Runes in Modernity: Academia, New Age & The Fourth Wave (Collab w/ Esoterica)

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[@Wyattinous]

Came from Esoterica, so glad he introduced you to all of us! Another subscriber to another great channel ❤🏛

[@NordicAnimism]

Welcome to the channel Wyatt :-)

[@AnomalyArcana]

Saaaame❤

[@marcelpaquet8134]

Northern Animism and Esoterica in one video... I don't think my brain be able to handle all the mind blowing thoughts in this video..

[@mythandstories3069]

Great work Rune! One of the areas which is often overlooked, especially in the traditional rune stones, but also in runic jewellery, is the ornamental art itself such as the ornamentation of the dragon, the lindisworms and the fettering of the dragon into the stone. I spent an afternoon with a rune stone master carver (Kalle Dahlberg) on the island of Adelso and we spoke at length how there are few runologist who have studied the ornamentations and their deeper significance and few would have ever touched a chisel and a hammer. Who are the beasts that are holding the runes in its claws and bodies? They are pointing directly to the mythical background, the lindisworms with their linden trees and the dragons themselves. I think artists working with ornamentation today would have a lot to contribute to this conversation and especially the animistic and alive part of the runes. On the rune stone, when you behold it, you feel how the dragon plays a part in waking up the inscription, protecting it and making it come alive - a big magical act!

[@sandra.helianthus]

I thought: what a nice incident having both channels in my list talk about runes now. Finding out it is a colab was even better 😃 Thanks to both of you for this encompassing background view.

[@oniondip_420]

I also came from esoterica and I'm very happy to have found your channel! I'm subscribing and will def be watching more of your videos

[@NordicAnimism]

Awesome! - Welcome to the Channel :-)

[@lilykatmoon4508]

I love Esoterica, and had no idea y’all knew each other. It makes sense because you both are dedicated to looking at things through an authentic, academic lens. I’ll definitely be checking out his contributions to this discussion. I definitely want to read that Long Branches book you recommended. Take care.

[@otisdoubleyou7272]

i was thinking about this being a collab i'd like to see just yesterday.

[@SarenthDricten]

I think that there is an assumed contradiction between keeping silent and speaking about Runework. From my perspective I understand and work with the Runes as vættir, as spirits, and recognize that to a certain degree the secrets They have keep themselves. Now that's not to say we should blab about every little insight or personal experience we have with Them, but it also doesn't mean that dialoguing with like-minded folks will do us or the processes of engaging with the Runes any harm.

[@curiousbo]

I love runes from an aesthetic perspective. I know there's a lot more to them than that, and that people like them for different reasons, but from a design perspective, they're beautiful and that's what attracts me.

[@crushinnihilism]

I will say meditations on the runes that I got from the Rune Gild have showed me a lot. Images and scenes play themselves out. It's as though the Rune is showing you something important.

[@frost8077]

I'd agree the 4th wave already begun, now that there's a great exchange of information made possible through the internet. My early introduction to runes was through Flowers. I know his works aren't prefect, but he really was a forerunner for many people with his experimental magical concepts to open the door for new ideas to emerge decades later, for better or worse depending on who you ask, but he helped keep the interest alive either way.

[@pontushenningsson9868]

Informativt och välformulerat som vanligt! 👏Keep up the good work!

[@TattooedBacon]

This is a brilliant video essay! Thank you for educating us on the history and culture of runes vs. the modern narrative concerning divination New Age practices!

[@ZerilathImmortal]

The most important approach to runes is to consider them for divination last. Meditation and toning them with the interpretation of the oral traditions. Then live the meaning by personal experoence for a few years. Remember to find these runes in nature.

[@Marc_ofthe_west]

Another important presentation of much needed information, thanks you.

[@BobTrappofIowa]

Years ago, I was happy to find anything that would help get me started. There weren't any neighborhood elders wishing to share their secrets (as far as I knew). But I agree that the sources could have been better. To many seemed to be making promises and trying to come off absolute experts. I would have been better served by a mixture to academic "here's what we really know so far" and spiritual "go looking for the rest". In any event, we need to make all of the introductory stuff and writing more "normal" and main stream so it can be available for those who want to follow the path and to take it back from the white supremacists.

[@edwinbloemendaal1519]

I am finding your idea of dialogue-ing with the Runes to be useful on a personal level. I realized I have done this with esoteric tarot and oracle cards to some degree, but intuitively. I have read several books on runes. some inscriptions are just writing and some are clearly not, but I had not been able to connect with them on that deeper level. Now I’m like “why didn’t I think of that?” Yeah, the academic view puts blinders on you. Brilliant video. I’m looking forward to applying “dialogue-ing” to Icelandic magic, Greek, Sanskrit, Latin alphabets and other things I’ve read over the years. Thank you so much!

[@ernamoller175]

Thank you Rune for a very interesting video on the runes.

[@markusnicklas4627]

😁 The Rune-Gild: Heathenism, Traditionalism, and the Left-Hand Path by Kennet Granholm gave me some insight

[@crushinnihilism]

Left hand path? That dichotomy only appears in Christianity

[@Whimsicalbrainpan]

I came here from Esoterica. Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights.

