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‘Many of the old Bardic tales speak of the union of God and Goddess, and one of them – the Tale of Taliesin – lies at the heart of the Druid tradition.
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
There is an Indigenous tribe from the Daly River region in Northern Australia called the Ngangikurungkurr, whose name translates as ‘Deep Water Sounds’ or ‘Sounds of the Deep.’ For the Ngangikurungkurr, it is understood that there is a deep spring of story within that calls on each of us. In order for us to live in harmony with the soul, we must li
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Traditional peoples also commonly lack the modern sense of the human self as indivisible, seeing it instead as penetrating and being penetrated by other beings in the world around.
Ronald Hutton • Pagan Britain
Sally Mallam • The Science of Storytelling
Druidcraft can be seen as both a spiritual path and a path of magic. The art of living well involves knowing how to be both active and passive – how to engage with the world and contribute to it, and how to relax and let life flow around you. It is the same with the art of magic. It involves learning how to be passive or receptive – how to let life
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Love of the Body Druidry sees the body and sexuality as sacred.
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century
While animistic cultures live in a reciprocity with what author and Mayan shaman Martín Prechtel calls the “holy in nature,” we have become a culture infatuated with literality and rationalism. Divorced from myth and the symbolic life, our personal stories cease to have meaning in a larger collective momentum. Also atrophying in this separation, is
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The Lord of Love shines in the hearts of all. Seeing him in all creatures, the wise Forget themselves in the service of all.