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The great misunderstanding of modern Western culture is that it's difficult to come into contact with the Sacred. It isn't. What's difficult is to come into harmony with it. The Celtic tradition teaches us how to do both. It teaches us how to bring the peace and power of Spirit into our daily lives, our work, our relationships, our interactions with others, and the way we feel about ourselves and our place in the cosmic dance. Despite its antiquity, its worth isn't limited to the Celtic tribes who
roamed Europe two thousand years ago, or to their descendants today, because spiritual traditions aren't limited by culture. What's more, the Celtic tradition formed the basis for the Western world-view. In the West, we live on the secular surface of the Celtic cosmology. This facet affirms our value as individuals realizing our potential. It celebrates life in the world and success in the field of action. The problem is that the spiritual part of the tradition was lost to most of us, leaving a gutted cosmology. However, we can heal this rift in our lives. Healing means: "to make whole." When we practice the whole Western way, we can be passionately engaged in the world, and just as passionately connected to Spirit. Through meditation, energy work, chant, prayer and the visionary technique of the echtra or spirit journey, we can learn to experience spiritual reality as personally
and vividly today as Celtic shaman-priests did millennia ago.
The Celtic tradition exists as one gateway to the mystery and the meaning of our lives, a gate through which you are now invited to step. |