To the OP. For a time Norse mythology appealed to me. This would be around the age of 18-21 or so after coming from a Christian upbringing. This led me into a further study of mythology and the Pantheons created by man in all aspects. Their similarities and dis-similarities. There is really so much out there in the history of mankind that a broad understanding is the best one can hope for.
In my way I have come to an understanding that there is a light and a dark. That there is good and evil. That there are supernatural constructs that exist, are created by, the minds of men and given shape or form by their beliefs.
An interesting story from that time period that I was a worshiper of the Norse pantheon. I was in the Navy. A friend was on deployment and my Japanese girlfriend and I went to dinner at his wife's house. He and his wife were Catholics. She confided to me that she believed an evil presence had entered her life and that this evil presence was causing turmoil in their relationship. I volunteered to do battle with this demon with my totemic spirit (fylgjur). My spirit was one of Odin's, the All Father, the wolf. This was before wolves were memes.
And so we sat down three feet from each other, I called on this fylgjur and then I called her demon to do battle. It took several hours. During this time there were heat/light fluctuations in the room and it seemed a mask came over my friends wife's face on and off again. I called on the demon to leave. At times she spoke in tongues. And though I did not move from a seated position I was drenched in sweat and my muscles were knotted. And then it was over. I told her she was free from her manifestation.
Time went by. They moved on. I received a postcard from her thanking me. She said their marriage had never been better. That after that night it was like a darkness was lifted. I'd put it all up to hallucination but my Japanese girlfriend, who spoke little to no English, described these same physical manifestations to me afterwards through my language handbook.
So what did I learn from this? I suppose that there is energy good and bad. That this energy can assume physical form if enough belief is put into it. That this energy can be harnessed for both good and evil purposes.
Pantheons come and go. Eventually, so too will Christianity, and Islam, and Buddhism. As they did for the Norse, Romans and Greeks. They will amalgamate. Transform. As all religions have since man has constructed them.
Edit: Sorry, meant to post in this thread:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ermanic-Pagans but it works just as well here so I will leave it.
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