I feel the whole discussion of world accepting and world denying religions was very important. One rarely finds such frank discussion about this subject.
I fully agree, this subject is not always, or never is exposed with such clarity, I like Mr. Arith's straightforwardness to do it in a correct way and leave open paths that lead us to rethink so many things.
i know this is a 2 year old comment but yeah this sentiment actively "cured" my fear of spiders way back in 5th grade! i now love spiders and am seeking an entomology degree so.. curiosity works lol
"the arrogance of mankind always prevents the development of inner potential' - what is wrong with the entire world in a simple statement, well said Arith, well said
Just the kind of subjects that interest me in October 😌 You're uploading very frequently this month, thank you very much and don't forget to rest as well. Take care!
I've always been attracted to the "darker" aspects of spirituality. I put darker in parenthesis because I try to make no difference between left/right, bright/dark etc. They are just human biases and what is good to me is evil to the other and vice versa. Love how you mention this dualism too. I started out Asatruar but have become more and more animistic as I grow older so your videos ring a bell with me. I felt really attracted to the Norse pantheon but the thought of seeing Odin as just another "sky daddy" felt plain weird to me. I do believe in their existence but they just are. Like gravity. I feel much more connected and alive since I no longer seek "out there".
So much knowledge given for free. This dude deserves the highest blessings and props. Who else does this? I'm Armenian and I wish someone would do this for our Pagan traditions. Most of the stuff related to ours is either in Armenian and Russian and usually in the form of books
Why not you? Like, you’ve got the desire and you see what this kind of education can do for others. Why not be the next one to re-awaken humanity’s consciousness?
@@neatoburrito9045 seconded. Arith chose to use his time to teach! So much respect for those that are committed (and have the confidence) enough to share the knowledge they clearly enjoy learning about
Nordic literature of the middle ages brought forth greater awareness of the Æsir myth, discovery of ancient cuneiform tablets 200 years ago gave us knowledge of our oldest stories, and lessons passed from old Canaan to the modern western world largely gave us Abrahamism as we know it. Accessibility is a huge factor in the scope and size of what knowledge enters the collective mind. You could and should be the one to scribe it.
I remember reading in one of ONAs publications decades ago the statement, "I know what it's like to be in prison and to be free" (paraphrased). At first I thought it meant to be a prisoner in prison/behind bars on some occasions and free/not in prison/on the streets on other occasions. I've since come to realise that they probably meant to be free while in prison by not betraying oneself in thought, word, or deed in submission to the jailer. That one retains sovereignty wherever one is. In that way we can prosper here while awaiting the day of release.
"The arrogance of mankind always prevents the development of inner potential." Bingo. I do not agree that we are here as a punishment, however. That, too, seems to be a belief of the Abrahamic system. Being able to live, to enjoy, to appreciate the magic and wonder of creation, being able to create as a god, is a profound gift. We are here to learn how to become gods and to reflect that which created us. Furthermore, it has been my lifelong personal experience that my creator is infinitely forgiving as I bumble around making my mistakes and learning my lessons. Perhaps I am too life-embracing to be Thursatru?
After a long illness that causes much suffering, the isolation from all I knew due to a transatlantic move and the loss of a career for which I underwent over a decade of rigorous education and training….my physical and psychological suffering opened me up to experiences that are beyond my ability to describe. I have had to traverse a Void in an out-of-body state, something which was FAR more painful (eviscerating) than anything I had had to endure so far. After this Void, in which my old Self died, I entered a long Dark Night of the Soul, during which I had to relearn “being.” After all this….one thing I can say is that EVERY soul is on its own pilgrimage and religions/beliefs/rituals appear to us as beacons in the dark. Most, if not all, are false beacons. It’s not until we accept the dark…stop flailing, crying, seeking, thrashing…and start listening to your own pure essence. No other being can do it for you! You can’t travel on another’s road! Our creator resides in everything and you’ll find the One beckoning you when you let go and surrender.
I always love watching your videos, since every time I watch one I always learn something new, and I strive to learn as much as I can. So I thank you Arith for teaching us new things and new information for us to grow our minds. I greatly appreciate it and keep up the great work!
Since first hearing about Thursatru and Rokkatru, I've found their perspectives fascinating. Thank you for diving a little deeper with this video, I'm going to have to go through it a few times to really absorb it. Well done, sir!
Fantastic video, yet again. The World Accepting vs World Denying explanation of belief systems is DYNAMIC and caused me a great paradigm shift. Thank you for sharing this.
Love all you're Insightful vids!! I like that you brought up SAMYAZA (SAMJAZA) or SHEMYAZA. Shemyaza is the Knower of the Names, Master of Sorcery, Rootwork and Enchantments, all MAGICK'S.....
Super interesting. Arith has a gift which is the ability to explain things up front and clearly in his information and explanations. He knows his mind and is firm in his spiritual beliefs but is open. He is a flawed man but is open to learning and knowing. I believe he knows he can love more than one person but getting past his wall is not always so easy.
Taking a negative approach to any spiritual development leads to personal problems on a huge life warping scale. You have a great balance and perspective. Good work, and good wisdom.
I don't know how I found your pages but I'm happy I did! I was very fascinated by Satanism when I was an atheist for 10 years but couldn't find the right materials. Now I identify as pagan but I'm still fascinated by anything that isn't mainstream. Your voice is so relaxing!
Does anyone else have to watch Arith’s video in all increments because they are so profound that you have to stop and ponder his words? After I finish an entire video, I usually need a nap. LOL!
it seems to me then...that Odinn himself was following the thursatru path. Considering what we know about him tells us he was a wanderer and he was always seeking knowledge. Which means he was aware of his own "physical" limitations as well, and he too was looking for a way to transcend.
Thursatru actually comes from the current 218 philosophical background (check the author Ekortu, he wrotes several grimoires), as it is a "syncretic" tradition aiming to group the anti-cosmic aspects of different cultures ; for example: Qliphoth (Qabalah) and Cult of Qayin, Tiamat (Sumerian), Set (Ancient Egypt), Kali (Hinduism), and obviously Thursar for Norse mythology.
Great video! This is the first time I've heard of Norse anti cosmic Satanism... I'm familiar with anti cosmic Satanism based off the Sitra Achra... do you feel there could be parallels in the Jewish Qabalah, like the Jewish tree of life/sefirot with Nordic concepts like Yggdrasil and if so what would you say the "norse sitra achra" is?? Does Yggdrasil have an opposite, an other side??
I've been waiting for the new you to show up here! (You've looked that way for a while now on IG.) Looking fantastic (as always.) :-) And now for the video... oh boy this is gonna be a good one....
thank you arith for another fascinating talk. i was going to ask you some questions. firstly, how can thursatru be anti aesir when the blood of the aesir is part giant in its heritage; surely this would prevent thursatru from being against the aesir? secondly, i was going to ask about lokism. how does this relate to thursatru, asatru and heathenry? i have read some of the classic texts, i was wondering whether the christian translators may have placed loki as a satan kind of figure and wondered whether this might be misleading? is lokism like a nordic version of satanism or is it something completely different? thank you.
