- Miscellaneous
by Rev. Roger Davidson Meditating in front of a tree, I closed my eyes and embraced the tree from within. As I sat upon the rock that had welcomed me, I began to feel the love that the tree was sending out. With every passing minute, more and more love...
- Swedish Language Essays
Translation by Saga Bond Vad innebär det att vara en Druid idag? Framför allt så innebär Druidry att följa en andlig väg rotad i den gröna jorden. Det innebär att delta i en levande västerländsk andlig tradition hämtad från många källor, inklusive överlevande arv från Keltiska visdomsläror, men omfamnande av...
- French Language Essays
by Pierre-Charles Fraysse ~ En notre fin de XXème siècle où nous voyons avec quelque intérêt refleurir les religions et philosophies paganisantes dont le Druidisme constitue l’une des expressions parmi les plus remarquables, il nous faut poser à leurs adeptes la question fondamentale de l’existence et de la survie de...
- Modern Druidry
by Peter Goodhugh ~ John Soul was a prominent figure in Amesbury from the late nineteenth century to the earlier part of the twentieth century, remembered mostly from the 1920s to 1940 or thereabouts. Here we have two accounts of him. The first, created by member Hazel Ledgard, is derived...
- Miscellaneous
by Ian Richardson It generally makes me smile when the King Arthur story is dismissed as ‘only legend’ because I enjoy pointing out that the word ‘legend’ originally meant ‘a story that recounts an event or happening’. The wider use of the word (implying that the original meaning was still...
- Book reviews
Reviewed by James Nichol ~ There are some who go into the water, and when they emerge, they recognise the Presence in everything. That is why there is nothing to be depised: a king in rags is still as king. This quotation from the second century Gospel of Philip sums...
- Modern Druidry
by Emma Restall Orr One of the most common phrases we hear from folks who have newly come into Druidry is that what they are experiencing is a return to the way they were. They marvel at how they are once more discovering the openness of childhood perception, with its...
- Miscellaneous
by Chris Street There have been a surprising number of deliberate attempts to re-build London as The New Jerusalem. The first was by the Knights Templar who, in 1185, modelled their Temple Church on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and sited it exactly the same distance from St. Pauls...
- Sacred Sites
by Philip Carr-Gomm If you feel the call of Iona, then answer that call and make the journey to her. She is like a very old Crone, rocky and barren and eternally loving and gentle and tough and wise. She is very old. She is very holy. There is no...
- Miscellaneous
by Dr Renata Bartoli When we undertake a past life regression we normally investigate the most important facts of that life and then we are led to the moment of our death and to the minutes just after it, when the soul detaches from the body, becoming free again, and...
- Sacred Sites
by John Attwood – The Rollright Appeal ~ PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE On October 1st Karin-Ann and I were handfasted under the perfectly clear and starlit skies of a New Moon night at the Rollrights. It was a year and a day since our civil wedding and, as we made...
- Modern Druidry
by Elizabeth Cruse When Chris Park announced at morning meeting that there would be a sweat lodge that night I thought well that sounds alright. Saunter down the field a little way just before dark, maybe even only as far as the sauna and shower, take my clothes off and...
- Miscellaneous
by Fiona Ware I work in a crematorium as an Admin Assistant, it’s a job I sort of fell into rather than a deliberate career choice. On paper my job is handling and processing the paperwork involved in burials, cremations and memorials. It is answering the phone, typing letters, and...
- Sacred Sites
by Michael Maxwell Steer ~ What is beyond us? What is it that we reach out to? What is it that sometimes rewards us with a blast of oxygen in a smog-filled world? Bigger than all these questions: why has consciousness evolved in humans to be so blind, destructive and...
- Miscellaneous
by Kennan Elkman Taylor, MD The Millennium is upon us – though to the academic purists there is a further twelve months to go. It is a time of moving forward which also requires some looking back to see what is still relevant and current for the new era. Because...
- Italian Language Essays
by Stefano Alessi ~ Il Druido è il suo Territorio ~ La mia terra è la Toscana, più precisamente la zona del Montalbano nel Valdarno Inferiore, vicino a Vinci (FI), una dorsale montuosa di circa 25 km e che copre circa 180kmq di territorio nel cuore del bacino del fiume...
- Sacred Sites
by Philip Carr-Gomm ~ There is on the confines of western Britain a certain royal island, called in the ancient speech Glastonia, marked out by broad boundaries, girt round with waters rich in fish and with still-flowing rivers, fitted for many uses of human indigence, and dedicated to the most...
- Book reviews
A review by Nimue Brown of Gather Around The Flame by Daniel Boyle, Bia Helvetti, Roe Malan and Rae Smith. ~ Gather Around The Flame is a charming set of seasonal tales, dark, witty, playful and surprising. Four contributors; Daniel Boyle, Bia Helvetti, Roe Malan, and Rae Smith offer an...
- Miscellaneous
By Dr Renata Bartoli ‘The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, Long before it happens.’ ~ Rilke Many physicists, from Einstein to contemporary quantum physics scientists, have proved that time is a relative coordinate, specific and valid only in our three-dimensional physical world; a mere...
- Miscellaneous
by Kennan Elkman Taylor Historically the runes stem from the Teutonic regions, considered as mainly modern-day Germany, early in the Common Era (CE); although some commentators would see their origins to be many centuries earlier. In fact, the runes may represent an unbroken tradition from the Stone Age, as cave...
- French Language Essays
A selection of essays and contributions in French
...- Miscellaneous
by Luke Eastwood ~ This year (2012) is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work ‘Silent Spring’, published first in the USA in 1962. This was the first book of its kind – an outspoken, powerfully argued and well researched condemnation of the reckless use of...
- Sacred Sites
by Andy Norfolk ~ Outside the sun is roaring brassy waves of burning heat. The ground is dried out and cracked. The streams trickle quietly and modestly. The grass is brown and withered. The leaves of the trees and bushes are limp and dull with dust. This is Cornwall in...
