Walking the Ancient Path in a Modern World
Kal had given me a few DVDs that someone who had attended this year’s Glastonbury Symposium had obtained. Sadly, this person had not purchased the one containing Philip Carr-Gomm‘s talk, Luckily, that particular speech can be heard in two of the recent Druidcast MP3s (nos.31 and 32). And jolly interesting they were too. Nor did this … Read More “Solara An-Ra stole my soul!” »
When I think of Rorschach I think of that fantastic character from The Watchmen comic and film, however, it was the less than fictional Dr. Hermann Rorschach who invented the famous psychological inkblot test in 1921. Why am I telling you this? Because it prefaces the idea that human beings have a tendency to distinguish … Read More “Rorschach Mind: the faces in the stones” »
Kal and I are off to Glastonbury – the town, not the festival – to mark the Summer Solstice this weekend. If you see us out and about walking around the Glastonbury Zodiac – twelve terrestrial giant shapes marked out in the landscape around the town – then do say hello, or shout abuse at … Read More “Solstice in Glastonbury” »
Every once in a while I am stopped in my tracks when I read a passage from a book whose description of the subtle energies is so closely in accordance with my own experience. In Chapter 3 of Serge Kahili King‘s book, simply entitled “Earth Energies“, I have found just such a correspondence. Describing Baron … Read More “Reichenbach, Magnetism and Od” »
Do you know your Odins from your Wodens? Do you know St.George from St.Michael? Does it really matter? The more research I do, and the more thought I give it, the more it all leads me further back along a reducing scale until I reach The One Other. The further you stretch towards the divine, … Read More “The One Other and The Pantheon of Possibility” »
Apparently, some people pay to learn how to connect with the energies of ancient sites. For example, on Philip Carr-Gomm’s blog there is a post about Soul Companions, who offer you a weekend away in Dorset to learn some pretty cool stuff. Most notably they advertise: “SACRED PLACES – MESSENGERS OF THE GODS Sacred Places … Read More “Soul Companions” »
In a previous post I had explained how Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero algorithm, which purports to track the ebb and flow of what he calls “novelty” (or greater interconnectedness, doing new things, creativity, the breaking of old habits) had drawn a graph with a huge drop in late 2008 – actually, it was October 7th … Read More “Timewave moves on: February 12th, 2009” »
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