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We are literal, scientific, rational, surface-oriented, and fast-paced. Yet without imagination, the world becomes arid. Mythopoetic language is magical; it brings worlds into being. Stories of warriors hunting the windswept plains, gods who trick and deceive, maidens transformed into sea monsters, and spiders that weave the web of life have long
... See moreJoanna LaPrade • Forged in Darkness: The Many Paths of Personal Transformation
Emma Restall Orr, a prolific Druid author, states on her website that she endeavours to live a life of which her ancestors would be proud.
Joanna van der Hoeven • Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone
Gwydion-Wizard and Prince of the Powers of Air; master shapeshifter; and God of the arts, eloquence, kindness, and magic. Son of Danu, nephew of Math, and brother of Ameathon, Gobannon, and Arianrhod. Gwydion gave his son Llew his name and his right to bear arms and created Llew's bride for him. One of the twelve that brought the swine to his
... See moreSarah Owen • Celtic Spirituality: A Beginners Guide To Celtic Spirituality
How do we as citizens put things right? By, as Jung wrote, ‘touching nature from the inside’. Walking in the woods, lying on the grass, swimming in the sea, practising gratitude for our food, the air we breathe, the water we bathe in, the animals and stars and sunsets we delight in. Seeking the ‘numinous’ again, the sacred and the awesome in the
... See moreLucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
madness. In this most ‘civilised’ of all cultures, madness is never something to be embraced – but in our old Celtic myths it occurs often enough, and it’s a perfectly natural response to the unendurable.
Sharon Blackie • If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
our communities celebrated the seasonal cycles of Goddess, the movements of the earth, moon and sun, of the stars in the heavens. We acknowledged Goddess as Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Space, as Giver of Birth, Life and Death. We recognized Her in the shapes of the land, as Her paps (breasts) and womb hills, as Her body fleshed out in rounded
... See moreTrevor Greenfield • Naming the Goddess
Ecology teaches us that we exist by virtue of our ties to one another and to the more-than-human world, and that those ties are strengthened, not weakened, by the inclusion and equal participation of each and every member of that network. The strength and resilience of computational networks, the inherent power of distribution and interconnection,
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -