Although I consider myself a pagan, I totally agree with most of what you said. For all the anti-Abrahamic rhetoric you hear in Germanic pagan circles, the popular mode of practice feels nonetheless far too churchy and tainted by residual Christianity. It's like Lutheranism in Viking drag. I mean, people treat the Havamal like it's the Holy Bible, and even go so far as to number and quote specific lines in the text as if they were Bible verses. That's not exactly what you would expect from people trying to distance themselves from Christianity. Plus, most of our ancestors would have been illiterate and had no access to books (especially one that hadn't even been written yet when they were alive). Also, I completely share your distaste for the popular pagan preoccupation with dark aesthetics. Some of that is fine in moderation, but when all the art has a totenkopf vibe, and the music sounds like new age Native American tom-tom beating with gloomy Gregorian chanting mixed in, it's like, "Guys, where's the color? Where's the cheerfulness?… Less black metal, and more power metal, please." I've even seen some of these types sharing memes critiquing the Hollywood trope of portraying medieval Europe as entirely drab, dirty, and gloomy -- and yet they perpetuate the same trope! Our ancestors spent their waking hours in the sunshine and they wore shiny gold jewelry when they could get it. And although their music is lost to us, I'm sure they must have rocked out to some rather jaunty tunes. The aesthetics should reflect all of that.

I think what I appreciate the most about this is the honesty & integrity. A lot of what you’re criticising here is a lack of both in people who are consuming rather than truly engaging with belief systems. It’s a fundamental problem for the modern man who has been conditioned to do so.

What camera do you use, Jack? Amazing quality

Finally somebody who with sense!! This is a video that absolutely needs more views!! Lots of truth in this video and great points Especially recently i have really seriously started lose my temper over these freaking Asatru folks. I really felt hopeless that is there anybody who has common sense anymore, i just saw only these neo-eugenetists, natsoc (or neo-nazi type people whatever) pan-germanists, racial and religious purinists, pagan crusaders and fundamentalists, new age folks etc. But then you appeared and restored my hope. I tried Norse faith for a while, but didn't feel it was for me. I like these stories and deities ofcourse, but i couldn't properly relate to them. May have something to do with my country's history. It is really shame such a great mythology is totally corrupted by this type crap what you said the video. Great points what you said about influences from Satanism, didn't even fully realize that untill now. I think another problem with Asatru and neo-paganism is mystification, making ancient religion looking kind of weird and obscure.

Hey Jack, you will probably never read this, but I have read all your books and followed you for several years. I thinks it admirable how you continue to evolve and really dig your concept of solar idealism, however with all due respect do you think if you had children some of your perspectives could change on certain subjects mentioned in this video?

There is nothing wrong with celebrating & honoring your race.

I have been a long admirer of your writings and have driven many miles of freeway listening to your audio books. The concept of the Solar Path (written about by you as well as Tom Billinge) is valid and does represent a higher path for man to stride upon. Yet, the Germanic/Norse representation of this path resonates within me. My great grandparents were from Denmark, Germany and Sweden on my dads side, and Scotland and Norway on my moms (go figure that one...Merica). My grandad still spoke Platzdeutsch, (schleswig-holstein), which is spoken in Northern Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and the coast of Poland. Its basically the Saxon language as far as i know. Thus, when the name Woden is spoken, I feel it. Both Celtic and Germanic are descended from Indo-European culture, hence the chariots and such ridden by the Norse gods in a land wholly unsuitable for such modes of travel. I feel this interpretation of the solar path within my blood, and would be unique to it as other modalities (Roman, Greek, Slavic etc) would be to others.

Saw this video and decided to try to cover some of your issues with germanic paganism. I agree with you to an extent. The brosatru types sorta treat the eddas like it’s a bible and bring in Christian attitudes in regards to the gods in the sense of they can do no wrong. I still regard myself as a Heathen, but I fully understand that this is a reconstructed faith in the modern era. The parts that are missing are borrowed from similar cultures. Modern Heathenry is not like it was in 1.5K years ago. Regardless it works for some people and it pulls people away from techno industrial society which is always a plus.

