Category: Animism
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Three Realms: The Importance of Memory and Perception in Druid Tradition
“They looked for an immortality more substantial than the rewards of fame, in a heroic state in the far-off spirit land, to which the bards, it would appear, issued the passport—There lay the realms of mystery.” Inverness Gaelic Society’s Journal, 1800’s
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Three Forms of Knowledge in Druid Tradition
“Attius Patera, The Elder, The Rhetorician- Patera, renowned speaker, although in years you outpaced the men named earlier, seeing that your prime was in the age next before my own, and that in my youth I saw you in your old age, you shall not lack the tribute of my sad dirge, teacher of might […]
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Insanity and Spirituality
Look back at figures such as Joan of Arc, getting directions from God, or pretty much any of the other Christian saints and you’ll notice they experience things these days we’d define as symptoms of illness. Voices, seeing what no one else can see, and having impossible things happen to you would, for a modern, […]
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Goddess and Bishop – Brigid
Thig an nathair as an tollLà donn Brìde,Ged robh trì troighean dhen t-sneachdAir leac an làir. The serpent will come from the holeOn the brown Day of Bríde,Though there should be three feet of snowOn the flat surface of the ground. Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica Vol. 1, 1900 St Brigid is also known as Mary […]
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Meaningful Connection to the Land
As pagans we aspire to be connected to the Earth to live harmoniously via a spiritual relationship with deity as we see it – be it goddess and god or various polytheistic forms. This would seem to be an aspiration of virtually all pagans – Wiccans, Druids, Shamans, Witches etc. and pagans who wear no […]