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We would like to Thank gifted healer Lorna Drake from Sussex Downs Reiki for taking the time writing this post to help introduce us to the fascinating and enlightening practice of Celtic Earth Magic. What is Celtic Earth Magic ? …… I aim to give an overview of a system of energy healing which has become integral to the way I now live my life.

For me, Celtic Earth Magic is a natural evolution and expansion from Celtic Earth Reiki – an all encompassing term for the magic that exists in nature, and which we can all experience if we step away from the humdrum of daily life and learn skills to open our hearts and minds

I will use the terms Celtic Earth Magic and Celtic Earth Reiki interchangeably, as one is born of the other.

The Celtic Peoples believed that everything has an individual spirit, and is connected to everything else and this faith is fundamental to the systems of Celtic Earth Magic that I am going to introduce to you.

Students of Celtic Earth Magic receive attunements - symbols placed into the aura – just as for traditional Reiki, by the Celtic Earth Reiki Master, and this system can be studied on different levels culminating in the Master level.

• The first level is mainly for allowing the student to absorb the new energies, for expanding the connection to nature, and for self healing.
• The second level is designed to help us manifest our goals and discover what we need in order to follow our life path, and also for healing on others.
• The final level – the Master level – is for us to further deepen our connection with nature and the energies, for divination , magic and self-development.

Ogham

Celtic Reiki was rediscovered in 1988 by Reiki Master Martyn Pentecost , and is a system of healing using the energies of specific trees and the symbols for those trees from the ancient Celtic Ogham language. – as each tree or plant has a particular energy and attribute, the particular ogham symbol for that tree/plant can be accessed according to need. These mystical Ogham signs are used in the same way as a Reiki healer uses traditional symbols of healing.

The Ogham language should not be confused with the Norse Runic system, although the two systems would have evolved side by side

This method also uses one other energetic entity that was sacred to the Celts – the Sea

The Ogham symbols and their meanings are quite widely documented in books and on oracle cards, but for those who are unfamiliar with this system, the following are the trees and plants used in Celtic Earth Reiki / Magic :

Ogham symbol chart Pic: Wiki

Each of the trees or plants has a designated symbol, Celtic name and an associated crystal. Also included as mentioned earlier is the Sea, as well as a Grove or Sacred Grove.

When you choose to walk the path of Celtic Earth Magic, you are walking in the footsteps of your ancestors – the connection can be felt so strongly as to be almost tangible, and you may find yourself, having the extraordinary experience of sensing smells and sounds as if from another time long past..

Energy Centres or Chakras

In traditional Reiki, we connect to the seven main Chakras (energy centres) in the body that run from root (at the base of your spine) to the crown of your head.

With Celtic Earth Reiki, we connect to two additional Chakras – the Earth Star Chakra and the Soul Star.

The Earth Star lies approximately two feet below the ground and is most commonly visualised in earth colours and associated with crystals such as Obsidian and smoky quartz.

The Earth Star connects you to your past lives and your ancestral tribe. The Soul Star is approximately eighteen inches above the head and is most commonly visualised as a clear bright light – associated with Quartz crystal or Diamond – also sometimes seen as a weave of light cascading down towards the Earth Star. The Soul Star connects you to your life purpose – your destiny. The call to connect to our ancestors is strong and directly linked to the Celtic belief in the sacred connection between all things.

The Chakras Pic: Wiki

The healing and manifestation that can be created with the Celtic Earth Magic systems is a powerful tool which must always be used for the highest ideal, and is hugely important especially now when the Earth is so in need of healing.

Crystals

As part of the Celtic Earth Magic system, we can also use our connection to the tree energies and Ogham symbols to create a crystal grid for manifestation of goals and also for healing.

Manifestation symbols can be made from stone or wood (only naturally occurring substances should be used ) and these are then inscribed with the Ogham symbol and charged with the energy of the particular tree.

Crystal Grid Pic: Lorna Drake

These manifesting symbols are then selected according to your need at the time and placed into the crystal grid where the connection is made using a master crystal. This system can also be used very effectively for healing.  It is however advisable to create a different grid and set of Ogham symbols for each intent. The attunements that the student receives on their path of Celtic Earth Magic are an ‘awakening’ in many senses.

