THE OLD WAYS
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I explore hidden history & other alternative information, European/ Slavic pagan music & folk art, ethnic folk traditions & rites of indigenous European/ Slavic people, animism, and more...
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I remember one of these. When I left Russia back in 1994 almost everyone in my neighborhood had a family food garden, and cellar. The women would can their harvest, and store in cellar for the winter. Russians are big on growing their own food. Most people own one, or more plots of land, which they utilize for food gardening. Majority of Russian’s who live in cities own dacha houses which is like a Summer vacation house in the country where they grow food.
This lady seems sincere to me. I have a hard time believing most people’s stories about encountering the otherworldly, but this one feels genuine. This was a scene featured in one of the fairy documentaries that is for some reason missing from YouTube. Personally I’ve never had an experience with spiritual/other-dimensional beings, but my mother had an experience one night. She believes it was the slavic spirit domovoi who came to visit her that night. I am always fascinated by this, because I would love to experience with my own consciousness something outside of this mundane reality
This man was also featured in that same fairy documentary. I think people from the old world came into contact with multi-dimensional being that today we call fairies, mythological or supernatural beings more often than people from the modern world, is because modern civilization is almost completely disconnected from the natural world/nature. Modern people exist in an artificial environment and surrounded by technology, and this keeps the others away. I think if we go deep into wild, untamed nature, we will make a connection with the others
The beautiful male Irish fairy Gancanagh the love talker who seduces, consumes love, and leaves his lovers in despair.
She’s so cute and tough
Forwarded from 🌻🌷Oakwood Forest 🌳 🦌
“For the Slavs a birch was as a sacred tree. They planted birches in the garden, and a belt of trees around the village believing it would protect them from bad things.

A birch was also widely used in everyday life of peasants. They covered roofs with it, made clothes, shoes and household items. People still use birch brooms in Russian saunas famous for healthy effect on the body. Specially decorated boxes you buy nowadays as souvenirs started as traditional craft long ago.

The first writings of the Slavs were done on the birch bark as the Egyptians did it on papyrus. They are still being discovered hidden in the ground.

In Russian poetry, songs and paintings a birch always had a special place.” http://my-moscow.org/a-birch-tree-as-a-symbol-of-russia/
BRING BACK SMALL FAMILY FARMS

We are finally witnessing some small signs that humanity is starting to very slowly move away from narrow and rigid view of materialism. If I’m not mistaking, unfortunately materialism is still taught to students in schools. However, change is on the horizon, and this is the time of paradigm shift, which includes how humans perceive animals. New studies on animal behavior show that animals are in fact intelligent individuals with preferences, familial bonds, emotional lives. Human attitudes towards animals are becoming of increasing importance in the areas of conservation and welfare, and people are now fighting to end factory farming.
More than 200 million animals are killed for food around the world every day – just on land. This causes harmful gases such as methane. The animals produce waste that pollutes our water sources, soil, and air. Factory farms produce millions of gallons of manure that can spill into waterways from leaking storage lagoons or fields where manure is over-applied to soil. Manure generates hazardous air pollutants and contains contaminants that can endanger human health.

200 million land animals that are killed DAILY require a colossal amount of water and feed. Not to mention the space to produce the feed for 200 million land animals each day, and to store all these animals. All this contributes to deforestation, and other damage to our planet.
Factory farming & industrial agriculture is not only cruel towards animals, and very harmful to environment, it also contributes to poor health. Such a horrible, unnatural way of keeping billions of animals in a filthy, toxic environment results in all kinds of viruses & diseases. The unnatural feeds, hormones, and excessive quantities of antibiotics used on factory farms put the human population at risk for chronic disease, obesity, and drug-resistant bacteria, and pose the threat of major zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Bible teaching people to dominate, exploit, enslave all animals & nature
Creator of these videos is an atheist. I don’t subscribe to atheism, because I think of it as just another religion, but these videos are very useful, because they contain a collection of biblical verses that are absolutely sickening, evil and disturbing. Similar information can be found in other Abrahamic holy books.

Listening to him read over these verses makes me feel like this religion is the opposite of peace and love. I don’t believe they teach these versus in Sunday school. I was pretty shocked when I discovered these years ago. I didn’t understand how I wasn’t aware of these biblical verses. One of the justifications made by Christian apologists, is that these verses come from the old testament. However, the creator of these videos said that these verses were taken from the new international version and the original king James version. And even if these verses came from old testament, how does this justify, or excuse anything? The New Testament is not disconnected from old one, it’s still the same religion. The old testament was a foundation for the new one. They just cleaned it up a bit to make it fit better the modern times, but it’s the same Christian mindset behind it...
Part 1 - https://youtu.be/RT8WATQ6vWY
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/OPLr2Byh2wA
Part 3 - https://youtu.be/ovwAJ7qCOkY