"...toward the Otherworld I dream, yearning to be free..."
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The Goose And The Druid
Crossposted from the website of Philip Carr-Gomm, Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids.
In a recent interview I was asked: Why have you chosen Druidry as your spiritual path?
I have always been interested in many different forms of spirituality, and for me the name or label I give to the path I tread is not so important, because I think we each have to create our own path in many ways. But what I like about Druidry is that it is an approach that is designed to help me feel grounded and rooted in my depths. And it is light on dogma and philosophy and heavy on soil, rain, fire and wind. It’s like a goose.
A goose?
The goose is the bird that flies the highest in the sky but in the farmyard it is strutting around in the mud. I want a spirituality that can take me very high but which also allows me time to splash about in the mud. At our summer camps we often build a mudpit and just splash about in it. I like an approach that allows me to do serious rituals and meditations and also sit naked in a mudbath.
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