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.

There have always been paths, such as alchemy, which are ‘meta-paths’ able to transcend religious distinctions.

When you risk losing something you start to treasure it more.

I believe the three greatest callings we hear as human beings are as follows:

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

Paramahansa Yogananada

what if we, as Westerners, do not have to look to India for inspiration? What if we realise that the Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic and pre-Celtic pantheon are still very much alive and active in Ireland and other parts of the Celtic world? What if we realise that, in many cases, the universal dreams which make up the foundation of our practice

As environmental degradation increases we are bound to experience an increase of interest in Nature religions.

It 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.