Jack, its interesting that you have reduced your belief system to something more primal than so called paganism. I was culturally interested in Slavic paganism but Im thrid generation Zen Buddhist and Ive found myself wondering, if you go back then how far should you actually? I am now studying the PIE religion, read Campbell and early Vedas that are part of the Buddhist canon as well. I also find Mormonism super fascinating and the deeper you go the better it gets, its actually very pagan I would say and actually inspires some pagan movements nowadays. I am all for reduction and keeping it close to the heart, intimate instead of too much abstract.

Reading fire in the dark is fantastic to have this videos

I know I've said this in the past, but i really appreciate watching your perspective evolve. I too saw alot of problems within the Heathen community that ultimately lead me to think it wasn't tenable as a religion despite me learning a great deal about religious concepts and archetypes because of it. I've evolved into a much more panthiestic and stoic view of God. Took alot of reading about various religions and philosophies, but that's where i tend to sit today.

मि॒त्रस्तन्नो॒ वरु॑णो दे॒वो अ॒र्यः प्र साधि॑ष्ठेभिः प॒थिभि॑र्नयन्तु । ब्रव॒द्यथा॑ न॒ आद॒रिः सु॒दास॑ इ॒षा म॑देम स॒ह दे॒वगो॑पाः ॥ मित्रस्तन्नो वरुणो देवो अर्यः प्र साधिष्ठेभिः पथिभिर्नयन्तु । ब्रवद्यथा न आदरिः सुदास इषा मदेम सह देवगोपाः May Mitra, Varuṇa, the divine Aryaman, conduct us by the most practicable paths, then, (when wedesire their guidance), accordingly as Aryaman promises to the liberal donor (of oblations), may we, enjoying the protection of the gods, rejoice in abundance, together with posterity. Rigveda 7.64.3.Happy new year from a hindu believer of the divine gods. Coming from a vedantic hindu family i believe you might be going through the same phase as late vedic rishis who tried many gods before devoting to brahman. Anyways your t-shirt(rta) is dope. Very few people or actually i can count those people, realise that rta is superior to dharma.

Great video and it really gave me better understanding and perspective on these things.

Worth the listen

As a kid I would pass a place that was dug up as an Native American Burial place does that mean I can connect with "a little piece of that heritage" answer please. My problem is that religion experience comes from just that experience.

I'm gonna call it... this video is going to be the beginning of the take off of your channel. Not only is the ideals expressed within the video pure, but the "aesthetic" of it with the "golden hour" glow of the lights, and the more wide angle shot with you in the center proselytizing and sharing your knowledge in a free/neutral tone, and the unique "harsh" maybe ai-generated thumbnail of odin and the ravens, all add to what I think is a unique "hit" for what your channel is to become. Continue to seek the light, i'm sure it will help others in time as well.

Too much of it is "Unsubstantiated Personal Gnosis".

I really respect your insights into this subject. I've been more interested in the subject, rather than becoming devoted to worship. I've found your points made here compelling, in regards to what is actually known, documented, ritualistic practice, from a first hand perspective. A good majority of what's survived to this day is written from an abrahamic, inspired, rediscovered perspective. Also, I don't really appreciate the satanic conversion of Germanic paganism, much like yourself. I think we'd need a time machine to know for sure about the true nature and practice of our Germanic ancestors. Too much room for interpretation, a shot in the dark... Say it how you'd like.

great stuff!

808 subscribers, at the time of viewing, is a great number. Interesting work, brother, although I am still to look at it in depth (time permitting). At any rate, I suppose the task is to elevate oneself above the mundane, from whatever perspective/angle one chooses to do so, and in protective respect of other beings (visible and invisible). This is sine qua non. As is the cultivation of qualities such as virtue (strength) and wisdom (vision, pardon the pun). Good luck, etc [the Devanagari t-shirt is not bad either]

so i created my own religion, tax free, retirement, ect....

