Listen to the call of spirit and seek the truth in wild groves, the shifting seasons, and the beauty of the Old Ways. Discover how to embark on this sacred green path and enrich your life with its ancient wisdom.
Practicing Druid and editor of Touchstone, the journal of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, offers a clear and structured course of study grounded in Celtic history and mythology, and highlights the mysteries and modern practice of this nature-based tradition. Each chapter begins with an evocation visualisation and captivating Welsh mythical tales from the Mabinogion are woven throughout, introducing lessons and key concepts. A Series of hands-on exercises will help you internalise these truths, develop a spiritual awareness rooted in nature, build a relationship with the multidimensional world, and ultimately adopt a druidic worldview to guide you in everyday life.
'Once in a blue moon a book comes out that you get a feeling is going to be a classic. Within minutes of receiving an advance copy, the Treadwell’s staff all got that prickly feeling on the back of the neck. . .’
How did the one small island of Britain, and the country of England in particular, become so steeped in magical practices across the centuries, and why has it given birth to the finest magical stories ever written? English authors such as J.R.R.Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, and J.K.Rowling dominate the world of magic in fiction, but from the earliest times England has also acted as home to generations of eccentrics and scholars who have researched and explored every conceivable occult art, and now more people practice magic in England than at any time in her history.
The Book of English Magic, authored by Philip Carr-Gomm & Druid grade member Sir Richard Heygate, surveys England’s magical past from the moment the first humans inhabited her shores to our present-day fascination with all things magical. Historical explorations, biographies of leading figures, guides to magical fiction and practical exercises are combined with interviews with modern-day magicians which reveal the extent to which magic is alive and well in England in the 21st century. In this beautifully produced illustrated volume of 562 pages the authors trace the story of magic as it developed through the worlds of the Druid and Anglo-Saxon sorcerer, the Alchemist and Witch, the Cunning Folk and the High Magician. In this journey through time, a world that is complex and fascinating reveals itself . . .
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Damh's latest CD - This album was recorded at Witchfest International at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon - it's a classic performance of some of Damh's most popular songs, stripped bare, naked, As Nature Intended.
The bonus track is a dramatised version of Damh's popular piece of prose The Horned God - An Unofficial Biography, where he gives a voice to the ancient Pagan Horned God, and he tells His tale
1. Song of Awen
2. Lady of the Silver Wheel
3. Pagan Ways
4. The Hills they are Hollow
5. Merlin am I
6. Gently Johnny
7. Spirit of Albion
8. Obsession
9. Anarchy in the UK
Bonus Track
10. The Horned God - An Unoffical Biography
Journeys of the Soul
The Life & Legacy of a Druid Chief by Philip Carr-Gomm
With the Selected Poetry, Letters, Travel Diaries, Watercolours and Drawings of Ross Nichols, Foreword by Christina Oakley Harrington
Ross Nichols was one of the key figures in the revival of interest in Druidry and Celtic Spirituality in modern times. The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, which he founded, is now the largest Druid group in the world. Journeys of the Soul vividly describes Nichols’ journey through life in the first complete biography of this enigmatic and influential Druid Chief, allowing us an intimate and controversial glimpse into the life and mind of one of the founding figures of the modern Pagan movement.
Photographs, sketches and colour reproductions of his watercolours are included with the letters and diary excerpts of Nichols’ own journeys, continuing the theme of Philip's biography with stories of travel in evocative places: by the pyramids in Egypt, in the mountains of Bulgaria, in the 'House of Mysteries' at Pompeii.
In these travel journals, Nichols weaves impressions of the countryside and the people with historical and archaeological information, psychic impressions, anecdotes, jokes and poetry. As we follow a historian and spiritual teacher on his journeys, we too are taken on journeys of the soul.
Illustrated 220pp privately published hardback signed by the author (Only available through the Order of Bards Ovates & Druids).
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