‘THE ANGELS KEEP THEIR ANCIENT PLACES’ – A GLIMPSE INTO THE MAGIC OF LEWES Many people feel drawn to Lewes in East Sussex, sensing that it is in some ways…
The Magic of Lewes
The Journey to the Oldest Animals
Published by Philip Carr-Gomm
Here I tell the story of the Journey to the Oldest Animals, as recounted in the tale ‘Culhwch ac Olwen’, which is believed to be the oldest Welsh prose story. It is the most archaic text in the Mabinogion and is also referred to as ‘the Oldest Arthurian tale’. It was written in the St Davids of Wales area c.1090.| You can find an interesting article placing the story within the Welsh and English landscape here: The Route of the ‘Oldest Animals’ in Culhwch and Olwen. The illustrations are by Will Worthington from The Druid Animal Oracle. No-one knows why we fall in love with one person rather than another, but it is said that there is an exception to this rule in the case of the young prince Culhwch – cousin of King Arthur. Culhwch’s stepmother, angered by his refusal of the hand of her own daughter, had placed a curse on him that he would fall in love with Olwen, the daughter of a ferocious giant, Ysbaddaden Pencawr,…
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- Dreams of Eternity & Paradise
- The Future of Paganism
- Coming Home
- Naked Spirituality – Taking off the Clothes of Religion
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- In Memory of Douglas Lyne
- The Hidden Magic of Sussex – A Way of Working with Anyplace
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- The Risks of Magic
- The Goose and The Druid
- The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Order
- The Fertile Christ
- Jainism & Druidism – Resonances & Connections
- Reclaiming Ancient Traditions in the British Isles
- Why Druids Now?
- Following Our Bliss
- Enhancing Our Relationship with the World
- The Value of Spiritual Practice
- Feeding the Flame: Strengthening the Unselfish Gene
- Hallowing Limitation
- Gerald Gardner & Ross Nichols
- Sacred Places
- Spiritual Path or Spiritual Home?
- The Oracular Use of Plants in Druidry
- Reflections on Psychotherapy & Spiritual Teaching
- In the Eye of the Storm
- The Magic of Lewes
- Solve et Coagula
- Uncertainty, Humility and Nudity
- Reflections on the Spiritual Path
- Aparigraha in Druidry
- Christianity and Druidry: A Meeting Point
- Conundrums and Connections
- Pilgrimage in the Jain Tradition
- The Triple A Doctrines of Jainism
- Is Druidry a Spiritual Teaching or a Culture?
- Druid Village or Druid Ashram?
- Memories for the Olivia Robertson Memorial
- Immaculate Conception
- Druidry & Politics
- Dancing Our Way to Peace
- Some Kinda Druid Dude
- A Love of Bulgaria
- J.M.Greer’s Work of Alchemy
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- Entering Faerie
- Kindling the Celtic Spirit
- A Beginner’s Guide
- Druid Magic
- Returning to the Source
- A Little Bird Told Me
- The Way of the Oaks
- The Druids are Coming
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