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Chapter 1. World Views 14 filled with garbage that I had no idea of its depth or of the richness of its waters. This book then grew out of my own clean up exercise. Secondly, this book is dedicated to those whom I’ve come across over the years standing frozen at the same crossroads that I stood at. They are scared to look behind themselves into their own histories because of what they may discover: their lives have been a pretense as well. Many have gone on to clean up their own wells and have become satisfied citizens of the 20th and 21st centuries. That is what healing is about in this book: bringing one to a state of stable satisfaction, satisfaction that their lives are their own and satisfaction that their lives have some kind of meaning in the overall scheme of things. This book wanders and its focus becomes very dim at some points. This is because it is a reflection of my process of coming into a state of wholeness. I’ve worked in health related fields for almost 20 years now and never have I seen anyone simply make a beeline into a perfect state of health. There are always meanderings, ponderings, backtrackings, and wanderings. The reader is forewarned. There are also areas rich in technical details while other areas may show either lack of knowledge about certain topics, lack of understanding or simply what appears to be wild speculation. The book may even seem incomplete at times. No matter, again it reflects my life which I consider to be in common parlance a work in progress. Some words of caution are necessary. The underlayer of this work is Germanic history, but the accuracy of this worldview should be drawn into question. Exactly, how accurate can anyone be that a complete version of this worldview even exists? The fact is that no one can. It is not as though the traditions have continued down through the ages in an unbroken fashion like Buddhism, for example. Therefore, no such claim is being made here. Secondly, there does not appear to have been anything like a pan-Germanic tradition; rather, traditions were localized in both time and space. The traditions of one town were not necessarily those of the next town over, and the traditions in a town in 950 CE may have differed significantly from the traditions in the same town 50 years earlier. Thirdly, it is very difficult (perhaps impossible) to discuss traditions in and of themselves; one needs some kind of standard to compare them against, and that standard will almost always be the standards set by the society/ culture through which the discussion comes. In this case, the discussion is by 20th century standards. Concepts which are completely unknown or are at least very foreign to a culture needs analogies (comparisons) both for definition and explanation, and while one part of the comparison comes from an ancient Germanic tradition the other part comes out of consensus reality 5 , i.e. 5 ”Consensus reality” is a term which will reappear throughout this entire book and its meaning will depend upon the context in which it appears. It means ”a reality upon which a specified and defined group of individuals agree upon.” Consensus reality for Christians is that ”God made
Chapter 1. World Views 15 the reality that the readers all agree upon. Let the reader be forewarned then, this author makes no qualms about the Germanic world view as presented in this book being resurrected and reconstructed and, furthermore, can only speculate with the reader as to the accuracy of the information contained in these pages even though every attempt was made to keep interpretation to a minimum. 6 The inherent danger, then, in reviving then following any tradition is that the tradition itself becomes dogmatic. There is something pleasant and comforting about engaging in ritualistic acts, but if the meaning becomes lost, the tradition is either dead or might as well be dead. A poem by a Chinese Taoist goes “Watching a performance of warriors, I was told ’This fighters tradition is 600 years old.’ And I saw a performance so mired in ritual– As if nothing valid had happened in 600 years. We must honor the classical without being irrelavent.” 7 The point is valid. Even many of the newer movements have become “so mired in ritual” that its purpose is no longer known. The bulk of Christianity, much of the Buddhist, and even some of the more modern traditions such as Wicca have become tired and meaningless. There will always be a few who will attempt to revive the meanings of tradition, but these become quickly lost because of the familiar comfort that ritual itself provides. This book discusses meaning behind Germanic traditions in the hopes that some of the readers will pick up those meanings and be able to apply them in their lives today. Deng Ming-Dao comments on his poem by saying “The adherents [of a tradition] must be fully capable of manifesting the greatness of their tradition in contemporary settings. If some says that they are an expert in traditional medicine, then they [sic] must be able to heal others today. . . . If someone says that they [sic] have mastered esoteric spiritual traditions, then they must be able to manifest the spirit of that spiritual power today” (ibid.). There the world,” and for atheists, it is that ”the world came into being by chance as a by-product of other processes which were taking place in the universe.” Individual differences always occur but ”consensus reality” is a set of similarities which binds a group of individuals together. 6 Every attempt was made in the preparation of this book to keep out highly speculative information. The author, on the other hand, is not a scholar in any area of Germanic history, literature, poetry, etc., and, so, if information has crept into the text which is more of the ”fantasy genre” as opposed to well-documented fact, the author offers his humblest apologies and is willing to stand corrected. 7 Deng Ming-Dao, 365Meditations, (HarperSanFransisco, San Fransisco), 1992, p. 342.
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