The Secret of Sacred Dreams from the Dead
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Ancient Irish, Welsh and Scottish Celts, Vikings, Greeks, Vedic Hindus and Anglo-Saxons all had secret techniques to get clairvoyant dreams (See the Future) with psychic visions from communicating with the spirits of the dead or with the gods. Very often the skills for receiving such prophetic dream visions were associated with an elite spiritual caste who were also the poets called bards, skalds, scops etc Such dreams could give them poetic inspiration from the spirits of dead poets. The ancient secrets of Celts and Vikings were also related to shamanic practices in which shamans deliberately evoke visions through various techniques such as sleeping on the skin of an animal.
The video specifically looks at an Irish rite known as Imbas forosnai performed by elite seer poets known as Filíd, also the tairbfheis, a rite to determine the High king at the Hill of Tara. In Wales there were the awenyddion and in Scotland they had a pagan rite of prophecy called Taghairm. I also look at several Anglo-Saxon and Norse Icelandic saga sources discussing Ulfhednar, Hammramr, Elves, haunted barrows and seers and compare them with the dreams described by Homer and Pausanias in Ancient Greece.
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Music in order:
Braindead collective - thumb piano shuffle
Baxter Jones - in dreams
Chris Zabriskie - what does anybody know about anything
Borg - Death of Winter
Bark Sound Production - Eld
Stark von Oben - Pan
Myling - Dödskult
Xurious - steppe expansion
Stark von Oben - Daijal
Kevin MacLeod - Moorland
Torulf - Freja
Borg - The Choosing Ceremony
Ormgard - Sjálfsforn
Borg - The May Queen enters the Circle
Kevin MacLeod - Dhaka
Gvashnahr - Through the astral void
Vanguard - A Brighter Dawn
Art by Christian Sloan Hall and Veli Nyström
Sources:
Chadwick, N., ‘Dreams in Early European Literature’, in: Carney, James, and David Greene (eds), Celtic studies: essays in memory of Angus Matheson 1912-1962, London: Routledge, 1968. 33-50.
Martin Martin A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1703)
O Rahilly, T. F., ‘Early irish history and mythology’ (Dublin 1946)
Ramos, Eduardo, ‘The Dreams of a Bear: Animal Traditions in the Old Norse-Icelandic Context’ (2014)
www.academia.edu/8461445/The_...
Tendulkar, S. and Dwivedi, R., “Swapna’ in the Indian classics: Mythology or science?” (2010) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Vaschide and H. Piéron, ‘PROPHETIC DREAMS IN GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITY’ (Oxford : 1901) archive.org/stream/jstor-2789...
The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn (Author: [unknown]), p.303 (paragraph 78.) celt.ucc.ie/published/T301021...
00:00 Intro dream sequence
02:29 St. Martin of Tours' vision on the tomb
05:24 Gender and dream visions
07:38 Norse seers
09:51 Celtic seers and barrows
13:19 Norse barrow visions
15:53 Anglo-Saxon barrow beliefs
18:08 Sleeping on skins in Scotland
20:02 Sleeping on skins Ancient Greece
21:01 Indian dreams
22:59 Ancient Greek prophetic dreams
24:40 Ending
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Keep up the good work Tom! Love the channel!
Good luck with your travels bless you 🌼🌞🗿🍀🌟
I hope your wife doesn't see this comment :D
Recent subscriber to your channel. Very interesting research! Have you ever slept on a barrow yourself?
Hard work keeps a man strong for the battles to come
“Hey you. You’re finally awake.” Automatic like right there
Step 1: Dream of coming plague.
Step 2: Immediately construct large barrow graves.
Step 3: Experience plague.
Step 4: Fill up large barrow graves.
My ancestors were nothing if not practical.
Lol
Yep. LOL
I’m really impressed by the editing. You have managed to be A E S T H E T H I C without being memey.
If the BBC weren’t so far gone this is the kind of content they should’ve made.
A E S T H E T H I C without being memey? Did we watch the same intro?
BBC'd have African statues and Africans coming out the Barrows
@Rays Through Trees, Summer Breeze lol ye
@@LayTheeDown It's spiritual, not memey.
@@LayTheeDown I am correct.
I dont always remember my dreams but when I do they always have tell me something about my situation in life
Did you dream about a dos xx commercial? 😊
I've been having some really bizarre dreams and they have on certain occasions Carried on to invade into my day, what does this mean ?
Based and dreampilled.
based on what?
Bogdan Bogdanoff buttery biscuit.
@@alt8938 you're welcome
One of the first questions to jab a materialist with is "so you've never dreamt of the future?"... be sure to say it like they're essentially retarded if they answer in the negative. I'd say at least half the people within earshot will have had some kind of dream-bound premonition or at least know someone they trust who has.
