Life: a sacred and heroic mission
[Plus audio version] “Druidic thinking is neither collectivist nor individualist, it is both at the same time”, [1] writes Jean Markale in the book that I have […]
spirituality
Another way of being
[Plus audio version] For a long time now I have been insisting that, if we are to escape falling into the dehumanised and totalitarian hell lined […]
Through nature we can touch the divine
[Plus audio version] The spirituality of the ancient Celts, like that of most pre-modern peoples, was deeply rooted in human belonging to nature. Jean Markale, in […]
Spiritual roots entwined
[Plus audio version] Religious (and indeed political) belief systems can be deceptive – behind the mask of one tradition we often find elements that have been […]
Great Pan and the gap into Elf-land
[Audio version here] I have always found that physical and spiritual heights go hand in hand. As a boy, in the grey London suburbs, I […]
Renewal from within and beyond
[I read the article here) We all know how faiths and ideologies can be corrupted and deliberately turned into a negation of what they were meant to represent. But, it […]
The caged hearts of humankind
It has become apparent to me that there are two aspects to political movements, organisations or institutions. The horrible truth is that they all seem […]
Our sacred world: enjoyed, denied and found again
I have long been fascinated by the way in which the dominant system tries to restrict our thinking on so many levels. We are always told that […]
Becoming what we are meant to be
[Plus audio version] The embrace of our belonging to nature is an important step in restoring a sense of the sacred to our world, as we […]
The reenchantment of our world
[Plus audio version] “The only hope, or so it seems to me, lies in a reenchantment of the world”, writes Morris Berman in his book thusly […]