By Damh the Bard| 2018-05-01T14:59:51+00:00 May 1st, 2018|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: celtic lore, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, folk, Mabinogion, magic, modern bard, music, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, spirituality, Y Mabinogi|12 Comments
I thought it was about time that I gave you all an update on the next album - Y Mabinogi - The Second Branch. I wrote the spoken word section late last year and was looking for the perfect time to record it all when the Beast
By Damh the Bard| 2018-04-23T15:27:20+00:00 April 23rd, 2018|Categories: paganism|Tags: art, Cornwall, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, spirituality|16 Comments
Well hello! The blog fell quiet last week. Me and Cerri went on our first holiday, an actually holiday, for three years. The 10 days started with a trip north for a weekend exploring the ancient Bull's Hide Trance, a ritual we have written down from various
By Damh the Bard| 2018-04-10T13:23:08+00:00 April 10th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, King Arthur, myth, mythology, OBOD, pagan, paganism, Professor Roland Rotherham, story|0 Comments
Shownotes for Druidcast Episode 133 Look to the Water - S J Tucker - http://sjtucker.com The Talky Bit - Helen Woodford-Dean - Spiritual Orkney, from the OBOD Winter Gathering - https://www.spiritualorkney.co.uk The Coming of Spring - Dancing Hare - http://www.dancinghare.co.uk Story Time - The Lady of the
By Damh the Bard| 2018-04-03T12:29:09+00:00 April 3rd, 2018|Categories: Thinking About|Tags: druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, folk, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, Pagan Federation, paganism, philip carr-gomm, religion, spirituality|20 Comments
I was on a panel at the recent Pagan Federation Devon and Cornwall conference and said something that a number of people have mentioned to me since, so I thought maybe a blog article on it would be of value. Over the years I've heard some Pagans
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-27T10:25:51+00:00 March 27th, 2018|Categories: druidry|Tags: damh the bard, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, modern bard, myth, mythology, OBOD, pagan, paganism, song writing, the cauldron born|8 Comments
Every Monday at 8pm UK time Philip Carr-Gomm does a live broadcast from the Facebook page of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids called Tea with Philip. Hundreds of people from all around the world tune in and connect with a meditation, and then Philip will
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-21T12:39:00+00:00 March 21st, 2018|Categories: paganism, Thinking About|Tags: Andrew Forrest, art, cerri lee, druid, druidism, druidry, Laura Tempest Zakroff, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, Peter Pracownik, religion, Sarah Vivian, spirituality, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|9 Comments
This article really continues the theme set by a recent post about a moment that changed modern Paganism. If the publication of Triumph of the Moon gave modern Pagans the permission to accept that our path was relatively new, that the stories we had been told of
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-20T09:50:28+00:00 March 20th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: cerri lee, damh the bard, druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, music, OBOD, spirituality|1 Comment
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 132 The Wheel - Belthain - http://www.belthain.com Two Dragons - Zee Zee Birm - http://zzbirmingham.com The Talky Bit - Artist and Druid Cerri Lee from the OBOD Winter Gathering - https://www.cerrilee.com How the Sun God Lugh became the Master of all the Crafts
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-16T11:07:17+00:00 March 16th, 2018|Categories: Thinking About|Tags: CBT, Happiness, how to, life, meaning, NLP, purpose, self-help, spirituality, TA|15 Comments
For a number of years in the early 2000s I read hundreds of self-help books. Literally hundreds. I trained as a Stress Consultant, and qualified as an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner. I even considered training to be a therapist and councillor. But in truth, looking back
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-13T11:53:55+00:00 March 13th, 2018|Categories: paganism, Thinking About|Tags: druid, druidism, druidry, OBOD, pagan, Pagan Federation, paganism, religion, ronald hutton, spirituality, Triumph of the Moon, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|19 Comments
When the Pagan community comes together with an open heart amazing things can happen. I have witnessed it at the OBOD Summer and Winter Gatherings in Glastonbury each year, at many Pagan gatherings around the world, and I felt it again this past weekend at the Pagan
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-05T11:48:16+00:00 March 5th, 2018|Categories: Reviews|Tags: religion, Rupert Sheldrake, Science and Spiritual Practices, spirituality, The Science Delusion|1 Comment
I've decided to do reviews of books, music, films etc that might be of interest to readers and today is day one. Science and Spiritual Practices by Rupert Sheldrake From the inside cover: Dr Rupert Sheldrake is an internationally acclaimed biologist and author of more than 85