Omg Thank you so much I am an Omnist I am also walking my own path. It upsets so many people they keep doing witch burning on me. Or spiritual Alchemy or soul loss.. I saw a spiritual guardian during the first time. I try so hard to keep learning I seek the traditional way of thinking. I can't answer or understand why people do what they do. But right now I'm currently going thru the process of soul loss again. You and your knowledge is helping me so much. Thank you.
I'm working on a personal memoir and I'm curious as to where you first came across the terms "World-Accepting View," and "World-Denying View," so I can do more research on that subject. Thank you
Haha great to hear from you again Rasputin, been a while!! Haha love the vids Arith you help provide great insight into the self and inspire positive thought
Man your perspective on Thursatru leaves a completely different vibe than the articles I've read by Thursatru practicers 😅 every article I've read by Thursatru practicers is very in denial of the fact that they take inspiration from Gnosticism and Satanism, with a lot of insistence that it's the tRuE religions/religious intent of our ancestors. I'm very in favor of people forging their own paths utilizing whatever inspires and feels correct to them so long as their not misrepresenting those paths, but all the writings on that front were filled with misrepresentation and outright lies about their sources.
Can I conclude that followers of Thursatru seek for knowledge to escape reincarnation or any other means of staying in the created universe (heaven , valhalla, etc.) when they die? Thanks Arith for this elaborate summary and I follow your view that people should seek their own spiritual path and subsequent vessels or channels of communication.
So, would the mystical branches from the main monotheistic religions (for example Kabbalah, Sufism, etc.) be world affirming or world denying, like their organized religion counterparts? I’m not too well versed in the topic, but it seems to me that mysticism, or at least some forms of it, aims at establishing some sort of symbiosis with the spiritual realm before death occurs, and not just in the aftermath as a reward of a life that has stuck to the rules of a set religion. Is this correct?
Thursatru just sounds like LHP Asatru. The approach to deities like Hel resemble the Greek cults of Hecate, for example. It's reasonable to speculate there would have been people who practiced "sorcery" in ancient times, and contacted or "partnered" with forces that normal people would regarded as evil or "demonic". Obviously, none of those beliefs would have survived the arrival of Christianity. Snorri never would have told the story of someone who made pacts with a "Thurses".
I think each one of us (including, obviously, ancient peoples, pagan or not) has his/hers own feelings about the surroundings. And some people just feel something is "off". Regarding material life, in the cosmic, three dimensional realm. Of course, ancient heathens didn't write books, so, I guess Gnosticism got the "full rights" to such initial approach, when it comes to pointing out the Archontic Cosmic Lie. But it's a perception that is simply there, in some spirits. This doesn't mean a person can't be a pagan and a gnostic anti-cosmic satanist at the same time. For sure in the past that's how many felt. Actually, in the past they most likely weren't very interested in labeling themselves in such a manner. Or any other. Funny example: the fact that a kid hates school, and doesn't accept its concept, doesn't mean he won't try having the most possible amount of awesome moments while being forced to stay there ;-D Even facing it as a defying challenge. Part of the fun, even.
Arith, you have a very interesting interpretation of Norse/Germanic Paganism. I would like to know your opinion of Jackson Crawford and his interpretation of old Norse religion?
Just found your channel and thought tje title of this video was very interesting. I am part Native American, with English and some Scandinavian as well, and i consider myself a heathen. Been reading a lot on the subject. The fact Thursatru exists just shows how the medieval Christian writers inserted Judeo Christian interpretations of the Norse myths. Thursatru is an outcome imo of someone reading the Poetic Edda and taking it literally. Since I'm still kinda new to Heathenry i have difficulty shaking latent Christianity off of me, and im guilty of trying to appease the gods to obtain a "pagan" afterlife. It sounds silly, but it's something im mentally dealing with still. I found this video very interesting and i found the animism part fascinating as well.
I like how you say reality isn't dualistic. This duality is what we perceive and is how the non dual expresses itself, but in reality everything is one and the same, expressed in different forms. Whether you call it God, consciousness, nirvana whatever.. Well said, nice video.
This is another video of yours I learned something from. Thank you for all the work. I am going to be busy listening to all your videos. Wish I would have found your channel earlier. Thank you 😊
Maybe you didn't read Ekortu's books and so totally missed the parts on animism? Ekortu clearly talks about and even underlines the importance of animism within Thursatru as the spirits in nature have a huge roll within their sorcery. They believe that the 'troll' spirits are directly descendants of the thurses and that the 'troll' spirits are trapped in nature, and so being 'close' to us humans. Why do think Thursatruar give offerings to the tree spirits before they harvest (explained to be a strict tradition)? Why do you think they give offerings to the spirits of the woods when they enter the forest, or giving food and coins to the Tomte, or giving libation to the water spirits before fishing or collecting water, or give offerings to the gate-keeper when they enter cemeteries, etc... ANIMISM IS VERY IMPORTANT within Thursatru. Pro tip, read Ekortu's book Svartkonst and learn about the importance of animism within their path.
I was wondering the same thing. I am half Hungarian so I know we also do the tree rituals. We have places we go, sacred groves of sorts. It is part of that anti- cosmic element . If you think about it, the way Christian people treat the Earth, it behooves us to do the opposite as Satanist.
I googled so many words and learned so much from just this one video, yet I'm more confused than ever about myself. I don't know where I stand anymore. I think I fall in the category "agnostic atheist", but more wanting to be an agnostic theist but my scientific mind sometimes takes the reigns and says fuck it all. Then I watch freyia norling and I'm a believer again. I'm constantly here and there. Completely torn in half about it all. I can't be the only person who believes, but doesn't, it's not that I'm "just" spiritual, I do believe something is likely there, but I'm struggling with it... eh. Am I alone here?
I was raised in the Baptist church but my dad also taught me to be an Omist. There is truth in all religions and faith systems. There is no one true religion. This channel is my first deep dive into the older beliefs than the Abrahamic religions.
Arith, is it possible to have both points of view and kind of be in the middle? I mean I approach things with an animistic mindset but I also am very drawn to the study of magic and learning about the cosmic powers of Ginnungagap. Is this something that exists and has a name or is it just my own hybrid mashup of spirituality?
Trying to understand paganism :- in this physical world, there are people everywhere, who you might or might not have a good relationship/encounter with. If you want to avoid someone, you generally can. But there are also invisible 'people' here too, that also seem subject to anger, meanness etc, but you can't see them coming, or avoid upsetting them through say, ignorance - suddenly, the world is even more dodgy! So, my question is, were our ancestors time spent in trepidation, and making obesiences and sacrifices, rites etc, out of a fearful vulnerability? Thank you in anticipation of any replies.
