I have just finished the book “Exploring the World of the Druids” by Miranda J. Green (see previous posting). My opinion of it is that it would make a fine textbook for a knowledge-hungry student, but I felt it lacked any real appreciation of druidry as a philosophy, and had too much reliance on the endless regurgitation of facts and images.
If you need a grounding in druid history, as seen from a classroom perspective, then this book may be of value. For someone looking for an understanding of the practises of druidry, it was far short of the mark.
I am moving on to read “The Book of Druidry” by Ross Nichols now. I have already been warned by a reviewer on the OBOD site about his “fantasy” perspective. Having read a great deal of ‘fantastic’ stories as part of research into the so-called ‘conspiracy’ subjects, such as Knights Templar, Gnostics, Egyptian magic and The Freemasons, I half expect that those subjects which others regard as fanciful may have more resonance for me. The web of evidence and speculation that surrounds the ‘conspiracy’ topics means you quickly learn to formulate meaningful connections across many subjects in order not to drown in the sheer volume of information that is available.
Having been a firm disbeliever in anything vaguely spiritual until relatively recently I felt I was unlikely to be convinced by the validity of dowsing. But once one is able to let oneself believe – and that’s all the step that it took to trigger off a monumental change in me – once I was willing to give it a serious try, then the rods began to work themselves. I simply became a channel for their actions, guided by who knows who’s hand?
From that moment when I first felt the rods turn without any conscious thought on my part to direct them, then I knew that this path was the right one for me – because it felt good, in every sense of that word. I felt both contented and excited by the experience. I was back doing the things that had intrigued me as a boy, but now I had the means to really study it in depth; I had the rationality to direct the experiments, the motive to accept a change in attitude, and the means to travel and to buy research material.
An awakening was happening.
Gwas Myrddyn.
Follow your true path.
