Recommended Reading
First and foremost read, memorize, write and recite good poetry...
The Druid Prayer:
Great Spirit, Grant us Thy protection
And in protection — strength:
And in strength — understanding:
And in understanding — knowledge:
And in knowledge — the knowledge of justice:
And in the knowledge of justice — the love of it:
And in the love of it — the love of all existences:
And in the love of all existences — the love of the Great Spirit and of all goodness.
Training programs:
Training programs:
Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (OBOD): http://www.druidry.org/druid-way/resources/training-druidry
Tribe of the Oak Http://www.tribeoftheoak.com
New Order of Druids https://www.druidcircle.org/…/index.p…/en/druid-college-info
Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA): http://aoda.org/curric.html
Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF): https://www.adf.org/training
Druid Network: http://druidnetwork.org/what-is-druidry/learning-resources/…
Ireland's Druidschool: http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/45031
Green Mountain Druid Order (GMDO): http://greenmountaindruidorder.org/vermont-druid-training/…/
Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO): http://www.cobdo.org.uk/
Druids of Albion (DOA): http://druidsofalbion.weebly.com/teachings-and-course.html
I cannot take credit for the compilation of this reading list, it was passed on to me by a friend.
And in the same spirit I pass it along to you. It is a valuable resource that should be shared.
Recommended Reading for the Earth Studies
Brown, Tom, Jr., Tom Brown's Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival (NY: Berkley, 1984).
-----, Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking (NY: Berkley, 1983).
-----, Tom Brown's Field Guide to The Forgotten Wilderness (NY: Berkley, 1987).
Charles Cook, Awakening To Nature (New York: Contemporary, 2001).
Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity (rev. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1993).
Eugene Kinkead, Wildness is All Around Us: Notes of an Urban Naturalist (New York: Dutton, 1978).
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949)
Georgene Lockwood, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Living (Indianapolis; Alpha Books, 2000).
James Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Jim Nollman, Spiritual Ecology (New York: Bantam, 1990).
Arthur Plotnik, The Urban Tree Book (New York: Three Rivers, 2000).
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972).
David Shi, The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings (New York: Modern Library, 1992).
Recommended Reading for the Sun Studies
Janet and Colin Bord, Earth Rites (London: Granada, 1982).
Marian Green, A Harvest of Festivals (London: Longman, 1980).
Ellen Evert Hopman, A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1995).
Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
John King, The Celtic Druids' Year (London: Blandford, 1994).
Alexei Kondratiev, The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual (Cork: Collins Press, 1998).
Maire MacNeill, The Festival of Lughnasa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962).
Margie McArthur, Wisdom of the Elements (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1998).
Claire Nahmad, Earth Magic (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1994).
Nigel Pennick, Practical Magic in the Northern Tradition (Wellingborough, Northants: Aquarian, 1989).
Recommended Reading for the Moon Studies
Books on Discursive Meditation
Adelaide Gardner, Meditation: A Practical Study (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1968).
William G. Gray, Western Inner Workings (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1983).
Manly Palmer Hall, Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization (Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1942).
Gareth Knight, Occult Exercises and Practices (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
-----, The Practice of Ritual Magic (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
Mouni Sadhu, Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery (No. Hollywood, CA: Wilshire, 1959).
-----, Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study (No. Hollywood, CA: Wilshire, 1967).
Rudolf Steiner, How To Know Higher Worlds, tr. Christopher Bamford (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1994).
-----, A Way of Self-Knowledge, tr. Christopher Bamford (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1999).
Ernest Wood, Concentration: An Approach to Meditation (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1949).
Books on Movement Meditation
Robert Chuckrow, Tai Chi Walking (Boston: YMAA, 2002).
Kenneth Cohen, The Way of Qigong (New York: Ballantine, 1997).
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide To Walking Meditation (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1996).
Lam Kam Chuen, The Way of Energy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991).
Dan Millman, The Warrior Athlete (Walpole, NH: Stillpoint, 1994).
Gabrielle Roth, Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice (New York: JP Tarcher, 1998).
George N. Sheehan, Running & Being: The Total Experience (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980).