Hi Arith, thanks for the video. Just curious - did you have a chance to study/compare Hinduism to Nordic Religion? There are few similarities that I'm able to notice but I do want to know from a professional if it's true of if it's all in my head. Would appreciate it if there's a video/read that I can follow to learn more
I have the same question about similarity. I did some digging around on Wikipedia and we do share some roots, but it was so long ago that it's not obvious how you ended up where you are and we ended up where we are. Apparently, our common ancestors seeded many different regional belief systems from the same proto-religion centered around three 'classes' and three main gods (of sky, land, and sea). I'd love to know more details than I was able to piece together, though! For example, did Thor have a net like Indra? How related are Mjölner and vajras? Perhaps you know this one - is there a primordial world tree in any of the stories of the sanātana dharma?
@@teresaspicer4829 that's right, there are several lores that intersect and there's indeed a primordial tree of life called the "Kalpavriksha" - loosely translates to Tree of Eons (and I couldn't help but connect it to the timeline between 2 Ragnarok) but the epics are vast and dates much older, so I'm not quite sure. Would be happy to know, though
From this video and your Rokatru video I'm left wondering if a path exists to engage and experience the paganism of my ancestors. You say that the knowledge available to us is so corrupted by medieval Christianity that we can't be sure what is true. You have also said that Western minds are so captured by our collective Christian consciousness that we can't grasp the principles of the old ways. Given that I can see why some would be attracted to an alacarte philosophy combining elements of gnosticism and Satanism. You are a gifted teacher and an acknowledged subject matter expert. I believe the beginning of the end for animism and true paganism began when man stepped outside of nature and left the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and entered into an agrarian one. And over the centuries he begin to rely less and less on nature to where he didn't need nature anymore. Or at least he felt that way. And along with that came cities in towns and the monotheistic religions we have today. Which are authoritarian hierarchical and aggressively expansionist. I seek to wipe that all away in my thinking and engage more on an indigenous level with shamanism. The Earth denying religions of brought us to the point where we have taken what we want from the earth and not given back. And now we find ourselves beginning to pay the price for our arrogance. It's impossible to describe God. All religions are just metaphor. It doesn't mean the spirits don't exist. It's just that we can't truly explain them. So good luck with that. Thanks for what you do.
I loved the part about racism, asides from all of it of course. I had a chat with some people from the Vodou community and I find they are folkish, they are a closed group and do the exact opposite of what Asatru is trying to do, i.e the Troth and TAC. Spirit has no color. This is such a limited and ignorant view and I'm glad you mentioned it and dealth with it in the proper fashion. Racism has no pert in spirituality and is a 3D concept acceptable only to unenlightened and closed minds, minds that are focused on immediate surroundings instead of the bounty of enlightenment that the cosmos holds. Racism is pathetic.
It all came from the guy behind the swedish black metal band arckanum who basically made the beliefs of dissection and watain into a more norse version
Thank you for this video! I'll be sharing it a lot. I have tried over and over to explain to people to spend more time developing a relationship with nature spirits and ancestors. So many still feel the need to put a Christian order on the gods and goddesses. World denying and world accepting view explanations were excellent. Oh, by the way, wasn't expecting the new look but it suits you. ☺
From my limited understanding I figured nationalism would happen in Paganism on a smaller scale, the community. That especially when times are hard you prioritize feeding your neighbors over feeding the world. You would defend your neighborhood and community before traveling miles to defend strangers. Not that you couldn't trade with strangers or would actively harm them, but you should support your friends and help with their problems first.
Yeah, that was the only part of this that I took exception to. Naught in animism precludes in-group preference-indeed, it even promotes it as a self-preservation function.
Have you ever heard of the old Cherokee story of the twin wolfs that live inside you, one is good is white the other evil is black one is wise the other is ignorant and stands on a black spot surrounded light the other hides the light and veiled in darkness, feeding one starves the other leaving you wise and evil or good but ignorant but what does feeding both do?
What you just described sounds like the classic Yin and Yang symbol and may be representing the same line of thinking but from a Native American perspective.
@@Hekaterian They also have the Blue Kachina that is somewhat like Greek's Astraea and both are stars, 12/21/2020 both Jupiter&Saturn will be so close that they will look as one, rare event, there some people that believe this happen at birth of Jesus and it was called the star of Bethlehem. Maybe Dec. 21st is the Blue Kachina signaling the end and September 2040 would be Astraea, her image is her holding a thunderbolt Record the word "thunderbolt" and play backwards and you'll hear the words"Will Burn Up" not too many thing that a thunderbolt won't burn up, I find many words do this, a little spot of truth in the echo of words spoken backwards and used on the stars and constellations a story is revealed such as September "2040" "Get Off It's Nuit" = 2040 the image of Nuit is that of the starry night covering her nude body and in September when all the visible planets plus the Moon will align along the arm of Virgo looking like a thunderbolt (Staff) held in her hand Spica (I Cupps) the star in the other hand is Vindemiatrix with the echo "Scare Earth My Arm of Nuit" I call these words echoes since finding out my name is pronounced somewhat like the Irish word echo "macalla" and my family name of Cupps McCullough almost like it was my destine
@@Hekaterian I was hoping to get a response so that I can show you the wolfs they are in each eye but you have to play word backwards and you say 'I wolf I too will Come' backwards macula Lutea Fovea the little golden egg at the back of the eye giving birth to sight
@@Arthurian_Minnesanger I think they would both be female and the one feeding is male, here is an example the Cuckoo Wrasse/Ballach Muire Muire/Marine Mary Ballach/macúlach the beautiful she-wolf of the sea with her K-9 teeth a rainbow color female fish, everyone of them but when need one will change into a male just like the marijuana plant and all it seeds will be female, this is the virgin birth I'am McCullough 'son the hound of Ulster or son of the Boar' UL is of iúl/Knowledge and STER is a Vowel STAR Ulster meaning Knowledge of the Stars but like the number 9 card cloaks his light like the dark moon a hound/dog god backwards mans best friend loves the moon howls and barks all night in the constellation of Virgo where you find the dog kennel. Ballach is from Belenus the bright one Baal, s. a Bál m. b Dia Dia deity » Dia divinity » Dia god The Macula Lutea is where you find the Fovea a golden egg working like an ova/o·vum giving birth to sight goddess of the rainbow Iris goddess of wisdom the black hole son her student you call a pupil. You need something that will play your words backwards to hear their echo a MACALLA in Irish and record these words and listen to them backwards I Wolf I Too Will Come played backwards Macula Lutea Fovea ------what is needed to see the colors of the rainbow and have KEEN sight He Knows Dope backwards is 420 and He knows dope Find Israel is Blazingup420, googling that without my title Mr you meet your kind, many folks getting high and stroking their Jolly Roger's and putting it in their Culo's I'am Son of the ass the only beast that bears the burden of the cross on it's back Lewallyn Roger McCullough, Roger Ra's Spear Lewallyn/Llewellyn from Lugh the storm god and Belenus the sun god but Lewallyn is from Luluwa first daughter of Eve and Lewana Shining White One; The Moon, Lewallyn/Llewellyn Eclipse Moon and Sun Na Cuckoo Cuckoo backwards is Kukulcan /Cuchulainn the serpent pyramid, a serpent is a symbol of wisdom So what does your name mean and does it echo anything Her Star echo Roger and that be canicula the dog star Sirius the star of cannabis-loving tribe in Mali, West Africa called the Dogon tribe Lewallyn will echo Lewallyn where Ra's Spear a ray of light reflects off the Moon or 'Lugh All In Roger' Lewallyn Roger All Welcome will echo McCullough and the Irish word for Echo is Macalla So who be you to call me gay or do you mean I'm happy and laughing at you
I would also like to expand on the whole world denying view vs world accepting thing you typical.have 3 types of philosophical views in this world. You have those that agree with John Locke: everyone is born good in nature basically, you have those who agree with Thomas Hobbes: everyone is born evil in nature, and those who agree with Voltaire: Everything is born but it is its environment that shapes it in nature. I agree with Voltaire
I'd have to say that it's all subjective. All babies are born unknowing and therefore "innocent". All babies have instincts to be loved and nurtured. However not all babies have the same threshold to endure pain, frustration or discontentment. These differences vary with each individual child and these differences create differing individual personalities as that child ages and has to encounter those things within their external environment...Also not all children are born with the same core personality traits and those traits emerge in differing ways within all of us. We are all connected because we are all the same species and come from the same source of consciousness but we are also all individuals and all unique in our own way as well. That's what I believe anyway.