Started watching because it randomly popped onto my algorithm. Kept watching because this guy is hot. Finished watching because it was very informative.

When people try to claim ancestry to the old gods, as you say that some within the American "asatru/odinist circles" do, they really miss that it was only the Ruling Classes that "could trace their ancestry back to some god," like Frey for example." Ordinary people did not claimed Divine ancestry, and it they had tried to do that they most certainly would have been killed, quite swiftly, by members of the rulers "hird." You did not try to pass between the different classes back then. You did not marry up, nor down. You stayed exactly as you have been born, as a trall, as a free man, as a ruler, etc. So, it is a little bit stupid to try to claim an ancestral line back to some germanic, or norse, god. But I can almost understand it, since it must be a strange feeling to live in a country who's native history and culture are someone else's. So they try to make a connection to their original country, but not the present culture but rather the "cool historic culture," thousand years ago. But, the so called Vikings, were not germans. The germanic tribes were forest living tribes. Only the northern germanic tribes that lives along the southern Baltic Sea had a connection with the norse culture (Like the Preussians, or the Vends). But the majority of the germans really have no historical connection with the so called "Viking culture." Sometimes I have thought about how alien I might have felt if I had grown up in, for example, the USA. Because here, in Scandinavia, I do see the remains of the ancient cultures everywhere I look. And I only have to walk over some farmers field to find old traces from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. And everywhere is all these burial Mounds, really everywhere. So it is really easy to feel connected to my history when living here. Because it is so present, all the time, everywhere. And, about what you said about the dislike for christianity, I've never understood that. I think it have more to do with their understanding of the present, modern, christianity than the original medieval - norse - christianity. It was quite different from the present, modern protestant version. And I think it is important to understand that christianity, in Scandinavia, never was forced upon the people - at first (with time laws were being written that banned "belief in mounds and groves"). It was invited, and all the medieval churches that were being built almost thousand years ago, they were being built by the local norse peoples, and they erected villages around them. That lasted all the way until the great agricultural revolution during the 19th century. The first, medieval, norse christianity was more pagan than we might think. Even the figure of Christ was different from what we think today. Medieval norse Christ was a god of Victory, suitably for a conquering people. And a lot of ancient prechristian traditions and festivities were being kept, and celebrated, at least until the Reformation. But still a few ancient pre-christian traditions have survived, and are still bing celebrated - like the celebrating of the return of the Light, during the darkest night of the year (Lucia), or Midsummer, and naturally the "Jul" (Christmas Eve). Lastly, I just have a question about what you said about the time you "sacrificed some poor goat." You said that it was "to dark," and maybe even "satanic." So I wonder about how you performed that sacrifice. Was the act of killing the goat the central part of the ceremony, or was the killing of the goat more like a part of a "complete sacrificial ceremony" that included the following feast, when you all cooked and ate the meat of the goat? Few sacrificial traditions have the act of the killing of the sacrifice as the only, and central, part - it is usually just a part in a whole feast, where the eating of the sacrificed food is the central thing. Maybe just one piece (usually the heart) of the sacrificed animal will be left on the fire, for the gods to consume as the smoke rises up to the heavens. The whole village, or the whole tribe - at least all the participants, will take part of the sacrifice in this way. And I can not see that as "satanic." But to just kill, for the sake of the killing, could be interpreted as more satanic, wouldn't you agree about that? It is aslo quite interesting to understand that the ancient christian commentators and missionaries, etc, actually called several pre-christian religions and cults (that included sacrifice) as "satanism." So the very act of sacrifice animals (and humans I assume) for religious purposes could probably be interpreted as "Satanism." Especially without feasting of the meat. Because even christian culture eat animals, and slaughter them. And that is not viewed as satanic. Sure, some cultures did engage in sacrifice of humans, and killing just for the sake of killing, in a religious setting. And the ancient norse at least seemed to have done exactly that (Different sources describe the 9 year blots, that took place at both Uppsala and Leyre. And the precolombian cultures of mesoamerica, certainly were engaged in human sacrifice on a massive scale. Probably Polynesian cultures too. But most sacrificial practices didn't just kill their offering just for the sake of killing, it was just a part of their collective festivities. Just like they do in "Valhall" where the gathered warriors feast on the flesh of the sacrifices pig "Särimner" every evening. So if the myths mirror the present culture, it could say something about how the ancient norse practiced animal sacrifice - not just killing for the sake of killing, but more like inviting the gods and the ancestors to the table, and let them share in the feast. Quite far from "satanism". It wouldn't be accepted today, in the west at least, even though most of us eat meat, and are accepting the mass slaughter of animals on a humongous scale. But somehow we have a hard time accepting killing before our very eyes.

