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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Are you looking at our society racked with disconnection, poor mental and physical health, social injustice, and the wanton destruction of the natural world and asking yourself, “What can I do?” Join experimental anthropologist Peter Michael Bauer as he converses with experts from many converging fields that help us craft cultures of resilience. Weaving together a range of topics from ecology to wilderness survival skills to permaculture, each episode deepens and expands your understanding o ...
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The Kogi (meaning 'jaguar') are the Indigenous group that resides in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Columbia. he Kogi understand the Earth to be a living being, and see humanity as its "children." They say that our actions of exploitation, devastation, and plundering for resources is weakening "The Great Mother" and leading …
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Graham Harvey is an English professor of religious studies who specializes in modern Paganism, indigenous religions and animism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nordic Animism's Producer Mattie talks about the tensions between cultural Christianity and animism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rune shares some semi-improvised reflections on North European Fox story made for some of Tyson Yunkaporta's collaborators in Australia. They are working on spiritually naturalising Fox as an invasive species in Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Interview with Mari Boine Sami Singer
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In this week's interivew, producer Mattie joins to share her experiences leaving Mormonism for animism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Am I Rewilder Enough? w/ Sheila Henson
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1:05:13Am I Rewilder Enough? w/ Sheila Henson Do you feel like a poseur when it comes to rewilding? Do you have guilty pleasures you can’t give up? Are you too overwhelmed to start rewilding? You’re not alone. In this episode I chat with my friend and Rewild Portland board member Sheila Henson about the judgments we face from others and (more often) ourse…
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Rune discusses the Nordic Wheel Cross proposing a reading of the symbol as a map of the cosmos. Many references are made to visual symbols in this episode, so be sure to check out Rune's Youtube channel for the images, or use your search engine of choice to view the images discussed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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A genuine and heartfelt conversation with Sandy Reed about wildlife tracking and Animism. Thank you listeners for joining in, its been a long while since I recorded and released a new one!
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Rune responds to the recent AI generated image of Trump as the Pope, building on his previous analysis of the Trickster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Right Story& Mythic Serpents with Tyson Yunkaporta
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1:13:35Rune talks with Professor Tyson Yunkaporta, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Deakin University. Join the Nordic Animism patreon: / nordicanimism Subscribe to the New Moon Newsletter: eepurl.com/iiN29X Shop Nordic Animism: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/ Find courses with Nordic Animism: https://nordicanimism.com/course…
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How Hunter-Gatherers Learn w/ Dr. Gul Deniz Salali
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1:15:20For millions of years, and in some places still today, hunter-gatherers raise competent and capable children. They do this while navigating challenging environments, with predators, dangerous tools, and most notably: without any school. Contemporary societies have created learning environments that are a mismatch with the expectations of our geneti…
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Did Heathens Worship the Moon? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rune interviews Maya Sialuk, researcher of Tattoo Anthropology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rune shares some thoughts on the concept of 'Indo-Europeans', discussing who they were, and what we believe we know about them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Maintaining Peaceful Societies w/ Douglas Fry
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1:35:34For millions of years, evidence suggests that humans lived in relatively equal societies, where food acquisition and child raising were shared activities among community members both men and women, together. It is apparent that our environments of evolutionary adaptation, selected for humans with evermore prosocial traits. Domination and competitio…
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Rune discusses the vitalising force(s) in animism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rekindling Ancestral Lifeways in Ireland w/ Lucy O’Hagan
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1:22:45Creating ancestral skills communities is central to rewilding. We need people sharing skills together, we need people tending land together. These communities don’t form over night. It takes time to build them. I spoke with Lucy O’Hagan in February of 2020, in one of my first episodes of the Rewilding Podcast. Now it’s February of 2025 and a lot ha…
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Rune interviews Mads Torp, on Folk Schooling and bringing awareness of deep ecology to education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rune delivers a talk at the Phoenix Pagan Conference introducing New Animist concepts and his work popularising Nordic Animism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Is it too early for Europe to look towards it's traditional knowledge? 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/ H…
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Interview with Olle Möllervärn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rune talks with Wardruna's Einar Selvik. 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/…
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Surviving Multiple Environments w/ Tom McElroy
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1:09:50One of the key aspects of wildness is adaptation. Being able to change and adapt to different needs, in different environments, is a cornerstone of resilience. While a large part of this involves getting to know the land where you dwell, it helps to know multiple landscapes. It can teach you how to think on your toes and figure out how to do things…
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Enjoy this interview with Hallgrim Hansegård, a choreographer and dancer with a background in traditional halling dance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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I’m fond of saying, “There’s no one right way to rewild.” A friend once asked me, “Sure, Peter. But is there a wrong way?” I wanted to do something fun for this episode that I haven’t delved into much before in this space, so I invited my friend on to talk about the “wrong” ways to rewild. Don’t be fooled by the candy bar image, I love elements of …
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Were the Nazis motivated by a desire to return Northern religious practises across Europe? Isn't this obvious? Nazis used runes, after all! From Thulianism to Fanon, the hinterland of Nazi ideology proves a little more complicated. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Why We Need Wild Foods w/ Monica Wilde
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1:08:44When some human societies made the shift from wild, procured foods to domesticated, produced foods there is a corresponding decline in the health of those people in the archaeological record. Today, the majority of people eat domesticated staples, and our health has taken a huge decline on a global scale. Wild foods are an important nutritional com…
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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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