Someone please correct me where I’m wrong, as Nordic myths and spirituality isn’t my strongpoint; but isn’t what you described kind of the story of Odin’s hanging on Yggdrasil to obtain the power of the runes? I suppose he could have just been a seeker of knowledge/power in the same way/path, but I feel like there may be a couple parallels there
The gods were not born with the knowledge of all things. The Thursar, however, who originated from a primordial acosmic existence, had vastly more knowledge and wisdom, being far older than the gods. Odin sought out Mimir's well for knowledge (Mimir being a Thurs), and made a sacrifice to receive knowledge. In Thursatru, it is seen that humans can receive divine knowledge by aligning ourselves with the Thursar and the powers of primordial chaos. This primordial chaos (ginnungagap) is seen as the source of the acosmic (later anticosmic) powers and the knowledge contained within.
If by path you mean he worked with giants in the in the way of Thursatru practitioners, then no, the sagas and eddas wouldn't support this literally. It is evident that he and other gods sought out and learned from the giants from time to time, though. This can seem to be in conflict with their interests from a dualistic perspective, but a critical issue lies in the fact that much of our knowledge of the gods and giants and their nature comes to us second hand from dualistic post-christian sources. If you want the best answer to your question, you could ask Odin yourself.
Even if one sees light at the end of the staircase, only way to go there is walk every step upwards. If you start looking single steps too long it will just slow you down, but if you start to run and forget the stairs you will fall over and roll down the stairs.
I’m not into anti cosmic Satanism but I’m very informed on Gnosticism and the adversary. It’s not a “Christian” pov but I understand sometimes secular dating puts things in timelines. It includes Ophite (serpent) Gnostics (nothing to do with COS religion which is atheistic and not theistic) which is animistic in nature. The Sethian Gnostics were much more ab hating this human form than the Valentinians. Overall it was a non dogmatic mystical teaching bc they believed Jesus did not exist (only as celestial flesh). The Nag Hammadi breaks it down. So what I’m gathering here (which is fantastic by the way) is Thursatru is equivalent to Sethians in the Gnostic cosmology and the Rokathru is akin to Valentinian which don’t regard this world as “evil” or more accurately ONLY chaotic, really. I’m a follower of Gnosticism so I’d be considered on the cusp of both Thusatru and Rokathru 😅 to conclude the Gnostic Jesus asserts; the kingdom is within you. Now that is akin to the Monad or the unseen god and not the demiurge (YHVH in particular Torah/Genesis accounts) but passages link Lucifer to Christ in the Bible so in essence also encompassing the true source god.
I feel the whole discussion of world accepting and world denying religions was very important. One rarely finds such frank discussion about this subject.
I fully agree, this subject is not always, or never is exposed with such clarity, I like Mr. Arith's straightforwardness to do it in a correct way and leave open paths that lead us to rethink so many things.
Agreed! My favorite part of the entire lecture.
"Replace fear with curiosity" is the wisest thing I've heard in like... a long long time.
Tack till dig Arith!
i know this is a 2 year old comment but yeah this sentiment actively "cured" my fear of spiders way back in 5th grade! i now love spiders and am seeking an entomology degree so.. curiosity works lol
curiosity is not always a good thing, but fear is also not necessary. It is good to know evil to avoid evil.
"the arrogance of mankind always prevents the development of inner potential' - what is wrong with the entire world in a simple statement, well said Arith, well said
There isn't one single video I dislike from you. Another great video Arith, thank you!
@Mr. Wednesday though you were gone by now, always crying about something. Get a life, maybe?
No. You look fierce dude
Just the kind of subjects that interest me in October 😌
You're uploading very frequently this month, thank you very much and don't forget to rest as well. Take care!
I've always been attracted to the "darker" aspects of spirituality. I put darker in parenthesis because I try to make no difference between left/right, bright/dark etc. They are just human biases and what is good to me is evil to the other and vice versa.
Love how you mention this dualism too.
I started out Asatruar but have become more and more animistic as I grow older so your videos ring a bell with me. I felt really attracted to the Norse pantheon but the thought of seeing Odin as just another "sky daddy" felt plain weird to me. I do believe in their existence but they just are. Like gravity. I feel much more connected and alive since I no longer seek "out there".
That last line of yours got me good. I'll be keeping that in mind from now on, thanks for sharing!
I'm learning so much from you about our history, and ultimately, my Self. Thank you for the work that you do Arith!
P. S. Your new look is 🔥
So much knowledge given for free. This dude deserves the highest blessings and props. Who else does this? I'm Armenian and I wish someone would do this for our Pagan traditions. Most of the stuff related to ours is either in Armenian and Russian and usually in the form of books
Why not you? Like, you’ve got the desire and you see what this kind of education can do for others. Why not be the next one to re-awaken humanity’s consciousness?
