The New Druid's Utterance
The Druid’s Utterance will be undergoing some
significant changes in the next few days.
The new Druid’s Utterance will be an
exploration of our human potentiality through the experience of sound - part music, part soundscape, part poetry and
part storytelling.
In the meantime,
please click the image below to check out some of the samples:
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The Foundation for Engaged Druidism |
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Thursday, 21 December 2006 |
The Foundation for Engaged
Druidism
( http://engageddruidism.org ) is a
new project that I have started with Jason Kirkey (aka Idircheo, betweenthemists).
The FfED is dedicated to the cultivation of an engaged druidic spirituality,
the expression of this practice through dedicated service, and community and
fellowship in and amongst its members. The FfED offers its members the
following services:
- FfED
Sponsored Member Projects
- Anam Turas
Wisdom Center (ATWC) courses and workshops
- Access to
other ATWC services (forums, chat, blogs)
- Advanced
Placement in the ATWC Engaged Druidism courses (based on other courses or
past experience)
- Hosting of
member developed courses
- Engaged
Druidism Discussion Board
- FfED Chat
Rooms
- Expanded
community building features (Hearth Groups, Regional)
- FfED
Library
- The
Preserving Shrine - (FfED Oral Tradition Archive)
I
invite you to visit the FfED site and if you feel you would like to join, we
would be happy to consider your application for membership.
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A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUIDRY |
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Tuesday, 14 November 2006 |
By Philip Carr-Gomm
The lineage of the Druid spiritual tradition can be traced across many thousands of years of time.
We see the first evidence of spiritual practice in Europe 25,000 years ago - when candidates for initiation would crawl into caves, such as those at Lascaux in France or Altamira in Spain, which are dramatically painted with figures of wild animals. After being initiated in the belly of Mother Earth, they were reborn into the light of day. Twenty thousand years later, in around 3000 BC, we can see the same practice of seeking rebirth within the Earth: great mounds were built, in which initiates would sit in darkness awaiting the time of their rebirth. The best example of this is found at New Grange in Ireland, where a shaft is oriented to the Winter Solstice sunrise, so that the dawn rays can bathe the initiate in sunlight after his or her vigil through the night. Four and a half thousand years later, in the sixteenth century, the key text of Druid spirituality, transcribed from the oral tradition by Christian clerics, talks of the spiritual and magical training of a Druid, in which he is eaten by a Goddess, enters her belly, and is reborn as the greatest poet in the land. So from over twenty thousand years ago to the sixteenth century, we see a common theme - which we find again in the training of Druids and poets in Scotland up until the seventeenth century. There, to awaken their creative genius, they were told to lie in darkness for days, and after this period of sensory deprivation, they were released into the brightness of the world.
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