Wizard Talk: Episode III • Forsaken Dungeons, Shadowthorn Woods & Bramblestoke Ruins •

This is my long awaited video in the “Wizard Talk” series and I must strongly emphasize, that this is perhaps one of my most important and hard (but a joy) to make video in recent years that I created. I feel very drained by the experience, but nevertheless I am very, very proud of the result and the message that I wanted to convey across a wider audience. It took me two days to film, to assemble together and to edit to the point where I felt that it is ready and looked finished so that I can present it to everyone. Please say a few words in the comment section below and above all, please sit back, soak in the atmosphere and enjoy me talking for almost an hour. Cheers! 🙂

Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition (my thoughts and opinion)

Even though I am a massive 𝙑𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 fan, gamer and follower and have been for quite some time now, I still cannot exclude and NOT pay attention to its counterpart which is of course 𝙒𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙬𝙤𝙡𝙛: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙥𝙨𝙚. I’ve always been fascinated by Werewolves as creatures of myth, folklore and legend, and World of Darkness is a massive place to explore with its branching worlds, vampire clans, werewolf tribes, gods, sects, kine, mages, hunters, sorceries and the like. In the case of VtM it is dark and grim political horror (even though I don’t like poltics and politicians) with very deep and rich history rooted in the real world, clans trying to outsmart and murder each other for power, control and domination over cities, countries and entire continents every bloody step of the way to keep to masquerade intact and the status quo, to stay away from werewolves, hunters and kine sneaking and gatheting intel, and all of this is engulfed by strong mythological and supernatural elements set in modern times as well as in the distant past. VtM is my main world of residence and my go to table-top RPG, Tremere my first and beloved clan and house (always loyal to the pyramid, even if it has fallen) and Bloodlines (2004) will forever be my favorite video game and will have a special place in my undead heart. I respect both the Camarilla, The Sabbat and The Anarchs, as well as the lesser sects, but without the Camarilla keeping things in order and holding the masquerade, there’s no vampires, no clans and and supernatural beings, but all the sects and clans to me are very interesting and important. I don’t exclude any of them, because I think this is the best way to enjoy role-playing in any setting, but in this case VtM in particular.

Enumeration

This list came as a result of me being greatly inspired by Taylor Hood’s simple, yet very effective method of listing his most treasured, favourite, eye-opening and close to heart books, movies, music, works of art and video games. This is a showcase of me doing a similar thing like he did on his blog over at Thitherword. The list is quite extensive and most of my favourite things are gathered in chronological order based on the various “levels” and stages of my life. This list is a subject to change and it will be constant work in progress. I will be adding more and more as the time goes by. I hope you get something out of it and use it for self-betterment or for whatever purpose you find useful.

What’s past is but a mere prologue.

• The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Children of Húrin, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Beowulf, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Fall of Arthur , J.R.R. Tolkien
• Tales from The Perilous Realm, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Defending Middle-earth, Patrick Curry
• The Discworld novels (yes all of them), Terry Pratchett
• Science and Spiritual Practices, Rupert Sheldrake
• The Prose Edda (edited and translated by Jesse Byock), Snorri Sturluson
• The Saga of the Volsungs, Jesse Byock
• Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia, Varg Vikernes
• The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer
• Reflections on European Mythology and Polytheism, Varg Vikernes
• Panparadox, Vexior 2018
• Gullveigarbók: An Investigation of Gullveig in Old Norse Mythology & Her Anti-Cosmic Nexus, Vexior 2018
• Nightside of The Runes: Uthark, Adulruna, and the Gothic Cabbala, Thomas Karlsson
• Myths and Legends of the Celts, James MacKillop
• The Poetic Edda, (translated by) Carolyne Larrington
• The Book of English Magic, Philip Carr-Gomm
• The Call of Cthulhu (and the entire mythos), H.P. Lovecraft
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft
• At The Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
• The Stand, Stephen King
• The Shining, Stephen King
• The Outsider, Stephen King
• Everything’s Eventual, Stephen King
• 11/22/63, Stephen King
• Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
• Revival, Stephen King
• The Dark Tower (series), Stephen King
• Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs, Jay Farrar (memoir)
• Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back), Jeff Tweedy
• NOS4A2, Full Throtle, Joe Hill
• The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen
• Liber Null & Psychonaut, Peter J. Carroll
• The Witcher (books series), Andrzej Sapkowski 
• Puzzling People, Defeated Demons, Thomas Sheridan
• The Druid Code: Magic, Megaliths and Mythology, Thomas Sheridan
• Sorcery: The Invocation of Strangeness, Thomas Sheridan
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
• Pathways to Bliss, Joseph Campbell
• The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion, Joseph Campbell
• The Masks of God (4 Volumes), Joseph Campbell
• Malazan Book of The Fallen (book series), Steven Erikson
• The Miracle Club, Occult America, Mitch Horowitz
• The Chaos Protocols and Pieces of Eight, Gordon White
• The Super Natural, Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey Kripal
• Sun of GOd, Gregory Sams
• The White Goddess, Robert Graves
• The Mabinogion
• The Outsider, The Occult (trilogy), Colin Wilson
• Futhark, Runelore, Edred Thorsson
• The Secret Teaching of All Ages, Manly P. Hall
• High Magick, Damien Echols
• The Way of Wyrd, The Real Middle-earth, Brian Bates
• Myth & Magic, John Howe
• Forging Dragons, John Howe
• A Middle-earth Traveler, John Howe
• The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings sketchbooks, Alan lee
• The Hammer and The Cross, Robert Furguson
• The Vikings, Else Roesdahl
• The Children of Ash and Elm, Neil Price
• The Age of The Vikings, Anders Winroth
• The Sagas of Icelanders, Jane Smiley and many other contributors
• River Kings, Cat Jarman
• The Wanderer’s Hávamál, Jackson Crawford
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Gustav Jung
• The Red Book, Carl Gustav Jung
• To be continued…