@@neatoburrito9045 seconded. Arith chose to use his time to teach! So much respect for those that are committed (and have the confidence) enough to share the knowledge they clearly enjoy learning about
Nordic literature of the middle ages brought forth greater awareness of the Æsir myth, discovery of ancient cuneiform tablets 200 years ago gave us knowledge of our oldest stories, and lessons passed from old Canaan to the modern western world largely gave us Abrahamism as we know it.
Accessibility is a huge factor in the scope and size of what knowledge enters the collective mind. You could and should be the one to scribe it.
I remember reading in one of ONAs publications decades ago the statement, "I know what it's like to be in prison and to be free" (paraphrased). At first I thought it meant to be a prisoner in prison/behind bars on some occasions and free/not in prison/on the streets on other occasions. I've since come to realise that they probably meant to be free while in prison by not betraying oneself in thought, word, or deed in submission to the jailer. That one retains sovereignty wherever one is.
In that way we can prosper here while awaiting the day of release.
"The arrogance of mankind always prevents the development of inner potential." Bingo. I do not agree that we are here as a punishment, however. That, too, seems to be a belief of the Abrahamic system. Being able to live, to enjoy, to appreciate the magic and wonder of creation, being able to create as a god, is a profound gift. We are here to learn how to become gods and to reflect that which created us. Furthermore, it has been my lifelong personal experience that my creator is infinitely forgiving as I bumble around making my mistakes and learning my lessons. Perhaps I am too life-embracing to be Thursatru?
I do agree 😊
Yes, my thoughts exactly.
I really do agree
We really need to take the term thursatru back, make it as open as the term heathen is.
Your channel is endlessly fascinating. I love it
After a long illness that causes much suffering, the isolation from all I knew due to a transatlantic move and the loss of a career for which I underwent over a decade of rigorous education and training….my physical and psychological suffering opened me up to experiences that are beyond my ability to describe.
I have had to traverse a Void in an out-of-body state, something which was FAR more painful (eviscerating) than anything I had had to endure so far.
After this Void, in which my old Self died, I entered a long Dark Night of the Soul, during which I had to relearn “being.”
After all this….one thing I can say is that EVERY soul is on its own pilgrimage and religions/beliefs/rituals appear to us as beacons in the dark. Most, if not all, are false beacons. It’s not until we accept the dark…stop flailing, crying, seeking, thrashing…and start listening to your own pure essence. No other being can do it for you! You can’t travel on another’s road! Our creator resides in everything and you’ll find the One beckoning you when you let go and surrender.
I always love watching your videos, since every time I watch one I always learn something new, and I strive to learn as much as I can. So I thank you Arith for teaching us new things and new information for us to grow our minds. I greatly appreciate it and keep up the great work!
I just watched two videos from you on the Sorcerers Screed and Icelandic book of Futhark. Now I get another interesting video from you
Norse Anton LaVey with the new look
Dark and edgy
Since first hearing about Thursatru and Rokkatru, I've found their perspectives fascinating. Thank you for diving a little deeper with this video, I'm going to have to go through it a few times to really absorb it. Well done, sir!
Fantastic video, yet again. The World Accepting vs World Denying explanation of belief systems is DYNAMIC and caused me a great paradigm shift. Thank you for sharing this.
As always, thorough with diligent insight! Thankful for your efforts.
Love all you're Insightful vids!! I like that you brought up SAMYAZA (SAMJAZA) or SHEMYAZA. Shemyaza is the Knower of the Names, Master of Sorcery, Rootwork and Enchantments, all MAGICK'S.....
Loved your closing words, "replace fear with curiosity".
Super interesting. Arith has a gift which is the ability to explain things up front and clearly in his information and explanations. He knows his mind and is firm in his spiritual beliefs but is open. He is a flawed man but is open to learning and knowing. I believe he knows he can love more than one person but getting past his wall is not always so easy.
Taking a negative approach to any spiritual development leads to personal problems on a huge life warping scale.
You have a great balance and perspective. Good work, and good wisdom.
I don't know how I found your pages but I'm happy I did! I was very fascinated by Satanism when I was an atheist for 10 years but couldn't find the right materials. Now I identify as pagan but I'm still fascinated by anything that isn't mainstream. Your voice is so relaxing!
Move over LaVey, Arith wears the look better than you.
yeah, you went from pansy to psycho in 1 move. good shit. it works ;)
Lavey is trash compared to lavey
You are a gift to this world Arith!!
Does anyone else have to watch Arith’s video in all increments because they are so profound that you have to stop and ponder his words?
After I finish an entire video, I usually need a nap. LOL!
Thank you for the great video Arith
I love this. Thank you Arith for this.
it seems to me then...that Odinn himself was following the thursatru path. Considering what we know about him tells us he was a wanderer and he was always seeking knowledge. Which means he was aware of his own "physical" limitations as well, and he too was looking for a way to transcend.
THIS! Loki was his blood brother after all.
I love it. It's like the anti-cosmic current 218.
Thursatru actually comes from the current 218 philosophical background (check the author Ekortu, he wrotes several grimoires), as it is a "syncretic" tradition aiming to group the anti-cosmic aspects of different cultures ; for example: Qliphoth (Qabalah) and Cult of Qayin, Tiamat (Sumerian), Set (Ancient Egypt), Kali (Hinduism), and obviously Thursar for Norse mythology.
I know, sounds like ToBL.
Great video!
This is the first time I've heard of Norse anti cosmic Satanism...
I'm familiar with anti cosmic Satanism based off the Sitra Achra... do you feel there could be parallels in the Jewish Qabalah, like the Jewish tree of life/sefirot with Nordic concepts like Yggdrasil and if so what would you say the "norse sitra achra" is?? Does Yggdrasil have an opposite, an other side??
Yes theirs would be the darker gods if you will. Loki, Fenrir, the world serpent etc
I've been waiting for the new you to show up here! (You've looked that way for a while now on IG.) Looking fantastic (as always.) :-)
And now for the video... oh boy this is gonna be a good one....
I really really love this video. Thank you 👌
I just want you to know I love you and I appreciate your brilliant mind and your time that you share with us... blessed be to my dear brother
Thank You! And absolutely agree with "the more religions you study..." after a lifetime of reading every major text (and many not-so-major ones).
I just subscribed. Thank you. Finally someone who can make sense of ALL the "stuff" that's being circulated. I'm a pagan witch. Thank you, again.
thank you arith for another fascinating talk. i was going to ask you some questions. firstly, how can thursatru be anti aesir when the blood of the aesir is part giant in its heritage; surely this would prevent thursatru from being against the aesir? secondly, i was going to ask about lokism. how does this relate to thursatru, asatru and heathenry? i have read some of the classic texts, i was wondering whether the christian translators may have placed loki as a satan kind of figure and wondered whether this might be misleading? is lokism like a nordic version of satanism or is it something completely different? thank you.
Thank you for another excellent video! And the new look is great!
