“The tale grew in the telling, and the telling was a part of the story.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Cover art is a statue of a druid in Croome Parke, Worchestershire
Writing and books cripple our memory capabilities by providing us with a convenient memory prop. Most of us see no need to remember facts nor do we seek additional for our memories. This atrophying of memory is the same type of loss that occurs for the math student who possesses an electronic calculator. No such calculators existed prior to 1950, yet students and engineers could accurately perform complicated calculations in their heads if necessary. The advent of cheap, easy electronic calculation has caused many of us to lose the discipline and ready availability of our earlier mathematical techniques. Books serve a similar function and effect for storing concepts and have a similar atrophying effect upon our memory capabilities (to that of calculators on our mathematical abilities) as evidenced in the atrophy of our own personal, internal, memorized knowledge base.
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Searles O'Dubhain
Searles O’Dubhain is an American Celtic scholar, writer and story teller who has been practicing Druidry for over 30 years. Searles created ‘The Summerlands’, one of the very first beloved online Celtic pagan communities in the early 90’s. He additionally published ‘Ogham Divination’, that lays a detailed and creative pathway of recreating and discovering the ancient ways of the Druids. This and much more available on his website.
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