Druid Journal

Guidance by Word, Card, and Star

January 2007

  • How to Choose a Religion VI: Languages of Spirit

    In this post I’d like to start exploring religion from a different perspective, using language as a metaphor. I’ve been pulling together my thoughts on this for a couple of months now, and I’ve found that looking at religion in this way resolves the fundamental issues I talked about in my last post on this… Continue reading

  • Carl Jung’s Shadow on the Stairs

    A couple of days ago, not long after breakfast, my oldest daughter, who is 8, was coming upstairs to ask me a question when I heard her give a little shriek of surprise. In my house, kids are shrieking and screaming and laughing all the time, so I didn’t think twice about it. But then… Continue reading

  • Possible New Celtic Language Discovered

    I always get excited about new linguistic discoveries. This new discovery isn’t certain yet, and the final linguistic consensus may not arrive for decades, but it’s an exciting possibility anyway. Continue reading

  • Impact of Druidism on Everyday Life: Requited Gratitude

    “How has your religion changed your daily, everyday life?” In my original post on the essence of Druidism, I wrote about how gratitude was the essence of what drew me to the religion — gratitude for our ancestors, our teachers, and our gods. I have found, though, that since beginning my practice, my whole experience… Continue reading

  • Robert Anton Wilson

    I learned from Blogickal this morning that Robert Anton Wilson’s body has died. (I am in no position to say anything difinitive about his spirit.) He lived his life as an iconoclast — which is not a necessarily unusual thing in this age, but it is rare for someone to do it with such wit,… Continue reading

  • Don’t You Go to Church?

    Being a non-Christian in the United States is not always easy. I know, because I grew up here, and I’ve never been Christian. Zen and the Art of Childhood I was raised essentially Zen Buddhist in the southeast, a region not known for its tolerance and open-mindedness. My mother was Zen; my father and his… Continue reading

  • Children in Paganism

    This past Samhain, my family and I went up to New Hampshire to attend a festival thrown by the Spiral Scouts of Peterborough. The Spiral Scouts are a sort of Boy/Girl Scout group for non-monotheistic children, and the event, to be held in the Unitarian Church, was geared toward all ages, with crafts, music, drumming,… Continue reading

  • The Essence of Druidism

    Not long ago Ellen Evert Hopman, a druid priestess with whom I’m acquainted, was asked, “What is the essence of druid practice?” The asker was a very old friend who had just had a powerful mystical experience, and came to her for help. They talked for most of the day, having tea, walking in the… Continue reading

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