That’s the funny thing about objective truth. It’s True for everyone, everywhere at all times regardless of who espouses it, who denies and who believes it. If one group does a better job demonstrating they have it but you don’t like them it does not change Truth.

you should talk with youtuber Skjalden about this

As someone with the black pagan stallion of Widukind, because its the Coat of arms of my birth county, i have a few points. 1. "Western/Anglo" Culture is deeply germanic, Angeln, Sachsen, Dänen were heathen/pagan who deeply influenced the british isles. Our understanding of democracy is germanic not ancient greek. 2. Laconicly i would say you could differenciate between heathen and pagan. Pagan is the anglocized form where nordic, germanic and celtic mixed. Heathen are for me the old rituals and believes of the homeland, as someone who grew up in the old country its just a mentality and folklore. 3. I am too drunk right now to talk about scaninavians and celtics, franks etc. my time and buzz are worth to much 4. Wotan as the wanderer and holder of female magic. How you tread women really reflects if your ancestors pray to wotan or odin. He was a trickster that made sacrifices for wisdom, writing and poetry. It really discribes the "western" way of how to engage problems, ofcourse there are greco roman influences but the fusion of being willing to work hard but find a clever solution that works is something that realy can be found even in american work ethic. 5. You are sometimes as cringy as your physique is developed. 6.

I don't Thor's hammer often but when I do I swear up and down it's Buddhist

Awesome. Can we be expecting a "problems with Judaism" video any time soon?

Very interesting video. Just one comment. The border between Celtic and Germanic is very clear. All Germanic culture begun with the Battle Axe Culture and The Nordiz Bronze Age in Sweden and Denmark. Celtic people lived in Germany until 700-500 BC when Germanic people migrated there from Scandinavia. When the Garmanic people started to migrate down to Germany it also split the Germanic language in two branches. North Germanic in those that stayed in Scandinavia and West Germanic in those the settled down in Germany.

You're aware that Wotan, Woden and Oden are the same right?

Good stuff here.

