Seek Teachings Everywhere: Combining Druid Spirituality with Other Traditions

you ask people why they are attracted to Druidism they will almost invariably offer as a first answer the fact that they love the natural world, and that they deplore the way in which they see it being exploited and damaged. They are looking for a spirituality that honours and works within Nature, rather than separately from it. They feel that mode

Despite these differences, however, certain themes were almost universally adopted: the reverence for nature, an avoidance of dogmatism or the development of a priesthood or spiritual hierarchy, and an absence of discrimination on the basis of gender, age, race or sexual orientation.

Working with inspiration means opening ourselves to our innate creativity.

They may consider themselves Pagan or Christian or Buddhist or of no particular faith, but all these approaches are possible within Druidry, which seems able to become one’s sole spiritual path or to enhance whatever path one is treading already.

Slowly, over the last three hundred years since the beginnings of the Druid Revival, the treasure-chest of our western European pre-Christian spiritual heritage has been revealed, and the effect of this has only really become apparent in the last few decades, with Druidry and Celtic spirituality gaining their rightful places, finally, alongside the

‘Who says we’re trying to live like exactly like them? What we’re doing here is living with the inspiration and the ethos of our spiritual ancestors, but in every age we must create the spirituality that answers to the needs and Spirit of the times.