Download or read book Druidry Handbook written by John Michael Greer and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic guide to living a spiritual life rooted in Celtic antiquity and revived to meet the challenges of contemporary life. Druidry offers people a path of harmony through reconnection with the green Earth. The Druidry Handbook is the first hands-on manual of traditional British druid practice that explores the Sun Path of seasonal celebration, the Moon Path of meditation, and the Earth Path of living in harmony with nature as tools for crafting an Earth-honoring life here and now. From ritual and meditation to nature awareness and ecological action, John Michael Greer opens the door to a spirituality rooted in the living Earth. Featuring a mix of philosophy, rituals, spiritual practice, and lifestyle issues, The Druidry Handbook is an essential guide for those seriously interested in practicing a traditional form of druidry. It offers equal value to eclectics and solitary practitioners eager to incorporate more Earth-based spirituality into their own belief system.
Download or read book The Druid Magic Handbook written by John Michael Greer and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only Druidic book of spells, rituals, and practice. The Druid Magic Handbook is the first manual of magical practice in Druidry, one of the fastest growing branches of the Pagan movement. The book breaks new ground, teaching Druids how to practice ritual magic for practical and spiritual goals within their own tradition. What sets The Druid Magic Handbook apart is that it does not require the reader to use a particular pantheon or set of symbols. Although it presents one drawn from Welsh Druid tradition, it also shows the reader how to adapt rites and other practices to fit the deities and symbols most meaningful to them. This cutting edge system of ritual magic can be used by Druids, Pagans, Christians, and Thelemites alike! This is the first manual of Druidic magical practice ever, replete with spell work and rituals.
Download or read book The Druid s Book of Ceremonies Prayers and Songs written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Druid's Book of Ceremonies, Songs, and Prayers represents a collection of 35 distinct ceremonies, prayers, chants, blessings, recognitions, and meditations created by members of the modern druid community. These materials may be used by individuals, groups, and groves to enhance their practice and connect with the living earth. The book is pan-druid in nature, thus, these materials that may be of use by anyone following a druid or nature-based spiritual path. The collection includes songs and chants with musical notation, that represent joy and connection. It also offers a wide range of poems and prayers for everything from connecting to the seasons to honoring nature. Poetry and prayer may be used on their own or worked into other aspects of ritual or daily practice. Rituals include coming of age and recognizing life passages, honoring the trees and the earth, honoring the self, and experiencing the world around us. Meditations include guided meditations and calendars for the moon, tree meditations, and forest bathing. The contributions to this collection show us remarkable pluralism, resilience, and sustainability at the center of our growing spiritual network. Our collection represents the diversity of the Druid tradition, and nearly everyone who practices Druidry will be able to find inspiration within these pages.
Download or read book Pagan Portals The Awen Alone written by Joanna van der Hoeven and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Druidry is a wonderful, spiritually fulfilling life path. Through the magic that is Druidry, we build deep and abiding relationships with the natural world around us, and through our connection to the natural environment we walk a path of truth, honour and service. We aim to immerse ourselves in the present moment, in the present environment, in order to share in the blessing that is the cycle of life. Throughout the ages, people have withdrawn from the world in order to connect more fully with it. This book is an introductory guide for those who wish to walk the Druid path alone, for however long a time. It is about exploration and connection with the natural world, and finding our place within it. It covers the basics of Druidry and how, when applied to the everyday life, enriches it with a sense of beauty, magic and mystery. This book is for those people who feel called to seek their own path, to use their wit and intelligence, compassion and honour to create their own tradition within Druidry.
Download or read book Rethinking the Ancient Druids written by Miranda Aldhouse-Green and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Classical authors have painted the Druids in a bad light, defining them as a barbaric priesthood, who 2,000 years ago perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul in the name of their gods. Archaeology tells a different and more complicated story of this enigmatic priesthood, a theocracy with immense political and sacred power. This book explores the tangible ‘footprint’ the Druids have left behind: in sacred spaces, art, ritual equipment, images of the gods, strange burial rites and human sacrifice. Their material culture indicates how close was the relationship between Druids and the spirit-world, which evidence suggests they accessed through drug-induced trance.