All my male ancestors look like you (not the tattoos, just the conformation). Even my darling daughter is six foot two, 285 pounds, strong as an ox and very inclined to her own opinion (but very girly, nevertheless). My parents, on both sides, were German, Scot/Irish, and Cherokee. All the men are over 6 feet (most are over 6 ft 4 in) and quite robust. My father's dad was born in the Hamburg area of north western Germany. In fact, all his relatives, those who came to the USA, were from that area of Lower Saxony, near to the southern border of Denmark. All of the members of this family who came to the USA are related, all from one family. I've done some research and there are over 200 of the German relatives still in the Hamburg region today. I believe most of those people were Lutheran (makes sense, I guess), and they had lots of kids and most of them have retained the tendency to be religious, to some extent. I was raised Baptist but managed to weasel out of the church-going rituals early in life and then did some of that "exploration" of various kinds of religious practices on my own, never to adopt anything as a life-long thing to stick with. I was mostly doing amateur research on the who, what, why, and how of the phenomenon to see if any of it was really something essential and true and necessary to human life, you might say. I got what I wanted from each and moved on. Eventually I realized it wasn't religion, per se, that meant all that much to me, but found there was an underlying truth to be had from the core of religion that put EVERYTHING (the universal "Everything") into perspective. You might describe it the way the scene from the old TV series Kung Fu did, in which the Master asked Kwai-Chang Caine (then a boy) "Who are you?" and the boy didn't have the right answer initially but later on he did answer "You." Yes. It's not the surface features of brand-name religion that we need to pay attention to but the core that the features hopefully point to. The One. It's all one. All the trappings of this or that religion are interesting and cultural and social and all the things that might (or might not) bind a group of people together...they didn't bind me together with anybody, alas...but they sort of serve a purpose to the psychology of the individual looking for his or her "tribe." Genetically I have a tribe, and only recently discovered where they came from, and it's all very fun to hear about Vikings and so forth possibly being "my people." The Cherokee ancestor was from my dad's mother whose great grandmother was on the Trail Of Tears from Tennessee to Oklahoma (survived it, thank God). I do believe in God, capital "G," and have assumed this to be the Core but also the Path and the Language and the Tribe and the Reason for existence. In this, we are all One, all related, all aspects, all elements of the great I AM. Obviously, I'm brand new to your channel. I'll watch again, partially because I think you're On The Road...I was once told by a good friend that he thought most people spent their lives looking for The Road but he thought I was On The Road. I took it as one of those "little birdie" whisperings that come into your ear to give you a hint that you're making progress on your path and to encourage you to keep going. God whispers like that and I get those often. Sometimes He blows a gale but I really like the little whisperings. It's like a puzzle you're supposed to work out. Fun.

Something i found very interesting, whilst i was looking for traces of monotheism in the ancient germanic peoples was this here "In wider Germanic mythology, he is known in Old English as Tīw and in Old High German as Ziu, all stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Tīwaz, meaning '(the) God'. Little information about the god survives beyond Old Norse sources. Due to the etymology of the god's name and the shadowy presence of the god in the extant Germanic corpus, some scholars propose that Týr may have once held a more central place among the deities of early Germanic mythology." To me, it always seems like the same story in most cultures, originally there was faith in only one God, the Creator, but in time, people started adding their own folklore, the ancient chinese had this with Shang-Di, even the Aztecs had a concept of what we would understand as "God" yet they were too preoccupied with their "Gods". I found this information about "Tiwaz (the) God" so interesting since it is the fairly same with "Al-Lah (the) God".

I prefer the Gnostic path in norse paganism called Thursatru that a)basically says fire is masculine and ice is feminine b) isn't about ancestry because the framework is about the anti-cosmic order of the aesir and c)doesn't see the eddas as the be all end all.

"Not (Judeo-)Christian" is pretty funny, as if the judeo-part wasn't added only recently.

I think that christianity perfectly rounds up this issue. Because they clearly state what a sin is but give free choice. Also, Christians are allowed to practise therre way of showing love to god and praising his creation by certain lifestyles.

Agreeing with most of what you say. Not with the concept of how the sun is die Sonne and the moon is der Mond. I thought about that a lot and it will make sense when you look beyond the obvious. The sun is in fact neither male nor female, right, but since it (she/he? lol) represents something symbolically and not just in language, the ‘flipped’ article is like acknowledging the suns inner anima, and the moons inner animus. Or one could also say the moon reflects femininity, but it essentially is thus the opposite. The sun reflects masculinity in the concept of masculinity also symbolizing authority in this regard, threrefor it is essentially female. I am pretty sure this is kind of a narrow path and one that in itself symbolizes a well preserved wisdom, or concept of wisdom. German is one of the rare languages that not only has three articles (still) like Sanskrit, but it can be traced back very far back towards the previous ages/ yugas. Remember Shiva also has the moon symbolized on his forehead. And that implies consciousness. The sun is thus a symbol for energy, all firms of energy are Shakti, the female counterpart to Shiva. Both represent the initial Godhead that split itself to experience itself and ultimately reunite with itself.