STJ is based AF.
Traveling in India I dreamt I was charged by an elephant. That day it happened as I hiked through a national park.
u r of alexanders bloodline... elephant knew this...
@@lukes4923 can you explain this? Alexander the great?
I had a dream 20 years ago that was so real, I didn't know it was a dream until it came to pass. In the dream, my brother drank poppy seed tea that his friend had made and no one could wake him up. I thought this had really happened, I thought my brother finally woke up and life went on. Then 20 years later I got a call that my brother had died, and I immediately knew how and who he was with. He had drank poppy seed tea made by his same friend from the dream 20 years prior. And you kinda look like my brother, coincidentally.
You can't write it.
@@oc4026 he just did.
@@oc4026 you mean you can't make this stuff up? I mean you could but I'm not selling anything. My mom knows because she's the one who called me at midnight crying, she said "Kenny's dead" and I had actually just woke from a deep sleep about 10 seconds before the phone rang. She was so upset she could hardly speak, and I proceeded to tell her who he was with and exactly what happened, which was confirmed several weeks later in the results of his toxicology report.
My brother also later contacted me through my computer the night before his funeral, but that's too much to type here!
@@ginnydare13 yes. I believe you.
@Godot it was the night before his funeral, I was scanning in some recent photos of him and saving them to a memory card to print for the service. I was tired, it was after midnight, and my scanner is up on a shelf behind the tv next to the computer, the chair is across the room and I use a wireless keyboard and mouse. It's an awkward set up but I don't use it much. So I was standing there scanning in photos and saving them to a folder on the desktop so I could find them; I'd put a picture on and hit the scan button, and it just saves as a system generated name. When I was done scanning I sat down to edit the photos and drag them onto the memory stick. They were all the system generated name that starts with D except for one at the bottom of the folder that was named "seen mom", I hadn't even touched the keyboard so I know it couldn't have been me. He used to call me all the time and the first thing he'd ask is if I'd seen mom. And that's the only definite communication I've had from him that was certainly him, other than the time I was looking for my phone I'd left by a window and a dragonfly started hitting the window multiple times so I'd look over and see it.
>Turns off computer
>Where are you going?
>I’m going out in the woods to hunt something so I can sleep on its skin, also do you know where the nearest barrow is?
See that rug?
That could be you, ladies!
That one made me giggle.
First half of the intro: Alright, this guy has totally lost it.
After the Skyrim snippet: *Spews tea all over my keyboard* - This guy is a f**king genius!
Yeah this dude is fkg great
50th like lmao!!!
The story of the Icelandic poet sleeping on the barrow of a great poet to aquire his poetry has an exact parallel in Finnish folklore recorded in the 1800s. In the Kalevala it appears as Vainamoinen going to the mound of the giant runesinger(poet) and prying his mouth open to retrieve the charms he can use. He needs these charms for a task which I think was building a longship out of a broken loom.
That is very interesting!
I've had such dreams since I was a child. I've had several under the influence of mushrooms, which incidentally makes me yawn. My dreams are always connected to geographical places. These dreams always feel different and will repeat themselves until they take place in reality. They come in the state between sleep and wake. When I arrive at the place from my dreams I recognize them instantly like deja vue.
I also have had such dreams.. often when i travel to and sleep in different geographical locations. I also agree with you it is then a deja vu feeling when you arrive in the familiar situation. I had a really intense dream of a car crash when I was 18, hoped it wasn't a premonition, tried being careful on the road but 5 days later the inevitable happened and I had a serious car crash
@@Truthseeker0071 I had a strange vision while on mushrooms where I pulled a Thai demon (Yak) out of the sea off Sumatra and dragged him by the hair over the waves all the way to Bangladesh and passed beaches and Buddhist temples to my right. Two days later the Tsunami hit following the same route. I could not see a single report on this for a year after because it affected me so much. I guess many struggle with this sense of guilt, but nobody would have believed me anyway and I could not have made any difference.
A couple of months ago I found the place where my last dream unfolded and it bothers me a little because it is the place I plan on going if this virus outbreak gets out of hand. These dreams always seem to foretell something life changing for me.
Mine often come in reverse. So dream of smashing someone in a fight then they'll show up at the exact place dreamt but no fighting... they instead apologise. It's not really "reverse" but there's always some kind of twist to the tale. The Gods want me on my toes I suppose!
@@Willy_Tepes You can't be too attached to these things, though your sensitivity is laudable in some ways. When a child I hid away from a car journey, in cupboards, in the garden etc. My mother gave up and left me. My family had a car accident during the journey back, my younger sister died. If I'd gone, the usual seating arrangement means I'd likely have died too. Barely remember all this hiding lark as was rather young but neither I nor my family remember me trying to stop them going... we don't have ultimate control over what we perceive. Guilt is silly.
