I've been sensitive to the land for as long as I can remember.
As a young man, I felt energies at certain places—an atmosphere in nature that others seemed to walk right past. I was called on dream journeys to sacred sites, meeting mountain beings in visions I couldn't explain. Something was reaching toward me. But I had no framework, no teacher, no way to understand what was happening.
I read every book on Norse mythology I could find, sensing depth that no author seemed to touch. The stories felt like they meant something more—like they were pointing at something real. But every book treated them as entertainment. Dead religion. Primitive beliefs we'd outgrown.
My father, Erlendur Haraldsson, spent his career as a University of Iceland professor documenting that Icelanders experience more contact with the unseen than any other European population. His research proved the phenomena were real. But no one was asking the obvious question: What creates these experiences? Is there a method?
At thirty-six, I sat on Mount Hoffell in eastern Iceland to find out. Not as a scholar analyzing texts, but as a practitioner—attempting útiseta, "sitting out," the völva's ancient meditation. I didn't know if there was anything real to find.
Something Answered
Not imagination—something with presence, with teaching, with a clarity that changed everything. The dream journeys, the sensitivity, the years of searching—it all made sense. The land had been preparing me. Now it was ready to teach directly.
For thirty years since, I've practiced útiseta at Iceland's sacred sites. I've mapped the mathematics preserved in the dwarf-lists and the Völuspá. I've traced the sacred geography from Snæfellsjökull to Hoffell to sites across the Northern world. The teachings I received as dreams became waking transmission. The beings I'd glimpsed became teachers.
What I Discovered Is This:
The sagas and Eddas aren't stories. They're instruction manuals. And the völva tradition they preserve is a complete system for consciousness transformation—as sophisticated as anything in the East, but designed for Northern bodies and Northern land.
I'm Dr. Haraldur Erlendsson—psychiatrist, practitioner, and author of Ein Sat Hún Úti: The Ancient Practice of Sitting Out.
I wrote this book because what I found doesn't belong to me. It belongs to anyone serious enough to do the work. The völva tradition almost died. For a thousand years, the keys to decode it were lost.
Now they're recovered. And if you've felt called to the North—if you've sensed there was something real beneath the mythology—this is what you've been looking for.
— Haraldur Erlendsson, MD DCN MSc MRCPsych
Dr. Haraldur Erlendsson MD, DCN, MSc, MRCPsych
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30+ years practicing Ăştiseta at Icelandic sacred sites
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Formally trained in higher tantra through Ramakrishna lineages
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Son of Erlendur Haraldsson, University of Iceland Professor of Psychology
Erlendur Haraldsson's research documented that Icelanders experience more contact with the unseen than any other European population. His son's work recovers the indigenous technology behind these experiences.
Ein Sat HĂşn Ăšti
The völva's secret meditation practice, preserved for over a thousand years in Norse mythology—now available as practical instruction for consciousness transformation.
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