You are a treasure trove of information and I anticipate listening to you while doing my daily routine, Much appreciated!🙏
Omg Thank you so much I am an Omnist I am also walking my own path. It upsets so many people they keep doing witch burning on me. Or spiritual Alchemy or soul loss.. I saw a spiritual guardian during the first time. I try so hard to keep learning I seek the traditional way of thinking. I can't answer or understand why people do what they do. But right now I'm currently going thru the process of soul loss again. You and your knowledge is helping me so much. Thank you.
I'm working on a personal memoir and I'm curious as to where you first came across the terms "World-Accepting View," and "World-Denying View," so I can do more research on that subject. Thank you
Haha great to hear from you again Rasputin, been a while!! Haha love the vids Arith you help provide great insight into the self and inspire positive thought
Excellent explanation! Thank you! I love your videos!
I would like to live near you just to have the chance to chat about these things and listen to you in person. I was in awe watching this.
Love your analysis and the way you give simple explanations to complex ideas
You are quick becoming where I sell wisdom and insight. Thank you!
Hey brother ! Looks great ! Very clean ! Hope it feels as good to you as it does to me ! Very liberating !
Man your perspective on Thursatru leaves a completely different vibe than the articles I've read by Thursatru practicers 😅 every article I've read by Thursatru practicers is very in denial of the fact that they take inspiration from Gnosticism and Satanism, with a lot of insistence that it's the tRuE religions/religious intent of our ancestors. I'm very in favor of people forging their own paths utilizing whatever inspires and feels correct to them so long as their not misrepresenting those paths, but all the writings on that front were filled with misrepresentation and outright lies about their sources.
Can I conclude that followers of Thursatru seek for knowledge to escape reincarnation or any other means of staying in the created universe (heaven , valhalla, etc.) when they die? Thanks Arith for this elaborate summary and I follow your view that people should seek their own spiritual path and subsequent vessels or channels of communication.
Your mind and intention, from my opinion, is beautiful, and right.
So, would the mystical branches from the main monotheistic religions (for example Kabbalah, Sufism, etc.) be world affirming or world denying, like their organized religion counterparts? I’m not too well versed in the topic, but it seems to me that mysticism, or at least some forms of it, aims at establishing some sort of symbiosis with the spiritual realm before death occurs, and not just in the aftermath as a reward of a life that has stuck to the rules of a set religion. Is this correct?
Thursatru just sounds like LHP Asatru. The approach to deities like Hel resemble the Greek cults of Hecate, for example. It's reasonable to speculate there would have been people who practiced "sorcery" in ancient times, and contacted or "partnered" with forces that normal people would regarded as evil or "demonic". Obviously, none of those beliefs would have survived the arrival of Christianity. Snorri never would have told the story of someone who made pacts with a "Thurses".
I had watched another one of your videos and wondered about what you might know about Satanism. 🎉 Thank you for sharing 🙏 very insightful.
Very nice video, very well put together.
This will be another video where I'm going to rewatch and take notes lol. This faintly reminds me of Lovecraftian myths and worship.
I think each one of us (including, obviously, ancient peoples, pagan or not) has his/hers own feelings about the surroundings. And some people just feel something is "off". Regarding material life, in the cosmic, three dimensional realm. Of course, ancient heathens didn't write books, so, I guess Gnosticism got the "full rights" to such initial approach, when it comes to pointing out the Archontic Cosmic Lie. But it's a perception that is simply there, in some spirits. This doesn't mean a person can't be a pagan and a gnostic anti-cosmic satanist at the same time. For sure in the past that's how many felt. Actually, in the past they most likely weren't very interested in labeling themselves in such a manner. Or any other. Funny example: the fact that a kid hates school, and doesn't accept its concept, doesn't mean he won't try having the most possible amount of awesome moments while being forced to stay there ;-D Even facing it as a defying challenge. Part of the fun, even.
Thanks you for sharing, Loved this lesson . 🙏✌
Arith, you have a very interesting interpretation of Norse/Germanic Paganism. I would like to know your opinion of Jackson Crawford and his interpretation of old Norse religion?
We need to return to an animistic point of view of the world,we really need it right now more than ever
enlightening ,thank you
Just found your channel and thought tje title of this video was very interesting. I am part Native American, with English and some Scandinavian as well, and i consider myself a heathen. Been reading a lot on the subject. The fact Thursatru exists just shows how the medieval Christian writers inserted Judeo Christian interpretations of the Norse myths. Thursatru is an outcome imo of someone reading the Poetic Edda and taking it literally. Since I'm still kinda new to Heathenry i have difficulty shaking latent Christianity off of me, and im guilty of trying to appease the gods to obtain a "pagan" afterlife. It sounds silly, but it's something im mentally dealing with still. I found this video very interesting and i found the animism part fascinating as well.
I like how you say reality isn't dualistic. This duality is what we perceive and is how the non dual expresses itself, but in reality everything is one and the same, expressed in different forms. Whether you call it God, consciousness, nirvana whatever.. Well said, nice video.
We are all children of Ymir.
This is awesome. Incredible videos, as always. Best channel ever
This is another video of yours I learned something from. Thank you for all the work. I am going to be busy listening to all your videos. Wish I would have found your channel earlier. Thank you 😊
excellent video thank you
I dont know but it seems like central part of video was repeated.
Thrusutru seems like trying crop the rope of karma and fly away after death
Maybe you didn't read Ekortu's books and so totally missed the parts on animism? Ekortu clearly talks about and even underlines the importance of animism within Thursatru as the spirits in nature have a huge roll within their sorcery. They believe that the 'troll' spirits are directly descendants of the thurses and that the 'troll' spirits are trapped in nature, and so being 'close' to us humans. Why do think Thursatruar give offerings to the tree spirits before they harvest (explained to be a strict tradition)? Why do you think they give offerings to the spirits of the woods when they enter the forest, or giving food and coins to the Tomte, or giving libation to the water spirits before fishing or collecting water, or give offerings to the gate-keeper when they enter cemeteries, etc... ANIMISM IS VERY IMPORTANT within Thursatru. Pro tip, read Ekortu's book Svartkonst and learn about the importance of animism within their path.
Interesting, I'll check that one you mentioned, thank you.
I was wondering the same thing. I am half Hungarian so I know we also do the tree rituals. We have places we go, sacred groves of sorts. It is part of that anti- cosmic element . If you think about it, the way Christian people treat the Earth, it behooves us to do the opposite as Satanist.
I googled so many words and learned so much from just this one video, yet I'm more confused than ever about myself.
I don't know where I stand anymore. I think I fall in the category "agnostic atheist", but more wanting to be an agnostic theist but my scientific mind sometimes takes the reigns and says fuck it all. Then I watch freyia norling and I'm a believer again. I'm constantly here and there. Completely torn in half about it all.