@@Truthseeker0071 Intense. Thanks for sharing. Wonder why that event was given to you? Better not to know surely? Or was it let slip to show you... "no escape from fate so quit with the attachments dummy". Was the accident in any way related to your being careful?
Being engaged, would you mind doing a video on indo European pagan weddings please!? How to organize one in modern times?
@STEVEN DARK ENTERTAINMENTS Sounds really nice. A few years ago I went to the Kalash valley in Pakistan. There's a group of isolate Indo-Europeans/Aryans living there called the "Kalash" who basically haven't mixed with the local population. I saw a pagan wedding there. Their religion is linked to the proto-Indo-Europeans. It was very fascinating.
@@ALeaud Can you describe some of the customs they followed during the wedding ceremony? Is it that much different from a abrahamic wedding?
I've been looking for similar information. I'll sign up for his patreon today so I can throw the question directly to him. I've been married with a basic Anglican service, but I need something that feels... true. My spirituality has grown a lot since, and I want something properly Traditional. The only information I can find involves the trading of swords, but I'd love a StJ in-depth take on it.
@@struthmedia8315 please do! Thank you, I hope we learn something!
10/10 will give it a go.
based and indoeuropilled
Any news or happenings following your attempt?
@@ryack6355 In two days, will give it a go over the solstace.
I have a barrow nearby me.
@@oliverwharf i bet u didnt do it after all
Okay i've just spent one minute watching and this is already my favorite video of yours really appreciated the Blue Velvet reference
I hope you keep using this more cinematic style
What's the reference ?
@@kathrinat9824 He's singing "In Dreams" at the beginning in a similar fashion and mannerisms to Ben in Blue Velvet
It's a great movie i think everyone should watch it at least once
A mash-up of David Lynch and STJ is definitely a dream come true for me.
@@jungatheart6359 David Lynch x STJ collab adapting old germanic tales when
@@niclasneziru1854 Haha! Not soon enough!
Brilliant insights! - It is said that by the sixth century AD, the ‘Tain Bo Cualinge’ was fragmented and disappearing from popular knowledge, until Muirgen, son of Senchan, fasted and slept on the grave of Fergus MacRoich. When invoked, the spirit of the ancient Irish hero came forward out of a mist, in a dream-vision, to recite the entire ‘Tain’. Anyway, that’s how Thomas Kinsella begins his modern translation of the text.
powerful and evocative story. I think there is some insight there into how we can benefit from understanding fragmented historical sources - although i wouldn't cite a dream in an essay!
@@Survivethejive If MacRoith spoke to me, I would put it straight in my book! Look how Arrian addressed the mystical happenings on the Isle of Achilles. And that was in a report to the Emperor Hadrian who was interested in frontier defence - Arrian, ‘Periplus of the Black Sea’ (passages 16-18) en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Periplus_of_the_Euxine_Sea
It's strange, I do see the future in my dreams, not all the time, and I can't choose what I see, but I see glimpses of my future in a way that is distinct from a dream (it's more like a memory). I have done this my whole life, I have a book I have them all written down in since I was 14 both when I dreamt the dream, what I dreamt and when it happened.
I would love to be able to enhance this ability but I do not do it, it just happens.
Maybe check out the What Magic Is This? podcast on youtube, he talks alot about it
I remember once my poor, unlucky uncle had a dream in which he predicted the exact colours, names and numbers of all the horses in a big race and who would win, he rushed off to make a bet but got there just a minute too late, of course he was right, so and so came 1st, just as his dream told him!
A friend once told me about the category of precognitive dreams, in which we get the sense of deja vu and the dream subsequently comes true. It is largely frowned upon in scientific and psychiatric circles, but was definitely looked upon as a source of revelation in the Middle Ages in Europe and even in Northeast Asian societies.
I have them quite frequently
Any mentions of waking up when someone has died and then finding out the next day the person died basically exactly when you woke up? This has happened to me three times in the last 18months.
This also brings to mind the Oulis healer cult of Apollo, related to that of Asclepius, and the poem of Parmeneides, which are described in Peter Kingsley’s “In the Dark Places of Wisdom”. Members of this cult practiced incubation in caved and temples like animals in a lair, accompanied with unnerving sounds of hissing snakes and the idea of the sun being at home in the Underworld. With Plato, the sole focus was laid on the light, and the wisdom, healing and inspiration in the darkness forgotten. Also, David Lynch is proud of you.