In my own experience, I found that my perceptions of the world around me started to change – my relationship with the natural world deepened and I became so much more aware of what was going on around me.

Ancestors

This deepening connection also led me to re-evaluate other aspects of my life and was very empowering when dealing with a variety of situations and challenges – calling on and connecting with your ancestors is a powerful and enlightening tool – and we can learn from their centuries of accumulated wisdom

We can also work with Celtic Earth Magic for connecting directly to any aspect of nature  – holding to the belief that everything is connected, you can open yourself to the nature that surrounds you.

Once learned and practiced, the Celtic Ogham symbols and their names for the trees and plants can be used to directly connect to a particular ancestor; but more than that, you can connect to anything – any plant, stone, or animal just by opening your heart and mind and listening.

You can suddenly become aware of the specific energies and messages that the trees, plant etc have – like us they are all very different !

Nature Spirits

Nature spirits can also be connected with – most readily in my experience by just sitting quietly in nature and asking them to come to you, but you can also dowse for them using a pendulum or rods, or by just concentrating your mind and feeling the subtle shifts in energetic vibration around you – are they Sylphs of the air ? Gnomes of the earth ? Dryads of the trees ? Or Undines of water ? Ask them ….. You will be surprised at what you find out ……

Divination

The final aspect of Celtic Earth Magic that I want to touch on is Divination.

Using the meanings of the trees, plants and sea symbols can be a way to gain insight into questions for which we seek answers.

The divination tool can be crafted from wood, stone or crystal – I made mine from discs of Ash wood.

There are parallels here with the Norse and Anglo-Saxon runic divination systems, but the Celtic Earth Magic system uses specifically the Ogham signs for the trees and plants and their applied meanings, and can be used as a stand alone divination tool or as an adjunct to healing. I am happy to refer to them as Ogham Runes, because the dictionary definition of ‘rune’ is basically a symbol drawn from an alphabet which is said to have magical meaning.

Ogham Divination Pic: Lorna Drake

This has been a brief but hopefully informative overview of a huge and powerful subject, and one which we and our beautiful Mother Earth can benefit from in so many ways.

Lorna Drake is medically trained as well as being a Celtic Reiki Master, and a Reiki Master in the Usui tradition of healing. She also works with the Quecha Indian Shamanic system of Munay Ki and is a talented Tarot.reader.

You can can contact Lorna on her website at http://sussexdownsreiki.co.uk/  or on her Facebook page at  Sussex-Downs-Reiki.

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Jason from the Wild Hunt reports that The Wicker Man is to be a Rock Opera. He reports: After the dreadful abomination that was the 2006 remake of “The Wicker Man” are we really ready for another treatment of this pagan musical cult-classic? Foul Play SF and The Dark Room certainly hope so as they unleash “The Wicker Man: A Rock Opera About the Ultimate Sacrifice”. October 2008, something wicker this way comes! We’re presenting a Foul Play, the Wicker Man: a Rock Opera About the Ultimate Sacrifice, a musical thriller, and burning sensation just in time for Halloween from the team that brought you Attack of the Killer B-Movies

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Author Clare Hamilton raises some excellent points about the story of Arianrhod from the Welsh Mabinogi tales in this wonderful article from The Goddess Alive Ezine. Arianrhod was a Welsh Goddess who lived on an island off the west coast of Wales. At the centre of her castle was a turning glass tower, which contained the mystical Seat of Poetic Inspiration. Her name Arianrhod means ‘starry wheel’.

She is obviously a very powerful Celtic Goddess even though she apparently completely disgraces herself as a mother within her story.

Let us go to the bones of the story. A virgin births a child, apparently miraculously. The child grows up, is betrayed, killed, hangs on a tree in agony, then is resurrected by his uncle/father’s magic.