I can't be the only person who believes, but doesn't, it's not that I'm "just" spiritual, I do believe something is likely there, but I'm struggling with it... eh. Am I alone here?
I was raised in the Baptist church but my dad also taught me to be an Omist. There is truth in all religions and faith systems. There is no one true religion. This channel is my first deep dive into the older beliefs than the Abrahamic religions.
Thank you very much for making these videos, this was very helpful for me. keep being awesome
Arith, is it possible to have both points of view and kind of be in the middle? I mean I approach things with an animistic mindset but I also am very drawn to the study of magic and learning about the cosmic powers of Ginnungagap. Is this something that exists and has a name or is it just my own hybrid mashup of spirituality?
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You were missing the pre-requisite armor and axe before that stare would look intimidating. 😄
Arith, have you read
Ryan Smith's
The Way of Fire and Ice
The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism?
I think you should read it
Who wrote this videos opening quote?
Myself
Trying to understand paganism :- in this physical world, there are people everywhere, who you might or might not have a good relationship/encounter with. If you want to avoid someone, you generally can. But there are also invisible 'people' here too, that also seem subject to anger, meanness etc, but you can't see them coming, or avoid upsetting them through say, ignorance - suddenly, the world is even more dodgy! So, my question is, were our ancestors time spent in trepidation, and making obesiences and sacrifices, rites etc, out of a fearful vulnerability? Thank you in anticipation of any replies.
Hi Arith, thanks for the video. Just curious - did you have a chance to study/compare Hinduism to Nordic Religion? There are few similarities that I'm able to notice but I do want to know from a professional if it's true of if it's all in my head. Would appreciate it if there's a video/read that I can follow to learn more
I have the same question about similarity. I did some digging around on Wikipedia and we do share some roots, but it was so long ago that it's not obvious how you ended up where you are and we ended up where we are. Apparently, our common ancestors seeded many different regional belief systems from the same proto-religion centered around three 'classes' and three main gods (of sky, land, and sea). I'd love to know more details than I was able to piece together, though!
For example, did Thor have a net like Indra? How related are Mjölner and vajras? Perhaps you know this one - is there a primordial world tree in any of the stories of the sanātana dharma?
@@teresaspicer4829 that's right, there are several lores that intersect and there's indeed a primordial tree of life called the "Kalpavriksha" - loosely translates to Tree of Eons (and I couldn't help but connect it to the timeline between 2 Ragnarok) but the epics are vast and dates much older, so I'm not quite sure. Would be happy to know, though
Again, So Good🤗‼️
Hamr, hugr, fylgja, and hamingja. Not quite dualism, but a definite separation of concepts. What makes this not akin to dualism?
I'm liking the new look, now you must braid your beard and give us a video about norse beards 😂
From this video and your Rokatru video I'm left wondering if a path exists to engage and experience the paganism of my ancestors. You say that the knowledge available to us is so corrupted by medieval Christianity that we can't be sure what is true. You have also said that Western minds are so captured by our collective Christian consciousness that we can't grasp the principles of the old ways. Given that I can see why some would be attracted to an alacarte philosophy combining elements of gnosticism and Satanism. You are a gifted teacher and an acknowledged subject matter expert. I believe the beginning of the end for animism and true paganism began when man stepped outside of nature and left the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and entered into an agrarian one. And over the centuries he begin to rely less and less on nature to where he didn't need nature anymore. Or at least he felt that way. And along with that came cities in towns and the monotheistic religions we have today. Which are authoritarian hierarchical and aggressively expansionist. I seek to wipe that all away in my thinking and engage more on an indigenous level with shamanism. The Earth denying religions of brought us to the point where we have taken what we want from the earth and not given back. And now we find ourselves beginning to pay the price for our arrogance.
It's impossible to describe God. All religions are just metaphor. It doesn't mean the spirits don't exist. It's just that we can't truly explain them. So good luck with that.
Thanks for what you do.
I loved the part about racism, asides from all of it of course. I had a chat with some people from the Vodou community and I find they are folkish, they are a closed group and do the exact opposite of what Asatru is trying to do, i.e the Troth and TAC. Spirit has no color. This is such a limited and ignorant view and I'm glad you mentioned it and dealth with it in the proper fashion. Racism has no pert in spirituality and is a 3D concept acceptable only to unenlightened and closed minds, minds that are focused on immediate surroundings instead of the bounty of enlightenment that the cosmos holds. Racism is pathetic.
tell that to evola lol
Thank you for this wonderful video!
It all came from the guy behind the swedish black metal band arckanum who basically made the beliefs of dissection and watain into a more norse version
i love your new look
Thank you for this video! I'll be sharing it a lot. I have tried over and over to explain to people to spend more time developing a relationship with nature spirits and ancestors. So many still feel the need to put a Christian order on the gods and goddesses. World denying and world accepting view explanations were excellent. Oh, by the way, wasn't expecting the new look but it suits you. ☺
Excellent video. As always
From my limited understanding I figured nationalism would happen in Paganism on a smaller scale, the community. That especially when times are hard you prioritize feeding your neighbors over feeding the world. You would defend your neighborhood and community before traveling miles to defend strangers. Not that you couldn't trade with strangers or would actively harm them, but you should support your friends and help with their problems first.
Yeah, that was the only part of this that I took exception to. Naught in animism precludes in-group preference-indeed, it even promotes it as a self-preservation function.
i' m very glad that i came across your channel.
Have you ever heard of the old Cherokee story of the twin wolfs that live inside you, one is good is white the other evil is black one is wise the other is ignorant and stands on a black spot surrounded light the other hides the light and veiled in darkness, feeding one starves the other leaving you wise and evil or good but ignorant but what does feeding both do?
What you just described sounds like the classic Yin and Yang symbol and may be representing the same line of thinking but from a Native American perspective.
@@Hekaterian They also have the Blue Kachina that is somewhat like Greek's Astraea and both are stars, 12/21/2020 both Jupiter&Saturn will be so close that they will look as one, rare event, there some people that believe this happen at birth of Jesus and it was called the star of Bethlehem. Maybe Dec. 21st is the Blue Kachina signaling the end and September 2040 would be Astraea, her image is her holding a thunderbolt
Record the word "thunderbolt" and play backwards and you'll hear the words"Will Burn Up" not too many thing that a thunderbolt won't burn up, I find many words do this, a little spot of truth in the echo of words spoken backwards and used on the stars and constellations a story is revealed such as September "2040" "Get Off It's Nuit" = 2040 the image of Nuit is that of the starry night covering her nude body and in September when all the visible planets plus the Moon will align along the arm of Virgo looking like a thunderbolt (Staff) held in her hand Spica (I Cupps) the star in the other hand is Vindemiatrix with the echo "Scare Earth My Arm of Nuit" I call these words echoes since finding out my name is pronounced somewhat like the Irish word echo "macalla" and my family name of Cupps McCullough almost like it was my destine
@@Hekaterian I was hoping to get a response so that I can show you the wolfs they are in each eye but you have to play word backwards and you say
'I wolf I too will Come' backwards macula Lutea Fovea the little golden egg at the back of the eye giving birth to sight
Classic story.
The black wolf is Gay
The white wolf is also Gay
You are Gay.
@@Arthurian_Minnesanger I think they would both be female and the one feeding is male, here is an example the Cuckoo Wrasse/Ballach Muire Muire/Marine Mary Ballach/macúlach the beautiful she-wolf of the sea with her K-9 teeth a rainbow color female fish, everyone of them but when need one will change into a male just like the marijuana plant and all it seeds will be female, this is the virgin birth
I'am McCullough 'son the hound of Ulster or son of the Boar' UL is of iúl/Knowledge and STER is a Vowel STAR Ulster meaning Knowledge of the Stars but like the number 9 card cloaks his light like the dark moon a hound/dog god backwards mans best friend loves the moon howls and barks all night in the constellation of Virgo where you find the dog kennel. Ballach is from Belenus the bright one Baal, s. a Bál m. b Dia Dia deity » Dia
divinity » Dia god
The Macula Lutea is where you find the Fovea a golden egg working like an ova/o·vum giving birth to sight goddess of the rainbow Iris goddess of wisdom the black hole son her student you call a pupil.
You need something that will play your words backwards to hear their echo a MACALLA in Irish and record these words and listen to them backwards
I Wolf I Too Will Come played backwards Macula Lutea Fovea ------what is needed to see the colors of the rainbow and have KEEN sight
He Knows Dope backwards is 420 and He knows dope Find Israel is Blazingup420, googling that without my title Mr you meet your kind, many folks getting high and stroking their Jolly Roger's and putting it in their Culo's I'am Son of the ass the only beast that bears the burden of the cross on it's back Lewallyn Roger McCullough, Roger Ra's Spear Lewallyn/Llewellyn from Lugh the storm god and Belenus the sun god but Lewallyn is from Luluwa first daughter of Eve and Lewana
Shining White One; The Moon, Lewallyn/Llewellyn Eclipse Moon and Sun
Na Cuckoo Cuckoo backwards is Kukulcan /Cuchulainn the serpent pyramid, a serpent is a symbol of wisdom
So what does your name mean and does it echo anything
Her Star echo Roger and that be canicula the dog star Sirius the star of cannabis-loving tribe in Mali, West Africa called the Dogon tribe
Lewallyn will echo Lewallyn where Ra's Spear a ray of light reflects off the Moon or 'Lugh All In Roger' Lewallyn Roger
All Welcome will echo McCullough and the Irish word for Echo is Macalla
So who be you to call me gay or do you mean I'm happy and laughing at you
"Supernatural ecosystem." Very intriguing term indeed ;-)
Always top video thank you
I would also like to expand on the whole world denying view vs world accepting thing you typical.have 3 types of philosophical views in this world. You have those that agree with John Locke: everyone is born good in nature basically, you have those who agree with Thomas Hobbes: everyone is born evil in nature, and those who agree with Voltaire: Everything is born but it is its environment that shapes it in nature. I agree with Voltaire
I'd have to say that it's all subjective. All babies are born unknowing and therefore "innocent". All babies have instincts to be loved and nurtured. However not all babies have the same threshold to endure pain, frustration or discontentment. These differences vary with each individual child and these differences create differing individual personalities as that child ages and has to encounter those things within their external environment...Also not all children are born with the same core personality traits and those traits emerge in differing ways within all of us. We are all connected because we are all the same species and come from the same source of consciousness but we are also all individuals and all unique in our own way as well. That's what I believe anyway.
@@Hekaterian so you basically agree with Voltaire with that understanding
That was awesome, very enlightening! (First video of yours that I’m watching.)
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Do you have any academic background and publications? 🙂
Very interesting topic, we are actually doing a project with a researcher of thursian practices Undirheimar..
Can you do a video on Jotnartrü?
Someone please correct me where I’m wrong, as Nordic myths and spirituality isn’t my strongpoint; but isn’t what you described kind of the story of Odin’s hanging on Yggdrasil to obtain the power of the runes?
I suppose he could have just been a seeker of knowledge/power in the same way/path, but I feel like there may be a couple parallels there
The gods were not born with the knowledge of all things. The Thursar, however, who originated from a primordial acosmic existence, had vastly more knowledge and wisdom, being far older than the gods. Odin sought out Mimir's well for knowledge (Mimir being a Thurs), and made a sacrifice to receive knowledge. In Thursatru, it is seen that humans can receive divine knowledge by aligning ourselves with the Thursar and the powers of primordial chaos. This primordial chaos (ginnungagap) is seen as the source of the acosmic (later anticosmic) powers and the knowledge contained within.
@@krysinski2092 - very interesting. Would you consider Odin one of the beings that went down that path then?
If by path you mean he worked with giants in the in the way of Thursatru practitioners, then no, the sagas and eddas wouldn't support this literally. It is evident that he and other gods sought out and learned from the giants from time to time, though. This can seem to be in conflict with their interests from a dualistic perspective, but a critical issue lies in the fact that much of our knowledge of the gods and giants and their nature comes to us second hand from dualistic post-christian sources. If you want the best answer to your question, you could ask Odin yourself.
Does the manifestation from will and intent come from the source of Ginnungagap?
Even if one sees light at the end of the staircase, only way to go there is walk every step upwards. If you start looking single steps too long it will just slow you down, but if you start to run and forget the stairs you will fall over and roll down the stairs.
bro i'm looking for meaning of some mythology symboles can you help me plz??
I’m not into anti cosmic Satanism but I’m very informed on Gnosticism and the adversary. It’s not a “Christian” pov but I understand sometimes secular dating puts things in timelines. It includes Ophite (serpent) Gnostics (nothing to do with COS religion which is atheistic and not theistic) which is animistic in nature. The Sethian Gnostics were much more ab hating this human form than the Valentinians. Overall it was a non dogmatic mystical teaching bc they believed Jesus did not exist (only as celestial flesh). The Nag Hammadi breaks it down. So what I’m gathering here (which is fantastic by the way) is Thursatru is equivalent to Sethians in the Gnostic cosmology and the Rokathru is akin to Valentinian which don’t regard this world as “evil” or more accurately ONLY chaotic, really. I’m a follower of Gnosticism so I’d be considered on the cusp of both Thusatru and Rokathru 😅 to conclude the Gnostic Jesus asserts; the kingdom is within you. Now that is akin to the Monad or the unseen god and not the demiurge (YHVH in particular Torah/Genesis accounts) but passages link Lucifer to Christ in the Bible so in essence also encompassing the true source god.