Anyone familiar with Asatru knows that the clan or family line holds a special place in our religion. It is only in the last decades that experimental evidence has begun to verify these age-old beliefs. The foundations of metagenetics lie not in totalitarian dogma of the 19th and 20th centuries, but rather in intuitive insights as old as our people. For while that science deals with genetics, it also transcends the present boundaries of that discipline and touches on religion, metaphysics, and (among other things) the hereditary nature of Jungian archetypes. In this article we will discuss, fully and at length, a science for the next century which we have named 'metagenetics'. This belief of ours has led to much misunderstanding, and as a result some have attempted to label us as 'racist', or have accused us of fronting for totalitarian political forms. McNallen c.19.85 One of the most controversial tenets of Asatru is our insistence tha.t ancestry matters- that there are spiritual and metaphysical implications to heredity, and that we are thus a religion not for all of humanity, but rather one that calls only its own. He has recently contributed an article entitled Three Decades of the Ásatrú Revival in America to Tyr, a periodical espousing Radical Traditionalism.ASATRU FOLK ASSEMBLY Metagenetics Stephen A. The Viking Brotherhood later evolved into the Asatru Free Assembly.Īfter some years of inactivity and restructuring, McNallen currently leads the Asatru Folk Assembly or AFA.

Much like Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson founder of the Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið, Else Christensen of the Odinist Fellowship and Stubba of the Odinic Rite, McNallen founded a proto-Asatru group called the Viking Brotherhood in 1972 and began publishing a small periodical called the Runestone.

McNallen was one of the major advocates of Asatruand Odinism in modern times. Mcnallen currently resides in Nevada City, California. McNallen worked for six years as a junior high school instructor and worked briefly as a prison guard.įrom 1987 to 1996, McNallen served in the United States National Guard, where he held a 'Secret' level 'security clearance' for his involvement in work in counter-drug operations. His articles have appeared in Soldier of Fortune magazine. In this capacity, he traveled to India, Burma, Africa, and the former Yugolslavia to report on military conflicts. McNallen was stationed in Germany for the latter part of his enlistment, which ended in 1976.Īfter his discharge from the Army, McNallen hitch-hiked across the Sahara Desert, and worked as an adventure journalist.

After receiving a degree in political science and a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, McNallen went on to become a U.S. McNallen attended Midwestern University in Texas.

Asatru by Stephen A. McNallen