Winifred Hodge Rose
This is a detailed Table of Contents for Heathen Soul Lore: A Personal Approach, Book II in my Heathen Soul Lore series, to give you an idea of what this book covers. (423 pages.) Please note that Book I, Heathen Soul Lore Foundations, provides the necessary background information for this Book II. Alternatively, you can read the Soul Lore material on this website for background information; the titles of the relevant background articles are given at the beginning of each chapter in Book II.
Introduction
How to approach this study
The layout of this book
1. Review: Definition and Overview of Heathen Souls
Defining a soul
A brief summary of each soul
Ferah
Ahma
Ghost
Hama
Aldr
Saiwalo
Hugr
Mod
Sefa
Associated spirits
Soul-footholds
2. Foundations of Experiential Exploration
Methods for learning
The most essential ability: Imagination
Critical thinking and critical knowing
“We really don’t / can’t know anything about the soul…”
Knowledge as skilled experience
Basic premises of soul-craft
Your Daybook
Preliminary exercise: Where are you starting from?
Focused awareness
Exercise 2.1: Thinking about soul-ideas
Exercise 2-2: Feeling and reacting to soul-ideas
The role of our sensory-organ analogs
Exercise 2-3: Your sensation-strengths
Your Soul-Habitat
Consolidation
And more Daybook!
3. Exploring your Ferah Soul
Join your Ferah in its habitat
Exercise 3-1: Ancient roots
Exercise 3-2: Ancient Deities
Exercise 3-3: Your Ferah-habitat
Ferah’s sensory awareness
Exercise 3-4: Nourishing Ferah
Ferah and Law
Exercise 3-5: The path of priesthood
Exercise 3-6: Ferah and sacrifice
Exercise 3-7: Afterlife of Ferah
Exercise 3-8: Ferah during your childhood
Summary of Ferah, with further meditations
Focusing your awareness on Ferah
Extra: On trees, hierarchy, and natural law
Extra: A discussion on Ferah and Magic
4. Exploring your Ahma and Ghost Souls
The natures of Ahma, Ghost and Deities
Exercise 4-1: Becoming aware of Ahma’s habitat
Awareness
Our soul-spindle
Exercise 4-2: Tuning Ghost, Ahma and Lichama to the same wavelength
Exercise 4-3: Combine tuning with rune-galdor and with forms of art
Exercise 4-4: Your Ghost-habitat
Ghost-Mind, Intellect
What Ghost loves to do
Disembodiment
Nurturing your Ghost
Exercise 4-5: Expressing your Ghost
Exercise 4-6: Choosing words for Ghost-practice
Exercise 4-7: Fostering the Ghost of children
5. Ghost and Wode
Dysfunctions and imbalances of Ghost
A note on creative Wode and substance abuse
Controlled development and use of Wode
Exercise 5-1: Evaluating Wode in your life
6. Exploring your Hama, Lich-Hama and Ellor-Hama
Hama as a covering
Exercise 6-1: Sensing your Hama
Exercise 6-2: Sensing Hama-shifts
Exercise 6-3: Shaping your Hama
The Ellor-Hama
Evaluating Hama’s communication
Exercise 6-4: Are you sending mixed messages?
A word about Hamingja
Summary
7. Exploring Aldr, Ørlög, Werold
Aldr-Wita
Exercise 7-1: Aldr-flow
Exercise 7-2: Healing Aldr-flow
Aldr, Ørlög, and the Ordeal
Exercise 7-3: Being shaped by ørlög
Weaving a Werold
Exercise 7-4: Your Werold as a work of art
Nourishment as ørlög
Exercise 7-5: Understanding nourishment
Exercise 7-6: Exploring your Aldr’s time-body
In closing
8. Mod and Hugr: Motivating Forces
First, the context
Exercise 8-1: Observing your motivating forces
Observing Hugr and Mod
Exercise 8-2: Observing Mod and Hugr in action
Exercise 8-3: Wiliness and frustration
The effects of honest observation
9. Exploring your Mod Soul
The nature and strengths of Mod and mægen
Exercise 9-1: Sensing your Mod
Mod and Wode as states of being
Exercise 9-2: Do you squash your Mod-force?
The Thorlings
Exercise 9-3: Your Mod-magnets
Mod’s nature
Building character
Mod as Will
Exercise 9-4: Shaping character and Will
Roots, trunk and branches…
…And then the seeds
How does this work?
Exercise 9-5: The power of the gut
Exercise 9-6: Where is courage?
Exercise 9-7: Partnering with Mod
Exercise 9-8: Who or what do you admire?
Help from the Holy Ones
The Battle of Maldon
10. Exploring your Hugr
A framework of thought
Hlutro hugiu: Clarifying the Hugr
Emotions as fuel for Hugr
The role of awareness
Courage and clarity
The value of clarity
The role of desire or wish
Exercise 10-1: Your deepest longings
Exercise 10-2: Attuning actions with longings
Exercise 10-3: Making friends with Hugr
Friendship Song
11. Will and Wish: The Dynamism of Mod and Hugr
Will
Wish
Love as Wish fulfilled
Dynamic tension of Will and Wish
Exercise 11-1: Finding Will within you
Exercise 11-2: Working with Wish
Dealing with the unachievable Wish
Exercise 11-3: Examining your difficult Wishes
In closing
12. Sefa, Hugr and Modsefa
Sefa
The selfish, grim or savage Sefa
Hugr as Sefa’s warder
Invitations to Goddesses
Exercise 12-1: Pursuing Sefa-awareness
Attuning Sefa and Hugr
Exercise 12-2: Awareness of Hugr as warder
Exercise 12-3: Tuning in to your warding Hugr
Modsefa and ethical action
Exercise 12-4: Tuning in to your Modsefa
Gender stereotypes
Building trust between Sefa, Hugr and Mod
Souls working together
13. Sefa: The Channel of Compassion
Sefa’s role
Exercise 13-1: Sensing compassion-energy
The nature of compassion-energy
The mystery of compassion
Keeping compassion flowing
Exercise 13-2: Fine-tuning your flow of compassion
In closing
14. Saiwalo-Dwimor and the Sea of Images
Summary of Saiwalo
The impacts of cultural beliefs
Dwimor grips image-energy
Exercise 14-1: Growing your awareness of images
Saiwalo and Sowilo
Exercise 14-2: Navigating the sea of images
Feeding the images
Image-winnowing
Exercise 14-3: Clarifying Dwimor’s hoard
Images as prayers and magical intentions
Exercise 14-4: Practicing prayer and magical intent
15. Fields of Awareness
Ferah’s awareness
Ahma’s awareness
Ghost’s awareness
Hama’s awareness
Aldr’s awareness
Mod’s awareness
Hugr’s awareness
Sefa’s awareness
Saiwalo-Dwimor’s awareness
Eormensoul
Exercise 15-1: Experiments with your soul-council
About Frigg and her spinning
16. Finding the Time: A Guide for Daily Soul-Work
Fitting practices into your day
Awareness
Soulful communication
Daily experiences
17. Walking a Soul-Path
The Path of Relationships among your own souls
The Path of Vocation
Paths of Relationship with others
The Path of Healing
The Path of Creativity
Heathen esoteric paths
The challenge of the Heathen soul-path
The book also includes an extensive Word-Hoard / Glossary and a Book-Hoard / Bibliography.