Author: The Druid’s Cauldron
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Science and Meditation
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” Amit Ray Meditation is nothing more than an organised and deliberate form of thinking. If you change the way you think, you have the scope to change your behaviour and your emotional experiences. This is the understanding that […]
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The Swan: Symbols of Love, Loyalty and the Soul
Cover art by Walter Crane “Thou art the door of the chief of hospitality, Thou art the surpassing star of guidance, Thou art the step of the deer of the hill, Thou art the step of the steed of the plain, Thou art the grace of the swan of swimming, Thou art the loveliness of […]
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The Legend of the Lost Island of Hy-Brasil
“There is now living, Morogh O’Ley, who immagins he was himself personally on O’Brasil for two days, and saw out of it the iles of Aran, Golamhead, Irrosbeghill, and other places of the west continent he was acquainted with.” Roderick O’ Flaherty, A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught, 1872 Here Be Monsters… I […]
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Connecting With Spirits of Place
“All human perceptions of material reality can ultimately be documented as chemical reactions in our neurobiology; all our sensations, thoughts, and memories are ultimately reducible to chemistry, yet we feel no need to deny the existence of the material world; it is not less real because our perceptions of it are biologically based… It is […]
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You Are The River
“We’re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” Liam Callanan Yesterday I sat outside and closed my hand around a hot cup of coffee. The smell of the wet mossy ground and mouldering leaves brought me back to being a child, exploring the woods near Inverness. Attempts to find non-poisonous, […]