Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone

These wells once were thought of as gateways to the Celtic Otherworld.

When I met the old Chief Druid, Nuinn, he spoke of a way that had never severed its connection with nature, and which conveyed a sense of the immanence of the divine in all things. In Druidry you communed with Deity in the ‘temple not made with hands’ – in the ‘eye of the sun’ – in the open air, in the environment made by the god/dess not by humans

Every spiritual tradition has a complex history, and the histories of minority movements such as modem paganism are more complex than most. Rather than defining Druidry in mythic terms as a primal tradition of the distant past – to be investigated purely by means of historical research, and thus distanced from the present – it makes more sense to t

Now we can understand how the Ovates were able to conceive of time-travel. The realm of the ancestors was not the realm of people dead-and-gone – it was the repository of tribal wisdom – the realm in which the ancestors lived whilst awaiting reincarnation and to which the Ovate could turn for guidance and inspiration on behalf of the tribe.

Druidism is based on working with the energies of the universe, be they earthly, divine, or cosmic.