:00:48.420 Worshiping the gods is in your blood. It is in your soul. It is your birthright. There is no
00:00:56.020 book that can determine your birthright. The gods are your most ancient ancestors, and you carry
00:01:04.620 that on through your ancestors. You have a direct link. You don't need to read 500 books to have
00:01:12.420 that. That spark is natural. Now, there are a few things that we have historically that we can see
00:01:20.520 that we're done. However, for the people who are constantly telling you that you're doing it wrong
00:01:26.540 or telling the AFA that we're doing it wrong, they're putting a lot of faith in a book. We're
00:01:32.420 putting the faith in our folk. We're putting the faith in our leadership. We're putting the faith
00:01:35.960 in our Godard. We're utmost putting the faith in our gods. That's where we find out justification.
00:01:44.040 You can read a million books. You can write a million essays, but when's the last time you did
00:01:48.660 bloat? When's the last time you participated in the gift cycle? When's the last time you shared
00:01:54.120 frith with someone? Those are the things that are important. You can regurgitate all the information
00:01:59.360 you want, but it has no meaning without practice and it has no meaning without devotion. So that
00:02:06.900 is one thing I really wanted to touch on tonight is that, you know, this is your birthright.
00:02:11.980 As the folks, this is our birthright and you don't need a certificate from a book. You don't
00:02:17.140 need anyone else's permission. This is your birthright. You know, that's really important.
00:02:23.480 I made this, you know, first, it's easy for me to get on a tangent on this and for people to
00:02:32.500 misunderstand. Reading books is really important. Studying things, studying archaeology, studying
00:02:40.100 linguistics studying the lore is super important and it can do so much to inform your practice
00:02:47.940 to help you build a better relationship with the gods to help you build a better understanding
00:02:53.780 but if it ends there you're not connected to our gods in a relationship
00:03:03.220 you're a weird stalker like i made this analogy before and it may sound silly but i think it's
00:03:09.380 absolutely the truth you know if my wife had a strange stalker that dug through the trash
00:03:15.620 and you know dug up old records on essays my wife wrote in high school he would know certain
00:03:22.260 things about my wife that i don't know i will give him that but he doesn't have a relationship
00:03:28.020 meanwhile we're married and she's the mother of my child and every day i have a relationship
00:03:32.980 with my wife the minutia of details that you get when you go through the dumpster doesn't
00:03:39.380 doesn't make a relationship. A relationship is made through interaction. Brandy made this point
00:03:45.340 with the gifting cycle. A relationship is made with our gods when you stand before them and you
00:03:52.580 offer them your sincere worship or something from your heart when they receive it and when they give
00:03:59.420 you their blessings in return. And when you do that, it's a cycle. When you do that cyclically,
00:04:04.860 It doesn't just go in a circle, but it spirals upwards to even better and stronger things.
00:04:10.180 And we see that the longer we're engaged in that gift cycle with our gods.
00:04:16.320 You know, something I say to our detractors, but it's also something I say to our members and anybody listening to this.
00:04:22.260 The biggest thing I can recommend you do is go out there and practice Ausitru with other Ausitru art.
00:04:29.900 Go and open your heart, open your mind to our gods and and see, give it a shot and see what happens.
00:04:37.540 It's the hardest thing to argue with some of these people, because we can argue about different ancient texts.
00:04:43.340 But I can't talk to them in a way that's going to make sense about religious experience if they haven't experienced it.
00:04:51.160 But the people who have experienced it, once you do, you can never go back and you can never not know and never not have that.
00:04:57.980 But the folks that won't take that first step of participating, they miss out on that and they'll never know that joy.
00:05:05.060 And that's really unfortunate. So I can't encourage you more than more to go out and be part of that gifting cycle and be and do Ausatru.
00:05:17.080 For those, you know, for a lot of people that are just starting out and they are just feeling that first spark of pull to the ACR, the question is always, where do I start?
00:05:27.980 And we can give you a few good books to start with.
00:05:31.780 But one thing I want you to really think about and really start with before you get too deep into quoting any books is I want you to find a nice, quiet place in your home that's going to be undisturbed.
00:05:44.740 Get some candles, some incense, get a bowl for an offering.
00:05:48.780 decide who it is that you want to start that gift cycle with whether it's the aesir
00:05:54.440 whether it's a specific god or goddess whether it's what i would recommend also is your ancestors
00:06:00.960 that have passed on leave a gift for them on this space it doesn't have to be fancy wording
00:06:07.100 you don't have to have on a special cloak made of crushed velvet or anything like that
00:06:11.520 find a quiet place talk to your gods talk to the heroes and talk to your ancestors
00:06:18.160 and leave them a gift. And the more you do this, and the more you build that relationship,
00:06:24.200 the more that you're going to see these gifts return to you. And that's how you start the
00:06:29.400 cycle. It's not memorizing a book. It's something from the heart. Start the cycle. Everybody says,
00:06:36.620 where do I start? Start there. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. Start with what you got.
00:06:48.160 Thank you.