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The Last Druid - Documentary on Ben McBrady of The Old Gaelic Order

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I came across this video wondering how shamanic practices involving hallucinogenic fungi came to be so much a part of Christmastime mythology. The video has nothing on that topic, but gave me some threads to pull for understanding Druids a bit.

My brother mentioned that former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams is a White Druid. I had no idea. Reading about it I was impressed that William's response to Evangelical criticism of his honorific was essentially: Oh bugger off.

This Wikipedia article, Brehon, impressed me. I got to the article searching for Ben McBrady, and here's the link to an article citing McBrady from the Wikipedia article. Brehon is a system of judicial mediation which has quite ancient roots.

Something which is so powerful about prison Abolitionists is their cultivation of approaches and methods that make the kind of future they want. That approach opens up a wide world of possibilities. Reading the Turtle Talk blog has help me to see there are deep precedents in the indigenous cultures of the Americas.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith is a Maori scholar of decolonizing methods. She observes:

Indigenous people have this culture, have this knowledge, and have ways of doing things. And it is the same around the world: there are other ways of imagining ourselves. And that is really important when we think about the contribution that Indigenous people and indigeneity can bring.

I have enjoyed reading John Michael Greer, who is an American Druid. But I've read him mostly around topics of oil and post-carbon futures, heeding little the druid stuff. I am a bit shocked by how I've had my blinkers on. Not really surprised because I'm entrenched this culture, and I'm old. Still, I very much agree with Linda Tuhiwai Smith's point about the importance of Indigenous people and indigenous knowledge bring to responding to the predicaments we find ourselves.

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To Be A Leader

What makes a good leader? Someone like Queen Medb. Or Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Someone who fights beside the people they lead, and take responsibility for their own actions. Standing on the front lines and willing to sacrifice everything for the greater good. To know everyone in your tribe- for lack of a better term- if you are a leader, you know everyone by name, and have some idea of who they…