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I’d like to take just a moment and introduce myself. My name is Mark Weisman, and like yourself, I too am but a traveler through a physical lifetime of learning, living, and loving. Within the last couple of decades, my ancestors have contacted me through my subconscious mind and have begun to explain many things to me. I will not claim to have all the answers, for I too sometimes struggle with understanding the words given to me from my ancestors through the visions I have with them. However, in the many years I have had in this life I have experienced a substantial amount, thereby providing me with an ample experience base to draw on. I ask that you join me in interpreting the words of my ancestors and seeing how we can apply it to our everyday life. I proudly serve my communities (both online and off) as both: a counselor for individuals suffering from debilitating psychological trauma, as well as an active, working Celtic-Norse Shaman. My beliefs are that the health of the spiritual self dictates the physical and mental health of the physical self. I come from a very long line of Germanic Danes (53 generations researched so far (estimated to 731)) from Northern Denmark (Bjereby Sogn), as well as 12 generations from Southern Ireland (Co. Waterford). After extensive academic studies in religious interpretations throughout the world, I have arrived at my Celtic-Norse roots. I have come to understand the relationships between the spiritual and physical planes of existence, and constantly work to help individuals understand their position in that relationship.

During my existence I have struggled with many of the same things that many people do. Struggles like. enduring an abusive, alcoholic parent, or returning to civilian life after a tour in the U.S. military, or even surviving a heroin overdose in late 1989. However, following the overdose, I would discover a path of growth and living that amazes me, even today, some thirty-five years later. Seven months, almost to the day following my sobriety, I would marry my shield maiden in a small ceremony in western Washington, that was over 33 years ago now. I now spend my time enjoying our five children, and four grandchildren who bless my existence everyday. The message I carry is one of hope. Is one of redemption. The understanding that each of us carries the power of change and the ability to manifest joy and harmony when we actively seek it.

I have chosen to claim the title of a Celtic-Norse Shaman, as I am called by my ancestors to that path. Both: online as a teacher of spiritual understandings, and offline working within many different communities, I spend most of my time offering my services to the many who have become disenfranchised with modern religious practices, as well as my brothers and sisters returning from conflicts struggling to reacclimatize to the non-military world. By using the understandings offered by my ancestors, I have discovered that many have been able to heal their minds, and move forward to happier, more peaceful lives. As a formerly ordained chaplain of the modern-day church, I revealed the self-serving practices of these modern religions and recognized the perceived necessity to implement a methodology of mind control that was accomplished with the rise of monotheism around the turn of the common era. This, in turn, has had long-term ramifications for the general population’s psychology.

In the winter of 2019/2020 I received a vision that would confirm my birthright as an Úlfhé∂nar of Ó∂inn the all-father that would again alter the path of my trajectory through this existence. Using my inherited gift of speaking to those called the Landvætti, my intellectual growth accelerated to an enormity of understandings and recognitions. Fitting hundreds of puzzle pieces of my life together to fully understand the entirety of my journey.

My calling is to retell the oral history of my ancestry, and impart upon my listeners/readers the idea of “the self”. I attempt to help individuals look past the inherent value judgments encouraged and supported by most organized “religions” and determine their individual journeys. Assisting people in understanding that it is because of this inherited intrinsic value judgment, passed through generation after generation, attempting to force the population to behave a certain way, predominantly relying on guilt and shame to emotionally punish individuals for wanting to think, and act, differently, that there remain remnants of these memories that linger within our subconscious and lay the groundwork to be overrun by a larger traumatic event. These practices rely on most people not understanding the “mystical ways” of the spiritual world that lies outside normal preview. It is this fact alone that has convinced me that my ancestors did have it right, believing in themselves, and their own ancestry.

