Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

Classical and Celtic accounts show that both male and female Druids existed, and Celtic laws offered greater privileges to women than most cultures of the time. Just as it is literally and politically correct to use such terms as actor and waiter when referring to either gender, so in this book the word Druid applies to either gender also.

He began work on a book, originally entitled Templa Druidum but later changed as its scope widened to Monumenta Britannica

If all books on Druidry and all its current practitioners were to be destroyed, it would still survive to appear again in some form at some time and in some place. Such things are hard for materialist historians to understand.

TODAY OUR BIGGEST problem is that we have separated ourselves from Nature – so much so that there is a risk we may not survive as a species.

In addition, Druidry accepts and enjoys the means through which life comes into being – the inherently sexual nature of all life – and offers an approach that is based upon being fully involved in the world – on celebrating its beauties and joys, and on engaging its difficulties rather than trying to ‘rise above them’. It suggests that we are meant

There were many levels of accomplishment, but the most skilled of Bards were held in high esteem and partook of many of the functions of both the Ovate and the Druid.

In particular they learn how to encourage the flow of Nwyfre through the body. (Nwyfre is the Druid term for life-force, known as chi or prana in the East.)

The fusion of these folk in central Europe in about the second millennium BC resulted in successive cultures known as Unetice, Tumulus and Urnfield. Some scholars argue that towards the close of the second millennium BC the Urnfield culture becomes identifiable as ‘proto-Celtic’.

In coming to these sources of evidence we are presented with a rich and exciting field of study which in recent years or so has helped us form a picture of Druidry which suggests a continuity of tradition from the Neolithic right through to the Celtic era.