Sounds vaguely familiar? Here we have the prototype of  the central Christian story, the story of the Virgin Mary and the boy Jesus. And of course  behind that story lies the Mother/Son duo, the Mother Goddess and the King  Child, most  anciently  portrayed of course by Isis and   Horus.  So it seems we are dealing here with far more than would at first appear. For  here we have the heart of the great mystical Mother/Son relationship. This  should certainly give us pause for thought and make us look closely at the  apparent strange behaviour of Arianrhod.

Arianrhod, as we have noted, is a  very powerful Goddess, guardian of the Seat of Poetic Inspiration and linked  with the sea, the moon and the stars. She is also the prototype of the Virgin  Mary. There are many  depictions  of the Virgin Mary with a wheel of stars about her head, and she is also often  portrayed standing on a new moon, and at other times with the sea all around  her. We are looking here at the ancient figure of Arianrhod, her feet on the  new moon of Virginity; the wheel of stars, which is her name,  circling  her head; and the sea, which her tower commands, stretching away from her  island castle.

So why does she Deny her Son his Rights?

So let’s look at some of the  difficult questions arising out of her story.   If  Arianrhod  really is the great mother of the Sacred King child, then why does she seem so  vindictive? What are these so-called curses about? Why does she seem to be  denying her son his rights?

And why  is she so powerful that Gwydion has to work so hard to outwit her?

In addressing these questions, we  should first bear in mind the strong  possibility  that by the time her tale was written down by the Welsh monks, they had spotted  her  pagan  power and  decided  to deliberately slander her name. There are three injunctions that she  pronounces, a mystical number, and they represent her power over her son. They therefore have all the hallmarks of magic about them.

The first thing to notice is that  her pronouncements  are not curses at all. What she actually says (translated from the Welsh) is:

“I swear a fate, a destiny, upon the boy”.

This is very suggestive,  very magical, and her words in themselves are not even particularly contentious  – it is only the reaction of Gwydion that makes them appear so. In the first  injunction, on discovering that her boy hasn’t yet been named, she says that

 he  will have no name until she gives him one, not that she is denying him a  name.

In ancient  times, a name was a very magical  thing, and in native American cultures names are often not given until the  inner nature of the child is understood. Arianrhod sees him hit a wren with  extreme accuracy with his sling, and then names him ‘Lleu of the Skilful Hand’  He grows up to become the Welsh sun-God, counterpart of the Irish Lugh. He has  killed a wren, in ancient Welsh tradition  the King of the Birds, triumphing over the Eagle, so this is an act of  sacrificial kingship. We have here on Arianrhod’s  part not an act of wilful withholding  but the vestiges of an ancient  female rite of Naming.    To read more of this fascinating article  visit  Goddess Alive Magazine

Claire Hamilton’s  Amazing book  Maiden, Mother, Crone is  available  at either Amazon.co.uk  or Amazon.com

We also recommend  another book by Claire Called   Tales of the Celtic Bards available at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com

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Brave is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film. In the film, a skilled archer named Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), defies an age-old custom, causing chaos in her kingdom. After consulting a mysterious wise old woman (voiced by Julie Walters) for help, her family becomes cursed and Merida is forced to undo the spell herself before it is too late.

The movie is being produced by Pixar, making this their thirteenth feature film, and will be released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was written by Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman and Irene Mecchi, and is being directed by Andrews and Chapman and co-directed by Purcell. The film is scheduled for release on June 22, 2012 in the United States.

The Background to the Story

In Scotland, stories of battles and legends have been passed through generations. Merida (Kelly Macdonald), a skilled archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), is determined to prove her worth.

After ignoring an age-old custom sacred to Lords MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), Macintosh (Craig Ferguson) and Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane), Merida inadvertently causes controversy and chaos in the kingdom. When Merida turns to an eccentric witch (Julie Walters) for help, a curse is inflicted on her. She must now save the kingdom from the curse, and in doing so, discover the true meaning of bravery. [wiki]

Concept Art

Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, we can get to some see some of the amazing concept art behind what promises to be an amazing film for all the family and especially all Celtophiles everywhere!