Reflections On European Mythology and Polytheism

AN IMPORTANT NOTE AND A DISCLAIMER!

I have always liked and admired Varg Vikernes as a music composer, thinker, writer and clearly a bonafide (gold medal worthy) outsider on all possible levels. I myself resonate with these aspects and I feel at home with his offgrid way of living and self-sufficiency. However, I DO NOT share most his political and his “racial” and quite radical beliefs and "ideals" concering the so-called “European Man über alles”. This doesn’t mean that I am a supporter of his methods and what he (used) to preach online couple of years ago on his YouTube channel or elsewhere. That also doesn’t mean that I am completely against what he stands for on 100 % hundred percent and that’s the end of it. No, that would be quite silly, stupid and ignorant. On the contrary. I really like and enjoyed reading most of his books on Norse Mythology and the Runes (Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia) deciphering Norwegian folklore and the legends (along with his wife, which is also a very good writer and a thinker in my honest opinion). I really hesitated to even write this text or to put up these videos, because the “black hole censorship machinery” is still very much operational today and there can be no place for such philosophies and people (according to “their” standards and rules).

Rune Quest: Ansuz

𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖑𝖆𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗!
THIS IS NOT A RUNE READING AND I AM NOT GIVING AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AND MEANING OF EACH RUNE. THIS IS A VERY PERSONAL JOURNEY THAT I HAVE UNDERTAKEN YEARS AGO AND I FEEL LIKE SHARING IT WITH OTHER LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING SIMILAR JOURNEYS AND PRACTICES CONSERNING THE RUNES AND THE NORSE MAGICAL TRADITION. ALSO NOTE THAT I AM NOT A CERTIFIED “SHAMAN” IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM AND I DON’T DO COMMISSIONS CONCERNING SHAMANIC JOURNEYS WITH OR FOR OTHER PEOPLE. THIS IS A PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL STUDY AND IT WILL STAY LIKE THAT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!

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Þórr and The Oak Men

I made this video back in 2017 and it is still one of the best videos on my channel. Although YouTube have censored it (partially) in some some countries in Europe and some parts of the world (including the US) for reasons I still don’t know fully which leaves me in bewilderment, but whatever. I hope some of you can watch it and enjoy it. Any feedback is always welcome. Thank you! 🙂

The OAK. THE ALMIGHTY OAK.

Here I read a segment from Thomas Sheridan’s amazing book regarding the magic rituals and symbolic worship and the esoteric and exoteric aspect of the Oak. Both as physical and as well as a metaphysical sacred part of nature. The Druids worshipped The Oak, and The Mistletoe was belived to have a deeply spiritual elemental magical power. Our forebears understood very well these things and the underlying importance of Ritual and Magic. Even the very name “Druid” can be translated along the lines of “Wise Oak”.

It’s all about the stories we tell

Mythology comes from a time before the world was a thing. As modern humans, we live in the era of “It”, where the workings of the world around us are explained scientifically. We do not need to know too many things; we can look them up in books and encyclopedias if we wish. Knowledge is less what our heads can hold than what books our local library can loan us, or what keywords we can type into a search engine. For thousands of years, humanity lived in a somehow richer age, the time of “Thou” when the world needed to be addressed as one would another living, reasoning creature, moreover an occasionally fickle, unpredictable and implacable one. Life could be hard, life needed to be negotiated. It was an age of propitiation, of dialogue, of giving thanks. If fire came forth when stones were struck together, then the fire was contained inside the stone, imprisoned until it was freed. To better explain, to more easily remember, a story was made, a tale of flint and how it swallowed fire, so that the knowledge could be passed along and its importance live on undiminished.