Medgang Right III Freddy Silva is on my reading list. Also interesting is that many temples were built on places where lightning strikes often, or where a meteorite fell to earth. There also seems to be a correlation between sacred places and fault lines, cracks in the earth where underground streams run against piezo-electric rock, where it seems to create weak magnetic fields.
Medgang Right III thanks, I have listened to some episodes with Freddy Silva on the Lost Origins podcast. There’s also a transcript of it somewhere on their website.
Kingsley is excellent. Alan Chapman's Magia teachings are revolutionary
Mugwort tea is an incredible tool for anyone who wants to experience their dreams more vividly
Grace777 amanita muscaria tea is really good too. You can also smoke mugwort, because the tea tastes disgusting lol.
@@Chamomile369 Yeah I smoke it it or keep some in a cloth bag by my pillow. The first time I tried mugwort tea, I harvested it wild and used the fresh leaves...big mistake. The dried is bad enough but the fresh is literally undrinkable.
Such an interesting video! The ancient people really had so much wisdom from which we've been long detached, your efforts to bring that wisdom back to the current age are lovely 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was my last YT video watched last night, then spent a few moments searching Esty for genuine wolf pelt rugs (no joy, might get a sheepskin ). Sleep 2:30am, snapped awake 6:30am after the most profound dream I've ever had. So amazingly relevant, positive and helpful to my current situation. One of those dreams that you know, isn't just another dream. It's 11am and already the synchronicities are amusing.
Extend a hand to the gods and they will cross a furlong to you.
It's one thing to learn quite another to master. Never give up secrets lightly to the masses. Those who do suffer.
Is that from somewhere? Are uninformed people that way for a reason?
It's from my mind. Of course the uninformed are that way for a reason - by design in fact.
@@stevenkeith5784 lol, I was going to talk about things at work today with a couple people, but your comment made me leery lol
but most people are safer not knowing most things..
What you have stated here I've heard only one other time, and that was from a native american Diné elder.
This channel is fantastic. For someone like me who's always on the look out for more information about paganism this page is a treasure trove.
Had a dream just a few years back where a woman, who never actually introduced herself, began to speak about shit id forgotten in my recent past, and tho i dont remember too much, i remember at the end of the dream she faded into blackness and i was suddenly lying in a battlefield, bleeding out from a gunshot as a second woman gave a speech about revenge and bloodshed. I had two more similar dreams afterwards
I've had many moments in my life where I've paused with a sense of deja vu and think to myself "I swear I've had a dream of this exact moment"
tfw the mushrooms kick in
"In the Bergen (Bryggan from Hanse times) museum in Norway there are a lot of runic inscriptions on various materials including sticks, bone, and wax tablets recording ownership and business transactions showing runes were in practical use much later than expected (14th c.). These were found by archaeologists under the Bergen waterfront warehouses participating in the German Hanseanic League trade."
I find meditating in early morning after sleep during the day and generally being as mindfull of the present during the day one has much more connectivity in the dream realm
Last night I had a dream that I was in an Old, Undiscovered tomb which had strange runes on the walls. It felt unnerving and I got scared but then I heard my ancestors call out to me telling me to unlock my power and I forced myself to teleport back into my room and wake up... I felt a brush of Power!
The owls are not what they seem..
Twin peaks?
@@Psychedelic_Cowboy no nigga fucking mickey mouse : revenge of the sith. If u literally google "owls in ur dreams" there will be a reference to aliens in one of the movies/novels.
Neither are the squirrels.
Neither are the Ravens
@loveunderwill1 Meditate and ask Owl. Or, write down the dream, then write a letter to Owl and ask it to explain. Keep an open mind. Look for coincidences and subtle messages. For example, maybe you'll see owls frequently. What are they doing? And, what changed or shifted in the person's life or personality shortly after that? Stay relaxed and let your Inner Self talk to the "regular" you. Lightning burning the words of the message onto our living room walls would be nice, but it's never quite that clear.
I didn’t sleep at a mound or on a skin, but I did dream strange dreams. I was stuck on a gondola between the uk and Germany. With 2 babies in the cargo hold.
Once again your content helped console me back to sleep.
wow great content accurate. most of my family are powerful seers and all are musicians, poets story tellers and teachers, just cant get enough of your content man
After seeing your post about the way not many people watched your recent Irish video; I would like to say thank you for making content on the Irish! My family is Irish (Gallagher), southern French (Geroux), and German (Klutz). So I particularly appreciate such content.
Jung had a pretty good system for interpreting dreams. I've been having very vivid dreams every night forever. I write them down in journal and interpret the archetypes, patterns, symbols, meanings.
