Religion, Cult & Ritual
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2020
- In general terms let's talk about the differences between Religion, Cult and Ritual, picking up pre-Christian Scandinavian society as the main example. Hope you enjy it!
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Man, I've never been this early. I want to say here that I've been watching you for a long time but just recently subscribed. You're very important, in my opinion, to the (neo-)pagan community and your messages are, in general, awesome. Keep doing what you're doing.
I keep on wearing my Mjölnir with happiness. 😁
Thank you very much for your supportive words, friend :) greatly appreciated! I'm always happy to know that what I do has some positive impact and outcome in people's lives. Thank you fir letting me know that. I shall try my best to carry on. Feedback like yours give me motivation ^^
@@ArithHärger Always, always! I think it's important to say these things and I'm glad it keeps you motivated. We all appreciate your work so much, I am sure of that!
I am trying very hard to just observe and not get possessed with this neurosis that is going on right now , but it becomes difficult when the people near you start to freak out . It is an unique oportunity to learn about human behaviour , to actually see peoples true colors .
I feel you, friend. It's an important part of our personal growth trying to avoid getting immersed in the collective emotions of our societies in times of change. One way or another we are influenced by our own times and our own societies, and that makes it difficult to see past anything else. The perceived reality is often constructed by the space we grow up in.
What flavor of neurosis are you referring to?
@@upcycle.outdoorsman9629 probably American lol (observed from an American)
@@crystalhotz3441 The U.S. Presidential election year neurosis is not confined to the U.S. in my observation. Perhaps he means the unabashed power grab by governments worldwide in response to 'health concerns'.
@@upcycle.outdoorsman9629 that's a fair point. It does seem the world is spiraling a bit. To be far, I'm of the belief that at least somewhere the world has been spiraling for a long, long time. Decades if you look in certain places.
I must just say that your expressive body language is great and helps me understand the words and meaning better.
Thank you, I'm glad you think that. Indeed I have been trying to construct a body language on purpose so that those who are deaf or have any hearing problems might better accompany what I say by reading my lips, watching the body language and the subtitles as well. Lately UA-cam made a sad change on the subtitles and went from bad to worse, so I'm trying to develop a little bit more on the body language for anyone who might have difficulty in accompany what is being said. I know a bit of sign language, but not nearly enough, and each country has its own sign language so that complicates things because it's impossible for one single person to do all the gestures in different languages. So yeah, I try to create a body language that accompanies the content hehe.
@@ArithHärger Top man
Thank you for this video. I was raised in the Southern Baptist church in the USA, but I left religion a long time ago. I always felt I was some kind of a rogue because I could not relate to Wicca either. Following someone else's prescribed way of doing things and in one certain way just never felt right. I had to observe, listen, and feel things for myself and create my own way. I found this is what actually works for me rather than following a prescribed "recipe" or formula that someone else created. Thank you! I always learn something valuable from your videos and usually feel validated in the way I think or feel.
I was an ABA Pastor
So Ari was only making a point or does he have a condition
I love your way of explaining! I just made myself a cup of spice tea, lightened a scented candle, and got myself comfortable to listen 😊
That sounds lovely! Hope you enjoy the video, but most importantly I hope you enjoy the moment ^^
That sounds good! I'm gonna do the same :)
Wonderful, think I'll do ditto. Thank you
What a pleasure to have your videos also on Sunday! 🤗 I loved the theme that presented, the scenery is very refreshing I realized that is a lover of Nature, a young man full of Life and with a spirit ahead of his time, a great human being, be saved from this pandemic we need intelligent people with ideas that open our horizons to evolve and make this world a better place for everyone! Thank you, Mr. Arith.
We indeed live in interesting times, man. Youre appreciated!
“Discern heed and then proceed” beautifully yet simply put haha
I'm diggin the chrome dome look.... when the hair starts to fall just let it go 🤣🤣 keep up the B.A. wizardry Arith!!
So 😁.....NEW VIDEO ... i wish it was LIVE
YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS APPRECIATED..
AND is educational love them MANY COULDN'T COMPREHEND your videos EVEN OF THEY TRIED ...but i do ...i enjoy it
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this is absolutely one of the best discussions i have ever heard. Very well articulated. I have read/watched so many try to explain these very concepts and you have stated them so simply yet so eloquently . i will listen to this again and again, i appreciate your insights and guidance on my journey
Thank you for this video, it was so informative and it really hit home . Oh love the new look!!
Thank you so much again😀 you always help so much to clarify things and support me on my own journey.
Thank you! Good to know that hehe
as usual you have put the points across in a very succinct way ! thank you my very dear friend !
Thank you so much for taking the time to make and present this video I thoroughly enjoyed watching it 🤟🦌🤟
You have a great way of explaining these things, very in-depth but still fairly easy to understand. I had some knowledge before but i´ve learned an awful lot since i subbed this channel a couple of months ago so thanks for the good work.
