Rune gives an introduction to the Scandinavian folk school model and the Heathen Christian Synchronist who changed the face of Denmark.OUT NOW - Aun_ Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic TraditionPick up your copy at: htt

Why Are Gods Abusive?

19 days ago 19m 25s

Rune discusses the uncomfortable portrayal of some of our most beloved deities in mythological and sacred texts. OUT NOW - Aun_ Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic TraditionPick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimis

How to do a Nordic Naming Ceremony

Jun 13th, 2024 24m 36s

Rune proposes how to engage in a dialogue, of sorts, with various strands of traditional Nordic euro-animisms to create a naming ceremony. Rune's new book AUN, Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition is out now!!!T

Runes In Modernity

May 31st, 2024 45m 52s

Rune collaborates with Dr. Justine Sledge of the Youtube channel Esoterica to discuss the history of Runes in academia, their impact on 'New Age', the 'Fourth Wave', and their intersection with esoteric practises, including Aldaruna. Rune's new

Policing Dissent from Whiteness in Pagan Studies

May 23rd, 2024 33m 39s

Rune shares a paper he wrote for Harvard Divinity School in response to (in very broad terms) the recent stereotype of the 'Q-Anon Shaman', and the motifs of colonial othering that this image both summons these stereotypes and, in a classic ide

Animists Who Destroy Nature

May 2nd, 2024 10m 33s

Rune answers skepticism towards the proposal that animistic ways of life offer new ways of negotiating tensions between environmental and humanist concerns.OUT NOW - Aun_ Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic TraditionPick

Finding A Tribe

Apr 25th, 2024 9m 42s

Rune discusses the current day saying 'finding my tribe', and modern concepts of tribe vs tribalism. https://www.youtube.com/@RunehrJoin the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimismCheck out this beautiful t-shirt design by

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Apr 22nd, 2024 1m 33s

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Interview with Dr. David Abram

Apr 17th, 2024 1h 37m

Rune talks with cultural ecologist Dr. David Abram about the ways in which ways of speaking may enhance our spontaneous impulse for reciprocity -- the bed rock for the animist way of life. https://www.youtube.com/@RunehrJoin the Nordic Animism

What Is Viking Washing?

Apr 11th, 2024 11m 24s

Rune discusses 'Viking Washing'. The 'viking age' was a comparatively brief period of time in the history of pre-Christian Scandinavia. Given this, why is everything related to Northern European history somehow always cast in terms of the Vikin

Viking Washing VS Nordic Animism

Apr 4th, 2024 14m 23s

Rune talks extemporaneously on the ways in which the movement of revivifying Nordic Animism face the risk of being hijacked and hacked in disingenuous ways.'Climate Grief'? 'Regenerative Leadership'? Do these concepts and practises help or hind

Storks

Mar 28th, 2024 19m 25s

Storks are common symbols of spring, fertility, and good things to come. But the stork holds so much more meaning for southern Scandinavia... omens good and bad, interspecies transformation, and transporting souls is just the beginning of what

The Indigenous Call

Mar 14th, 2024 15m 4s

Rune discusses how colonisation abstracts both indigenous (those minority cultures who are under continued attack by coloniser culture) and majority populations from indigenous knowledge forms, and what we can do to ameliorate this legacy. http

Indigenous Memory

Mar 7th, 2024 53m 34s

Rune talks with Dr. Lynne Kelly. Dr. Kelly is an Adjunct Research Fellow at LaTrobe University, Australia. Her ongoing field of research is the memory methods used by those who depended on their memories for everything they knew: oral cultures

Can Monarchy Be Animist?

Feb 22nd, 2024 21m 6s

In the light of the recent abdication in Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, Rune addresses the question 'can Monarchy be animist'?https://www.youtube.com/@RunehrJoin the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimismCheck out this bea

Should 'White People' Reject Or Assume Whiteness?

Feb 15th, 2024 7m 25s

Baldwin suggested people should reject their 'whiteness'. The foundations of the concept of 'race' urges 'white people' to assume their 'whiteness'. Rune addresses this question, drawing on the concept of 'right story' to find a way though the

Decolonial Metal

Feb 8th, 2024 54m 7s

Rune interviews Mark Andrew LeVine. Dr LeVine is a professor of history with the University of California, Irvine. Find more of Dr LeVine's work at https://kakuma-sound.org/ Dr LeVine mentions the debt Blues owes to Muslim musical traditions, a

The Next Aun Year

Feb 1st, 2024 15m 18s

Rune discusses the Aun myth, how it manifested in 2023, and projects forwards to the next Aun year, 2031.https://www.youtube.com/@RunehrJoin the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimismCheck out this beautiful t-shirt desig

How Can Settlers Connect With The Land?

Jan 25th, 2024 11m 33s

Tradition is a path, but far from the only path, to connect with the land one finds oneself in. Rune discusses ways to connect with the land. https://www.youtube.com/@RunehrJoin the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimismC

Performing the Edda with Kersti Ståbi

Jan 18th, 2024 50m 3s

In 2014 Kersti Ståbi began a series of concerts with the Voluspa and the Poetic Edda in its original Old Norse. Her work is inspired by the Manas tradition of Kirgiztan, Pandvani singing from India, and Pansori from Korea. Rune and the Nordic A

Show Breads -- An Animist Tradition

Jan 4th, 2024 6m 47s

The animist tradition of Showbreads, adapted within a Nordic cultural expressions and references. https://www.youtube.com/@RunehrJoin the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimismCheck out this beautiful t-shirt design by Lu

Christmas Trees --- Actually kind of pagan!

Dec 24th, 2023 33m 24s

Rune responds to the youtube video The Very Recent Origins of the Christmas Tree by ReligionForBreakfast, found here: https://youtu.be/m41KXS-LWsY?si=DrUTxLERGoux0HVB. RfB's video draws extensively on a paper by Laszlow Lukacs.https://www.youtu

Is the Wild Hunt Actually Christian?

Dec 22nd, 2023 17m 8s

Rune discusses the tradition of the Wild Hunt, and touches on academic shifts in what it views as worthy of being classed as source material and how academic trends develop biases.https://www.youtube.com/@RunehrJoin the Nordic Animism patreon:

The Pyrocene

Dec 7th, 2023 1h 1m

Rune interviews historian and author Stephen Pyne. Professor Pyne is is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, specializing in environmental history, the history of exploration, and especially the history of fire.https://www.youtube

The Lord of the Flies Lied to You

Nov 30th, 2023 11m 51s

Is it really true that without institutional structures, centralised authorities with a monopoly on violence, and strictly demarcated property rights that humanity falls into a state of all against all? Rune examines this modern myth. https://w