Pretty crazy that this video came out when it did because about a week ago I had a dream where me and a recently deceased friend were mourning his death together. Very strange
Really impressive piece of work. As always there’s so much depth in the content, but you have a calm way of delivering the detail and that makes it easy to absorb. Thank you
He's also got a very nice accent
Really good vid Tom. Great content and presentation. Cheers.
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First! Great stuff as always, Tom, and inspiration to seek out my nearest barrow for a night under the stars.
Aethelstan Saxon Grandson?
Very good idea!
I never what I'll learn from STJ, but I know I'll be thinking about it till the next post. Another great job, Mr Rowsell.
An amazing amount of information in a very short amount of time! WOW - thanks!
Wow I'm glad I found this channel. This is truly some high quality content. Thanks for all the effort!
I am shit faced so I'll tune in when I wake up, nice one I actually got a notification UA-cam must like you today!!!!
lol Blue Velvet; nice David Lynch allusion.
Love your content and your authentic vibe. Keep on creating.
Thank you! Will do!
This is excellent. Thank you.
Truly stunning vid!
Love the content, brother, you’re doing awesome 👌🏻
Great vid! That intro section was spectacular man! Thanks for introducing me to the delights of that Roy Orbison cover.
Very informative. I appreciate your measured tone when relaying what most would consider esoteric history. Generally, when dreaming practices are mentioned at all, it's from an anthropological perspective, looking at "those quaint, ancient people." Your stance seems to transmit the perspective that we are those people, only projected forward. I like that.
I enjoyed it. Thank you.
This was in my feed today...? So I subbed. Your video reminds me of a dream I had in 1996 about an old women and an Úlfhédnar behind her. In the dream I had to make a choice choose to face the wolf or run.
I stood my ground and in the dream I looked into a mirror and saw the wolf looking back. Later I recanted the dream to my mother describing in detail the old women. Then my mother showed me a photo of my great grandmother.... It was an exact match. Apparently my ggrandmother was a spirit medium. I didn't know any of this prior to the dream. My great grandmother was from England with Scottish ancestry. I've always had the ability of second sight since I was child. Now I understand the meaning behind the dream. 4 years later I was able to finally meet my biological father for the first time.
A very practical explanation of dream magic.
Thank you for this! Great video!
Very interesting topic! I have long thought about the background to practices like e.g. seiðr since I can't believe that "shamanism transmitted from the Samis" is the ONLY source. My main argument against the Samis as the only root to seiðr, lies in the fact that we (as you show in this video) find similar customs also within various other Indo-European traditions. I do not dismiss the possibility that the Sami peoples could have affected the Norse customs, but it's probably not the only source of the practice.
I think the yawning for eg is evidence of some uralic influence, but there was obviously already a similar IE tradition too
@@Survivethejive Is this genuine yawning, responding to the physical urge, or a choice?
We gotta remember also how closely linked swedes and finns have always been, regardless the language barrier. Half of sweden was filled with "forest-Finns" before the state turned all racial hygenics on them in the 1900s. Forest-Finns are NOT the same as sami, they are genetically swedish/finnish, and very shamanical in lifestyle since they still lived kind of nomadic, or atleast not in the organized farm style. Saunas and being forest dwellers and all makes me absolutly sure that they were shamanic. No one still lives as a forest-Finn (officially), but the finish speaking parts of sweden and swedish speaking parts of finland were once their home, + more. The people I know from here who look like forest-Finns all have a shamanic "vibe", just a deep soul and a bit more "asian" eyes (common in sweden/finland)., I think you can tell when someones ancestors been farmers for thousand of years, or when they lived in the forest till recently. Wilderness lingers. I like forest people. I can almost tell by the face of a nordic person, if their ancestors have had a aryan kinda life style or a more forest shamanic one (still aryan obviously, but more oldschool and mystical). Bless.
it was lovely to briefly meet you at the pagan conference a few weeks ago! since i've been praying and making my sacrifices my life has been getting better and better. i have recently been praying for a greater understanding of the gods. i am also a musician by trade. I just found a high quality goat skin rug to be taken free outside a student house. the gods provide. i intent to put it to good use. hail to the gods!
Fascinating and beautifully done.
Finally got round to watching this following our discussion last weekend. Well done on such a brilliant video, this will certainly help for my upcoming project on Anglo-Saxon necromancy.
It might be a bit of a stretch but this video topic made me think of the famous ancient egyptian 'Dream Stele' in which Thutmose IV had a prophetic dream whilst sleeping beneath the sphinx. Since the Sphinx is located in the Giza necropolis his dream could be linked to the ancient indo-europeans sleeping upon barrows. Perhaps this custom was introduced to the Egyptians by the Hyksos who are suspected to have had indo-european heritage. Either way an interested link between prophetic dreams and sleeping in burial sites.
Wow, connecting that to the Necropolis too is really a beautiful connection you might be onto!