Koichi Tohei, Ki in Daily Life (Tokyo: Japan Publications, 1978).
Yang Jwing-Ming, The Root of Chinese QiGong (Boston: YMAA, 1997).
Recommended Reading for Poetry
John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
Judson Jerome, The Poet's Handbook (Cincinnati: Writers Digest, 1980).
John Matthews, ed., The Bardic Source Book (London: Blandford, 1998).
Robin Skelton, The Shapes of our Singing (Spokane, WA: Eastern Washington University Press, 2002).
Susan G. Wooldridge, Poemcrazy (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996).
Recommended Reading for Music
Madeline Bruser, The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart (New York: Bell Tower, 1996).
Kay Gardner, Sounding the Inner Landscape (Stonington, ME: Caduceus, 1990).
Joscelyn Godwin, Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimensions of Music (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1987).
W. A. Mathieu, Harmonic Experience (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1997).
O'Boyle, Sean, Ogam: The Poet's Secret (Dublin: Gilbert Dalton, 1980).
Dane Rudhyar, The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1982).
R.J. Stewart, The Spiritual Dimension of Music (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1987).
Recommended Reading for Divination
Books on Ogham
Robert Lee (Skip) Ellison, The Druid's Alphabet (n.p.: Earth Religions Press, 2003) Not yet available from Alibris
Nigel Jackson and Nigel Pennick, New Celtic Oracle (Chieveley, Berks: Capall Bann, 1997).
Glennie Kindred, The Tree Ogham (Sherwood, Nottinghamshire: By the author, 1997).
Caitlin Matthews, Celtic Wisdom Sticks: An Ogam Oracle (London: Connections, 2001).
Paul Rhys Mountfort, Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 2002).
Liz and Colin Murray, The Celtic Tree Oracle (NY: St. Martin's, 1988).
Nigel Pennick, Ogham and Coelbren (Chieveley, Berks.: Capall Bann, 2000).
Edred Thorsson, The Book of Ogham (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1994).
Books on Other Methods of Divination
Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm, The Druid Animal Oracle (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
-----, The Druidcraft Tarot (London: Watkins, 2004).
John Michael Greer, Earth Divination, Earth Magic (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1999).
Nigel Pennick, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Runes (Shaftesbury: Element, 1999).
-----, Games of the Gods (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1989; also published as Secret Games of the Gods).
Recommended Reading for Healing
Judith Berger, Herbal Rituals (New York: St. Martins, 1998).
Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2002).
Rosemary Gladstar, Herbal Healing for Women (New York: Fireside, 1993).
James Green, The Herbal Medicine Makers Handbook (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 2000).
-----, The Male Herbal (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991).
Tammi Hartung, Growing 101 Herbs that Heal (Pownal, VT: Storey, 2000).
Ellen Evert Hopman, A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1995).
-----, Tree Medicine, Tree Magic (Custer, WA: Phoenix, 1991).
Brigitte Mars, Natural First Aid (Pownal, VT: Storey, 1999).
Nancy and Michael Phillips, The Village Herbalist (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2001).
Matthew Wood, The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 1997).
Recommended Reading for Magic
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, The Ritual Magic Workbook (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1998).
Franz Bardon, Initiation into Hermetics (Kettig uber Koblenz, Germany: Osiris, 1962).
W.E. Butler, Apprenticed to Magic (Wellingborough, Northants.: Aquarian, 1962).
-----, How to Read the Aura, Practice Psychometry, Telepathy, and Clairvoyance (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1987).
John Michael Greer, Natural Magic (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 2000).
Gareth Knight, Occult Exercises and Practices (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
-----, The Practice of Ritual Magic (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
Margie McArthur, Wisdom of the Elements (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1998).
Robin Skelton, Spellcraft (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978).
R.J. Stewart, The UnderWorld Initiation (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Aquarian, 1985).
Recommended Reading for Sacred Geometry
Critchlow, Keith, Time Stands Still: New Light on Megalithic Science (NY: St. Martins, 1982).
Gyorgy Doczi, The Power of Limits (Boston, 1994: Shambhala, 1994).
Matila Ghyka, The Geometry of Art and Life (NY: Dover, 1977).
