Seek Teachings Everywhere: Combining Druid Spirituality with Other Traditions
Philip Carr-Gommamazon.com
Seek Teachings Everywhere: Combining Druid Spirituality with Other Traditions
There have always been paths, such as alchemy, which are ‘meta-paths’ able to transcend religious distinctions.
They talk about the ‘New Age schmorgasbord’ which goes for variety rather than depth, but if we go beyond this judgmental position to observe what is really happening, we can see that many people can no longer hold an allegiance to just one religion.
‘Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively so that you disbelieve in all the rest, otherwise you lose much good, nay you will fail to recognise the real truth of the matter. Let your soul be capable of embracing all forms of belief.’
When you risk losing something you start to treasure it more.
The first is to love. This takes real courage, and ultimately surrender, to know our capacity for love - and we can only know this by loving another, by loving every detail in the natural world, knowing it as love, as from love. Love is the most resonant and beautiful interface between all being, it is an active state of communion, of giving and re
... See moreIt could be because its deliberate lack of dogma and theology offers the perfect base to combine with the stronger flavours provided by those approaches that do have significant theological and dogmatic dimensions.
As environmental degradation increases we are bound to experience an increase of interest in Nature religions.
More and more people are recognising the universal themes they see expressed in every religion and they are becoming less interested in dogma and in rigid identification with any one religious path.
Listen my love, illumination is eternal. As there are billions of stars, There are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, There are billions of ways to grow. Rumi