in my personal point of view, which I don't disagree that some people take race in the wrong direction, most people of euro decent are looking for their DOS if you will and default to Germanic. there are to my scant research some shared ideas for euro pagans that we still default to, the number of black folk I have worked with that think I'm crazy for just doing things not worrying about my safety which everyone of them say is a white person thing makes me laugh. I believe that people need to do the research to find where they come from, yes the water is muddy in most areas when it comes to religion of old. that does not change the core tents of that area, if your Celt, Germanic, Slavic, gallic doesn't matter the core is going to fit a lot better then modern religion. on the note of race or hate in general I dislike the people that hate Abrahamic religions on principle, if their intent is good let them be, but those people are hatful anyways doesn't matter if they believe in the flying spaghetti monster or Christ or Odin or Zeus. I say people need to spend time on this even if I know they wont and are looking for a quick answer.

Steiner talked about an Anglo Norman pursuit for English not German to replace French as the global language. It all goes back to one civilization conquers another .re germanic pride start with Goethe

You don’t have to recreate the wheel. Zoroaster is the obvious answer to everything.

Satanism is a gateway. It is not the destination. With age and experience comes the need for structure/order.

Internet people like clickbait .Nonense for Americans.

Saying that a group of people have no connection to their past, because they are not the same as a modern group of people, who live closer to the geographic location of a historic group of people, is completely asinine. The modern group of people who Americans are not completely identical to, are just as different and removed in their modern lives from their less evolved, and antique ancestors. If Americans have no connection to their past, than Germans have no connection to their past, and no group of people in the entire world who are slightly different from their ancestors culturally, even if they are not so much genetically. Would have no connection to their past, at least in the propagandist sense that you are trying to persuade.

Hi Jack, how much theatrical acting work have you done outside of the God of War Pagan Shaman character you play? The English have been rivals with Germany over who wears the pants as the dominant central establishment group of western Europe for centuries. We speak English, but the Royal Family of England are all German. Empirical Great Britain, along with it's dubious allies, the Russian Bolsheviks and the war hungry US, all carved up Germany and shared in the rich spoils of war for themselves during the occupation beginning in 1945. Thick as thieves they were! And the good times lasted for decades! But like all hungry lions and nesting war hawks, eventually their carnal appetites get the better of them and they look for more lifeblood to ingest. And when there isn't any, they turn on themselves. It's a tremendously cruel and vicious circle to tread, but nevertheless one that can gather a great deal of participation.

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As a Norwegian, I never understod why Americans get so into this. I feel some connecting to it, because of the cultural aspect, but I don't understand why anyone else but Northen Europeans would connect with this. These old sagas are essentially nursery rhymes for adults written around the themes of our culture and nature. And as you said, the current representation of this is obviously nonsense and fantasy from the last 200 years. The people who worshipped Tor and Odin was farmers and fishermen, poor as hell, hoping that saying a few words to Tor would help them in some way. This practice, of praying to some entity for luck, is common in all human history all over the world. It's quite different from modern religions. Norse mythology is just our version of this with our cultural spin on it. Back then you "prayed" to gods to feel like you have something or someone on your side because of their misery and struggles. No offense, but if they could see some of this American worship, like watching a bunch of buff guys with tattos run into the woods screaming and burning shit, I think they would wonder what a hell you guys were doing.

PATCH ON THE WRONG EYE..JS

Odin was their deity who becomes man . Also ,w o tolkien ,there wud b n0 black met4l !

Kinda of a random video to be recommended to a muslim, but nonetheless very interesting video glad it got recommended to me for me I like a religion that transcend tribal and racial boundaries and treat all it's members equally regardless of ethnicity. Of course there's nothing wrong with celebrating you people or culture but God putting your people on a pedestal that's a whole another level. Religion that only accepts spusific race or tribe never really made sense to me, for god to create the world and then choose only a spusific tribe or race to be the chosen people and give them special treatment. I'd rather believe in a god that will judge me based on my actions not based on my blood or ancestors and that why I prefer religions like islam or christianity. And there are many other points that I have problem with when it comes to those ancient tribal religions and I think your video made a very good critique to these tribal religions. And raised points I never really considered or known about, that was certainly an insightful video.

