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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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Mythic wisdom, lore, and ritual surrounding the in-spirited natural world and beyond.
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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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Welcome! These podcasts address some of the common questions people have about animism, shamanic journeying, shamanic healing, the links between shamanism and psychotherapy (including things like Internal Family Systems Therapy), depth psychology, anthropology, ecotherapy, environmentalism, and more. The first two episodes are introductory ones. The first explores what shamanism is, how it differs from animism, how psychotherapy can contribute, and why we desperately need shamanic practices ...
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Entropy in Nordic Mythology. Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordic.anim... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nordicanimism Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nordic_animism Website: https://nordicanimism.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for …
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Continuing to look at the role of fire in animism. Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordic.anim... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nordicanimism Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nordic_animism Website: https://nordicanimism.com/ Hosted on Acast. See …
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Majority Animism for Cultural Transformation
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Majority Animism for Cultural Transformation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rune talks with Warren Jones. Warren Jones hosts the podcast Arctica, a podcast from the North. Find Arctica at arcticapodcast.com Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordic.anim... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nordicanimism Tiktok: https://www.tikt…
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Among Nordic mythology scholars the relationship, if any, between Loki and fire is a cite of controversy. Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordic.anim... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nordicanimism Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nordic_animism We…
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Continuing with the themes of last episode, Rune addresses Nordic Singing Traditions. Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nordic.anim... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nordicanimism Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nordic_animism Website: https://nordi…
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Singing Traditions in Northern Europe
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Singing Traditions in Northern Europe Interview with Danica Boyce The Fair Folk Podcast's Danica Boyce joins in to talk about singing traditions across northern Europe as well as the connection between singing, animism and ritual. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Follow Nordic An…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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