Yesterday, December 4th, 2020, we had to say goodbye to our beloved writer and friend — Judith O’Grady.
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“Unlike most other mystical works, the Three Cauldrons text teaches the practitioner to embrace emotion and use it to activate spiritual power rather than denying or dissociating from it.”
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“Taking this idealized portrait of early Ireland as a mental map, we see particular Buada or ‘excellences’ associated with each of the four directions as well as the sacred center. The purpose of the Manor of Tara ritual is to invoke these excellences...”
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“The five streams that come from the Well are the five senses. The nuts from the hazels of wisdom drop down into the Well, to be eaten by the Salmon of Wisdom. The Salmon of Wisdom contains the Imbas, the mystical power of poetic inspiration and prophesy.”
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In Radical Druidry, the sunwise walk can be used to “sain” or bless and purify a place to be defended, or to bless and purify those who are carrying out a direct action. The counter-sunwise walk can be used to banish negative forces or to call down spiritual wrath upon oppressors and their agents.
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“Direct worship of natural phenomena is a powerful way to overcome our alienation from the world around us, and the linking of those natural phenomena to our minds and bodies is another way to make this connection more alive and real.”
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“If our treaty of friendship with the spiritual powers is to be restored, we must take the responsibility of Fírinne upon ourselves.”
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“we can keep on using electricity and the internet for as long as it lasts but at the same time untying our satisfaction from transactions and possessions and our religion from teachers and prophets from far away and our ethics from facebook memes.”
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On Watership Down’s change from 1978 to 2018, Druids, bio-purism and radical feminism.
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Let us call to them to enter into, as is Their mandate, this iteration of the never-ending fight against the Powers of Wrongness;the stealing and imprisoning of children. Send down Your power to help us stand for Right Action.
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But with what desperation do we seek to deny the cycles of time! That it were not so is the dearest wish of humanity. Any catastrophe imaginable would be preferable to the secrets hidden in Troy Town.
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From James Lindenschmidt: "Ancestral connection to place was strong enough to withstand centuries of hardship, famine, plague, warfare, and a thousand harsh Norwegian winters, only to be destroyed by something so insidious that people have to be taught what "enclosure" means."
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From James Lindenschmidt: "It doesn't matter what kind of Pagan you are, which specific tradition, subculture, or set of Pagan values you embrace, we Pagans are a conquered people."
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