What Do Druids Believe? (What Do We Believe)

Many people think of magic either as the creation of illusion, as in stage magic, or as the attempt to manipulate circumstances or people through spell-casting in order to obtain things, such as love or wealth.

Like ripples in a pool caused by a stone falling into it, the magician sees each person as an influential being, who can cause either joy or sorrow by the way that they live their lives.

But it also takes into consideration the view that we are meant to be here, that we are destined to be active, creative participants in life, and that our thoughts, feelings, words and actions all have an effect which obeys the Law of the Harvest.

The magical approach in Druidry, like the mystical and shamanic, follows from the belief that ‘all is connected’ and that other worlds or dimensions exist in addition to the realm of appearances.

There is yet one more way in which Druidry can be pursued – as a path of magic.

The Path of Magic

Many people have had experiences of ‘extrasensory perception’ – even if only fleetingly, perhaps just once or twice in their lives.

The belief that there is more to life than the world of appearances, that an Otherworld exists, leads logically to the belief that we can make contact with forces and beings that exist beyond the world of appearances.

They don’t feel the necessity to ‘have’ a religion, or they share John Lennon’s vision when he sang, in ‘Imagine’, of an ideal world with no religion.