I took time today to watch the "Pagan Futures" conference with STJ in fairness to my possible misplaced speculation about it. I'll probably return to it again, just because we typically miss some things the first time around, but here are a few first impression thoughts on some of what I got from it.

I found it to be heavily focused on transhumanism and it's incompatibility with Pagan belief and tradition. No disagreement there, but I felt there was a lot left out. The subject needed further elaboration. Maybe they intend to do this in the future, or maybe their idea of what transhumanism is, is different than what I see it as. What I felt they were conveying was that the "transhumanist's" idea is to advance man beyond nature, and that this goes against nature. I agree that it goes against nature, but I disagree on what the intention of the transhumanist actually is. The transhumanist's idea isn't to advance man at all, but to advance their own control over man by disconnecting him from nature. The technology isn't being used to advance humanity, it's being used to control it. So on that front as I said, I felt the need for better elaboration into what is really going on in the minds of these "transhumanits" to understand what transhumanism actually is. I didn't feel there was really anything subversive, just lack of clarity maybe. Sometimes it's not what you say that matters, but what you don't say... STJ did make a statement at the end of that segment that I found to express no intention of the necessity to actively do something against the situation.. Quote - "I say let them indulge in their cult of technology and the associated fantasies, but on no account allow them in any way to inhibit our ability to worship our gods in accordance with our ancestral traditions in our homelands" - This sounds like a good statement, but if you're not going to express the need to mount some sort of offensive to block what it is their doing, like you think you're just going to ignore them and go worship your gods on your homestead somewhere and they are going to leave you alone, then I'm not sure how well you understand whats really going on. They are not going to stop. This is a war, you cant just go hide. They want you submissive or destroyed. They did touch on religion being used as a control mechanism, but they did not elaborate at all on who is behind, and what the real intentions are, why it was really created in the first place, etc. If you don't know precisely what is going on here you're kind of powerless to defend against it. Borja's segment was a lot of unfocused rambling, jumping around, quoting Evola and others, I felt the lack of any solid point made by him at all. He does not sound like a "scholar" in my opinion. In fairness his English isn't great and maybe translations come into play. But yeah, not impressed. In the Q&A segment it seemed like it was just mostly a rehashing of what was already touched upon.. So, while there wasn't anything outright obviously subversive, it lived up to the emptiness that I speculated it would.

I will make another post about what I have problems with.

A couple of notes - If you haven't already, I would recommend other people have a watch just to see what you get out of it.. Also, I did not watch the music performance segments as they don't have any bearing on the ideas, but being a musician and having an appreciation for the musicianship, I expect those to have been good and will give a listen another time

One way to really get to grips with your ancestral knowledge is go deep into the woods for at least a night.

Fast for the day.
Take a Drum.
Drum through the fear.
Breathe deep and slow.
Drink some magical tea if you like, or not...
Keep drumming.
Make a fire and stare into the flames, let the visions come.
Chant and sing.
Give thanks for your blessings.
Give gifts for the little people.
Be humble in the face of nature.
Dissolve into her green womb.
And sing until father sky returns.

We can argue and debate about what books say.
Or we can experience the force of nature for itself.

🌞

“The worship of Odin (Wotan or Wuotan in the High German form) spread from west Scandinavia during the warlike Folk Wandering [editor's note: Völkerwanderung] and Viking era to the Vandals and Langobards, and to the Saxons in Lower Saxony and in England, but it always predominantly appealed to the local princes and their retinue and to the skalds of the princes' courts, to whom the war God was also the God of poetry. Perhaps it is the name which is the unique feature of Odin that reaches back into Indo-European antiquity, for its root is derived from the Indo-European word vat meaning “to be spiritually excited”, and as such it is still preserved in Sanskrit, in Old Iranian and in Latin, where it corresponds to the word vates, meaning a seer or a poet.”

Hans F. K. Günther, The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans (1967)

“„Pagan renaissance is overdue.
It is necessary for Europe to heal its psyche. Under Christianity, Europe learned to reject its ancestors, its past, which cannot be good for its future also.
Europe became sick because it tore apart from its own heritage, it had to deny its very roots. If Europe is to be healed spiritually, it must recover its spiritual past--at least, it should not hold it in such dishonor…. For self-recovery, these countries have to revive their old gods”

- Ram Swarup

The closer you get to nature 🌲 the further you are from idiots

Rush - The Fountain of Lamneth - In the Valley

The most convincing reason for kings to be baptized, however, was the Christian outlook on royalty itself. King ruled by the grace of the Almighty, and to disobey them was to defy God Himself. This «divine right of kings» had no counterpart in German experience. The pre-christian tribes had kings typically chosen by the elders. Their nomination was ratified by the freeman. Some tribes had no king until war threatened, at which time they elected one. Once chose, the king was still subject to the law, and his power was hedged in by the freemen on the one hand and the council of elders on the other. This system of checks and balances came to an end with the coming of Christianity, which centralized royal power at the cost of everyone else. In almost every respect, the rights of ordinary men and women shriveled when our native paganism was replaced by the alien creed.

Asatru A Native European Spirituality by Stephen A. McNallen

It's interesting that people will acknowledge there are differences between religious groups, between political groups, between ideological factions. But they refuse to see there are differences between races. They will acknowledge the religious and ideological differences to the point of agreeing to commit to war over them. They are willing to kill over ideas, but not defend over actual measurable biological differences.

The Folcsida Ġerímbóc: Part 11

Friday, or Fríġedæġ

Linguistically, Fridays comes from Proto-Indo-European words, *preyH-, to love/to please & *priHós, dear/beloved & happy/free. The Proto-Germanic *frijōną continued the meaning of to love/to free, as seen in the phrase: *Þek frijō, I love you; however, the form *Frijjō was dedicated to the mother goddess & from this form that the Proto-West-Germanic *Frīju derived & the Old English Fríġe. She is the high matriarch goddess of love, daughter of Hanwer and Nyht, & our Mother Earth. She had Ingwine-Fréa & Frówe with Nyord, as well as Þunor, Bældæġ, & Heaðudéor (among others) with Wóden, the high King of Ósġeard, making her the Queen of the gods. It’s said that she knows the orlæġ of all, though she keeps her silence. Orion's Belt is known as Fríġe’s distaff or spinning wheel & the spinning of the stars is seen as her working her wheel.

https://linktr.ee/TheFrithstead

Fishing cabins, Reine🇳🇴

Sigrid Yngvarsdotter - by JFoliveras on DeviantArt

We want to live, thrive and honour our traditions. No parasitic rulers, but freedom. Freedom to live from what we earn, to believe what we want, to say what we want.