Introduction:

When one hears the word Druidry or Druidism pass through their mind they might imagine a spiritual sage absorbed by the beauty of nature. Another might think of a savage barbarian fighting back civilization. In reality we do not know everything about these people and this spirituality, but thanks to the writings of the Romans and Greeks we know that they almost certainly had to have resembled the former.

Druidry as a spirituality has been with us since its conception in Central and Western Europe some three thousand years ago, though through periods whereby it survived only through some fragmented writings, adaptions of Bardic tales by the Church, or through Jungian subconscious collections which were not to resurface until the 1600’s. Indeed, unlike Islam or Christianity, Druidry has not had a continuous lineage of patriarchs, imams, or spiritual leaders since its beginning. Nonetheless, its validity in the realm of world religions was in the past immense, and today it is seeing a resurgence unlike no other. Continue reading →