Thank you so much for this video. It has helped clarify some things that I've been conflicted about. Excellent job as always
Thanks you for sharing a wonderful surprise and meaningful lesson. Looking forward to your video's this October, hope you a have a great day.🙏✌
I like watching your videos Arith! Cheers from Los Ángeles! 💞
I like this explanation. You are awesome. Thank you for your work!
You're quite smart for a troll :DD
I try not to say this is gonna be a short video because I can't seem to shut up about stuff I'm interested in. And your topics are much more complex than mine, so no need to try to be shorter about them. :D
hey arith, you do great work. I was wondering if many of your videos are applicable to the Celtic areas and peoples? Recently put together that, far enough back, I'd be from the Hallstatt region, would be cool to see if you had anything relating to that! Keep up the great work.
Love your stuff kick on love it
Be safe my fellow travelers. If you cant be safe, be dangerous. You are loved. You are missed. 🍺
I tell my friends, "Be good. If you won't be good, then be safe. And if you can't be safe, then come back with an excellent story to tell next time we meet."
have a Spooktacular October Arith!
Hail Wodin
Folk tradition was passed down through families lines.
my Cajun family are folk healers known as Treatures.
Always good to see another Cajun out there
@@DouglasTimes AAIIIEEEE!
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Was wondering if you would do videos on the lost knowledge of the faiths of prechristian Scandinavia? Stuck as we have very little add to the other Vanir other than those mentioned in the eddas etc.
And maybe the similarities and differences between scandanavian and Germanic/ AngloSaxon faiths?
Also like the new look.
I have to admit, this is an absolutely Flawless exclamation. 🐺💯🤘🍻
I had i good vision this night. I was in the forestrial lake area at night. It was dark purple with a little bit of darkest green. It was a purple full moon with a slightly yellow colour and they were different purple circles around the moon. And the water was purple too reflecting the purple sky and the moon light through a mist that hold the light of the purple moon in itself too
Very informative thank you
Very usefull😇😇
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Thank you
Excellent~
So, 2028...??
Will come and go just like any other year, and there will be noticible changes. No worries, haven't we survived thus far? We always find a way :)
@@ArithHärger what kind of changes? Cosmic? I’m really curious now xD
@@ArithHärger ahh...you were just keeping us on our toes, I like that. 😊
You know, I've already said this last year (in the early 2020) I did say this was going to last for a few years......like 5 or 6 years of hell.....so when you said (I swear you said) 2028 that was mind blowing....crazy...I'm not the only one.
Arith do you think that religion, as a political power base was a concept used in Messopotamia thosands of years before the common era and adopted by the Hebrews then developed there percolating into Chritianity?
Religion has always been a political tool, because from the moment the human being is able to perceive that he has any control over another by focusing on the vulnerability of another, the human being will use it for its own benefit. Vulnerability is often present in the form of fear of the unknown, or fear of what we don't understand, and if someone shows understanding, that someone offers some security, reassurance, which is why "knowledge" held by the ruling power was kept a secret to control the masses and create the illusion that the ruling power has the key to salvation and all the answers to everything. Yes, we see this in Sumer, Persia, all over the Hellenic world, Romans, etc. In Europe we see this a lore more noticible in the archaeological record from the neolithic onwards, especially (of course) during the process of sedentarization and the first vestiges of settlements. We start to see human beings progressively dividing their settlements into specific areas and the Elite on the top, clearly within the settlement but at the same time detached, on a high place controlling everything. We see the merging of spirituality with politics and the military power; the elite controls it all and the rest of the population obeys. Sadly, not much has changed, even though there's been countless figures trying to make a separation from religion and state. Religion is still being used as politics in many many ways, even in the most subtle ways and sometimes unknowingly because it's just deeply rooted in our modern societies the fear of the unknown and trying to act "in the right way" in order to survive this world and the next.
@@ArithHärger I suppose that is how temples came into being as a tool to focus the power?
@@colinp2238 Yes, the centralization of power. It follows the same "architecture" and "urban" planning of earlier primitive settlements. Centralizing the power on a specific "sacred" area and usually a high building on high relief, to be seen from afar in all directions. Until quite recently in Europe, as recent as the 18th century, monarchs were thought to rule because they had been ordained by god. So it takes a long long time for things to change, and as history shown us countless times, the elite only changes when forced to.
@@ArithHärger Indeed it could be said that the belief that divine right was his and over stepped his mark causing the English Ctvtl War.
Arith in the present political "crisis" do you think it appropriate to do something about the Viking slave trade, to explain that slavery was in existence centuries before the Europeans took slaves to their colonies?
@shadowplay15 Of Grey As in the topic ie do a video.