I recognize:

  1. No human being is wrong about their choice of theology. or their belief in a deity or deities. I respect a perceived need for personal enlightenment.
  2. While I recognize the biological/physical differences between men and women, both provide a necessity to their society and that they are fundamentally different, that they are born into a physical body that they need to learn in this physical lifetime.
  3. While I recognize skin color, I know that it has no bearing on anything, I only see the actions of individuals and realize the actions of a few do not dictate the whole.
  4. I have nothing to prove to anyone in this lifetime. The events upon my tapestry are mine to write.
  5. This lifetime is a journey of understanding and learning. My “physical lifetime” has a purpose to assist me and others beyond this physical body.
  6. I aspire to the greatness demonstrated by my ancestors (described in the Old Norse texts).

My weekly podcasts present a message of being yourself and recognizing that those things that we want to do with our lives are purely up to us. In addition, recognizing that the modern definition of “good versus evil” and “right versus wrong” is purely the imagination of some individual in antiquity.

Please feel free to look around the website, and ask any questions you may have in either English or Danish.

Understanding of Psychology

While others have approached psychology and the affect on the human mind from an academic perspective, my experience lies in the hundreds of real-world interactions with many of those around me. My spiritual  journey has led to a series of discoveries that have allowed me an indepth look into the extrinic effects on the human thought and its processing. Working with real people who have suffered from real-world psychological trauma, I have a deep-seated understanding in what drives us.

Embracing our Spirituality

Whenever one attempts to understand the human mind and the factors that are included in our societal behaviors, one immediately has to recognize the source of all knowledge within the confines of the human mind. To do this, one must embrace the effect that our own personal spirituality has on our intellect, our wisdom, and our judgement. Understanding the quantum effects that the universal spirituality has on the human mind and thought process has become my life’s mission. To see as many perspectives as there are people who have them.

Not a Stereotypical Shaman

If you have discovered my page and wondered what a “Shaman” really looks like, I’m not that model to establish the understanding of Shaman on. I am your average guy who happened to receive a spiritual calling to do what I do. Since that time until now I have taken a lot of information from my spiritual connections and collected it into written and spoken form. So that we’re all on the same page here, I’m not the stereotypical Shaman we find out in many other parts of the world. I live in an urban city here in Alaska. I swear something terrible. I have bills. I ride motorcycles, and I really enjoy whiskey and self-made mead. I have been married for over 33 years to the most forgiving woman in the world who has charmed my life with five wonderful children, who now have charmed my life with four grandchildren (to date, circa 2023). My journey from the meager beginnings to where I am now has been paved with an extensive list of disastrous decisions, as well as the highest of redemptions. I have come to know who and what I really am. With the gift of hind-sight, I can now see the ancestral influences that have been ingrained in my soul from the very beginning.

So, while there are those who seem more like the stereotype, or a mountain-top guru. I am not him. I am me.

I am the 3rd Generation, American-born

Celtic – Norse

Is mise an t-oidhre ​​ar

via mo shin-seanmháthair

Mary Laney (Stewart)

of Barony, Lanark, Scotland

Ich bin der Erbe von

Über meinen Urgroßvater

Albrect Otto Henry Weissmann

of Hamburg, Germany

Is mise an t-oidhre ​​ar

via mo shin-seanmháthair

Margaret M Weisman (Noonan)

of Lismore, Co. Waterford, Pr Munster, Ireland

Jeg er arving til

Via min Oldemor

Nelsina Weisman (Petersen)

of Jutland, Denmark

Following in the footsteps of 52 generations of Úlfhé∂nar before me

Historical Context

Anthropology

Celts – 4th Century BCE. This is where most of my personal beliefs stem from. Based on historical records (recorded much later), these splinter tribes would migrate north and east from southern Europe as they assimilated into the Germanic tribes. While they too engaged in resistance against the Roman expansion, they would ultimately be scattered across what is today Europe extending as far south as Italy, and north to the British Isles, and Ireland.

Geats – Common Epoch. The Geats were a tribe in northeast Germania of that time, stemming (according to Legend) from the Alps, they were the “Giants” referred to by many different Legends, as they were typically taller and stockier than their European counterparts. The word “Geats” is actually a butchering of the original word, meaning giants. According to legend, these giants also possessed a level of magic.

I believe that the Geats represent a strong connection to the Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis). As there are multiple sources that quote them being of a larger build than the average Europeans of the time. Powerful, with longer arms and stance, It is easy to see how the legends would have identified them as giants, as they came from the lands of the northwest called Alfheim.

