For most Heathens, the only worldview they have ever even conceived of is the colonized worldview. That’s how the world is seen, and contact with people that have different worldviews doesn’t happen, so it isn’t understood that the world is being thought of in a biased way.

Because of this worldview issue, the task we face in reconstructing and decolonizing Heathenry is monumental. We are acting as a bridge for that process. I was lucky to be brought up with an alternative worldview, so most of the world sees things through a different bias than I do. Because of this, I am often shown an alternative worldview, and this helps me recognize my own biases and understand and alter the way I view the universe.

So yes, for reconstruction, the primary task must be building worldview. That’s basically what reconstruction is.

But the information on building a heathen worldview is incomplete. The problem we run in to, and the reason I started this group, is that the missing pieces of worldview tend to get filled in by colonial worldview. Not on purpose, but again, if you don’t understand that there could be a different way of conceiving of something, you won’t understand that you are holding onto a bias.

It’s not that another traditional culture will be able to tell us what is an objectively correct way for us as heathens to view the world, but their view may show us where the colonial view is different from theirs. That experience will challenge us, and show us that we have a bias that we are not seeing. That experience will present an alternative perspective, which will help us examine the reasons we think the things we think, and consider if we have interpreted them in the correct way.