[@NordicAnimism]

Thanks a lot. And welcome to the channel

[@Whimsicalbrainpan]

@NordicAnimism I'm interested in the rune class you will be holding. Is it for patrons only or can anyone come?

[@NordicAnimism]

It will be available for anyone

[@Whimsicalbrainpan]

@@NordicAnimism 💖💖💖

[@Robert-gc9gc]

Amazing do what you do so well, it's refreshing to hear after the year I've had

[@apokalupsishistoria]

I think Dr Scott Shell would agree on some of your points - he talks about opening up academia to this type of rune analysis on his YT channel and his recent book on applying Semiotics to the Futhark runes. Y’all could have an interesting talk together!

[@crushinnihilism]

He doesn't like Scott Shell. To right wing.

[@caseytaylor8093]

Came from Esoterica, amazing video a great starter for me! Skol!! And greetings from Eastern Oregon!!

[@The_Infinite_Squirrel]

Helpful and interesting. Thank you.

[@tracysoteriou]

Thanks

[@GilTheDragon]

It is perhaps interesting that runes were got in aloneness & through death. Only by keeping silent we can hear

[@pappapata]

As a newbie... I already love you 😄🌞🙏🇸🇪❣

[@loreleihewitt8677]

I love this! I am a professional rune reader. I work at a lot of psychic fairs in the Seattle, Washington area (USA). I am always the only rune reader. I agree with your suggestion about communing with the runes. I have spent much time meditating on each rune in order to understand the liminal meaning that each runic symbol has to offer. I have developed my own method of divination that I have not found in any book. I’ve noticed that some ancient alphabets have letters that hold both an energetic as well as phonetic meaning. Sanskrit and Hebrew are good examples of this. So, I believe it’s entirely plausible that the Futhark letters do too. Most people have NOT heard of runes and are often startled and even frightened by them. There are also people who are so moved by them that they are inspired to go out and study them. (I don’t teach them) I understand your frustration with the new age movement. But, I also see many people struggling to find a spiritual path because contemporary religions have failed them. I believe that the animist traditions may help to fill this void for people in ways that the New Age movement can’t quite do. I found you from listening to The Esoterica talk on Runes. Super excited to find you! I will be signing up for your Rune class as soon as it’s available.

[@paganbanjo]

I agree that many as you nicely put it, are "looking to find a path because contemporary religions have failed them." As people working in this I think it's important that we avoid the temptation to try to reinvent everything as a single individual all at once. It will take communities generations to recover a nuanced and varied worldview supported by deep-rooted rituals. So we have our personal insights, share them appropriately in close relations, and the good stuff will stick through the generations.

[@crushinnihilism]

I read them semi professionally as well. I completely disagree with most of what this guy has to say. I've learned more from the practices in Flowers work than all the proper academics I'm supposed to read. We have a tradition. We have a rune gild. There are rune master in the gild doing real work. They're not slandering others for views and money. Nordic is one of the largest gatekeepers that constantly puts down people like myself who work out of metaphysical shops because I'm not credited by a university power system. He also calls anyone right of a Nazi. It's honestly disgusting behavior, and it holds us heathens back.

[@erichwebb8312]

Thanks for the share brother , Much info and good advice I dare say . I find a truth to your thought about groups seeking to reemerge , not only is there widely different takes , the direction some take is different from each . Yet I can’t help but admire and have some respect for them , I think I take a shamans or alchemical approach to it . I know that old beliefs say pagan Greek , Italian , Sufi , Hebrew , Gnostic at one time seen deities as forces of cosmos which in turn are projections of the subconscious outwardly into the world . These forces then evolved into a sophisticated relations with number , ( not the pseudo astrology , numerology , or what ever BS ) as in Pythagorean music of spheres etc and ties into Perennial Philosophy . I suppose this emerged with rise of King Alexander , when people across the world study together and consciousness moved beyond simply believing deities as forces of nature and seen them as masked representations for force and form of both our inward self and outer world . What will emerge of European/Norse/Animism belief , perhaps mutual respect of all people yet different schools emerge with slightly different usage . Sorry , said more the I wanted to . I guess I have another book to get 😎 , thank you for your work and thanks to all the people whom there wisdom . Take care and be well ✝️

[@_4200h]

Looking forward to mining your page, Dr. Sledge recommended is always worth a deep dive.

[@NordicAnimism]

Thanks! And knock yourself out

[@tracysoteriou]

Very enlightening talk, thankyou. I work with rune energy in nature rather than rune divination.

[@user-it7vk9pb9v]

Thank you. 👍 i am glad people have made up the spiritual meanings for the runes. From Johannes Bureus onwards to many others a non academic path has been layed down for people to gain insight into their purpose other than lettering. I also am saddened about the way materialism has treated knowledge but also believe that without evolution we would still be living in caves. We will have to ask Odin. Or ourselves. 😁👍❤️🇬🇧

[@home8630]

The runes aren't saying very much at present, because they are resting, its a shush time. What is needed is a communicator, not any sort of one, at the right time, the right one will come, but now its shush.

