|  The early Irish Brehon law texts ask "What is the preserving shrine? " This question has two answers:
"The preserving shrine is nature and what is preserved in it."
"The preserving shrine is memory and what is preserved in it."
This is the heart of Filidecht: the practice of sacred, ritual poetcraft in early Irish and Scottish tradition. Nature and memory are one in the Fili. The Filidecht of Inis Glas, the personal path Erynn co-founded and practices, is a way of devotional, poetic nature mysticism based in an attempt to reconstruct aspects of early Celtic spiritual practices.
In early Irish practice, poetry and the word were intrinsic components of magic and the worship of deity. The Filidh additionally taught, practiced divination and ritual, did healing work, sought visions, and pursued many other arts for the people and tribes they served.
Erynn lives in Everett, Washington and has been involved in the Pagan communities of the Pacific Northwest since 1984. An independent Pagan Scholar and one of the founders of the Celtic Reconstruction movement, she writes and teaches on many aspects of Celtic Paganism, Druidism and Filidecht. She offers readings, consultations and other services by appointment.
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The festival is part of the ADF Pacific Northwest Druid Gathering scheduled in Salt Point State Park from June 25 to June 28, 2009. Download the PDF form here. |
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Amanita Muscaria Motifs in Celtic Legends was originally published in 1997 in Shaman's Drum magazine. It has been cited in many books and publications and is now available online for the first time as a PDF. Co-authored by Erynn Rowan Laurie and Timothy White, this article discusses potential links between filidecht and the use of entheogens -- specifically Amanita muscaria -- in the corpus of Celtic literature and tradition. |
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After many years out of print and only available at high prices from used book dealers, A Circle of Stones: Journeys & Meditations for Modern Celts is again available, this time as a downloadable PDF file. This is a scan from the published book, and so it is presented with all its old viewpoints, bits of factual error, and every wart it ever had. Consider it an historical curiosity rather than a reflection of my current beliefs and practices, but it has a lot of nice ideas for exercises and can be modified to suit your own CR type practice.
$10.00
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The Three Currents ogam deck is a 60-card PDF format deck that you can print for yourself on your home printer.
It is designed to be used with the material in Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom and gives three separate full-color sets of the primary 20-fid ogam in the colors of the currents: green and red for the chthonic, grey and green for the oceanic, and blue and white for the celestial.
The artwork is by Martin Benjamin (blueeyedcrow@gmail.com). Full instructions for printing are included in the file.
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