Om Mig | About Me

Who am I

Who am I?

By Year – Chinese Zodiac: Fire Horse
Indigo Child w/Silver tinge

By Month – Zodiac – Aquarius: late January (Wolf moon 23 days prior)
Aquarian with the
Moon Sign – Taurus

Title: He has been called: Druid, Witch, Mystic, Magician, Sei∂r, and now Shaman. None of these titles really mean much to him as he chooses: Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, Uncle, Provider, and most prefers to just be a friend.


He has claimed his birthright as the “Alaska Úlfhé∂nar”

 

He is Mark Weisman, the great-grandson of Jens Peterson of Bjergby, Denmark, and of Maurice Noonan of Lismore, Waterford, Ireland. He is the third generation born here in the U.S. from a very long line of Danes (53 generations researched so far (estimated to 731)), both in the Jutland of Denmark, and (at-least) 12 generations from Lismore, on the southern coast of Ireland. His great-grandfather’s call him “fróðleikr ulfr Norþæn” which, translated from old Norse means (magical wolf from the north).

“dulinn vargr norðrsins”

We would like to take just a moment and introduce him. He, like yourself, is but a traveler through a physical lifetime of learning, living, and loving. Within the last couple of decades, his ancestors have contacted him through the subconscious mind and have begun to explain many things. He will not claim to have all the answers, for he too sometimes struggle with understanding the words given to him from his ancestors through the visions he has with them. However, in the many years he has had in this life, he has experienced a substantial amount of trauma and sacrifice, thereby providing an ample experience base to draw on. He asks that you join him in interpreting the words of the ancestors and seeing how we can apply it to our everyday life. He proudly serves many communities (both online and off) as both: a life coach for individuals suffering from debilitating psychological trauma, as well as an active, working Norse Shaman. He believes that the health of the spiritual self dictates the physical and mental health of our entire self. After extensive academic studies in religious interpretations throughout the world, he has arrived at his Celtic-Norse roots. He has 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 his existence he has 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, he would discover a path of growth and living that amazes anyone who knows, even today, some thirty-five years later. Seven months, almost to the day following his sobriety from heroin, he would marry his shield maiden in a small ceremony in western Washington, that was over 33 years ago now. He now spends, from then to now, enjoying their five children, and four grandchildren who bless his existence everyday.

The message he carries is one of hope. Is one of redemption. The understanding that each of us carries the power of change to who we are at our very core, and the ability to manifest joy and harmony when we actively seek it.

He has been chosen to claim the title, and travel the path of a Norse Shaman, as he has been called by his ancestors to that path. Both: online as a teacher of spiritual understandings, and offline working within many different communities as a teacher and a healer, he spends most of his time offering services to the many who have become disenfranchised with modern religious practices, as well as his brothers and sisters returning from conflicts struggling to reacclimatize to a non-military world. By using the understandings offered by his ancestors, he has discovered that many have been able to heal their minds, and move forward to happier, more peaceful lives.

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

His calling is to retell the oral history of his ancestry, and impart upon his viewers/listeners/readers the idea of “the self”. He attempts to help individuals look past the inherent value judgments encouraged and supported by most organized “religions” and determine their own 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 him that his ancestors did have it right, believing in themselves, and their own ancestry.

My Past doesn’t Define Me

Excerpt from his book Turn to Final

At an early age I discovered that my “invisible friends” would introduce me to the emotional connection I had with the many others around me, including the spiritual energy of the earth, and her many fellow spirits.

This introduction would exploit my inability to control the emotional turmoil, and I found myself turning to alcohol and illegal drugs at a fairly young age in a futile attempt to numb the emotional traffic and the associated energy with it. This led to my overdose from heroin in 1989 in a drain culvert in south Tucson, Arizona. It was at that moment that my god Ó∂inn and goddess Freyja found me. They sent an envoy to assist me in combating the demons I harbored within my mind. These demons, shrouded in the murkiness of misunderstanding and misinterpretation would be decimated by the discovery of my ancestry and understanding of the spiritual realm. By the arrival of illumination into my intellect, my slow recovery from the darkness of the mysteries of our physical journey would be paved in the learning of a lifetime,

My path, from those dark days of addiction to the discovery of a shield-maiden who would assist me in discovering the being a descendant of a proud Dane heritage, would be paved with imperfections that I would constantly have to constantly battle with, to become the man I’ve become. It has not been easy. But, through the loving embrace of a strong ancestry powerful gods and goddesses, and my powerful shield-maiden, they have raised this Phoenix, and I have arrived at who I am.

“Raised this Phoenix”

Finding Joy

Embracing my Ancestry

Whether it be brewing his own honey mead using the recipe of his ancestors, preparing meals based on the Danish culinary, studying the ancestors online and offline, or understanding the natural herbal remedies given to him by his ancestors to cure the many energy imbalances that occur in modern-day life, he fully embraces his ancestry. As a computer geek, he has created online productions (social media, and television productions) to pass along the messages of his ancestors to a group of individuals who are, like him, searching for answers. He has also taken to the study of ancient weapons (swords, axes, hammers, spears, bows, and shields), and their usages in a close-in combat scenario. While he still has and loves shooting firearms of the modern-era, he has definitely revisited the idea of combat in antiquity.

Understanding my ancestry

Throughout the last couple of decades, his ancestors have imparted upon him a significant amount of knowledge that he attempts to reformulate into modern terms, and provide them to the many who have inquired. This knowledge has led him to understand the value of the energy of the universe. Whether it be the sound treatments of the drum, natural herbal remedies for chemical imbalances, or the understanding of the magic of Freyja, the teachings he has received over the years has led him to understand the many different gifts that he has been given. Today, he serves communities throughout the world (via the internet, and traveling) as a natural healer and medicine-man, who can also work with spirits to guide those wandering to a path that they can find their own intrinsic success.

Ancestral History

His story starts, from what he has explained, from the ancestors with whom he has now communicated with, in Halstatt, Austria, where his ancestors settled in their migration northeast from the Iberian Peninsula in about 40 B.C.E. This settling in Halstatt would produce the first set of ancestors with whom he would communicate, and would bring a substantial Celtic spiritual understanding to his beliefs. These understandings would bring both the gods and goddesses of the Celtic beliefs, as well as a deep understanding of the spirits of the lands. The more he communicated with his ancestors, the more he realized the commonality among our spiritual understandings.

His ancestors would migrate north as the Roman empire expanded westward, and began it’s conquering of the lands throughout Europe, where his ancestors would arrive in what is today Jork, Germany at or around the turn of the millennia (0 C.E.). A small settlement along the Elba river, just west of what is today Hamburg, Germany. Here his ancestors would reside from several generations in almost constant conflict with the advancing Roman expansion referred to as the Harii warriors, repelling them until their departure some 100+ years later as his ancestors merged with another tribe called the “Danes”. At around 150 C.E. they would cross the Elbe River and migrate north, arriving just south of where the North Sea surrounds the Jutland of (what is today) Denmark in what would become Bjergby, Denmark.

Arriving in Bjergby, Denmark around 180 C.E., they would reside here for approximately 600 years, before splintering and migrating across the sea to help establish the settlement of Waterford, Ireland in the late 800s C.E. Much of the spiritual understandings throughout this migration has survived through the hundreds of generations before him to form what he now understands to be the spiritual realm he interacts with every minute of every day.

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