{"id":12179,"date":"2021-09-07T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/?p=12179"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:09:49","slug":"tea-with-a-druid-tea-with-druids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/tea-with-a-druid-tea-with-druids\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea with a Druid &#8211; Tea with Druids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><p class=\"embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lzORbcHZG4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hello again! After a 6 week break a new series of <em>Tea with a Druid\/Tea with Druids<\/em> is back, and here are some notes and links to topics mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Matthew Kniseley for the great new intro film. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewknisley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His site is here.<\/a><br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/charlieroscoe.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Roscoe<\/a> for the music that accompanies this film, from the track Blessed Water in the Album Druid Circle. You can also hear this music in the meditation collection <a href=\"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/book\/sacred-nature-healing-meditations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sacred Nature.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film I mention of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chauvet_Cave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chauvet cave<\/a> paintings is <em>The Cave of Forgotten Dreams<\/em> by Werner Herzog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12180\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/tea-with-a-druid-tea-with-druids\/1200px-hove_amber_cup_-_royal_pavilion__museums_brighton__hove_26791\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?fit=1200%2C1059&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1059\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton &amp; Hove&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion_&#038;_Museums,_Brighton_&#038;_Hove_26791\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?fit=300%2C265&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?fit=640%2C565&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12180\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?resize=300%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?resize=300%2C265&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?resize=1024%2C904&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?resize=768%2C678&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Hove_Amber_Cup_-_Royal_Pavilion__Museums_Brighton__Hove_26791.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hove_amber_cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hove amber cup\u00a0<\/a> that I mention, and depicted left, dates from the Bronze Age. The blog I refer to can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runesnroses.com\/news\/hoveambercup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Owen&#8217;s books that I mention are: <em>The Mist-Filled Path<\/em> and <em>The Spiral of Memory and Belonging<\/em>, and then his more recent poetry collections are <em>The Temple of Warm Harmony<\/em> and <em>The School of Soft Attention<\/em>. All are easily discoverable online. <a href=\"http:\/\/withkoji.com\/@hiddenmountain\">Franks&#8217;s website is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This morning, Frank sent me a poem he has written, inspired by the Tea with Druids session last night. My apologies that the AI in this WordPress blog removes the formatting &#8211; in the original the poem &#8216;breathes&#8217; with spaces between sections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Druid Spirit&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2014<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Nature + Poetry = Peace&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Philip Carr-Gomm<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2014<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We can&#8217;t go back.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">While it does help the soul<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">to think of our ancestors<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">feeling these same leanings,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">we can&#8217;t go back.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We can make note<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">of their tracks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We can memorize their names.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We can allow<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">our Traveling-Spirit<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">to drift into their stories<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">while sitting beside<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">a crackling hearth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But, we can&#8217;t go back.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We can only drink deep<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">from our own<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">cauldron of longing &#8212;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">resting in the sense<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">that our longing,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">here and now,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">is part of some<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">abiding, ancient flow<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">that connects us.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But, we can&#8217;t go back.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Have you ever hovered<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">at the forest&#8217;s edge<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">before stepping in;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">that place<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">where the modern frenzy<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">drops away<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">and the healing green powers<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">start to embrace you?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Next time you find yourself<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">standing at such a threshold,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">pause.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Breathe.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Open yourself<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">to the tradition<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">yet-to-be-formed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">by your own spinning cells.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">(c) 2021 \/ Frank Inzan Owen (Hidden Mountain) \/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/withkoji.com\/@hiddenmountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">http:\/\/withkoji.com\/@hiddenmountain<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! After a 6 week break a new series of Tea with a Druid\/Tea with Druids is back, and here are some notes and links to topics mentioned: Thanks to Matthew Kniseley for the great new intro film. His site is here. 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