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by Eileen Donaldson Knowing how stories work is almost all the battle.~ Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad Introduction While it might be a given that the actions and behaviours needed for survival would probably have been the ones humanity mastered first, it is almost certain that recounting those actions in story...

by Joanna Van Der Hoeven There is a marked increase in the rise people who follow a Druid path and, indeed, all Pagan paths. Why should this be?In today’s society, we can become so distanced from nature that we feel we need to do something to return to it; something...

by Joanna Van Der Hoeven In Druidry, we learn often hear the word, awen, being used, but what exactly is awen? Loosely translated from Welsh, it means flowing spirit, or flowing inspiration. Awake to our own energy, and stretching out towards the energy of nature around us, we begin to...

by Philip Carr-GommMy father introduced me to the Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids when I was 15. His name was Philip Ross Nichols, but I soon came to know him by his mystical name of Nuinn. Shortly after our first meeting, I accepted his invitation to...

by Philip ShallcrassMost Pagans, unless they are hard-core New Agers living permanently in flotation tanks, will have noticed great things happening in the Pagan world over the last few years. Interest in our traditions has never been stronger, and those traditions themselves have been evolving in exciting ways. The magic...

by Gordon CooperI have come by the green and winding road That leads from the town to the gods’ abode,- To the ancient shadowy place apart, Where spring is born in the woodland’s heart, And over and over the ages through The spirit of joy is made anew. O world...

by vyvyan ogma wyverne The Discourse:In the discourse on Druidry which is being developed within Druidry the probing questions about Druids and about Druidry are being asked by Druids themselves. Druidry is a quest. It’s a call to the instincts, intelligence and communication skills of people who call themselves Druids....

by Kevin O’Reilly Awen is a complicated concept and hard to understand. Teaching its meaning is often not clear and imprecise. I can only offer my sense of feeling and, as sure as the wind drifts sand, my own perspective may shift slightly as time moves on. I only know...

by George KnowlesVera Chapman is perhaps best known as the founder of the Tolkien Society of Great Britain, founded in 1969 to promote the works of the author J.R.R. Tolkien. Later she became an accomplished author herself, best known for the Arthurian Trilogy: The Green Knight (1975), King Arthur’s Daughter...

by Adam Brough In ancient times, the Druids were members of a professional class in which their society’s religious and spiritual life was embodied. They were the philosophers, scientists, theologians, and intellectuals of their culture, and the holders of the philosophical, scientific, and religious knowledge of their age. The nearest...

by Philip Carr-GommMankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the Cosmos.~ D. H. Lawrence Since the Enlightenment our culture has projected the message that life is linear – that we are born, we grow old and we die, and that’s it. The old message of the cyclicity...

by Philip Carr-Gomm On radical Druidry: Stukeley was (at first) a pagan Neoplatonist who disapproved of the intolerance of Christianity; Iolo a pacificist and republican, who was regarded as dangerous by the government and held a Gorsedd of Bards that was broken up by mounted militiamen; William Price a revolutionary...

more sophisticated grasp of the foundations of their spiritual practice than many academics claim. This attitude to the past has much in common with recent developments in post-modern historiography, including a realisation that it is impossible to isolate a single, objective past without relying on written accounts, which are...