‘Brave’ Merida Concept Art Pic: Entertainmetn Weekly

In many ways, Pixar’s 13th feature-length movie Brave (out June 22, 2012) ventures into new territory for the animation studio: The Scotland-set adventure film will be Pixar’s first fairy tale, its first picture starring a female protagonist, and its first film co-directed by a woman. EW.com has the first look at some of the concept art for the project, and we can also confirm that Reese Witherspoon will no longer voice the movie’s heroine, a tomboyish princess named Merida, due to scheduling issues. Instead, the character will be played by the (appropriately) Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men, Boardwalk Empire).

‘Brave’ Castle Bravo Sunset Concept Art Pic: Entertainmetn Weekly

Announced in April 2008 as The Bear and the Bow, Brave is Pixar’s first fairy tale, and is somewhat darker and more mature in tone than their previous films. The story takes place during the 10th century in the highlands of Scotland; Brenda Chapman considers it as a fairy tale in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.

Chapman conceived the project and was announced as the director of the film, making her Pixar’s first female director, but in October 2010, she was replaced by Mark Andrews following creative disagreements.

Merida is the first female protagonist in a Pixar film. She was originally to be voiced by Reese Witherspoon, who declined due to scheduling issues. Instead, the character will be voiced by Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald, recently acclaimed for her role as Margaret Schroeder in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.

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This episode is the second episode in our Welsh Mythology series and continues with the story of Pwyll, the Prince of Dyfed.In the last episode, Pwyll had gone hunting in the Woods of Glyn Cuch and had been beaten to the kill by a stranger pack comprising even stranger dogs. Having decided that the kill was rightfully his, he had driven off the other pack and set his own dogs upon the prey. It was at that moment that a stranger, the Shadowed Hunter, has appeared and was even now turning his dread gaze upon Pwyll.

We’d also like to introduce our Special Surprise Guest Actor, Damh the Bard, who plays an important role in this show!

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Plato observed that the advent of an alphabet making writing efficient for average people actually lead to less knowledge or disciplined communication. We need not blame the Phoenicians for this because people really could benefit from writing.   John Locke and many other scientists during the time when man thought there was some reality in prejudices like The Scale of Nature observed that language was a pre-requisite for consciousness. Although there is some truth in his observations which include the Tabula Rasa, this is pure hogwash and perhaps even worse than that. He may well have sought to make people feel inferior just as that Scale of Nature was designed to do to so many non-Europeans.!

Common sense is a most uncommon thing it appears. We still have many people living under the pall of the Bible Narrative and other absolute religions (Fukayama and social engineers know how to use) which have whole histories of deceit woven into their dogma and the laws that form the structure of our society. I am all for the Kat-ma concept of Karma which would have these social engineers meet their maker and put an end to that Dog-ma. It is unfortunate that scholars who are interested in making a living often have to go along with things they know are only half true at best. It is more unfortunate that good money can be made debunking real scholarship and exploration by the likes of Barraclough Fell and other Epigraphists. Please take a look into Rob Gombach of Utah State University as he says Fell was only a hobbyist.

The treatment of the concept of OM by the Catholic Encyclopedia is a fine example of what is wrong with our society I think. Here is a little of what they say to start our voyage beyond conventional thinking. Om is the sacred syllable of Hinduism used by all schools in their meditation system. It expresses the ‘world-soul’ concept of Brahman. It is pronounced at the beginning of the recitation of the ‘mantras’. In practice, this concept is expressed in Hindu teaching as:

