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This lecture says that druid meditation is a way of finding what a human being is, and that it resembles Daoist trust in natural flow. In Celtic Britain, he says, no single ruler held the tribes. Families grew larger, neighbors clashed, and peace was sought through spiritual intermediaries, whom he identifies as the druids. He will not call the earth property. Roman forces, he says, moved from early raids to occupation, and tales of druid bloodshed should be doubted because Celtic learning was oral rather than written like Roman accounts. Nature was the spring of sacred force. Trees mattered most, and the druid name is commonly tied to the oak. Rivers, heights, and stone were alive with spirit, and a current he calls awen moved through plants. At the solstices the border with the otherworld grew thin, and druids helped people meet what lies past ordinary sight. Rebirth and a life where work and spirit are one path were, he says, set aside by a later religious timeline. He offers this as an account of older British practice.
Key points
- He says druid meditation seeks identity through nature, in a way like Daoist practice.
- He says Celtic tribes lacked one ruler and used druids as peacemakers.
- He treats Roman charges of druid cruelty as biased against an oral culture.
- He claims trees, waters, and stones carried spirit, with the oak tied to the druid name.
- He says solstices, rebirth, and the yearly round kept daily life and spirit together.
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So the Kelts were a people who did not have one sort of rulership.
Speaker, Druid Meditation in Celtic Britain
He describes Celtic society as tribal rather than united under one ruler. Watch at 8:34
I don't have my secular life over here and my spiritual life over here.
Speaker, Druid Meditation in Celtic Britain
He refuses to divide ordinary living from spiritual practice. Watch at 11:00
It goes on to things like water courses, rivers, lakes, the sea, having a spirit, even the mountains, the rocks, etc.
Speaker, Druid Meditation in Celtic Britain
He extends spirit beyond trees to water, heights, and stone. Watch at 16:15
And the druids were very much seen as facilitators for those wishing to connect outside of this physical world.
Speaker, Druid Meditation in Celtic Britain
He casts druids as helpers for contact beyond ordinary physical life. Watch at 20:18
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