Path of Approach
Going to try and do this every day...
The Celts are the people of the end of the world. Just as the tip of the Cornwall peninsula is called Land's En, so too has Ireland been regarded since ancient das as the last stop before the mysterious otherworld located over the waters.
Today last sense of mystery has been lost by knowledge of global geography -- a traveler leaving the British Isles heading west arrives not a tir na nOg but rather commons to Boston or New York. But if we insist on approaching Celtic wisdom with a purely materialistic sense of things, then we run the risk of missing out on the glory and grandeur of their mystical sensibility.
Britain and Ireland and Brittany may no longer be the ends of teh physical earth, but they can still represent for us a final stopping place before that immense and mysterious journey to the spiritual world that lies just beyond the reaches of the senses.
The Celts are the people of the end of the world. Just as the tip of the Cornwall peninsula is called Land's En, so too has Ireland been regarded since ancient das as the last stop before the mysterious otherworld located over the waters.
Today last sense of mystery has been lost by knowledge of global geography -- a traveler leaving the British Isles heading west arrives not a tir na nOg but rather commons to Boston or New York. But if we insist on approaching Celtic wisdom with a purely materialistic sense of things, then we run the risk of missing out on the glory and grandeur of their mystical sensibility.
Britain and Ireland and Brittany may no longer be the ends of teh physical earth, but they can still represent for us a final stopping place before that immense and mysterious journey to the spiritual world that lies just beyond the reaches of the senses.