Glad to see humans with compassion still exist 😊

More I learn more I realize we are all the same, they paint africans as tribal but all humans were. We basically all did the same stuff but claim to be different.

I have followed Heathenry for many years. But the East Coast version is much more focused on practices and making sure we are not associated with the Nazism that was so destructive. My ancestry is Irish/German. And being a post WWII child, I had to deal with the aftermath of Hitler in a city that was full of Jewish refugees and their relatives. No one wanted to be identified with Nazis. The German immigrants were refugees of the collapse of a nation. In my eclectic research, I have mostly encountered, open groups, who are mostly northern European in heritage, being open to all. Thanks for your post.

Really enjoying all of the enraged extremely online neo-nazi race-fetishists proving my point in the comments. There's not an argument they have that I haven't had to sit and listen to a hundred times, which is why am actively alienating them. They destroy everything they touch.

Not sure if it's because you are an American born in a "melting pot", but for someone who claims to have to much experience with Paganism, you seems like you don't really understand it. EVERY Pagan tradition is the tradition of a specific people. It is the spiritual manifestation of a specific culture and thus, a specific race too. It doesn't mean that one hates any other race. It's only that the particular Pagan tradition in question is OF a particular people. It is their root to the past and ancestors. Every people can have theirs. And in case you don't know, as you may not know because you are an American - most people in the world throughout all history, were not born in a "multicultural melting pot". The USA is the abnormality, not the other nations. You can go for Neopaganism like the Order of Fire or Wicca which are rootless and be multicultural with that, and that's fine too.

forced beliefs don´t really count in terms of true spirituality.. that´s why modern christians who have chosen to be that are way more christian than anyone in medieval germany. as are voluntary modern pagans more pagan than anyone in the viking age. often it´s only the priests who are actually into the religious side of things.. the others are just bystanders, the great majority of people, they care more about what´s for dinner! you could argue that religion isn´t even needed in regular life.. food is, sun is, jesus christ, definately not. if you removed all the cultural stuff from the forced religions they would have nothing left.. you can´t be both cultural and universal at the same time (that´s why they´re such a shit show). everyone who speaks the same language as me, definately not my people.. those who walk the same winter paths, especially now that the sun is returning.. we might have something in common.

I largely agree with you criticisms, but Slightly disagree about your criticism of reconstruction. Predicted proto-germanic forms have been found in the archeological record. Predicted Proto-Indo-European phonemes were found in Hittite. So at least linguistic reconstruction has shown to be reliable, or maybe I am just biased because my area of study was in Linguistics. I am mixed my father being of Anglo-Saxon ancestry and mother Hispanic. How does one of mixed ancestry choose which gods to venerate? I am not really religious, but I do have a draw towards the religious traditions and customs of Prechristian Europe. I come to similar or the same conclusions as you on Germanic paganism and neopaganism. Thank you for your work.