Funny you say that, I have been down, and my spirit has been tired this year, but I feel the gods and ancestors magic returning, just as Im hitting rock bottom
Hi how are you question I have seen a raven with white tip wings I don't know much about your gods is this a good omen or a bad one seems to follow me can you please let me know for I know you are a learned and wise man and know of these things thank you
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Bootcamp!! Auhoo!!
xD yes, but that was 14 years ago :p now it's because of reasons :0
The tri form invocation at the beginning, where does that come from? Or is that a creation of Arith's? I wish to keep that in my notes but would like to know the origin so it doesn't get transmuted in my mind as original in me. :)
It comes from me ;D
@@ArithHärger Thank you. It rounds out some of my thoughts concerning trinities. If I have your permission, may I use it now that I know it's source? Cheers!
@@ArithHärger PS I found a wonderful book that I'm half-way through by Malidoma Patrice Some called "Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community." Though he doesn't expand upon the concepts of Cults, his framing of ritual is very much in line with your understanding and explanations. So again, Cheers!
Meet me at the Scott Carpenter Park at Midnight.
What's happening in 2028?
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I'm in the comments hoping for answers, myself 😰
I might just start saying I'm a cultist when people ask my religion.
You could, but the word has been associated more closely with insanity by mass media, than its actual meaning. In my English speaking part of the world, most have such a poor working vocabulary, that they default to implied associations of this is good and that is bad. It is a problem for certain.
@@upcycle.outdoorsman9629 considering saying I'm anything other than some sort of Christian or Jewish is likely to get the same reaction....I usually don't address the issue at all.
@@ladykoiwolfe I just say 'pagan'. It rarely comes up. One political surveyor actually asked me what my religious affiliation was, and I answered: pagan. In hindsight I should have said cultist, lol. The caller did say that "pagan" was a first for him hearing that answer.
@@upcycle.outdoorsman9629 the response to that around here is, "oh, you're a witch". Though one ex wanted to burn me and all my witchy stuff.
I just tell them I don't discuss religion or politics, at least it's true.
We have the same surname, Wolfe
Hi Arith,
I think that there’s a misunderstanding about what it’s really Asatru.
As you already know Asatru means Believing in Æsir.
In Asatru there’s no dogma, no priests hierarchy, etc as many monotheistic religions have.
Asatru is free of dogma, etc.
Asatru is the same way as Forn Seidr.
Asatru isn’t odinism with their false beliefs and their famous false 9 virtues. As you know the 9 fake virtues was invented by a certain McNallen and he invented odinism often linked with neo-nazis and white supremacy.
Asatru is absolutely nothing to do with odinism and/or a new pagan way nor with new age movements.
Asatru is a way of Forn Siðr who included all of Norse faith system including animistic of course, there’s no Asatru without animistic way as there is no Forn Siðr without animistic way, as you already know.
NOTE : I think that it is important to mention here, some Asatru followers used these fake 9 virtues, but the large majority of Asatru followers don’t.
If we really believe and want to be an Asatru (Forn Siðr) believer/follower we have to respect the freedom of each other, but we have to understand crystal clear dogmas, priests hierarchy, 9 fake virtues, etc have nothing to do with Asatru or a form of Forn Siðr if you prefer.
Be well Arith and thank you for your very interesting videos and for sharing your valuable knowledge.
Skåll 🍻
welcome to the shaved head-bearded club!
i think by your own definition some religions have cults within them and some religions are themselves cults. catholic saint veneration function s like a cult and many practitioners consider themselves catholic and go against the current teaching of the church. ( animal saints are the biggest example. the church has said animals don't have souls so they can't be saints, but many local communities do animal veneration like saint Guinefort )
Hello beautiful. I'm sorry for everything that's happened, and I just want to love you. I am looking forward to meeting you very soon.
welllll, i love and respect mythos. as a pantheist, i fully believe that if it exists it's supposed to...because it does. we perform ritual for ourselves and there is no such thing as "supernatural". if if exists, it's natural. hmmmm, don't religions all have rituals? granted these rituals are performed by the head of that religion.
WHY did you shave your head?
One of reasons is that I lost most of it these past few months
@@ArithHärger Figured as much, sorry to hear that. With you buffing out like you have and now being bald does not quite impart the scholarly image that is you. Wear your winged helmet ;-/
What do you think of Satanism becoming an official tax exempt religion in America, now? Are satanic cults no longer "cults?"
Religions, any religions, should not be tax exempt, ever. I'm not from America, but doesn't matter. I really don't understand why religions and their authorities and everybody involved in their administration are tax exempt. Everybody pays taxes, so why should they be any different?. I really don't get it. Are they already playing tax to their gods? lol.
@@ArithHärger haha maybe. I agree. They all should pay taxes. America only needs 3 people to start a church, so any three money laundering, criminal psychos can whip up a belief system, get ordained online, and be good to go. Then, they're automatically protected, too, AND avoid taxes. Thanks for your channel. It's really interesting.
Cat cults! only under Freya something so special could be real. Hail the Divine Lady!
Religions like christianity are orthodoxy religions, but pre-christian religion/religions were orthopraxy religions. Religions without any dogmats are still religions.
Arith Harger, your head!? You've became a Russian.