Download or read book Bonewits s Essential Guide to Druidism written by Isaac Bonewits and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most renowned Druid priest in North America, Isaac Bonewits has spent the last four decades devoted to Druidic study. Now he imparts his wisdom through this elegant and thoughtful tour of ancient and modern Druidism. With impeccable scholarship, Bonewits explores the Druids' archeology and mythology, and helps to demystify their rituals and prayers.
Download or read book The Druid Revival Reader written by John Michael Greer and published by Lorian Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, a handful of British intellectuals turned their backs on the social and cultural trends of their time and set out to reinvent the spirituality of the ancient Druids. The movement that rose out of this effort played a central role in struggles for cultural identity in most of the Celtic nations of Europe, provided inspiration to such world-class creative talents as William Blake and Frank Lloyd Wright, and inspired an innovative tradition of Western nature spirituality that remains active to this day. The Druid Revival Reader provides the first collection of original writings from that movement. Its selections, beginning with William Stukeley's survey of Druid theology from 1743 and ending with Ross Nichols' 1947 essay "An Examination of Creative Myth," cover two centuries in the life of an evolving tradition. Edited and introduced by contemporary Druid John Michael Greer, The Druid Revival Reader is essential for understanding the sources of modern Druid and Pagan traditions, and offers a wealth of insights relevant to the ecological and spiritual crises of our own time.
Download or read book The Celtic Golden Dawn written by John Michael Greer and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, Celtic groups descending from the famed Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn pioneered a fascinating form of ceremonial magic invoking Pagan Celtic powers instead of relying on the more commonly used Judeo-Christian names and symbols. Those groups disappeared many decades ago, and their teachings were lost. But today, their legacy has been reborn. Respected occult author and Grand Archdruid John Michael Greer has re-created a complete magical system based on the Celtic Golden Dawn traditions. This new book provides students with a complete curriculum of Druidical magic and occult wisdom, including training in ceremonial magic, meditation, pathworking, divination, geomancy, and herbal alchemy, allowing self-initiation into the three degrees of Ovate, Bard, and Druid. Structured to resemble a long-lost correspondence course, The Celtic Golden Dawn presents a series of knowledge lectures, meditations, and rituals leading to mastery of the most important magical techniques.
Download or read book The Gnostic Celtic Church written by John Michael Greer and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GCC has chosen to establish what was once called a regular clergy, as distinct from a secular clergy-that is to say, something much closer to monks than to ministers. This was the core model for clergy in the old Celtic Church in Ireland, Wales, Brittany, and other Celtic nations, in the days before the Roman papacy imposed its rule on the lands of Europe's far west. Members of the Celtic clergy were monks first and foremost, living lives focused on service to the Divine rather than the needs of a congregation, and those who functioned as priests for local communities did so as a small portion of a monastic lifestyle that embraced many other dimensions. In all Gnostic traditions, personal religious experience is the goal that is set before each aspirant and the sole basis on which questions of a religious nature can be answered-certain teachings have been embraced as the core values from which the Gnostic Celtic Church as an organization derives its broad approach to spiritual issues. Those core teachings may be summarized in the words "Gnostic, Universalist, and Pelagian" which are described in this book.
Download or read book The Druid Grove Handbook written by John Michael Greer and published by Lorian Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its origins in the early eighteenth century, Druidry-a modern movement of nature spirituality drawing much of its inspiration from Celtic tradition-has evolved a rich body of ceremonial and collective practice. Celebrated privately within groves this body of lore provides a ritual framework for the celebration of the seasonal cycle and the spiritual development of the individual. To this wealth of tradition, The Druid Grove Handbook is one of the few publicly available sources. Compiled from the records of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), and edited by the AODA's current Grand Archdruid, widely read author and environmental blogger John Michael Greer, it provides a detailed survey of the evolution of AODA's ceremonial traditions, and the complete rituals for opening and closing a Druid grove, initiating candidates for membership, and celebrating the solstices and equinoxes, the four primary holy days of the traditional Druid year.
