NORDIC ANIMISM IS A PODCAST and PROJECT HELMED BY RUNE HJARNØ RASMUSSEN. Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is an historian of religion, Ph.d., educated from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.Rune has lived in many countries and done fieldwork in a number of contemporary (primarily Afro-descendant) religions, but since childhood he has been strongly interested in Nordic religion. Today Rune is working on applying contemporary developments in anthropology to rethink the way we address Nordic reli ...
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Animism is about reconnecting with our own wildness and learning to live respectfully in a world full of other-than-human beings.
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“Death in The Garden” is a multimedia project that explores the complex intersection of the cycle of life and death, holism, climate change, civilization, ecology, and health from the perspective of two incredibly curious millennials on a journey to make sense of a very nuanced world. In addition to those listed above, our podcast highlights topics like regenerative agriculture, food, psychology, spirituality, politics, society, and our overall relationship with Nature and the ecosystems we ...
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How A Viking Fire Ritual Can Connect Us to Land
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Fire spirits are a universal feature of animist cultures. Today Rune talks about the roles of ritual for the uses and applications of fire in Nordic cultures, and fire in ritual. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordic.a…
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Rune discusses the history of Nordic Folk Schools, and how their approach was used to counter classism and other forms of social discrimination. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordic.anim... Facebook: https://www.faceb…
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The Elder tree, or Mother Elder, is a characteristic piece of animism in southern Scandinavia. This goddess is sometimes considered a cluster of beings, the elder spirits or elder people, and a number of rituals and taboos are practiced in relation to the elder tree. The Lady Elder is available to purchase at www.hyldyr.com https://www.youtube.com/…
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#62 The Infinite Game of the Garden - A Discussion of Finite and Infinite Games
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we discuss Finite and Infinite Games: a Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by the late professor of religion, James P. Carse. We wanted to discuss this book because there’s a great difference between the pop-cult…
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Recorded prior to accusations towards Gaiman were made public in June and July of 2024. Rune shares some additional, updated thoughts on the American Gods tv show/books and the ways that author Neil Gaiman voices some dangerous tendencies. Rune discussed this issue before, to hear those thoughts, check out the back catalogue. For an account of the …
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The Almost Heathen Christianity of Grundtvig
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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 Tradition Pick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/62-coming-soon-the-aun-book/ https://www.youtube.…
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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 Tradition Pick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/62-coming-soon-the-aun-book/ https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the No…
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#61 A World Made in the Image of the Left Hemisphere - A Discussion of The Master and His Emissary
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we discuss the incredibly fascinating, profound, and instructive book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist. Following a similar structure to the book…
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How to do a Nordic Naming Ceremony
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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!!! The book introduces the dialogues and realizations that have materialized through 2022 and 2023 concerning…
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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 book AUN, Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition is out now!!! The book in…
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#60 Who Were the Luddites, and What Can We Learn from Them in the Age of A.I.?
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we discuss what we can learn from the Luddites and how the true meaning of what they stood for can be instructive for how we deal with the rise of A.I. and in our time. In addition to discussing the Luddites, we disc…
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Policing Dissent from Whiteness in Pagan Studies
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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 ideological turn, serves to silence the animist perspective. Rune's new book AUN, Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Heal…
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Animists Who Destroy Nature
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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 Tradition Pick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/62-coming-soon-the-aun-book/…
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Rune discusses the current day saying 'finding my tribe', and modern concepts of tribe vs tribalism. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful t-shirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow Nordic…
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OUT NOW - Aun_ Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition Pick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/62-coming-soon-the-aun-book/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Interview with Dr. David Abram
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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/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful t-shirt design by Ludvig Levin: h…
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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 Vikings? https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism…
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Viking Washing VS Nordic Animism
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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 hinder? https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimis…
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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 these sacred birds mean to a Danish landscape. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism pat…
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#59 Premium: Circumambulating Our Civilizational Monolith with Alex Leff (Human Nature Odyssey)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com On this episode of “Death in The Garden” we are sharing our conversation with Alex Leff, which was co-released for his podcast subscribers. Alex Leff is the creator and visionary behind Human Nature Odyssey, which is a cinematic audio journey through the fan…
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Episode 14 - Being Salmon, Being Human
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A great dialogue with Martin Lee Mueller on how to be a good relative. How to work towards being more fully human through our relationship with the broader, wilder world we belong to. How do we apprentice ourselves to place and to other beings?
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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. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check o…
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#58 The Tales that Really Matter - a Reading by Maren
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On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” Maren is reading her recent piece, The Tales that Really Matter - Part I. In this audio essay, you’ll hear tracks and clips from The Lord of the Rings films by Peter Jackson, and music composed by Howard Shore. Additionally, you’ll hear original synth soundscapes inspired by Howard Shore’s compositions, fro…
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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 including Australian Aboriginal, Native American, Pacific and African societies. This interview is a must …
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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/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful t-shirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-…
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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 mire. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimi…
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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, and discusses this more in his book: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of …
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The Dam and the Canal: A Parable - A Reading by Maren
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Welcome back to the “Death in The Garden” podcast! A lot changed for us over the past 4 months, and we’ve needed to take some time to figure out how to proceed with the film/podcast/writing project in light of a change in resources. But we’re back! As a preface to what is to come, we’re sharing today a reading of a short myth-inspired tale that Mar…
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Rune discusses the Aun myth, how it manifested in 2023, and projects forwards to the next Aun year, 2031. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful t-shirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow N…
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