© Steve Tatler The Sacredness and Mysticism of Green and Trees Marion Pearce CEREMONY, RITUAL, AND PRAYER Graeme k Talboys Silbury Hill Philip Shallcrass THETHE DRUIDDRUID NETWORKNETWORK The Druid Network and The Druids Voice Office 88 Grosvenor Road Dudley DY3 2PR United Kingdom © 2003 to the TDNTDN or the respective authors where indicated . We gratefully solicit and accept contrib u- tions for this magazine. Artwork and/or ph otography is best sent as a PC based file such as jpeg, gif, tiff, bmp or similar but originals on paper will be accepted but wil l necessitate scanning into the computer. Similarly all articles, texts, poetry, news and events is best received in txt, doc, r tf or pub files for copy and pasting into our doc uments. Type or print will be entered using OCR.. Handwritten work is difficult for us to manage but we are happy to see if we can use it. We cannot pay for any co n- tr ibutions. All postal enquiries must be a c- companied by an SSAE. 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The website HAIL & WELCOME by allowing our old friend increases in content and in Philip Shallcrass to remind us breadth almost on a daily b a- GEOFF BOSWELL TDNTDN THE DRUIDS VOICE PAGE 3 THE DRUID WISDOM CAMP Thursday 15 - Sunday 18 July Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, After the success of last years camp and fo r the 4th year running, Charnwood Grove, The Druid Network and veteran camp organisers Rainbow 2000 are in the midst of creating a camp brewing over with Druidic wisdom and inspiration. Over the past few years we have focused on Bardic and Ovatic Arts. For the 2004 camp, we shall be seeking inspiration in the Druid aspect of the tradition weaving ritual and celebration throughout t he weekend. Teachers from across the Druid community will give talks, workshops and forums ranging from introductions to Druidry , to natural philosophy, ethics, environmentalism, Spirit and Land and politics. As ever, the camp is open to everyone intereste d and respectful of the tradition - regardless of where they might be in their Druidic journey. The days can be spent in poignan t studies of the mysteries, or you can simply sit back in the firelight and tranquillity and enjoy the colour and spectacle of t his magical event. To date our teachers are: Philip Carr Gomm of The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids talking about Druidry in t he modern world; Ronald Hutton, celebrated historian, talking about Druidry and Stonehenge; Stefan Allen of the Albion Conclave, talking about the solar fire of Druidry; Nicholas Mann, author of Druid Magic, will talk about mythology; Kris Hughes of The An glesey Druidic Order talking about Druidry, the Welsh Gorsedd and Awen in Wales; Emma Restall Orr of The Druid Network and Order of the Yew talking about Druid Ethics; Mark Graham of the Charnwood Grove and Lisa Schneidau of the Scottish Wildlife Trust wi ll be exploring the evolution of the Sacred Landscape; plus speakers talking on globalisation, fair trade, eco -protest, Pagan or ganization and more. As well as the usual mixture of Music, Dance, Ritual, Sweatlodge and buzzing Cafe Scene. The cost of the 2003 camp tickets was : Adult tickets £60, Children aged 13 - 17 £25, Children aged 5 - 12 £20, Children under 5 are FREE. Adult tickets are each subject to a £15 discount (£10 for children) provided you book and pay in full no less than fourteen days befo re the camp begins. A 25% deposit will secure your place. Please note no dogs allowed. We do not anticipate this will change fo r 2004. FFI, call Helen : 07791 299196 FFI, email Mark : [email protected] PAGEPAGE 4 THE DRUIDS VOICE TDN conscious awakening to the ness of the Shaman becomes BALLS OF FIRE, underlying 'membrane matrix attuned to a patterned out r e- of the Psi fiel d' of the dream ality by an informational a s- DISKS OF LIGHT allows the Shaman to access sociative process, which d e- It is said that the ancient and experience other realities. te rmines the fixity within a Shamen knew how to travel Each 'pore' of the membrane shared consensual realty. The about as 'balls of fire' trave l- is a Torsion tunnel tha t Shaman accesses a ling as fiery spirits along the breathes in and out, allowing 'Synchromesh' of phenomena, 'Dream Paths' that are etched ingress or egress from or into whereupon he or she will e x- into the sacred landscape ge n- other realities, very much like perience 'Synchronistic ph e- erally known as 'Ley Lines'. gaining access into a vast r e- nomena' which stabilises and These 'Spirit Paths' appear to ality labyrinth. At the greatest fixates the consciousness of indicate that there is a crysta l- point of torsion within the the Shaman within a chosen line structure that covers the tu nnel a knot is generated reality. face of the globe formulating whereby the consciousness of into a lattice work of light, the Shaman will be fixated, When one cuts the Toroidal akin to that of a web of a sp i- thereby experiencing ingress Spher e in half, one has the der. into a particular reality. 'Lemniscate', the symbol of infinity. The internal structure The web of light upon which The breathing in and out of of the Toroidal Sphere is that the Shamen are said to travel the Torsion tunnel is that of a of 'Microcosm ic' infinity, while in the 'dreaming body' consciously engineered Black where as the external crysta l- is said to extend further out and White Hole at a sub - line structure is that of than the planetary body of the atomic level, within the Psi 'Macrocosmic' fixity. The Earth interconnecting ever y- field of the dream becoming Lemniscate illustrates the thing throughout this partic u- as a 'Worm Hole'; the torsion 'energetic informational flow lar universe as well as inte r- being brought about by the of consciousness' f rom past to weaving with other universes. counter clockwise and cloc k- future and back again in a The web interconnects ever y- wise 'spin' at the 'Black and co ntinuous flow. The 'point' thing yet at the same time White Holes' mouth.