Had this pop up in my feed after having a dream last night that I think was probably related to watching your channel a lot recently. I was hanging in a tangle of thorny vines, and two ravens were hopping around on me and the vines, and the ravens kept tearing at my flesh, but only on the fleshy piece of skin between the thumb and forefinger, the muscle that tightens when you do a finger gun. They kept tearing that out and it kept regenerating, and I was saying to them "Ok, Ok, stop now, I get it, I'm awake" but they kept tearing out that same hunk of flesh, one on each hand. Unusually for a dream, I felt the pain, and eventually the pain was so intense I woke up sweating.
I had a dream when I was about 23 that I had some related experiences about afterwards. I lived in Louisiana which is subtropical, but I had a dream which took place in a deciduous swamp. In my dream I was naked, and was carrying a knobstick made of hazel and a fiber and leather sling around my wrist. As I was walking through the swamp I was confronted by a large black viper, and without thinking I struck it with my stick. It then turned into a heron and flew off. I slung a stone at it and it tranformed into a golden shining women wearing a sari like garment. I caught one glance at her before I was forced to avert my eyes, due to her brightness. She proceeded to scold me in a language I couldn't understand(I had no internal dialogue in the dream. I was all reaction). I woke up soon after, completely mindblown. When I was 27 I went to a book store, and was perusing the 'mythology' section, and found a book titled the 'hero and the goddess'(I read a few chapters, but found it hokey, I should attempt to read it again). I didn't really examine the cover which had two classical greek statues on it, and put it in my cart(it was only 3 dollars). When I got home I studied the cover more thoroughly, and noticed that the image was a semi-nude Odysseus with a knobstick, and Athena with a serpent at the end of her spear. Even though I was fully nude and the being in my dream didn't have a spear or a helmet, the similarities were striking to me. It gets even crazier. Two or three months later I was in a thrift store looking for a VHS player, and figured I'd look at glassware and stuff to see if I could find a new libation vessel. I saw a small copper container shaped like an amphora with an image of a seated woman playing a lyre, it was also only 3 dollars, so I didn't even look it over further and put it in my cart. When I got home I opened a cold brew and was showing my girlfriend's mom what I got. I picked up the container and when I looked at it, it was the picture on the opposite side of the lyre player, showing a completely naked man with a small tree branch in his hand(though not a knobstick) being confronted by Athena. It completely blew my mind. I couldn't stop thinking about it after that. It was by far the one of the most profound dreams I've ever had, and the only dream Ive ever had to have so many related waking experiences. I would love to know what people think about it.
marshes are associated with the mother earth goddess in several traditions
A very deep dream, as in about fundamentals, from the core. A deciduous swamp: a changing situation, a time of change. I see this as indicating a birth of a new part of yourself, a new stage in your growth: naked, baby you, in the womb-like swamp, carrying both male (knobstick) and female (sling) energies and abilities, also tools for the near-at-hand (knobstick) and the distant (sling). You're well prepared, well able to take care of yourself, although you weren't confident of that.
"Confronted by a large black viper" -- please go back and meditate on this confrontation, let the viper communicate its message, do what it wants to do. It could represent either life energy, like kundalini, or the power and energy to transmute recent experiences, probably of the difficult sort. Transmuting is different from transforming. To transform means simply to change the form: a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, but is the same being all the while. To transmute means to change the nature, the essence, of something, as not only neutralizing a poison, but converting it into life-giving food. It's an enormous ability, a power among powers.
I believe it all means that you were at a crossroads, a time of decision-making. There was an opportunity or path, but it was not conventional, odd somehow, and your "rational" mind and/or fear was talking you out of taking it. The dream was telling you that you had what was necessary to make a success of it, and that you weren't/aren't meant for a traditional or conventional (period of) life. The flying heron indicates success in living your own kind of life, even if it doesn't look like what most people would call success. Herons have to be really decisive when they're trying to catch a fish. They must strike without hesitation, put themselves 100% into hitting THERE, that spot. They can strike again and again, but always at full tilt. They never just lower their bills into the water and swish gently around hoping to bump into a fish.
Athena is the goddess of wisdom, a balanced, rounded, true wisdom that incorporates both intellect and intuition. Just go meditate with these images. Respectfully ask Athena to clarify it for you. Listen to your internal voice, because you know this already, you just need to let it bubble up to the surface. If you draw, let yourself doodle while thinking of the dream. Play with play-doh or legos. Go visit herons at a zoo or nature preserve. Spend time _in any way that seems fitting to you_ with these images and forms and energies, and trust the results. As long as you're open to it, you're doing the right thing. It's OK to not understand perfectly and to have to tweak again and again. It's Life, living, in progress, not some final exam. Maybe it's a message you're reluctant to hear, to know. OK. Just get the message clearly first. You can argue over it later, accept it, reject it, modify it, once you know what it is.
