Liz’s Comments (group member since Jul 01, 2008)

Liz’s comments from the Druidry (not an official OBOD site) group.

http://www.meetup.com/SleepingDragon/
We are starting a Seed Group in western Los Angeles CA USA - please join us at our kick off Meet Up on Beltane - May 1, 2010 at 2PM (for the location and to RSVP go to MeetUp.com/SleepingDragon)

I'm in Los Angeles and trying to get a seed group together if anyone is interested

http://druidspace.ning.com/
there is a new social networking site for OBOD members where we are afforded some degree of privacy to discuss the content of the study course among all the other myriad of things one can do on a social networking site.

You definitely saved me some trouble: "The RDNA thing was sort of a cosmic joke. " !!! THANKS

I love the OBOD materials - they are well written and that is about as high a praise as I can give anyone. But I am of Irish ancestry and wanted a group which had a bit more of an Irish flavor but all the same quality as OBOD.

Any suggestions?

I recently finished the Shaman's Doorway and thought it was fantastic. Little is known of the Celtic shamanistic practices but this book, which is a survey of shamanism world-wide, offers a glimpse into this world by comparison with other traditions. Stephen Larsen is a Jungian psychotherapist and uses Jungian archetypes of mythology as a unifying framework for shamanism. For modern practitioners he offers only mind altering drugs as a doorway into this world, which is a less than satisfactory outcome for such a good book.

Here is the link to the OBOD (Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids - UK) Book list. It contains 55 books with links to purchase them.

http://www.druidry.org/index.php?modu...


Then there is also a larger resource call the Library
http://library.druidry.org/books/auth...

I have finished reading Peter Ellis's "A Brief history of Druids" which I found to be a thoughtful and scholarly work. I was glad that he cited his sources and the book was not just made up of how he imagined Druids, as so many other works on the topic.

He advocated the position that Druids actually were a caste akin to the Brahmans of India. He traces the Indo-European roots back to the northern Indian sources to the Indo-European language family. His use of the distribution of language families to fill in the route of a pre-historical migration from northern India into Europe is legitimate.

Most of what I had read previously had seen Druids as a priest class in Celtic society, but without restrictions as to who could aspire to be a Druid. As we know, the status of Druid can only be achieved after 20 years of study, i.e. it is an achieved status not inherited, so I don't fully understand Ellis's position on this. If, in fact, there were a caste, then one would be born into that caste and new Druids could only come from that caste.

We have achieved our first goal - we have nine members!

Please look though your address book and invite people you know that share our interest to be part of the Druid reading group.

I occasionally have the opportunity to go to Portland on my employers dime. I spend my evenings for a week parked in Powell's! I do set limits though - I can only buy as many books as I can fit into my luggage to take home (no buying extra suitcases - otherwise I'd be bankrupt)! They are union, have good politics, and, Wow, acres of good books! This must be heaven!

If you are doing a links page, you can include these links as well:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/6...

http://www.new.facebook.com/s.php?q=d...

http://druid.meetup.com/263/

Thanks for all these links - I called on in SF and waiting for a call back.

That was a lot of really valuable information - thanks! How do I get in touch with a Druid Grove in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley area? I haven't been successful, although I have tried.

Total Solar Eclipse 2008: Live from China 8/1/2008 3:30 AM PDT

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/...

Just want to plug my favorite bookstore

http://www.powells.com/s?kw=druid&...

Check them out online - they have acres of books on any and EVERY topic. I have found some amazing things in their book store.

Non-corporate, great politics and it is UNION!

Please sign the petition to Save Tara
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sa...

Just when you thought the Celtic Tiger economy had done it worst, there’s news that the Irish Government - in the name of progress, of course - is implementing a plan to build the M3 freeway through the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the high kings of Ireland.

http://www.tarawatch.org/

http://www.druidcast.libsyn.com/rss

Druidcast - The Druid Podcast

A Druid podcast brought to you by the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids

DruidCast - A Druid Podcast Episode 16
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 16
The Hunt - Daniel MacKenzie
River flow through me - Collette Sabourin - www.rorocassous.com
Mount Haemus Lectures - Prof. Ronald Hutton - A History of Modern Druidry part 1
Spirits on the Wind - Touch the Earth - www.myspace.com/touchtheearth
Bedlam Boys - Mad Magdalen - www.myspace.com/madmagdalen
The Druid Song - Paul Mitchell - www.myspace.com/pagansatire
The Vegetable Metaphors - Liv Torc - www.myspace.com/lousionnach
Druidcast intro music - The Hills they are Hollow - Damh the Bard - www.paganmusic.co.uk
Also Making the Mead - Paul Newman

Does anyone have experence with any of these organizations? Are they worth joining, and why?

OBOD Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids
http://www.druidry.org
AODA Ancient Order of Druids in America
http://www.aoda.org
AFD Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship
http://www.adf.org
Ireland's Druid School
http://www.druidschool.com
Druid Network
http://druidnetwork.org

Message from the Druid School:

On Friday the 1st of August 08 at 10:14 GMT we have a Dark Moon Eclipse – this is the Moon directly between the Sun and Planet Earth and the effect is that of a “switch off and on again” of the Earth’s energy fields. In Ireland the timing for this is at about 10:30am.

On Saturday the 2nd of August the Sun is at 10* of Leo and we celebrate Lughnasa or the Festival of Lugh. This year we hold this ceremony at midday at our new druid school in Roscommon. Drui and Drui Daltai are welcome to attend.

Mae and I both thought that The Brief History of Druids by Peter Ellis would be a good place to start. Any thoughts?

I added some books to the Druidry Bookshelf I thought we all should read and discuss. I tried to pick one from each category: history, mythology, poetry, and praxis.

Please post books to the bookshelf you suggest we all read to have an informed discussion about druidry, and further our druidic scholarship.