Rune Quest: Thurisaz

𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖑𝖆𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗!
THIS IS NOT A RUNE READING AND I AM NOT GIVING AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AND MEANING OF EACH RUNE. THIS IS A VERY PERSONAL JOURNEY THAT I HAVE UNDERTAKEN YEARS AGO AND I FEEL LIKE SHARING IT WITH OTHER LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING SIMILAR JOURNEYS AND PRACTICES CONSERNING THE RUNES AND THE NORSE MAGICAL TRADITION. ALSO NOTE THAT I AM NOT A CERTIFIED “SHAMAN” IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM AND I DON’T DO COMMISSIONS CONCERNING SHAMANIC JOURNEYS WITH OR FOR OTHER PEOPLE. THIS IS A PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL STUDY AND IT WILL STAY LIKE THAT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!

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I made my way to Yggdrasill, then through the bridges/passageways to Jötunheimr. I met with a Dragon, she had made herself known to me before, and called herself “Tiamat”. (In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, Tiamat bears the first generation of deities). My Fylgja and I were together with her in Jötunheimr, waiting, trying to understand how to proceed. There were huge forces in the sky, totally incomprehensible to grasp and impossible to describe.

Rune Quest: Uruz

𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖑𝖆𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗!
THIS IS NOT A RUNE READING AND I AM NOT GIVING AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AND MEANING OF EACH RUNE. THIS IS A VERY PERSONAL JOURNEY THAT I HAVE UNDERTAKEN YEARS AGO AND I FEEL LIKE SHARING IT WITH OTHER LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING SIMILAR JOURNEYS AND PRACTICES CONSERNING THE RUNES AND THE NORSE MAGICAL TRADITION. ALSO NOTE THAT I AM NOT A CERTIFIED “SHAMAN” IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM AND I DON’T DO COMMISSIONS CONCERNING SHAMANIC JOURNEYS WITH OR FOR OTHER PEOPLE. THIS IS A PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL STUDY AND IT WILL STAY LIKE THAT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!

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This journey came upon me at the completion of another Runic journey. I thought I was returning to my body, when I heard a woman’s voice from the sky calling for me to follow her. I felt crabby and didn’t want to, so I was kind of putzing around. She said, “Get up boy and follow me now!” I rapidly rose into the winds through my portal. I was shifting rapidly from moment to moment – quick, windy, jerking shifts, then after moments of trying to adjust or keep up with this, I found myself perched on a bluff overlooking the “Blue Stream” River. She said, “your beloved river.” (I knew this to be the south-western portion of the River that I love & have spent much time camping/sitting along the shore there) I dove down into the water and sank, sank slowly to lay at the bottom.

Getting started with Norse Mythology

NOTE! I HAVE BEEN REQUESTED AND ASKED TO REPOST THIS WONDERFUL ARTICLE, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OF THE Mimisbrunnr. WEBSITE. I AM NOW SIMPLY SHARING THIS ARTICLE WITH YA’LL BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE BEST (IF NOT THE BEST IN RECENT YEARS) INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT AND IT IS ALSO SO BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN AND PRESENTED. WITH THAT OUT OF THE WAY, PLEASE CONTINUE READING THE TEXT BELOW AND CRAFT YOUR OWN MYTHS!

Quality resources on Norse mythology have never been more plentiful, approachable, and available than today. Unfortunately, looking for all that quality information on the topic also means sorting through more nonsense than ever before: The internet in particular swarms with hucksters, ideologues, and other purveyors of misinformation, and their combined marketing efforts make disentangling fiction from fact tough. But whether you’re casually interested in Norse myth or you’re embarking on a life-long journey to become as familiar with the Old Norse record as possible, we here at Mimisbrunnr.info have designed this guide solely so that you may ponder the great mysteries of the corpus with the rest of us.

As this guide outlines, Mimisbrunnr.info recommends that you start with retellings. From there, you might consider approaching some of the better known and important items of the Old Norse corpus while consulting quality tertiary sources (such as handbooks) and thereafter approach more advanced studies based on your interests. The needs and desires of readers will vary, and you should feel comfortable swapping one step for another. Whatever the case, beginner researchers are wise to consult only material published by university presses until they feel entirely comfortable with discerning fact from fantasy.