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British Druid Order 2009
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British Druid Order 2009
BDO News (Updated June 13th)
DRUID SWEAT LODGE, August 2010
If you're interested in a three-day Druid sweat lodge retreat in the heart of rural Shropshire, including attunement and ritual in our beautiful roundhouse, go to our BDO Retreats page for more details and contact e-mail.
SUNDAY, JULY 11th, 2010
DRUID BLESSING for TEWKESBURY MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL
I'm pleased to announce that we'll be back again at the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival this year, offering a Druid blessing for the spirits of the land, for the reenactors and for the market stall-holders. This is the biggest event of its kind anywhere in Europe, and you're welcome to join us for the rite and a great day out. For more details, go to our BDO Open Rites page.
BDO COURSE Update
The BDO bardic course is now, at long last, approaching completion. Yay! Though I say so myself, it's looking pretty good. I have to say so myself because I'm the only person who's seen it in its almost completed state. The next stage will be to run it past a few carefully chosen test subjects for comments. Final revisions will be made based on their responses and then we're ready to roll. Woohoo! As previously stated, the course will be offered in the form of pdf files downloadable from this website in order to minimise admin, printing and postage costs. Keep watching this space... Meanwhile, for an idea of what the course will contain, see our BDO Course page.
FREE BDO MEMBERSHIP!
The free BDO membership idea is proving popular. Why wouldn't it? Folk from around the world have taken up the offer, including several returning members we hadn't heard from for a while as well as new ones. Welcome one and all! A first e-mail newsletter has already gone out. This free membership is open to anyone. All you have to do is go to our Membership page, click on the link provided, e-mail us and Robert is your parent's sibling. What could be simpler. (Answers on a postcard please...)
OLD BONES STAY ON DISPLAY
The consultation on the 2006 Druid request for the reburial of ancient human remains held in the Alexander Keiller Museum in Avebury has now been published. The consultation was undertaken by English Heritage and ther National Trust. Much to no one's surprise, it came to the conclusion EH and NT wanted from the outset, i.e. that the bones should be retained by the museum. For a brief response, see our 'Death and Reburial' page. For more discussion, see the relevant Forum thread. For the full EH/NT report, CLICK HERE to go to the EH website and open the pdf file 'Report on Consultation.' For a response from Paul Davies, the Druid who made the original reburial request, CLICK HERE.
THIS IS THE YEAR WE SAVE THE WORLD!
Just before Midwinter, it struck me that I can't be the only person who's had enough of Press and politicians telling us that the world's going to Hel in a handcart and there's nothing we can do about it. Don't believe them. We are not doomed if we don't want to be. All of us have it in our power to make the world a better place. Each of us is capable of creating beauty, giving healing, promoting peace, of living more ethical and ecological lives. So, the message from here at the BDO is: This is the year we save the world! What this means in your own lives (if anything) is up to you. For me, I can say that it has already been an amazing year in which I have recovered something of the optimism I felt in the Summer of Love in 1967. I truly, thoroughly believe that we can all make our own lives and our world better through our own actions and the beliefs that inspire them. I'm a believer. Our Save the World page contains links to other web pages where you'll find loads of ideas, inspiration and practical things we can all do to make our world a greener, healthier, more equal and more peaceful place.
Peace, love and blessings,
Greywolf /|\
DRUID SWEAT LODGE, August 2010
If you're interested in a three-day Druid sweat lodge retreat in the heart of rural Shropshire, including attunement and ritual in our beautiful roundhouse, go to our BDO Retreats page for more details and contact e-mail.
SUNDAY, JULY 11th, 2010
DRUID BLESSING for TEWKESBURY MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL
I'm pleased to announce that we'll be back again at the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival this year, offering a Druid blessing for the spirits of the land, for the reenactors and for the market stall-holders. This is the biggest event of its kind anywhere in Europe, and you're welcome to join us for the rite and a great day out. For more details, go to our BDO Open Rites page.
BDO COURSE Update
The BDO bardic course is now, at long last, approaching completion. Yay! Though I say so myself, it's looking pretty good. I have to say so myself because I'm the only person who's seen it in its almost completed state. The next stage will be to run it past a few carefully chosen test subjects for comments. Final revisions will be made based on their responses and then we're ready to roll. Woohoo! As previously stated, the course will be offered in the form of pdf files downloadable from this website in order to minimise admin, printing and postage costs. Keep watching this space... Meanwhile, for an idea of what the course will contain, see our BDO Course page.
FREE BDO MEMBERSHIP!
The free BDO membership idea is proving popular. Why wouldn't it? Folk from around the world have taken up the offer, including several returning members we hadn't heard from for a while as well as new ones. Welcome one and all! A first e-mail newsletter has already gone out. This free membership is open to anyone. All you have to do is go to our Membership page, click on the link provided, e-mail us and Robert is your parent's sibling. What could be simpler. (Answers on a postcard please...)
OLD BONES STAY ON DISPLAY
The consultation on the 2006 Druid request for the reburial of ancient human remains held in the Alexander Keiller Museum in Avebury has now been published. The consultation was undertaken by English Heritage and ther National Trust. Much to no one's surprise, it came to the conclusion EH and NT wanted from the outset, i.e. that the bones should be retained by the museum. For a brief response, see our 'Death and Reburial' page. For more discussion, see the relevant Forum thread. For the full EH/NT report, CLICK HERE to go to the EH website and open the pdf file 'Report on Consultation.' For a response from Paul Davies, the Druid who made the original reburial request, CLICK HERE.
THIS IS THE YEAR WE SAVE THE WORLD!
Just before Midwinter, it struck me that I can't be the only person who's had enough of Press and politicians telling us that the world's going to Hel in a handcart and there's nothing we can do about it. Don't believe them. We are not doomed if we don't want to be. All of us have it in our power to make the world a better place. Each of us is capable of creating beauty, giving healing, promoting peace, of living more ethical and ecological lives. So, the message from here at the BDO is: This is the year we save the world! What this means in your own lives (if anything) is up to you. For me, I can say that it has already been an amazing year in which I have recovered something of the optimism I felt in the Summer of Love in 1967. I truly, thoroughly believe that we can all make our own lives and our world better through our own actions and the beliefs that inspire them. I'm a believer. Our Save the World page contains links to other web pages where you'll find loads of ideas, inspiration and practical things we can all do to make our world a greener, healthier, more equal and more peaceful place.
Peace, love and blessings,
Greywolf /|\
