Awen

And if anybody out there follows the druid path, Obad has this differentiation, and he actually comes across in other druid traditions as well.

We have the Awen.

That's a really common understanding of the inspiration.

But then there's also the neufir, which is a Welsh word that means vital life force energy.

I am powerful.

I am filled with the guiding light of Awen.

Feel these absolute truths weaving into the very fabric of your being.

You are vibrating at a new, much higher frequency.

Carry this cultivated mindset of abundance with you into your days and your nights.

Remember that you possess the ultimate magic, the ability to shift, to adapt, and to endlessly transform.

The cauldron of Awen forever bubbles within you, an endless source of inspiration and strength.

Thank you for journeying with the Library of Divine Echoes.

The source of inspiration, life, energy, illumination is, I believe, is limitless.

Awen is limitless.

There's a lovely idea in the Grail tradition that once you've had access to the Grail from a bardic point of view, you have access to a limitless amount of stories, and even the story of the Grail itself can generate limitless variations.

And so, so, so back to this question of limitlessness.

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the elements of cosmology within the Welsh literal, within the Welsh bardic tradition, within our storytelling tradition, uh, which covers things like, uh, the existence and this deep belief in an other world that's given this name Annwfn, and also from the bardic perspective, this mystical component, which is Awen-

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They're Welsh.

[laughs] And it honors that particular culture strain and the, the stories that we tell ourselves.

And, and to me, that is the beginnings of a cosmology, and that anything else that we consider, whether it's this association that our ancestors have, that we still have with Annwfn, with Awen-

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I love that at the very heart of the Druid tradition is this concept of Awen, blessed holy breath, the breath of creation through the universe expressed in our creativity.

But that the word Awen contains the English word awe, because it's A-W-E-N.

And I always take that as a lesson, that Awen teaches us to be in awe of the song that the universe is singing and that all of us provide the lyrics to that song, to that music, and that every individual expression of life and living has its own set of lyrics indicative of who we are, what we are, where we are, how we move through the world, whether you're a tree or a blade of grass or a human being or a rat.

We're all contributing these lyrics.

And because we're contributing to it, we are co-creators with the universe.