Druid

He holds qualifications in progressive healing, psychic studies, esoteric soul healing, tarot, Bach flower remedies, counseling skills, past life regression, interlife therapy, and future life progression, to name a few.

Steve is also a Druid with the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, and he's attended lectures and workshops over the years, too many and too numerous to mention, and continues to add to his knowledge and experience by attending events as they occur and maintaining his own regular sacred practices of meditation, yoga, and Qigong.

One subject Steve's very well versed in, and that, not by choice, as the others, is as the focus of today's chat, and that is cancer.

Steve is a cancer survivor.

So what am I? I'm almost 62 now at the end of this month, September.

And I'm a jobbing tarot reader, I suppose.

Druid and tarot reader.

You know, I've worked with tarot since I was in my teens and that's always been the mainstay, like the backbone of my spiritual life.

Why, anyone could give him a knock on the chin any day, and there's no loss.

But to have a feller killed in Senate Wood, where all those old Druids—" As the words came from him, Lawrence stopped.

"Druids?" said Olva.

"Why, yes.

I wish I were a clever feller, and I could say what I mean.

But I've walked miles, often and often, to see a stone or a hill, don't you know, and Senate Wood's one of the best.

So, says I, when I hear about young Carfax being done for right there at the very place, I says to myself, 'You may look and look, hold your old inquest, call your likely feller, but it wasn't a man that did it, and you'll have to go further than human beings if you fix on the culprit.'" This was, in all probability, the longest speech that Lawrence had ever made in his life.

He himself seemed to think so, for he added in short jerks, It was those old Druids got sick of the sight of Carfax's dirty body banging about in their preserves, and they gave him a chuck under the chin.

Right.

So, for example, if you're Irish, your roots go back to the Druids.

If you have Norwegian ancestry, Well, your bloodline goes back to the worship of Thor, Loki, Freya, etc.

So it's not that we in the West don't have occult practices.

Just improved upon it, which is really, really cool.

I'm a big, Druid's my favorite class at spores.

It's like the coolest, like, unique aesthetic for Druid.

It's cool to see it get an update.

that was the one where i really woke up to what what i was reading because i was i was looking at it and the first ability i was like yeah that seems a little weak and then you get to the next thing and it goes and this is why it's weak because it's gonna become awesome as soon as you activate your spores i was like okay i'm sorry i apologize i was not familiar with your game i've never been a spores mushroom fungi fan but this this kind of made me a spores mushroom fungi

There were these mystery schools in Greece and Egypt and Persia and all over the ancient world.

Even in the Druids, they had their mystery initiatic system.

And even the Odinic mysteries and the Viking culture, they had a level of secret mystery transmitted orally for hundreds and thousands of years.

So we just have to understand that this is far older than the first and second and third century.

And the dates are devastating.

The people who began Stonehenge lived in Neolithic Britain, thousands of years before Celtic languages, Iron Age tribal societies, or the Druids described by classical authors.

They were farmers and herders in a world with no written records, no Roman Empire, no cities in Britain, and no historical memory of what Stonehenge would eventually become.

By the time anyone we might reasonably call a Druid existed… stonehenge had already been standing for longer than most modern nations have existed could later celtic-speaking people have visited it of course ancient monuments attract attention they gather stories they become landmarks boundaries shrines meeting-places and symbols of a past nobody fully understands It is entirely possible that Iron Age communities knew Stonehenge, wondered about it, and gave it meanings of their own.

They were dominated by the culture and the religious practices of the Druids, an elite class that had a direct line to the occult.

By the time Patrick came onto the scene, Druidism was at the height of its powers.

Druid literature speaks of the magical and spiritual training of the druid, in which he is eaten by a goddess, enters into her belly, and is reborn as the greatest poet in the land.

Mention of druidism evokes images of wizardry, and the druids in Patrick's day were into magic and charms and healing powers.

It was this paganism that confronted St. Patrick during his ministry to the Irish people.

Druid magicians hindered the work Patrick was trying to do.

The Druids resented Patrick, knowing that his ministry was the beginning of the end for Druidism.

Patrick was born in Britain, which at the time was controlled by the Roman Empire.

when these missionaries arrived like St. Patrick and like St. Columba.

And, you know, they had Druids and they had pigs and they had a pagan priestly class.

But even much of that religion, there was a lot of continuity between the ancient Hebrew Israelite faith.

So this is very, very interesting.