On Jul 18, 8:09Â pm, Archdruid Michael McGrath of Ireland
gmail.com> wrote:> On Jul 18, 1:21Â pm, Chade
newsguy.com> wrote:
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>>> On 18 Jul, 04:57, Day Brown
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>>>> Contrast the desire for connection with the injunction not to lust for
>>>> results.
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>>>> What passive ritual would you recommend?
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>>> "passive ritual" seems oxymoronic. Isnt that what Christians do in
>>> Church? watch the cleric perform the ritual.
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>> Christians in church is an example that Bonewitz gives, along with a
>> pagan celebration of Samhain.
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>>>Come to think on it, they
>>> even watch a cleric perform the ritual on TV. Anything more >passive?
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>> As Tom says the effectiveness depends on being able to focus on the
>> experience narrated by the ritual. I'll grant you that TV can cause a
>> light trance, but it's not the same as being there.
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> Isaac Bonewits led to the creation of a whole new religion, indeed a
> Church, off the back of ancient Druidry. Was this the way to go ? I
> believe it's enjoyable, even uplifting, to be involved, but it's not
> Druidry. The ancient Druids never ran a Church  as they were never
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The very best thing you could do with all those "Druid books" is to
recycle them as waste paper. You could possibly spare any books
written by Peter Berresford Ellis, himself a considerable Druid of
anglo-Irish vintage, and of course that old gem, "The Druids" by the
late Professor Stewart Piggot who shows up the OBOD in particular for
what they really are: "Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy" !
Cheers, Michael.
