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Chapter 2. Connections 51
The spiritual road begins with accepting one’s starting point in the world. A child
is born from a family tree, a bloodline, complete with debts and payments. Some of
these take the form of genetic inheritances, some of socio-economic status, and others
are simply learned over the course of growing up. People inherit psycho-emotional
tendencies with all the strengths and weaknesses passed down through familial as
well as community lineages. Some babies are born from blue-collar lines and some
from white. Whatever the case may be, all have a starting point inherited at birth,
and none, absolutely none, are born as a “blank slate.” Each member of the existing
family will slight differences in inheritance because of being born at different times,
but all access the same lineage for luck or power.
The great American dream (myth?) is that all sons have the same chance for
presidency, but this is little more than a dream and has nothing to do with reality.
There is a current trend among young people (the trend actually has a long history)
to turn their backs on their own personal history. Some refuse to admit, even
to themselves, that they come from a long line of blue-collar workers, or perhaps
from a lineage rife with alcoholics, thieves, prostitutes, con men or drug addicts.
Some come from families with members who suffer from mental illnesses, or where
domestic violence is a part of everyday life. Certain familial weaknesses are often
embarrassing to individuals (although, oddly enough, an “addiction craze” has been
rather faddish for the past decade in spite of the fact that ‘addictions’ previously
were thought of as the result of weakness). In any case, there are many who cannot
accept their own lineage for whatever the reason, and these spend a lifetime running
and hiding from their past.
On the other hand, there are those who, while still not accepting their past,
choose to fight against their lineage and their starting points in life. For the past
two decades or so, the fashion has been for “lineage-haters” to write books or appear
on talk shows so that they can publicly denounce their past. But these are no
different in essence than those who turn their backs on their family lineage and hide
their starting points in life behind glittery false fronts; they still are unable to accept
their own origins and their own ørlög.
The eddaic lay (’song’), the Rigsthula (’the Song of Rig’), describes the starting
points of people; in the pre-Viking era not all folk were created equally. The general
interpretation of the “ Song of Rig” is that the White God, Heimdallr, at one time
traveled through Midgard. During his travels, He met up with Ai and Edda (Great
Grandfather and Great Grandmother), worker of the earth, and stayed with them
three nights. It was during this stay that a son, Thrall, was engendered. Eventually,
Thrall married Thir-the-Drudge, and they, in turn, began the race of thralls (workers
of the earth; slaves) having ten sons and nine daughters, all of whom had names such
as Stinking, Dumpy, Oak-Thighs, Shouter, and Horse-Fly. Heimdallr continued his