All humanity converging at the foot of that sacred place where is set the symbol that is no symbol, the name that is beyond all sound. In the system of practices that make up Hinduism, there is the possibility of introducing this concept through an intensified psychic response or through practices that are diabolic {What?! This is certainly a great expression of the Pope’s ecumenical interests. This mentions nothing about it being like the Holy Spirit or what physicists say which I relate to the Logos. It is racial in the level of its prejudice and it is the kind of thing one should expect from ‘Crusaders’ with no soul.}. Here there is real danger, for this concept permits one to enter into a simple, self-delusive attitude {Rather than one created by the priests of this group of ‘churchians’ who do not follow the ‘living father within’ that Jesus taught.} that misleads while at the same time acts to shut out all other avenues of Christian response. Its danger is in the blandishment whereby a Universal Religion (the core of Karma or the at-onement of divine assumption of all into one) precludes sin since there is no one to sin against. Thus it has often been cryptically likened to the evolutionary religious concepts advanced by Teilhard de Chardin {Who almost was ex-communicated and is a great ecumenicist.}, namely, the ‘omega’ concept: The revealed Christ is identical with omega. This christology of Chardin, an evolutionary complex, is stated in like manner: Man bears along with him the world of beings inferior to God. (Letter 8/7/23 in ‘Letters to Leontine Zanta.’) (See Omega Point: Teilhardism.) (1)

The Homeric scholars have found some things to prove the myth was not all mere fiction and this continues to the present in even more fascinating ways due to satellite technology as well as a weakening grip of Biblical intrigues or religious suppression. In the final analysis it is my sincere hope that people will become more spiritual and able to appreciate their religious icons were far more than the interpreters who used their image and good works. I am of the belief that when Homer wrote about the underworld he was writing about North America and I know for certain that these people knew the earth was a sphere and had means to map and travel throughout the whole world since long before Homer. Much of knowledge started with observing the stars in world adventures or travels and man has always been adventurous. Here is the other Om written as Ogham or Ogam.

While some marks may be related to Ogam, we are skeptical of translations because the perception of the marks on the rock, often worn or damaged, is subject to considerable variability from one observer to the next.

No nation has a monopoly on illegibility, and the authors could profitably have consulted any edition of any ancient work, at the bottom of any page (where the variant readings are listed); there they would find subjectivity galore, and accepted as a matter of course. In any case, they should keep mum; some people have the same complaints about standing stones and alignments. (2)

The cover-up of Ogham and all of its branches of knowledge may have started before Rome and there certainly was a lot of plagiarization or Hellenizing going on as new leaders usurped the history, technology and science of the Kelts or keltoi and Ogygia, as the Greek (Danaus) called them. Ogygia in itself means ancient ones and Plutarch has a map identifying Iceland as Ogygia but that does not mean it was anything more than an ancient Thulean outpost.

Not long ago the Catholic Church had a fit of honesty and considered removing St. Patrick as a Saint. They knew all along that it was a near total fiction replete with removing snakes that had never been there in recorded or remembered history. They knew he had been sent there to make deals and re-write Scriptures or destroy things which would show the real roots of their faith and culture. He personally destroyed over 150 hand drawn books and we have proof of his editing of the Senchus Mor which had been a fantastic book with numerous volumes of law and culture. There are only a few glosses with obvious re-writes remaining. But the enslaved people of Ireland who have had their true history destroyed or hidden from them were all upset to find their Patron Saint might be a saint no more.

Uncial and Insular are languages that were developed in Irish language centers for writing the Scriptures (Uncial) and what later became English (Insular). Ogham was around a long time before these more sophisticated alphabets as any person with no grasp of linguistics can easily see and yet Britannica and others maintain the cover up to this day. Here is a little confirmation that St. Patrick was part of a major effort to bring certain people into the fold and develop schools to teach what the Druids like Columcille (later St. Columba) had learned at real centers of learning like the Isle of Druids or Iona. This is taken from the Annals of Ulster. This is a record of just one source in just one year (439). Bishops gathering in one place like this is not common as I understand it but I may be wrong.

Secundinus, Auxilius and Isserninus, themselves also bishops, are sent to Ireland to assist Patrick. And there is also an entry that has Patrick being confirmed as a bishop a couple of years later. So he clearly was not the top person or grand Pooh-Bah of the hegemony that was there in the first place. Rome was always looking to get more local fronts for their deals so that the average person would not clue in to what was really going on. Here is that entry from year 441. Bishop Patrick was approved in the Catholic faith. Of course I could be cute and suggest he had not even been Catholic before this but I frankly dont think that would be unusual either. Augustine is a study in greed and need for power too.

