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YEEESSSS!!!! Connection to the ancestors is amazing!!! Thank you for posting!!!

I found you at the start of my journey, I just wanted to say thank you 🙏

Oh my gosh, I yinglet squealed when I saw you picked my question. Thanks for the answer, it helped me out and made me feel better about the path I've chosen for myself and I'm sure it will help others like me. I really like the thought of it being a Healing path too... I think a lot of us need healing and I hope this path lets us do so. Also: the first pronunciation is correct. 😸

Fantastic video! Been with you from the start, and will be here for the entire journey

The act of loseing youre judgment of self and others is one of the most enlightening gifts a humanbeing can give ones self

Thank you so much. This has helped me a lot. I'm also glad my question wasn't a stupid one 😅

I come from a very different type of Pagan religion, but have still enjoyed your videos ever since I discovered your channel because there are some situations which we all encounter along the way. Within my own tradition, I also am mainly interested in the practices of the "common folk," i.e. regular, non-priestly people. I still place a high value on academic sources, however. It's the people who have been trained and educated and have experience in researching the cultural context of the ancient religion I am now doing my best to follow (i.e. academics) who provide the most accurate and helpful information in understanding the beliefs and practices of the ancient forms of my religion. This information allows me to understand why the people who lived this religion did what they did the way that they did, and what their intended purpose was. Even if you're not coming from a reconstructionist approach (as I am), I feel that this kind of information is still important to know when figuring out how to innovate new practices in a respectful way, while preserving the core meaning of the original religion. Thanks for the video! As always, it was interesting and thought-provoking!

Thank you. It is hard for me mostly due to my insecurities n caring what others think. You are a good source for me to remember why I love this.

I am ALL about connecting with the Ancestors!!! :) Thanks for a great video Jacob! I love the QA videos! ❤

Thank you, Jacob, for this VERY INTERSTING, INFORMATIVE & VALUABLE video!

Great great Q&A Jacob. 💪🏽

Fantastic answers to some pretty hard questions. 🙏✨

I grew up with my native culture on the rez and I got interested in Paganism later in life. I naturally approach it through the lens of decolonization because of my native values. I don't see it as a religion or spirituality. I just see it as something we do. There is no separation between culture and spiritual culture. We don't even have a name for our "religion" because it's just part of who we are and what we do. When you look at surviving pagan cultures like the Pennsylvania Deutsch, they approach things the same way. Ask a grandma doing granny magic or cunning stuff, and she won't say it's a religion. It's just how they take care of themselves and their farm.

Awesome video, blessed be, good health and safe travels, cheers craig

I absolutly love youre intro speach thank you for that soul connecting intro

great content Jacob. ive been watching your videos on and off for about a year and a half or maybe two years ever since the first couple pagan gatherings you did. They are always educational and fun to watch, thanks❤️

What a surprising crossover episode: it's great to see you and @FandabiDozi working together, I can't wait to watch the Scotland documentary!

Doing yoga really helps me connect with my body and my self, which entails connecting with my ancestors. Feeling gratitude for my every day experiences.

Such a lovely background

I think we hail the gods. We are the gods, and we have forgotten

ANYTHING we dive into head first and become obsessed about will fade. Its a human condition. Learning information, creating, solving exploring new things is ingrained in our dna, nothing to do with paganism. Take it slow, make it apart of your daily/weekly/monthly habits. Give yourself small confirmations that it is who you are. In this modern day(probably not even back then) do we have to obsesse about something and make it soley who we are. Thats asking for failure.

Regarding pagan burnout, I have found that more often than not, it's the other people one has been interacting with, especially on social media/RU-vid, etc, that causes the burnout rather than the path itself that one is on.

Hi Jacob I hope your day is going well. I feel like Tarot cards and runes are pretty important to have to help with communication with the ancestors

Our ancestors were right we are. Wrong live like your ancestors 😊

Connecting to our ancestors are sacred and spiritual

Jacob, that Awesome that you went to Uppsala ! Hail Odin Jacob you are very smart man. Thank you for all the wisdom of Odin Skòl💀🍻

Kiitos ❤️ Terveisiä Suomesta (Finland)

Now that you mention it, you've lost weight, good job, Jacob. Keep it up, pal!

Hi Jacob. What is decolonization referring to in a Pagan context please?

I stumbled upon you a while back... and also stumbled into the "attack" videos about you. I was disappointed, but also relieved to see that in-group backbiting and drama seems to be in all groups. (By disappointed, I don't mean with you, but with the gossip machine and prejudice that was going on in a realm I thought was better than my religion.)

Can you make a Pagan yoga video 😅

To everyone in the comment if you're interested in starting your pagan journey there's an amazing book that I highly recommend it's called to walk the pagan path highly highly highly recommended

Wouldn't it be something if the powerful governments of the world got this stuff. Things would be different...

I believe you need to switch out the word 'magic' with 'science', whenever you talk about runes being used, to anything else than just writing. ..and just have in mind, that even today, you cannot prove anything unless it is documented or witnessed by someone trustworthy. And even then, it is best to be written down. So I think Odin learned runes to write down his wisdom (scientific findings or magic if you will) so that it was to be preserved through time

Regarding runes... you're right that they were a system for writing... an alphabet. Is there a little physical evidence of people writing charms and such? Yes (I think mostly post-christianization? Those I remember call upon Jesus and Mary in addition to the Norse gods which is understandable for common folk during christianization). But in the end it's a primitive alphabet. Just like the any other alphabet is used to write anything. But of course you can try and combine those runes (letters, etc) to form something magical. But to the person (or people) wondering about runes and magic... just read more. Really... that's not a jab or anything. Delve into history and archeology as those are the only ways we know about these things in the first place (unless, I suppose, you're someone who grew up in an isolated community or family whose current non-christian beliefs reach back as far as stories and memories go... in which case you probably wouldn't be asking the question).

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Does it really matter if your ancestors practiced whatever belief? They’re your ancestors, they’ll answer when called upon & lend guidance. They know far more than we do. So don’t be a prude or arrogant. Call upon em.

Race is real. Race is good. Race is diversity. Hate is unnecessary to love race. Do not let them manipulate this truth to any of you brethren. They want us weak and divided. DO NOT COMPLY.

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may jesus be with you ❣

As lnong as you dont do a blood ritual with youre ruins to / activate them you,ll be allright but yes you should proceed with caution on any topic you dont understand do youre home work dont look for a simple solution on utube it does not exsist yes you can get valuable tips from say a video such as this but it is no wear near enough to bais youre core on

There is only one creator on earth . Plz learn about islam ,islam will clear about your confision . How too many gods create the world ? There is only one god . Paganism is comes from devil. Please learn about true ,in sha allah you will find true . Allah will show the true path