Jeff Russell

I loosely look at the way the World works having "Assumptions" and having "Working Theories". Assumptions are just that. Core principles that I take on a bit of faith that make sense. Working theories are my way of organizing the things I see happening in that World. Both though, I don't have set in stone. I try to constantly re-evaluate and re-imagine them whenever new info shows up. I figure I won't know for sure until I die.

As for Thor-ness, yes I feel like that is a good assumption. The spirits who take jobs as mentors do so because they have an affinity for the attitudes of that deity or spirit. I figure it's just one more experience that we all need to go thru to know what we need to ascend to the Spiritual plane and join with the collective godhood. I figure that we also do time as local spirits of place (like of a spring, lake or forest) and as protector spirits of some of the other life (like of cat, owl or bear).

BTW, I'll give you a shout once I get the shaman blog reorganized. I've got a year's worth or so of old posts, and a bunch of new ones that I want to write, to get together into a coherent narrative before I go public with it. I like to mix thought posts like this one, with practical tutorials on skills and craftwork.

I'm planning on taking Jason Miller's seven-month-long Hekate course this Summer, so I should have some interesting thoughts to share when that starts too.