Download or read book A Druid s Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year written by Ellen Evert Hopman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-11-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the ancient Druids, the healing and magical properties of herbs were inseparable from the larger cycles of the seasons, the movements of the planets, and the progression of a human life. A Druid’s Herbal shows the reader how to use herbs when creating rituals to celebrate festivals and significant life passages such as births, house blessings, weddings, funerals, and naming ceremonies. Drawing on extensive research and a deep personal experience with Pagan traditions, Ellen Evert Hopman explores the history and folklore surrounding the eight major Celtic festivals: Samhain, Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltaine, Summer Solstice, Lugnasad, and Fall Equinox. Included in each discussion are complete instructions on the medicinal and magical uses of the herbs associated with each celebration. Using these Celtic traditions as examples, the author suggests ways to incorporate the symbolic and magical power of herbs into personal rituals that honor all phases of life from childbirth to last rites. Also included are chapters on how to prepare herbal tinctures, salves, and poultices; herbs used by the Druids; herbal alchemy and the planets; and the relationships between herbs and sacred places. Filled with practical information and imaginative suggestions for using herbs for healing, ceremony, and magic, this book is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to age-old herbal practices.
Download or read book Trilithon written by Ancient Order of Druids in America and published by Ancient Order of Druids in America. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multitude of reflections on Druidry as a spiritual tradition and daily practice, this issue includes a photo essay of the Faroe Islands by Mark Long, as well as pieces on the path of Druidry by Jill Frew and Alisha Jondreau. Readers will also find scholarly essays by Selena Blackwell, Moine Michelle (Michelle LaFrance), Dana O'Driscoll, and interviews Kathleen Opon, AODA Grand Almoner and Member Outreach Coordinator (by Claire Schlosser), and Dana O'Driscoll, AODA Grand Archdruid (by Moine Michelle). The issue closes with two poems by Jason Stieber and Moine Michelle.
Download or read book The Druid s Primer written by Luke Eastwood and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first serious attempt to collate the vast body of druidic knowledge from verifiable ancient sources and Celtic survivals into one usable and practical volume as a handy reference for druids and a learning tool for the would be druid. Inspired by the medieval Irish 'Scholar's Primer' this work is the culmination of 15 years' research and practical exploration of what it means to be a druid in a modern context. , ,
Download or read book The Druid Way written by Philip Carr-Gomm and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Druidism, the ancient shamanic religion of Britain is experiencing a major revival there and in America. This book is both a complete description of the Druid Way as well as a fascinating tour of the major Druid sites, ruins, and "power places". Includes specific suggestions for bringing this ancient wisdom tradition into our own lives and activities.
Download or read book The Druids written by Paul Lonigan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-06-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of the Druids offers a fresh look at the enigmatic and often controversial question of the role of these priests in Celtic society. The religion of Druidism is examined as an inheritance of Indo-European tradition, with intriguing analogies made between Irish and Roman cultic practices. The author identifies the functions of the ancient priests, providing an inventory of their duties and services. Druids are also defined in terms of their connections with other branches of Eurasian mysticism. This study will be of particular interest to scholars of Irish culture, Celtic culture, and comparative religion.
Download or read book Druidcraft The Magic of Wicca and Druidry written by Philip Carr-Gomm and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Druidry and Wicca, also known as "the Craft", are the two great streams of the Western Pagan tradition. Both traditions originated in the British Isles, and both are now experiencing a renaissance all over the world, as more and more people seek a spirituality rooted in a love of nature.
Download or read book BARDIC COURSE written by New Order of Druids and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using traditional myths, cosmology, and the insights of modern disciplines such as ecology and ecopsychology, the Bardic Course introduces the druidic student to a way of seeing the world that is both fresh and ancient - and an awakened way of living in that world in service to the hearth community. Topics include: Translations of important mythological stories to illuminate the lessons and commentaries. An exploration of basic questions such as ""What is Druidism?"" Animism and the variety of Celtic views on divinity. The process of initiation into a soul-centric way of being in and seeing the world. The fecund power of darkness and the unconscious in spiritual growth. Forming relationships with the ancestors. Presence as the language of nature, and learning from the earth. Ecology, activism, art, sovereignty, and other topics which provide a clear segue into the Ovate Course. The art of pilgrimage as a model and practice of spiritual transformation.
