Dodcast #72: Jeff Russell

Of Runes and Men

Jeff Russell on working with John Michael Greer’s Druid Magic Handbook and Dolmen Arch curricula (the DMH and DA we keep mentioning in the beginning); the Ogham (Irish alphabet) and the Germanic runes; Eirik Westcott’s ‘American Futharch’; Rudolf Otto’s concept of the numinous; the impossibility of creating a rational religion; the question of authenticity vs validity in modern paganism; Spengler’s theory of distinct civilizations; a North American high culture in the far future; post-apocalyptic fiction; climate change; linguistic purism in English; literacy and its (dis)contents; finding a point in history where it all went wrong; mingling of ancient and modern; Christian religious figures expanding outwards from Christianity; the Ashes of the Urn series by Alexander Palacio.

Jeff’s Webstead

Music: Aerograd – D.F.A.

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