In simple goodwill, with best wishes.
This channel is awesome. Very interesting stuff I'm glad I came across it.
This video perfects in the aesthetics, really wonderful work.
This presentation was historically awesome great work. And thank you for the info on the ash tree.🐺
I dreamt last night I was in a very old house I didn't recognize, which is a common theme in my dreams. I was in this house with my mother. There appeared a large wolf in the room with us. The wolf was missing one or more of its teeth and it was bleeding profusely from its mouth. It approached me but it didn't seem to want to do me any harm. I remember being rather frightened, however as it was slowly getting closer to me. I've had prophetic dreams in the past. This dream seemed to be trying to tell me something, but I can't quite figure out what that is. The whole dream had a very ominous feeling to it. Like some sort of impending dread. I've experienced sleep paralysis before, and this feeling was very similar to that.
@naruto tricked me sry I believe I was in the living room sitting on a couch; couches are also a recurring dream symbol for me. The house seemed old due to the architecture. The state of the walls and flooring also made me believe it was old.
Wonderful video.
*Dat intro.*
Masterfully narrated
Really interesting video, thanks!
Excellent content thank you for the knowledge
we, ancient amazigh and north africans used to sleep on top/near tombs of our ancestors after praying for insight and clearvoyance, this is interesting.. i wish i could do it
Hahahahaha barbarian
Great film and research
Hey Tom, I have only recently discovered your channel and have been enjoying your content. I am an Australian of British and Irish descent (with 2% Swedish thrown in). I particularly enjoy learning about pre Roman Britain and Europe in general.
I was actually raised with Hindu beliefs but never really thought of myself as a pagan before, but you are right, the way we make offerings is so close to the pagan ways.
Just a note relating to this video, in the vedic tradition a yogi or rishi would take an animal skin, usually deer, with them into the forest to sit on during their meditation. It is said that a snake will not come onto the animal skin. So there is a very practical reason for the animal skin due to the risk of snakes to a person in a deep meditative state.
When they travel around the rishi would wear the hyde as it was practically their only possession.
I thought wearing animal skins was associated with shaivites only
@@Survivethejive Shivites are best known for wearing skins and association with death in general. There's an incarnation of Vishnu known as Vamana dev, or the dwarf incarnation who was known to wear a deer skin.
You’re doing gods work friend
About 3 years ago, I had a dream where I was stargazing outside my house, which I do quite often. There was a bright orange star in the sky, and a voice said "Aries." The star then engulfed my vision with white light and woke me up. I looked up the Aries constellation, and there's a star called Hamal, which is an orange star. Not quite sure what to make of that dream, but I was made aware of a star in the sky I knew nothing about before.
This star was previously the spring equinox star, it no longer is due to procession. However if we go back to the very beginning of the aeon we are now leaving it had a lot of significance.
The fact that the name 'aries' was said to you and the star is an actual star in aries, that you had never seen or heard of before, indicates to me it is a message from an external force. Not something 'subconscious'. The gods confirmed.🤘
The gods on the star were calling to you. You should gaze at the star when possible and try to absorb it's energy
This video has come at such a strange time for me. I have been thinking a lot lately about visionary dreams, as I have had some strange dream experiences. Thanks so much for your work!
I have a dream of a world where no one advertises to me.
I have had multiple visions. All of these occur as I wake up first in the morning. As I'm laying with my eyes closed...I'm awake lying still and an image will start to form in a cloud, it will start playing out like a movie and only lasts a few seconds. Some of these visions pertained to me and have come to pass , some were things and places I've never seen or have not taken place to my knowledge.
Since I was a child, I have had crazy dreams and OBE's, one time I when I was 11 or 12 I dreamt of a faceless black cloaked hooded man, with skeletal hands riding a cart pulled by two black horses. In modern suburbia he went up to a man's door and knocked, the man looked through the window and was terrified and refused to open the door, so the creature broke the window and grabbed the back of his neck in one swift movement, and ripped out his spine. Then the dream took me to a different place and I watched the creature wave his hand over children, old people, plants, animals and people in their prime and they all died. I felt it say, I am death. Then I woke up absolutely terrified and crying.
Ten years later I was reading up on Irish mythology and it turns out the dullahan somewhat fits the description of that terrifying dream especially the spine thing. I was in Australia when I had that dream, but I am related to some Irish families, but not that closely.
I've had several experiences where i for some reason have spontaneous moments of deja vu, when i know for a fact i've never once been to or seen the place i was at, or i'll see an event taking place that i was so sure i remember having happened before, but knowing it never did.
