The Sacred Flame

Viking Madness


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What is madness? What was madness back in the Viking age, and what is madness today? The concept of madness may seem clear to us, but at the end of the day, it is certainly always dependent on cultural context. In this episode, I discuss western madness and where it comes from. I depart from Carl Jung's attempt to blame the atrocities of Nazi Germany on Wotan/Odin and dive into a cultural examination that takes us from Serbia's Iron Gates national park and Kosovo to gold mining in Nevada's Mt. Tenabo, while navigating through indigenous homelands, nations, and internment camps -a ride that takes us all the way to the underworld and far into the sky with the Blue Star Kachina prophecy.

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The Sacred FlameBy Mathias Nordvig

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