Dear Hildolf, Greetings kinsman!

Thank you for your letter. I was happy to receive it and very pleased by your questions. Yesterday, I also received the Gallows Tree publication, so I kind of know the direction you are heading. The Path of Wotan is very viable to the survival of our Folk. I am pleased to see others who are heeding the call of the Blood and are being drawn to Wotanism. Since Jost Turner passed in the mid 1990’s, and Ron McVan has gone on a hermitage, I was beginning to believe that I and the very few who I professed were the only Wotanists left in this country.

Your questions require quite a bit to answer and will take more than one letter to do so. First I want to feed you a bit and see if you are interested in more. As you read the following keep in mind that I’m a warrior and a teacher and not an article writer.

Let me start by saying I was restored to Wotanism under the mentorship of Jost Turner and Ron McVan. Be that as it may, I’ve never met anyone who I agree with 100% of the time and I doubt I ever will. That goes for Jost and Ron also. But that is one of the great things about Wotanism and one of the things it shares with Aryan Hinduism – it is not dogmatic. While there is structure, the religion speaks to each of us in slightly different ways.

Like all religious sects (Catholic/Protestant, Shiite/Sunni, etc.) the Teutonic/Norse religion also has its separate denominations – Asatru, Odinism, and Wotanism.

The Path of Wotanism is a combination of Aryan Yoga, Norse/Teutonic mythology, the Hindu/National Socialism. Wotanism does not live in the Viking Age as does Asatru and most Odinists. Asatru’s leadership had made it a universal new age religion which is more concerned with Viking regalia, memorizing, and being so politically correct that it is no longer of any use to our Folk’s survival or spirituality. I’m digressing here so let me get back to Wotanism. When I say I am a Wotanist in the Jungian sense, I am referring to more than what Jung said about the collective unconscious as a racial genetic memory. But before I get to that more, lets talk about the collective unconscious so we can make sure we are on the same page thus far.

It was Carl G. Jung who postulated that there is not only an individual unconscious, but also a collective unconscious, including a racial or ethnic unconscious impacting significantly upon the race and determining its very being and culture. According to Jung, the individual unconscious contains the repressed memories of our own experiences, and the collective unconscious contains the racial memory of our ancestors which impacts significantly upon the race determining its very being and culture. To Jung, the collective unconscious is made up of the cumulative experience of all the generations of our ancestors stored in the form of archetypes. An archetype is an unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., inherited from the ancestors of the race and universally present in individual psyche. The collective unconscious is a psychic realm, which we share with others of our Race, and it has been developed layer upon layer for eons so that the most accessible layers would be common to one’s clan, then tribe, and then Race. Thus, the collective unconscious is our Folk Soul and its archetypes our Gods. These ancient archetypes are genetically passed on to us in our DNA, therefore our gods and goddesses are actually archetypes of our ancestors. They are our kinsmen; thereby, making us Wotanists by birth. It is our Blood and heritage. All Wotanists carry within them the spark of divinity bestowed upon us by the Wotanic force that has been passed on to us in the genes we inherited from our ancestors. Our tribal gods embody and express our divine collective soul, our Folk Soul, and true spirituality is nothing more than making this connection to our Folk Soul, our collective unconscious.

If you are still with me, I’ As long as the Aryan people live, the Wotan Spirit is immortal!
Richard Scutari