Danes – 4th Century CE. The Danes would be a splinter from the Geats as they were identified in many historical records as being of a larger statue than most of the other European tribes. The Danes would begin the transition from the old Celtic beliefs to the more modern Old Norse beliefs and practices. This is typically where the figures of legend began their clarification, in addition, we begin to see historical records of events (carvings, and other dated materials).

American – 19th Century CE. In 1898 my great grandparents migrated to the United States of America where they settled on the east coast, and finally retired in Florida. This arrival marked a new chapter in the migratory path of the clan, who now became hard-working American citizens. From the arrival, my grandfather would be born in the US, as would my father, effectively making me the third generation born here in the country. However, my journey would be a little different than theirs, as I found my way back in history.

My Journey to Úlfhé∂nar

The more I have engaged in the academic arena for a greater understanding, the more I realized I had to undergo a personal life’s journey. What I’ve gained now, is the knowledge that these events have been a necessary part of the journey to wipe the previous belief system out, and rewrite the foundation.

My journey to this point has included a long, tedious, sometimes very painful, awakening to where I am today. The journey, which has taken over 50 years so far, has been fraught with emotional understandings that I would have never understood had I not experienced them myself.

In the much earlier parts of my physical life, I was introduced to the spiritual realm through the “New Age” interpretation, and channeling the other-self as a separate entity. This was followed by a long tenure in the indigenous beliefs of the Navajo peoples of Arizona, which is where I have been taught was where I was introduced to the understandings of the Landvætti. Following the death of my father, I spent a year living in a tent on the mountainside of the Santa Catalina mountains just north of Tucson, Arizona. The year on the mountain led to a substantial amount of trance work and meditation, which would strengthen my spiritual connection to the Landvætti. I would come to learn the ways of the Landvætti, but also the truth about the channels within each of us that allowed them to communicate with us. Following that year on the mountain, I lived in a culvert for approximately six months. It was during my life in the culvert, I survived a near-death scenario caused by a Heroin overdose, followed by intervention, or “cleansing” beginning a multi-decade journey without the need for the drug in my life. This situation was ultimately, very enlightening, and began to clear my eyes of the fog. While I didn’t know it, this is where Ó∂inn found me. After relocating to Whidbey Island for about four months, Ó∂inn introduced me to my “Shield-Maiden” who would become my wife and the mother of my children. While she has embraced the monotheistic beliefs of a different realm, she is my world. I cannot begin to form the words of thanks for the belief she has had in me to arrive where I did. She led me on a path of discovery as to the deity communications that she interpreted as the right path. Several years later at Wayland Baptist University I became ordained as a Christian minister and tried to reconcile what I felt in my heart with what was being taught. I would then spend a decade as a chaplain who worked primarily with returning veterans and their families, particularly with PTSD, the voices of the Landvætti would become louder, and more clear, encouraging my return home spiritually.

Fast forward to about 2018, when my mother asked me to assist with her genealogy stuff.  As I began to explore the documentation and bloodlines, more fog was lifted from my eyes. I found my great-grandmother and great-grandfather. My great-grandmother was born in Jutland, Denmark, with my great-grandfather being born across the border in Germany. Many of the pieces I was missing in my life began to settle into place.

On January 30th, 2020, I completed an oath on my ring to Ó∂inn as one of his Úlfhé∂nar, which runs in my maternal great grandmother’s bloodline. I meditated and completed the trancework I continued to learn how to open the door to the spiritual realms. As soon as the door was opened my life changed forever. This is more than an embracing of culture but a return home to my birthright. (See the Post “THAT NIGHT”)

Many of the thoughts and beliefs I have had over the decades, now all make sense. Ó∂inn allowed me to drink Ó∂rerir (the Mead of Poetry) and embrace the wisdom of Kvasir. I am home. I have arrived at the place I have sought my whole life to be. My personal self has been filled. Filled with the knowledge and wisdom from Ó∂inn, and the rich culture from my ancestors. Finally, I am home.

I am Úlfhé∂nar!

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