In the apologetic words of the current Pope whose heritage includes the ‘Holy’ (?) Emperors of this heinous group of ‘churchians’ he asks for ‘forgiveness and renewal’ as he admits to dastardly deeds of the Crusades, Flagellants, and Inquisitors. But is there a day care center in the Vatican? How about a female priest or God forbid, a Bishop? Most of humanity doesn’t even know what a Druid or ‘proto-Celt’ is or was. There is an old saying ‘if you want to know what a Druid knows, ask a wild bee.’ The bee was important to the Phocaeans, Napoleon and now the Mormons. Symbols (like the bee) communicate, letters are symbols, language or communication is more than the intellectual sum of its letters or words. The heart and soul make the beauty of true wisdom comprehensible to far greater depths than the intellect can imagine.

How did we sink so low as to barter the lives of our mothers and ‘sisters’?

Why have those who arranged these horrors tried to blame the Jews (and in an indirect manner, all ‘sinners’) for the death of Jesus? He did not claim to be a co-equal member of the Holy Trinity. It wasn’t the Jews who ‘killed our Saviour’. John Ralston Saul says this about the whole matter

"HOLY TRINITY-CHRISTIAN A pre-alchemist alchemist concept developed by early Christian administrators to soften the hard-edged simplicity of straight monotheism.

The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost {That the beatniks called ‘Laddio, Daddio and Spook’.} made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism {And raised un-natural ‘virginity’ or possible non-sense such as immaculate conceptions, which fathers must have loved and priests certainly benefit from, to heights of increasing obscenity!}. Twelve Disciples as semi-deities then made it sextusdecitheism. Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain, old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion ever to have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with {And this is the MOST important observation of a technique known in psychology as ‘projection of a pluperfect paranoid’ or the ‘BIG LIE’ of alphabet soup agencies and ‘black ops’; the less organized criminals like the Mafia call it a ‘frame-up’.} by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church – Catholic and later Protestant – turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view {Also they began at least 700 years of war, A CRUSADE! against the remnants of the Kelts in Ireland.) – Judaism and Islam – and persecuted them as heathen or pagan. ..These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered {ego ‘Manifest Destiny’} and/or killed for their own good in order that they may benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages.

HOLY TRINITY – POST CHRISTIAN So far Nietzsche has been wrong about GOD. We have not managed to become Him in His place. Instead we have replaced God with a yet more abstract divinity based upon pure rational power… Organization or structure replaced the Father, TECHNOLOGY displaced the Son and the Holy Ghost gave way to information. The new priesthood was made up of technocrats. As the etymology of the word ‘technocrat’ indicates, from the beginning they were to be specialists in power… And they would stand guard over information." (3)

The fears and apathy of average people are as much to blame for this history of managed and ‘guarded information’ that records the acts of bad people. We are all our brothers keepers is not just an idle platitude. The Druidic concept called IESA or ‘The Brotherhood of Man’ apprehended the Cosmic Thought Field of Faraday and Tesla or the ‘Cosmic Soup’ of Deepak Chopra. NASA scientists have just announced that Life is Everywhere including microbes in outer space. They talk about cell membrane formation that makes we wonder if these are conscious connected ‘info packets’(Tesla) or ‘templates’ (Teilhard de Chardin) from which energy can create in a manner more akin to ancient creationist theories of the supposed pagans.

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In September, a book was released by Kate MacAlister which tells two stories: one based loosely on Celtic Myth and one based on Norse myth. The Celtic story is called Stag Party and tells of the Irish fertility god, Cernunnos (?) who has to find a bride in the week leading up to Beltaine or become mortal and die.The Norse tale, Horse Truly tells of a cursed Viking, doomed to sail the seas forever. When a car skids off the road, he and his men rescue the driver and Alrik discovers that the driver may be able to break his curse. Each story sounds like great fun with quite a bit of romance thrown in. I found it mentioned here. Amazon

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John Bruno Hare, creator of the Archive, passed away on April 27, 2010. His vision included a sacred text archive of largely Public Domain works that would remain accessible worldwide, and would be forever free to read.