Been watching your evolution as a writer and speaker since you were with the Wolves ( I was never one, or associated with them,; just aware of them). I've been shrugging off this Solar Idealism concept as something like a new-age cult-of-personality... well... cult. However, given that you're still diving deep into issues that matter, and making sober analyses of other religions, I feel like I shouldn't brush off what you're doing. That said, I have a couple concerns I'd like to express, with the hope that you might see them. First of all, and I mean no disrespect, but rather complete honesty, it feels extremely LARPy. Assuming that you don't literally believe in the 3 gods you outline in Solar Idealism, aren't you just playing pretend and going through empty motions? Especially in the face of countless ancient real religions, that have real gods that people genuinely believe in, which you openly borrow from. Essentially, this would be the definition of D&D-style LARP, but taken to an extreme level. On the other hand, you believe the 3 gods literally exist, in which case, where does your belief come from? Instead of accepting/respecting any names or descriptions of historical precedent, you give them your own nicknames and symbols. How does this carry any legitimacy? How can you be confident that what you are doing is pleasing to the gods? If we compare what you are doing to something like what Survive The Jive advocates for, it seems like his approach to reconstructionist pagan spirituality has a lot more... well... evidence behind its practice - tried and true methods, specifics instead of generalities. Secondly, and I again mean this with all due respect as someone who has read 3 of your books, your background in Satanism does not inspire confidence that this cult is not also founded, on some deep level, out of spite against the Christian establishment, or otherwise informed by Satanic inverted morality (selfishness and power-mongering as virtues in and of themselves, for instance). What is the actual "good" in this, for society, for humanity, for your tribe, etc. I suppose what I mean to ask is - is this something self-serving, or is this something that recognizes that you are beneath a greater force (the gods, the forces of nature, etc)?

"not in 2023". Yet, now more than ever is when we need to be... I'm one of these very tribal people, but at the same time you're taking it to the extreme by saying it should only be worshipped where it was founded and if you're in America you're totally disconnected. First, that makes zero sense if you have any belief of ancestry and spirits. Second, we have always been explorers and conquerors. So in a way, Americans still have that spirit even more so. Third, time is much more of a disconnector than space. Would you say the same thing about the Icelandic Vikings? You're really trying hard here to discourage people. With that last point about time, every religion is basically a new religion. Christianity has split off into tons of sects. 99% of them don't follow the same rules, etc. You're also making your own religion. So I see no issue in people trying their best to recreate a religion. Heck, I'd say modern Pagans are closer to the real thing than modern Christians are to their original form.

Perhaps this racial stuff is what motivates some people, I think it's unnecessary. To be sure, there is value in family, tradition, and firm roots. But this doesn't require inbreeding - these are things which carry on regardless of your partner's race, as long as your tradition remains strong. What draws me to Odin is nothing to do with race. If anything I'm more connected to my east-Asian side. What draws me to Odin is the fact that I suffer, and I have developed a certain masochism in my pursuit of enlightenment. Pain gives me perspective, and through this I have learned the power of narrative to guide my destiny. My path in life is that of the dark wizard. Getting caught up in all the technicalities of lineage and geography will merely distract from the primal essence of spirituality that one is seeking to begin with. If you want to know the gods, then feel them in your soul.

I don’t disagree with many of the things that you say; however, you’re clearly skimming surface level ideas from Richard Spencer and Mark Brahmin, retarding them, and ultimately rebranding them into your “solar religion”-again taking from Mark and Richard. Many of the things you mentioned: Wagner, metal music, an emphasis on Christian influence on the Eddas, were all mentioned in the past weeks on Mark and Richard’s classes/podcasts. You are obviously listening to them.

No, people want a history. The God we worship is a Jewish one. We have no religions of our own as Europeans....AFter WW2 all Aryan historical research was banned from Academia. It all comes back to the Indo European Myths.

Then you google "Isaac Newton Heruli" Arian not Aryan. 1000 years? That would be 1023 AD. Yes I can do that number.

As an afghan pashtun, 2andme confirmed that I have scandinavian y dna going back countless generations. As an aryan I feel quite close to my germanic kin and I must say that cursing other races for the sake of it (ie blacks, jews) is stupid and immoral however at the same time there is nothing wrong about having pride in your warrior ancestry and wanting to preserve it by "having white babies", every other race has the that same ethos. So I wouldn't blame modern white odinists for wanting that same thing for their race/heritage

Anything that isn’t the worship of the living Triune God Father, Son and Holy Spirit is pagan my brother! And if there is only 1 God why wouldn’t you think That God would be the only way ??? Doesn’t it make sense , if there is a all powerful creator then He would more then likely be the only of His kind , and if He’s the only one He would be the only way right ? I just got to the part while I was typing where you said you was a priest of Satan , makes all the sense