Rhyd Wildermuth is a druid, a theorist, and a writer. He writes at From The Forests of Arduinna, is the co-founder of Gods&Radicals Press, the co-host of Empires Crumble, and the author of several books published through Ritona/Gods&Radicals Press.
He lives in the Ardennes.
Books By Rhyd Wildermuth
The Secret of Crossings: Essays
Release date 1 December, 2022
Continuing the legacy of his previous collections (Your Face is a Forest, A Kindness of Ravens, and Witches in a Crumbling Empire), The Secret of Crossings collects the best prosaic and esoteric writings of Rhyd Wildermuth from 2020 to 2022.
“We can only hope perhaps there are still some secret paths that can be forded. Maybe not for all of humanity, nor even for most of us, but maybe at least the few who still look for those crossings: those who stand in awe at the larger forces of nature our false god Progress has unleashed.”
The Secret of Crossings compiles over forty essays first published for subscribers to From The Forests of Arduinna or Another World, many of them never released to the public.
Being Pagan: A Guide to Re-Enchant Your Life
Release Date: 15 November, 2021
“To be pagan is to be connected to the land in a way that stands outside of—and often in opposition to—the concerns of the urban and of Empire. Even though the official histories of humanity always focus on them, empires and the cities they form are mere temporary interruptions to a more organic and mostly unwritten history of human life. It is a history of relationship to land, of connection to it, of life lived in relative harmony with the nature of which humans are but one small part. It is not just a history, however, but a still-living reality for much of the world, and one we can still connect to and become part of.”
In a world of uncertainty, political upheaval, climate change, and endless consumerism, in alienated societies bereft of meaning and connection to nature or community, what does it mean to be Pagan?
From druid, theorist, and writer Rhyd Wildermuth comes Being Pagan, a guide to re-enchant your world. Exploring the meaning of pagan connection—to time, to land, to body, to nature, and to Other—through history, personal experiences, and myth, Wildermuth offers simple yet profound guidance for anyone searching for a deeper way to live.
The Provisioner
Garen is a Provisioner, gifted and cursed with unbidden visions of the future and unconscious moments of sordid lust. He is trained and devoted to use his ability to help those in need, but when an empire on the verge of war enlists him to provision a group of brutal killers hunting the last surviving wolf, he must decide whether to follow the inscrutable plots of the goddess of foresight or embrace his own buried desire.
The Provisioner is a work of erotic fantasy, of bodily liberation, and of deep magic.
All That is Sacred Is Profaned
How does capitalism work (and why isn’t it working)? How do the rich use race and gender strife to divide and control the poor? What was life like before Capitalism, and what might it be like after? And what’s the relationship between Marx’s ideas about alienation and the Pagan desire to re-enchant the world?
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned is the text from Rhyd Wildermuth’s popular introductory course on Marxism, now available in print. Written for those without privileged academic experience and those too busy trying to survive to read economic theory, this book uses real-world examples to explain how capitalism operates, why it came about, and how it might be stopped.
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned isn’t just an economic or political text. Instead, Pagan and druid Rhyd Wildermuth teases out the intersections between Marx’s ideas and the core worldviews of animism and Paganism: the magical transformation of the world through labor, the inspirited nature of the things we humans create and trade, and the sacred aspects of the world crushed beneath the demands of profit.
Witches in a Crumbling Empire
“The Empire under which we all suffer, under which we are all ruled, was born upon the factory floor and upon the witch’s stake. But in the char of those burnings and the soot from those smokestacks we can see its impending death…”
Beauty stolen in a tavern of a Scottish port. A dead Cathar’s caress as a man waits for bootsteps that will drag him away. Rain-drenched grief over iron bridges. Plastic fairies littering an ancient stone circle. Sex amongst bones and the howls of the Hunter.
A new collection of essays, mystic prose, and poems from Gods&Radicals co-founder Rhyd Wildermuth, including the expanded and previously un-released text of his speech, “Witches In a Crumbling Empire.”
Witches In A Crumbling Empire weaves together love, resistance, and magic into a ritual not to hold up the pillars of Empire as they fall, but to dance as they collapse.
A Kindness of Ravens
A dead bard on a desolate hill, giants on a cliff-edge, a heroin-addict in a dumpster, blood-soaked shattered glass on a window-ledge, and midwinter sunlight streaming through the tomb of Newgrange...
A Kindness of Ravens is a collection of forest-edged words arrayed against the theft of meaning and the death of dreams. Find within essay on civilisation and its end, poems on gods & love, and journals from an unlikely pilgrimage each haunted by the songs of the Singers in the Darkness and the rage of the Raven King.
Your Face Is A Forest
The tea-soaked and rain-drenched musings of a nomadic punk bard. Encounters with the gods, the dead, and the spirits of forest and stream. Musings for the dreaming rebel in the leaf-strewn tavern, the urban poet following the course of buried rivers beneath her feet, and all those who await the return of the gods and the uprising of the trees.