The vision of John Bruno Hare is alive and well. Plans for new texts, new products and mobile applications, and new versions of the site itself have been underfoot for some time, and patiently await birth.

In memory of JBH’s passing, ISTA presents the first new content ever added to the Archive since April 2010, along with some featuring of existing content. The theme, loosely, is Remembering Bruno, the Afterlife, and Being Present.

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Many wonderful new titles are offered in this remembrance including “Yogic Alchemy in Taijiquan” , Wallace Budge’s translation of the Egyptian “Book of the Dead“, the “Mayan Calendar” by John Bruno Hare himself and, or particular interest to us in the Celtic community, “Ulster Folklore” by Elizabeth Andrews. As you know, without the Sacred Texts Archive and the inestimable work of John Bruno Hare, the production of this show would have been well-nigh impossible and almost certainly wouldn’t have taken place. We owe him, his friends and associates - past, present and future - a great debt! Thank you guys, and may you travel in peace John.

Souterrain at Ardtolle, Co. Down Pic: Gutenberg

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In this show, we bring you the second of our special features about the mythic film, The Spirit of Albion: the Movie and celebrate Beltane along the way! We meet Damh the Bard,who created the songs used in the films and Gary Andrews, the Director, Author and Editor for the film. We meet them on a nice, quiet afternoon in the beautiful country pub, The Giant’s Rest which is almost at the feet of the mighty giant known as The Long Man of Wilmington, a huge chalk figure that makes his acting debut in the film to have a fun chat about the film.

The film will première a couple of days after this show is released and we’ll all get our chance to see this long-awaited production! We also celebrate Beltane with a couple of wonderful pieces of music supplied by the amazing Spiral Dance and the talented George Nicholas of Cernunnos Rising.

Thanks go out to the wonderful manager of the Giant’s Rest, Gary (oh yes, another Gary!) who gave us permission to record in the pub which has been known for over a decade as the Most Druid Friendly Sussex Public House!

Hope you enjoy it,

Gary & Ruthie x x x

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You can also now download a Celtic Myth Podshow App from the iTunes store. This is the most convenient and reliable way to access the Celtic Myth Podshow on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You’re always connected to the latest episode, and our App users have access to exclusive bonus content, just touch and play! To find out more visit the iTunes Store or our Description Page.
You can now also find an Android version of the App which works identically to the iPhone version. You can find it on Handster at http://www.handster.com/celtic_myth.html or by using the QR code opposite. It’s als found on the Opera Marketplace as well as AppBrain in the US.
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This is a first for us. Our very first interview in the field of Celtic Mythology and what a great interview it is! We are very privileged to bring you an interview with famous authors and podcasters, Rhonda R. Carpenter and Arlene Radasky. You may remember in yesterday’s post we brought you news of these two podcasters releasing the novels of their great books on Amazon. To coincide with their release of The Mark of a Druid and The Fox they have graciously answered some of our eager questions. Let’s have a little about these two amazing ladies before we plunge into our questions:

Rhonda R. Carpenter is an award winning Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in Past Life Regression as well as a renowned Psychic, the 5th generation in a long line of powerfully clairvoyant women. Her first fiction fantasy novel was released in 2008. She lives and works in the mountains of Southern California. Arlene lives in the small town of Goleta, situated next to Santa Barbara, California with her husband and two cats. Ancient history has always been a love of hers and after seeing two bog bodies, one in Denmark and one in London, their voices pooled together in her imagination to form the story of The Fox. She believes she has lived many lives and can feel other voices coming to the surface. The Fox is her first novel and she knows there will be others.

The Interview

Gary: Ladies, welcome to the Celtic Myth Podshow! Ruth: Yes, and thank you for giving us and our readers some of your valuable time. Arlene: You’re welcome. Rhonda: It’s a pleasure to be here.