Jay Hambidge, The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry (New York: Dover, 1967).
S.K. Heninger, Jr., Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1974).
George L. Hersey, Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
H.E. Huntley, The Divine Proportion (New York: Dover, 1970).
Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (London: Thames and Hudson, 1982).
Miranda Lundy, Sacred Geometry (Presteigne, Wales: Wooden Books, 2002)
John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise (London: Harper and Row, 1988).
Richard Padovan, Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture (London: Spon, 2001).
Recommended Reading for Earth Mysteries
Keith Critchlow, Time Stands Still: New Light on Megalithic Science (NY: St. Martins, 1982).
Paul Devereux and Ian Thomson, The Ley Hunter's Companion (London: Thames & Hudson, 1979).
J. Havelock Fidler, Ley Lines: Their Nature and Properties (Wellingborough: Turnstone, 1983).
Tom Graves, Needles of Stone (London: Turnstone, 1978).
Francis Hitching, Earth Magic (NY: William Morrow, 1977).
MacLean, Gordon, A Field Guide to Dowsing (Danville, VT: American Society of Dowsers, 1976).
John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise (London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.
-----, The Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries (NY: Crossroad, 1975).
-----, The New View Over Atlantis (London: Thames & Hudson, 1983; revision of The View Over Atlantis).
North, John, Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos (New York: Free Press, 1996).
Nigel Pennick, The Ancient Science of Geomancy (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979).
-----, and Paul Devereaux, Lines on the Landscape (London: Robert Hale, 1989).
Chuck Pettis, Secrets of Sacred Space (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1999).
Mike Pitts, Hengeworld (London: Century, 2000).
Francis Pryor, Seahenge: New Discoveries in Prehistoric Britain (London: HarperCollins, 2001).
Rob Roy, Stone Circles: A Modern Builder's Guide to the Megalithic Revival (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1999).
Michael Salvatore Trento, The Search for Lost America (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1978).
Guy Underwood, The Pattern of the Past (NY: Abelard-Schumann, 1973).
Alfred Watkins, The Ley Hunter's Manual (repr. Wellingborough: Turnstone, 1983).
-----, The Old Straight Track (London: Methuen, 1925).
Recommended Reading for The Water Studies
Judy Harrow, Spiritual Mentoring: A Pagan Guide (Toronto: EWS Press, 2002).
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Longman, Green, 1902).
Richard Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness (New York: Dutton, 1969).
Philip Carr-Gomm, The Druid Way (Shaftesbury: Element, 1993).
Ram Dass, Journey of Awakening (New York: Bantam, 1978).
Stefan Hoeller, The Royal Road (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1975).
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (New York: Harper and Row, 1970).
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul (New York: HarperCollins, 1992).
Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body (Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1993).
Charles Ponce, The Game of Wizards (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1991).
Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism (New York: Dutton, 1961).
Recommended Reading for The Fire Studies
Pauline Campanelli, Rites of Passage: The Pagan Wheel of Life (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1998).
Pauline Campanelli, Wheel of the Year: Living the Magical Life (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1989).
William Gray, Magical Ritual Methods (London: Helios, 1971).
John Michael Greer, Inside a Magical Lodge (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1998).
Ronald L. Grimes, Deeply Into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002).
Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Ceisiwr Serith, A Book of Pagan Prayer (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 2002).
Margie McArthur, Wisdom of the Elements (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1998)
Robin Skelton, Spellcraft (Custer, WA: Phoenix, 1998).
Recommended Reading for The Air Studies
Books on the ancient Druids and Celtic traditions:
Peter Beresford-Ellis, The Druids (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995).
Peter Beresford-Ellis, A Brief History of The Druids (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002).
Nora Chadwick, The Druids (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966).
Barry Cunliffe, The Celtic World (London: Constable, 1992).
Early Irish Myths and Sagas, trans. Jeffrey Gantz (London: Penguin, 1981).
W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (New York: University Books, 1966).
T.D. Kendrick, Druids and Druidism (repr. Minneola, NY: Dover, 2003, also published as The Druids).
