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Summer 2005  Update on Sabine

Because of health problems I stopped 2 years ago going to Viking markets.  To help improve my health I went to Norway after all the problems we had here in Germany.

In Norway life has a different rhythm. Since I speak Norwegian I used my time there to look in the Norwegian library researching more books about runic lore and health practices during ancient times. Some of these books I found were inaccurate citing the same nonsense contained in libraries throughout the world but here in Norway they keep also very old books too, within the library’s archives. I accessed these rare works found within the library’s old achieves using my membership card and via appointment.

I found therein partly contained confirmation on the things I already knew about and other parts opened my eyes to how much shit and false beliefs exists today about the times and practiced lore that is actually in circulation not just outside but all so inside Scandinavia.

The Arctic Circle is a good place to reflect on all this and when I was not busy looking for work, I had plenty of time to do exactly that. This led me to the conclusion that our time here and now is too screwed up to take the truth. Most people are into it because they are frustrated with their lives and escape into runelore or other mystical practices because they don’t want to face reality or their own lives? Sadly it seems when they are not satisfied, they turn to using controlled substances, drug induced rituals or prayers to the old gods as substitute for an unfulfilled life. This causes an identity crisis and their own complexes, lack of self confidence or feeling of self worth leads them to believe they are something special, from Odin’s daughter to brother of Thor and more.

I decided to stop trying to educate people or tell them the true ways because they really don't want to know of it.  It seems to me that they just want to be supported via Neo Pagan practices or some other made up belief system adding new inspiration for new ways to practice what I believe is nothing more then profile neurotic games that they play. If you criticize their practices, they tend to try to turn this round saying that you are the bad guy here? And if you tell them the truth they are disappointed and wave it off or use part of it to make a new creation of their lunatic fringe system.

For the true folks who are capable of handling criticism and truths, I will be writing a book soon. I guess that it was no coincidence that my CD disc with my book material on it got destroyed when it was nearly finished. This new book is no longer my old material for now I write it new and better then before. My book may be a great disappointment to profile neurotics and will make them more then angry. But all the folks who really want to learn something will find not inspiration but true information written with sound judgment and reasoning. Those looking for instant magic formulas or rituals should not bother themselves by reading my book. My book is intended for people that want to know the truths and learn about Sækja Sefi, medical knowledge and practices that was in common use. And there is nothing magical about that.

For the moment I will not hold lectures anymore.  No food for the mental d.....this is all I have to say to that!

Yours Faithfully

Sabine Morrison

Spring 2006  Update on Sabine

This is the explanation to the book I'm writing right now. This is not a book for people that look for instant magic formulas or the usual stuff you find in books about the old Nordic ways. If  my book will be the first time you got a book about this subject you’re lucky because you don’t learn first all the rubbish that got written and at the same time I would recommend that you read one of the others so you get a bit of basic knowledge first. Why just one? Well because you just need one, all books on the market basically write the same and I do not want to repeat what so many did write already.

Yes it is true, all books you can buy or let’s say nearly all to be fair are nothing but copies of what someone else did write just wrapped up in different words with one or two ideas of the author in it building the new part. If you look at the reference list in the back of these books, you will find that nearly all have the same reference for example author A gives B and C a reference. Author B gives A, C and D a reference and if you follow that through you find that all give the same. Not one of them make himself the work to find new evidence and the reason is simple. They all got what I call tunnel vision. They look at old scribes from Albertus Magnus¹ or archeologically findings. None ever looked at old cookbooks or medical books etc.

Well I looked at things like that and old family writings, I will give some references but not to all because that would fill a book on its own. And to be honest no one really reads them anyway and its not of so high importance, I write this for the interested and not to prove anything. There is so much knowledge locked away because of lack of money to get it dated or because of lack of proof for official people a family book is no proof or evidence that it took place or was in common practice. But why would people write things down in a time where most dark ages people were illiterate and could neither write nor read? For me it is good enough if I read something that is more then a couple of hundred years old. However if you have a problem with  my approach to this subject then save your time and just don’t read what I did write, because not all has conventional back up as I would say.

So what is it all about then you may ask? Well it is about old medical practises like Sækja Sefi², about old rites and so called old rites that never existed but are in common beliefs of so called neo-pagans. It will explain about the real life of that time, the life of the ordinary folk and not of kings and jarls or godhi. It will also explain about what was commonly believed, rites or practices of ordinary people and what was just known by a few of the so called medical people of that time. Which also being often the psychologist and social adviser in those days. And the tricks they used to remain in respect to their fellow man which is often the reason for the misconception in our days, especially when the use of runes is concerned.

For example, they all talk about the so called power runes³ and their magical use. Why should one  Rune be more powerful then another? It is a symbol carved into wood or stone, so why would it have magical power that is extraordinary? Well that is not exactly logical, that’s why people call it magic, but what is really behind it, how these beliefs came about? This friend is one of those things you will find out in my book and I can assure you esoteric freaks will not like the answer. In my first chapter I will clear up some of these misconceptions before I come to old techniques or other things that may interest you. I hope to have the book finish by the end of 2006 and that it will open the eyes of people to the real world of the old days.

Yours faithfully

Sabine Morrison

Footnotes:

1. In the thirteenth century German named Albertus Magnus (c.1208-1280) might be considered another magus. In the Dominican Order he rose to the position of Bishop of Ratisbourg. Later he was canonized as Saint Albert the Great. He was both student and teacher of alchemy and chemistry, and an alleged magician. He firmly believed in the benefits of botany claiming various plants, rocks, and amethysts improved clairvoyance

2. Sækja Sefi (ON) translates roughly as a changed state of emotions or feelings some translate it as changed state of being. It is actually an ancient healing art. In poetic edda (Saemundar edda) Grogaldur 9)  ok snúisk þeim til sátta sefi  = turn them to agreement in mind the word Saekja (sækja) is common in icelandic and is in many places.

3. Power Runes refers to a belief that certain fuþark period runes held magical power or a greater power then the other runes.

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