I once had a vision while chanting and meditating on a massage table. It was upholstered in leather.
GREAT VIDEO...
I remember all my dreams.
Buildings and locations are the focal point.
Little before the coronavirus pandemic breaking out I dreamed about swimming in a lake and trying to get to shore, but the lake was infestated with rats, so many that you couldn't count. And in one side of the lake there was many, many coffins, filling up all the lake until the bottom of the lake. Wonder what's the symbols behind that and wonder if theres anything to do with the fate of the pandemic... rats being a "plague" and the coffins all the dead people... and I trying to swim across it the course of time...
I used to have dreams about the future. They were always about other people, never about myself, and were always warnings of terrible things about to happen. I became afraid to sleep. I may have saved some people by warning them, but most people never took my warnings seriously and died or got seriously hurt instead. When it's a stranger on the street, it doesn't matter as much as when it's personal.Even my own mother who I begged not to go out that night, my siblings even took my side and told her not to go, but she didn't listen and was wheelchair bound for two years due to her injury.
I got spooked by these dreams that were so unrelenting. My older brother explained to me that what I had was a gift, and that I could give it back. And so that night I did. And I've not had a dream of the future since.
Thanks, brother
"Svapna" sounds like Lithuanian "sapnas"- a dream.
"Sen" in Slovak/Czech and I guess some other slavic languages. Also "Spanok" for sleeping. Very indo-european!
Morover Polish verv "odsapnąć" means "take rest, relaxe"
@@Zimodej tak, po polsku też "sen"
@@EresirThe1st Not surprised to see here a fellow "fan" of Dr. Crawford. 👊🏻
The Indian word is sapna in hindi
And swapnam in sanskrit and Dravidian languages
The intro kind of reminds me of Kenneth Anger. Very nice work sir.
Great information - Well done! Just get out of my Pagan Dreams!
what a master at his craft, one day i aspire to be a fraction of your greatness Thomas.
Too kind
@@Survivethejive trying not to sound like an annoying fanboy :)) but really all your work is inspiring, I was always fascinated by Norse paganism and your channel opened up my mind to a whole new reality.
It gave me a stronger interest in the prehistoric cultures of the Yamnaya and Bell Beaker folk. Ignore the haters and keep on rolling with the amazing work, you are top of the crop, never doubt that for a second. Blessaður
I lucid dream often. The one's that get really strange is waking up in a different dream while still dreaming in another dream a few different times in the same dream, and then waking up and being awake kind of confused. I also had many many dreams that I'm going to interpret as either past life's or lives of my past ansters that go back so far in time some seem prediluvian. It's really amazing sometimes especially when I dream things that happen from time to time or about what people i haven seen for a long time or have a strong connection to are doing and how they are. I have experanced having the same dream as other people too especially family members. If genetic plays a part, I am scot-irish, Sicilian but I think my family immigrated to Sicily from some where east of the Mediterranean 150 years ago, and native American , my blood type is ab- and I have a red mustache, black beard, green and orange central heterochromia eyes, light brown hair and a fair completion in the winter and bronze in the summer wish no sun burning. And I'd never ever consider my self a psychic. I'm just a student of the cosmos trying to reach full enlightenment. Stay well my friends and good dreams!
he other night I had a dream about being caught in a building that was falling into a sinkhole, and I could still hear the music as I was pulled down by the force of the current and about to be drowned/crushed. I think I dreamt this because I am going through an unwelcomed change in my life, and I have always struggled with changes due to ASD. I just have to keep going forward and bare it.
I recently had a dream that a female companion and I were chased across the stars by a hunter of an alien humanoid race. We were captured and placed into a zoo on another planet where we were observed by other people of the humanoid aliens and eventually more humans were brought there to be observed along with us. Definitely one of the most bizarre dreams I've ever had and it certainly felt the most real. Not sure what that could mean but I think it's interesting.
By any chance, do you mind describing with these beings looked like?
you have a beautiful singing voice sir
Interesting!
The intro made me think you went through an ayahuasca trip though 😂
I've experienced precognition in dreams (and while awake too), but without trying to. Recently I learnt that my aunt has some psychic abilities, so it may run in families indeed.
IMO any ritual to induce psychic dreams is simply a placebo to put you in the right psychological "mode". However it could make sense that synthetic fibers would hamper "energies" someone's trying to connect to 🤔
I too had the thought in regards to synthetic fibers. I'm glad that you posted your thought. It validates my thinking.
my local butcher sells those sheep skins. definitely nice enough to lie down on in my sitting room.
*sleeper agent activated*
the pun is there indeed
sudno Trigger phrase: Ronald McDonald
sudno hydra Dominatus