Alban Elued/Mabon
Sep 21st, 2008 by celticshaman
Dillon Carlyon, or podcaster, opens this Alban Elued podcast with music from the band, Da Camera. They can be found at www.dacamera.com and also on www.magnatune.com. The tunes are Three Airs from the Dancing Master, http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/dacamera-celtic/. Following we hear Carolan’s Farewell to Music from A Celtic Celebration http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/dacamera-celtic.
Tira Brandon-Evans reads from the Candle of Vision by Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell, is a set of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (which is short for Aeon), Russell was friends with many other figures of the Celtic renaissance of the early 20th century, including Y.B. Yeats, and James Stephens.
The Candle of Vision describes Russells’ luminous excursions into the otherworld, including clairvoyant and prophetic visions, precognition of Gnostic concepts, past-life and astral journeys, and, always, heightened awareness of the beauty that pervades mundane reality. Russell describes encounters with what today we would call UFOs, and attempts to construct a private Kabala based on an intuitive reconstuction of a primal language and alphabet. Lastly, he attempts to put a mystical gloss on the primeval Celtic pagan deities. Lovers of Celtic lore and ecstatic mystic literature will both find much to enjoy in this short book. Find the entire book at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cov/index.htm
Dillon shares some of his recent journey to Cape Breton Isle, a place where the Celtic culture is still alive and well in North America. You may view his entire travel blog, including the pictures, at: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8164442&blogID=425053998 .
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Have a happy and blessed Mabon/Alban Elued. Be well, be strong, be free!
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