[@edj8008]

Förlåt för att jag ger dig en komplimang för din väldigt lättförståeliga engelska. Mina fördommar har krossats lite och det är alltid kul

[@NordicAnimism]

Tusind tak

[@soundofmudgivenglory]

Immeasurable stoke.

[@home8630]

What the rune requires is understanding and meaning. My thing is understanding and meaning more than wisdom, but my son was born with a very old wisdom, from thhe North, part of our dna even though we don't live in the north, it comes through the dna.. At present I get overloaded, like with youtube with all these videos try to communicate wht it will, it can get all too much. Sometimes its like trying to process a tidal wave. For me its not so much about understanding the letters, its just about listening to the silent communication and waiting for it to communciate with you and what it wants you to know and learn, what it needs to tell you and you need to hear. I don't need the letters or any physical object the communication just comes and I prefer that. Like with the number 24, to me relates to the days and time. 4 x 24 is 4 days. I have my own way of the meaning of the numbers and I stay within that, because it can get all too much, when you try and add what comes through other people. For me silence is a way of life, people find it hard because I am a communciator, born into silence and belong to the people of silence and my silent nation and live constant in silence, silence just communicates, sometimes you need to hear the sound of a human voice and just have human commuication and interaction, particularly when you are remote. At present its about listening, people just want to be heard but sometimes they need to listen. For me I am overlistened, so I rest an tell the communication to shush.

[@aubreejobizzarro1208]

Runes are interesting because they are definitely similar to cunnieform, but not as elaborate as Hieroglyphics or Mayan writing systems. I wonder if there has been some comparison to cunnieform in deciphering it…

[@Dontyouknowme123]

Runes are just sigils. One and the same. Intention creates results .

[@theprinceofdarkness4679]

to be fair to Ralph Blum he received a "rune set" with 24 tiles inscribed with the fuþark & an extra blank tile when he set out the tiles, the 25 tiles formed a "perfect magical square" my opinion is that the blank tile should be replaced by something more significant

[@theprinceofdarkness4679]

that is if one wishes to make a magical square

[@Sky-qu5ob]

Rune what is your position on the Palestinian genocide ? Are you planning on speaking on it ?

[@sandra.helianthus]

Do you expect from channel about nordic animism also statements about the war in Myanmar, Sudan, Äthiopia, Ukraine, the Mexican drug war - all wars of similar dimensions - besides the hundreds other horrible conflicts around the world? I don't think so. Don't get me wrong - it is important to inform oneself and also to talk about it and help inform others ... but on a different channel with different content.

[@Sky-qu5ob]

@@sandra.helianthus Anybody who speaks on decolonial spirituality (the reason I and so many others watch this channel) and does not speak against a colonial project, apartheid, turned into an ongoing genocide, fully supported by the West, has lost the plot. Other conflicts such as you mentioned may be good suggestions for further exploration from this perspective as well. Everything is connected! All power to all relations! Land Back! Free Palestine! Liberation for All!

[@bullvinetheband7260]

How about we say we don't know.

[@NordicAnimism]

But we don't :-D

[@Genasinsight]

This video is not representative of modern Norse pagans. We know quite a bit about the history of our ways. We would never teach that Odin shames or ridicules. That part of the video seriously hurts my heart. In addition, many agree that the Elder Futhark have their own spirit. If you're looking for pagan leadership that enriches your life with Gods, ancestors, and huldufolk, this is not the place.

[@eddydejagere3411]

Don't panic on this video , a lot of pagans just look at it for information. Pagans read also many books about it , they are smart enough to make their own belief/magick/ rites.... What is you favourite book about runes ? Not for divination but runes for Magickal use for me. Blessed Be.

[@Genasinsight]

@eddydejagere3411 ❤️ My favorite book is Diana Paxson's "Taking Up The Runes." She includes history and rituals. The ancient way of using runes in magic is blooding them. Draw a rune, chant it with your intention. For example I chant "fehu" nine times for money. Then pick your finger with a diabetic needle and consecrate it. That makes it come alive. You could also spit on it but I prefer the prick. Galdr is popular. Chant the rune until you see it in your mind's eye or you feel like the session is complete. You could make bindrunes. I have the bindrune for protection tattoed on me and when I get freaked out I trace it and chant it. Also the runes will talk to you too. They will appear to you once you start working with them. Look at their meanings and find the correspondences and use that in your intentions. Check out the Norse Witch too, on youtube. They are really well schooled in magic as they used to be a Wiccan. I highly recommend them! My channel is about tarot and rune readings too. If you want to subscribe I talk about the runes here and there.

[@Genasinsight]

@eddydejagere3411 Also, you don't have to use body fluids. You can use your breath too, like how Odin gave Ask and Embla life. Runes have their own power you can tap into. It all depends on what you're doing and what you need. Also, another tidbit is that you can work with Odin and Freya on magic. Make an offering and ask. See if you get a response.