Rhonda

Gary: We would both like to congratulate you not only on podcasting your exciting stories of life among the ancient Celts but having your books published. I wonder whether you’d like to tell us a little about your books? Arlene: Surely. The Fox is the life story of a first century young man who escapes death by the Romans, falls in love, creates a family, and then has to make a life changing decision to save them from the encroaching Roman troops. A modern woman archaeologist is also searching for the connection she feels with the ancient couple and to make sense of her life after an abusive marriage. Rhonda: The Mark of a Druid has been a wild ride for me. Basically this is a story that combines my love of the Celts with my work, Clinical hypnotherapy. The novel is set around a research project to discover if reincarnation can be proven in hard fact. The book deals with revenge and prophecy, love and loss, a spirit walker and a shape shifter who must come to terms with each other and their situation in the ancient world and the present.

Arlene

Ruth: I was wondering where did you both get the inspiration to write your novels? Rhonda: This novel for me started as a very vivid dream that I thought would make a good story and it evolved from there. Arlene: About ten years ago, I read a book about research on a body found in a bog. After several life-changing events in my life, along with his and other ancient peoples’ voices telling me it was time to tell the world about them, I knew I had to try to put his story into words.

I started, formally researching and writing The Fox about three and one-half years ago. Gary: I think your research shows in your work as well! I am particularly impressed with the way that all of the imagery and description of ancient times relies on ancient objects to describe things. It really keeps you in the story. Ruth: How did you come up with the titles for the books? Arlene: The Fox was the young man’s name in the research book I read and it was his story I was telling. I had no other choices. Rhonda: The title? Well, the Mark is actually in the story and its theme carries through to the next two books in the series. You see in the past the main character has a birthmark that has been prophesied about and in the present the main character wakes up with this mark where she never had one before.

The Mark of a Druid

Gary: We are deeply in love with the Celtic Mythos; its’ histories and its stories but I realise that not everyone has the same sense of belonging to Celtic history. Why did you both choose the Celtic period in particular to set your novels? Rhonda: I too am personally drawn to Celtic Myth and lore. I love the culture and especially when it comes to the spiritual beliefs of the people who lived then and how their beliefs molded our civilization. For me few other cultures hold the mystery and intrigue that the Celtic culture does for me. It is like coming home for me. I feel a connection with their stories and way of living, with their tenacity and there ability to court nature and love they held for all things natural. Ruth: I’ve just got to agree with that! Arlene?

Arlene: I chose this time period because it coincided with the information in the book I read for inspiration, but I have always been fascinated by the Celts and jumped right into my research eagerly. Ruth: I do a lot of reading and the question I’ve always wanted to ask authors is: how much do you personally identify with your novel’s main character? Arlene: Ah! I have three main characters, Lovern, The Fox, Jahna, his wife and Aine, the archaeologist. I wish I had studied archaeology. I would love to be one of the searchers of the way ancient people lived. I have a background in Advanced First Aid and our community hospice so Jahna also seems close to me, too. Rhonda: (laughing) Well as a clinical hypnotherapist I would say I totally get Eve better than she gets herself. While she has some of me in her mannerisms and work that is where the similarity’s stop. Eve is willing to go out and ask for funding she is willing to push the envelope in a public way. I on the other hand prefer to stay in the background of ground braking hypnosis work for the most part. She looks nothing like me but she does have love her cat Cosmo and I can totally relate to that unconditional exchange of effecting from animal to human and vice versa.

Gary: Yes, I love the way that Cosmo seems to be the wisest of them all! I think the strength of your professional experience, Rhonda, comes out marvellously with Eve. The way she goes through a wide variety of states of human consciousness and the impact of her ‘experiences’ upon her body in present day is striking! Ruth: Many of our readers and listeners feel the creative fires themselves and they often tell us that they are writing or want to write about the Celts. On their behalf, may I ask you what sources for research did you use in your novels? Rhonda: Libraries, the Old Myths in book form and reprint, the internet and believe it or not hypnosis was a big research tool for the character development aspect of the writing. I love to research so anywhere I could pick up a tidbit or a direction I jumped on it. Arlene: I extensively researched my book and the full resource list is found at the end of this interview.

The Fox

Continued in later post…

Originally posted 2009-02-01 02:00:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter