Celtic Spirituality & Culture

[shamanseeker]

I would like to start a Celtic Spirituality thread. Many people on this forum will be descended from the Celts and I think this will be very interesting to us.

Dolores Whelan is an educator in Celtic Spirituality and one of the Wise Woman of Ireland. I imagine she is the equivalent of an elder in other indigenous groups. The BBC carried out research using DNA testing in Great Britain at the end of the nineties. They discovered that the Angles and Saxons did not push the Celts into Wales and Scotland but that below the line going from Northern Wales to the bottom of East Anglia there was a very high percentage of Celtic blood as well as in Wales and Scotland (where there was a lot of Scandinavian blood too . (North of the line in England was where the Angles had invaded from Denmark making the whole of Britain Anglo-Celt not Anglo-Saxon.

The Romans carried out genocide against the Celts - a physical and cultural genocide in a quest to rid the world of true spirituality. It's interesting that the Celtic spiritual beliefs are the same as those of today's indigenous groups.

Dolores talks about the sacredness of the Earth, the importance of balancing feminine and masculine energy and how this imbalance plus our connection to the Earth have been negative and how we need to look into ourselves for truth.

She says we cannot return to the past but we can reintegrate the presence of the divine in every blade of grass, to walk on the Earth with more reverence and gratitude for what we have which will bring abundance and unity.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7h3iYIg9hI


Traditional Celtic Music:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZoYGaKR8Qg

[Tribe]

Ah lovely ! Something very dear to me thank you Shamanseeker xx

[shamanseeker]

You're welcome, Tribe xxx

[shamanseeker]

Before Part 2 of Dolores Whelan's interview, here is some absolutely gorgeous music:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiwuQ6UHMQg


In Part 2 of Dolores' interview, she speaks about how different people are working on building their communities on true spiritual values and how this work which seems to be separate is starting to connect and how she believes there is about to be a blossoming and new world and vision connecting the old world with the new world of quantum science (she worked as a scientist when she was younger). She says this will be hugely empowering and with it we will realise that we are co-creators of the world we live in and how we need to move away from the idea of 'them and us' and relying on leaders telling us what to do. Each region is a bio-region and has its own, unique needs and we will work on enhancing our own region's habitat.

Then we go to Dolores' garden which she is transforming into a space representing the eight seasons of the Celtic calendar and talks about the fact that the experience is a long learning process.

She calls the place where she lives a special land which has been farmed for such a long time that it has very special energies and how she's so happy to be a Celt of that area and how she is blessed to be able to take care of it.

[KosmicKat]

Did she mention that the celts were also headhunters?

[shamanseeker]

If you have listened to the video, you'll already know the answer to that and I think you need to give some proof of it if that's what you believe. I'm sure, however, that the ones who taught what she is teaching didn't.

[shamanseeker]

I hope this thread is not going to be trolled but continued in the right spirit. Dancing has always been an important part of indigenous spirituality so as I'd like this thread to also be dedicated to Celtic culture, here is what is in my opinion the most beautiful of Celtic dancing. I apologise to other Celtic peoples especially to Highland though you can download your choice of Scottish dance which is also lovely. My ancestry is mainly Welsh but I find Welsh dancing a little too 'twee' though their singing is superb

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8EXDtoGfrs

[modwiz]

Good thread. Trolls? Hope not. However, cats can be sh!tty little critters and love to p!ss on things. Apparently even kosmic ones.

[777]

I hope this thread is not going to be trolled but continued in the right spirit.

It certainly won't be trolled no Christine. It was started in wonderful spirit and will continue in that vein.

[shamanseeker]

Good thread. Trolls? Hope not. However, cats can be sh!tty little critters and love to p!ss on things. Apparently even kosmic ones.

Dear Modwiz, we've had our differences and misunderstandings but may I say now that I love you

[shamanseeker]

Before Part 2 of Dolores Whelan's interview, here is some absolutely gorgeous music:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiwuQ6UHMQg


In Part 2 of Dolores' interview, she speaks about how different people are working on building their communities on true spiritual values and how this work which seems to be separate is starting to connect and how she believes there is about to be a blossoming and new world and vision connecting the old world with the new world of quantum science (she worked as a scientist when she was younger). She says this will be hugely empowering and with it we will realise that we are co-creators of the world we live in and how we need to move away from the idea of 'them and us' and relying on leaders telling us what to do. Each region is a bio-region and has its own, unique needs and we will work on enhancing our own region's habitat.

Then we go to Dolores' garden which she is transforming into a space representing the eight seasons of the Celtic calendar and talks about the fact that the experience is a long learning process.

She calls the place where she lives a special land which has been farmed for such a long time that it has very special energies and how she's so happy to be a Celt of that area and how she is blessed to be able to take care of it.

Oops! I didn't download Part 2. Here it is:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7CeWMMqqM

[shamanseeker]

The Role of women in Celtic Society. This will surprise you!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0tTOzT3uXs

[shamanseeker]

Roman Propaganda vs the Truth about the Celts (including Celtic engineering!)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl96VLPCAqw


I think this 'history' of the Celts/Barbarians who invaded Rome and then left after the Romans gave them their gold is worth watching. Of course, Barbarians were any race who lived outside of their 'civilisation'. The way this man describes the Romans' attitude to the Celts (these were the Celts from Gaul or France and it would be interesting if the BBC were to carry out DNA testing in the rest of Europe to see which areas are Celtic.) after their campaign into Italy. This is how contemporary Rome thinks of and treats the Celts of Northern Italy today. The Lega Nord or political party set up to protect the interests of the Northern Italians, i.e. above the Po valley, and which could have been a positive force for freedom from political corruption here in Italy were infiltrated and/or corrupted by 'Rome' by selling their souls to the devil and so are being deceived to this day and their followers are ignoring the fact that they have joined the 'Ladri a Roma' (thieves in Rome) in stealing from the people who are waiting still after 15 years for the federation that Rome promised them in order to keep them docile.

Here we learn what Julius Caesar understood about the Celtic Gauls that the victors' propaganda ignored.

I haven't watched all of this yet but it looks extremely promising.

[shamanseeker]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWRnm04tNM


Beautiful Celtic Drum Painting:

[Cearna]

You're doing an amazing job so far with this, please keep them coming. There are so many of us who are descended from the Celts, and want to know more of our heritage. It's hard to resist Celtic music, but these drum paintings go somewhere else again.