A common misconception that has irked me for a while now and is a bit of a shame. Is that when people think of Norse myths and culture, Vikings, and gods like Odin, Thor, Freya, etc, they usually think these are isolated only to Scandinavia and Iceland. This great map below shows how limited that view really is...

Poetry and music were not just important pastimes in the Old Norse pagan religion, they were holy and sacred! (especially lyre music) and even said to be gifts from Odin himself. They were very heavily tied to magic and shamanic states of consciousness.

The spooky season is more or less over but thought this still fits the theme! Viking Berserkers were shamanic warriors sacred to Odin who were able to use shamanic consciousness to give them superhuman strength, durability, and invulnerability to pain in battle. Unfortunately, the knowledge of how the Vikings achieved this has been lost. But it can sometimes still be unleashed uncontrollably, sadly usually as a result of drugs or mental illness. One well-documented case happe

I never thought I would use the words "Nicholas Cage" and "Shamanism" in the same sentence....

"By one name I never have been called, since among men I have gone." - Odin, The Poetic Edda

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Many images similar to this have been found in many places across England, Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia, depicting Odin wearing...

In our workshops and courses we often emphasise that we don't get caught up in terminology, or trying too hard to categorise spiritual...

Interesting research! Funny enough we were just talking about this in a class the other day. There is a lot more to these folk tales and...

We mentioned previously that we consider that there are six core conditions that our soul requires to flourish, we refer to them as ‘soul...