What Do Druids Believe? (What Do We Believe)

Although many of us feel a spiritual hunger, the challenge is surely to find a way to satisfy this hunger that frees us rather than traps us in dogma.

Rather than presenting Druidry as a religion, the course offered a journey of spiritual and psychological exploration inspired by Druidry, and based upon the philosophy and the ideas that had become associated with it.

Now that science is starting to explore our interconnectedness, traditional barriers between disciplines are starting to break down. We increasingly understand the limitations of studying subjects in isolation. Just as the individual grows from the stage of dependence through independence to an awareness of their interdependence, so the same may be

About 100,000 people in Britain4 and around 426,000 people in the USA5 regard themselves as Pagan.

In the most famous epic in Irish mythology, the Tain Bo Cuailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, we learn of another powerful female Druid, Fidelma. Queen Medb of Connacht is about to engage her armies in battle with King Conchobar of Ulster. She consults Fidelma, who tells her that she has just returned from ‘learning verse and vision in Albion’. Medb

The Eisteddfod, as a cultural phenomenon, has genuine roots in the ancient past of the Celts and Druids, whereas the Gorsedd is Iolo’s invention.

Unlike most of the established religions, which are based on doctrine formulated in the distant past, Druidry is developing its philosophy and practices in response to the spirit of the times. It is being shaped now rather than being preserved or simply passed on, and paradoxically, although it is inspired and informed by an ancient heritage, it is

In 1908 the young Winston Churchill was initiated into the Order, and by 1933 the Order had over a million and a half members.

Druidism was often the subject of their researches, and their work provided much of the source material for numerous writers on Celtic mythology, the Grail, Druidry and Paganism, and succeeded in fuelling a widespread interest in Celtic spirituality in Britain and the United States.