The Mabinogion, trans. Jeffrey Gantz (London: Penguin, 1976).
Stuart Piggott, The Druids (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985).
Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees, Celtic Heritage (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961).
Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britain (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967).
Books on the Arthurian legends:
Geoffrey Ashe, Camelot and the Vision of Albion (London: Panther, 1975).
Gareth Knight, The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend (Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1983).
John Matthews and Marian Green, The Grail Seeker's Companion (Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1986).
Nikolai Tolstoy, The Quest for Merlin (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1985).
Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1983).
All the medieval Arthurian texts are also highly recommended, especially Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. Modern works of fantasy fiction based on Arthurian themes are not recommended.
Recommended Reading for The Spirit Studies
Catherine Albanese, Nature Religion in America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990).
Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (New York: Ballantine, 1972).
Peggy V. Beck and Anna L. Walters, The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life (Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College, 1977).
Graham Harvey, ed., Indigenous Religions: A Companion (London: Cassell, 2000).
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (New York: Vintage, 1972).
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949).
James Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Jim Nollman, Spiritual Ecology (New York: Bantam, 1990).
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends (New York: Anchor, 1972).
Jeffrey G. Sobosan, Romancing the Universe: Theology, Cosmology and Science (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999).
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings (New York: Modern Library, 1992).
Books on the Druid Revival:
Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon (Boston: Beacon, 1986).
Philip Carr-Gomm, Druidcraft: the Magic of Wicca and Druidry (London: Thorsons, 2002).
-----, ed., The Druid Renaissance (London: Thorsons, 1996; also published as The Rebirth of Druidry).
Ross Nichols, The Book of Druidry (London: Aquarian, 1990).
A.L. Owen, The Famous Druids (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962).
Sam Smiles, The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.)
J. Williams ab Ithel, ed., The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 2004).
First and foremost read, memorize, write and recite good poetry...
The Druid Prayer:
Great Spirit, Grant us Thy protection
And in protection — strength:
And in strength — understanding:
And in understanding — knowledge:
And in knowledge — the knowledge of justice:
And in the knowledge of justice — the love of it:
And in the love of it — the love of all existences:
And in the love of all existences — the love of the Great Spirit and of all goodness.
Training programs:
Training programs:
Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (OBOD): http://www.druidry.org/druid-way/resources/training-druidry
Tribe of the Oak Http://www.tribeoftheoak.com
New Order of Druids https://www.druidcircle.org/…/index.p…/en/druid-college-info
Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA): http://aoda.org/curric.html
Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF): https://www.adf.org/training
Druid Network: http://druidnetwork.org/what-is-druidry/learning-resources/…
Ireland's Druidschool: http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/45031
Green Mountain Druid Order (GMDO): http://greenmountaindruidorder.org/vermont-druid-training/…/
Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO): http://www.cobdo.org.uk/
Druids of Albion (DOA): http://druidsofalbion.weebly.com/teachings-and-course.html
I cannot take credit for the compilation of this reading list, it was passed on to me by a friend.
And in the same spirit I pass it along to you. It is a valuable resource that should be shared.
Recommended Reading for the Earth Studies
Brown, Tom, Jr., Tom Brown's Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival (NY: Berkley, 1984).
-----, Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking (NY: Berkley, 1983).
-----, Tom Brown's Field Guide to The Forgotten Wilderness (NY: Berkley, 1987).
Charles Cook, Awakening To Nature (New York: Contemporary, 2001).
Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity (rev. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1993).
Eugene Kinkead, Wildness is All Around Us: Notes of an Urban Naturalist (New York: Dutton, 1978).
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949)
Georgene Lockwood, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Living (Indianapolis; Alpha Books, 2000).
James Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Jim Nollman, Spiritual Ecology (New York: Bantam, 1990).
Arthur Plotnik, The Urban Tree Book (New York: Three Rivers, 2000).
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972).
David Shi, The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings (New York: Modern Library, 1992).
Recommended Reading for the Sun Studies
Janet and Colin Bord, Earth Rites (London: Granada, 1982).
Marian Green, A Harvest of Festivals (London: Longman, 1980).
Ellen Evert Hopman, A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1995).
Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
John King, The Celtic Druids' Year (London: Blandford, 1994).
Alexei Kondratiev, The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual (Cork: Collins Press, 1998).
Maire MacNeill, The Festival of Lughnasa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962).
Margie McArthur, Wisdom of the Elements (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1998).
Claire Nahmad, Earth Magic (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1994).
Nigel Pennick, Practical Magic in the Northern Tradition (Wellingborough, Northants: Aquarian, 1989).
Recommended Reading for the Moon Studies
Books on Discursive Meditation
Adelaide Gardner, Meditation: A Practical Study (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1968).
William G. Gray, Western Inner Workings (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1983).
Manly Palmer Hall, Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization (Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1942).
Gareth Knight, Occult Exercises and Practices (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
-----, The Practice of Ritual Magic (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
Mouni Sadhu, Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery (No. Hollywood, CA: Wilshire, 1959).
-----, Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study (No. Hollywood, CA: Wilshire, 1967).
Rudolf Steiner, How To Know Higher Worlds, tr. Christopher Bamford (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1994).
-----, A Way of Self-Knowledge, tr. Christopher Bamford (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1999).
Ernest Wood, Concentration: An Approach to Meditation (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1949).
Books on Movement Meditation
Robert Chuckrow, Tai Chi Walking (Boston: YMAA, 2002).
Kenneth Cohen, The Way of Qigong (New York: Ballantine, 1997).
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide To Walking Meditation (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1996).
Lam Kam Chuen, The Way of Energy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991).
Dan Millman, The Warrior Athlete (Walpole, NH: Stillpoint, 1994).
Gabrielle Roth, Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice (New York: JP Tarcher, 1998).
George N. Sheehan, Running & Being: The Total Experience (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980).
Koichi Tohei, Ki in Daily Life (Tokyo: Japan Publications, 1978).
Yang Jwing-Ming, The Root of Chinese QiGong (Boston: YMAA, 1997).
Recommended Reading for Poetry
John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
Judson Jerome, The Poet's Handbook (Cincinnati: Writers Digest, 1980).
John Matthews, ed., The Bardic Source Book (London: Blandford, 1998).
Robin Skelton, The Shapes of our Singing (Spokane, WA: Eastern Washington University Press, 2002).
Susan G. Wooldridge, Poemcrazy (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996).
Recommended Reading for Music
Madeline Bruser, The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart (New York: Bell Tower, 1996).
Kay Gardner, Sounding the Inner Landscape (Stonington, ME: Caduceus, 1990).
Joscelyn Godwin, Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimensions of Music (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1987).
W. A. Mathieu, Harmonic Experience (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1997).
O'Boyle, Sean, Ogam: The Poet's Secret (Dublin: Gilbert Dalton, 1980).
Dane Rudhyar, The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1982).
R.J. Stewart, The Spiritual Dimension of Music (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1987).
Recommended Reading for Divination
Books on Ogham
Robert Lee (Skip) Ellison, The Druid's Alphabet (n.p.: Earth Religions Press, 2003) Not yet available from Alibris
Nigel Jackson and Nigel Pennick, New Celtic Oracle (Chieveley, Berks: Capall Bann, 1997).
Glennie Kindred, The Tree Ogham (Sherwood, Nottinghamshire: By the author, 1997).
Caitlin Matthews, Celtic Wisdom Sticks: An Ogam Oracle (London: Connections, 2001).
Paul Rhys Mountfort, Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 2002).
Liz and Colin Murray, The Celtic Tree Oracle (NY: St. Martin's, 1988).
Nigel Pennick, Ogham and Coelbren (Chieveley, Berks.: Capall Bann, 2000).
Edred Thorsson, The Book of Ogham (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1994).
Books on Other Methods of Divination
Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm, The Druid Animal Oracle (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
-----, The Druidcraft Tarot (London: Watkins, 2004).
John Michael Greer, Earth Divination, Earth Magic (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1999).
Nigel Pennick, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Runes (Shaftesbury: Element, 1999).
-----, Games of the Gods (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1989; also published as Secret Games of the Gods).
Recommended Reading for Healing
Judith Berger, Herbal Rituals (New York: St. Martins, 1998).
Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2002).
Rosemary Gladstar, Herbal Healing for Women (New York: Fireside, 1993).
James Green, The Herbal Medicine Makers Handbook (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 2000).
-----, The Male Herbal (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991).
Tammi Hartung, Growing 101 Herbs that Heal (Pownal, VT: Storey, 2000).
Ellen Evert Hopman, A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1995).
-----, Tree Medicine, Tree Magic (Custer, WA: Phoenix, 1991).
Brigitte Mars, Natural First Aid (Pownal, VT: Storey, 1999).
Nancy and Michael Phillips, The Village Herbalist (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2001).
Matthew Wood, The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 1997).
Recommended Reading for Magic
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, The Ritual Magic Workbook (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1998).
Franz Bardon, Initiation into Hermetics (Kettig uber Koblenz, Germany: Osiris, 1962).
W.E. Butler, Apprenticed to Magic (Wellingborough, Northants.: Aquarian, 1962).
-----, How to Read the Aura, Practice Psychometry, Telepathy, and Clairvoyance (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 1987).
John Michael Greer, Natural Magic (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 2000).
Gareth Knight, Occult Exercises and Practices (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
-----, The Practice of Ritual Magic (Albuquerque, NM: Sun Chalice, 1998).
Margie McArthur, Wisdom of the Elements (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1998).
Robin Skelton, Spellcraft (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978).
R.J. Stewart, The UnderWorld Initiation (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Aquarian, 1985).
Recommended Reading for Sacred Geometry
Critchlow, Keith, Time Stands Still: New Light on Megalithic Science (NY: St. Martins, 1982).
Gyorgy Doczi, The Power of Limits (Boston, 1994: Shambhala, 1994).
Matila Ghyka, The Geometry of Art and Life (NY: Dover, 1977).
Jay Hambidge, The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry (New York: Dover, 1967).
S.K. Heninger, Jr., Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1974).
George L. Hersey, Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
H.E. Huntley, The Divine Proportion (New York: Dover, 1970).
Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (London: Thames and Hudson, 1982).
Miranda Lundy, Sacred Geometry (Presteigne, Wales: Wooden Books, 2002)
John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise (London: Harper and Row, 1988).
Richard Padovan, Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture (London: Spon, 2001).
Recommended Reading for Earth Mysteries
Keith Critchlow, Time Stands Still: New Light on Megalithic Science (NY: St. Martins, 1982).
Paul Devereux and Ian Thomson, The Ley Hunter's Companion (London: Thames & Hudson, 1979).
J. Havelock Fidler, Ley Lines: Their Nature and Properties (Wellingborough: Turnstone, 1983).
Tom Graves, Needles of Stone (London: Turnstone, 1978).
Francis Hitching, Earth Magic (NY: William Morrow, 1977).
MacLean, Gordon, A Field Guide to Dowsing (Danville, VT: American Society of Dowsers, 1976).
John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise (London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.
-----, The Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries (NY: Crossroad, 1975).
-----, The New View Over Atlantis (London: Thames & Hudson, 1983; revision of The View Over Atlantis).
North, John, Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos (New York: Free Press, 1996).
Nigel Pennick, The Ancient Science of Geomancy (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979).
-----, and Paul Devereaux, Lines on the Landscape (London: Robert Hale, 1989).
Chuck Pettis, Secrets of Sacred Space (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1999).
Mike Pitts, Hengeworld (London: Century, 2000).
Francis Pryor, Seahenge: New Discoveries in Prehistoric Britain (London: HarperCollins, 2001).
Rob Roy, Stone Circles: A Modern Builder's Guide to the Megalithic Revival (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1999).
Michael Salvatore Trento, The Search for Lost America (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1978).
Guy Underwood, The Pattern of the Past (NY: Abelard-Schumann, 1973).
Alfred Watkins, The Ley Hunter's Manual (repr. Wellingborough: Turnstone, 1983).
-----, The Old Straight Track (London: Methuen, 1925).
Recommended Reading for The Water Studies
Judy Harrow, Spiritual Mentoring: A Pagan Guide (Toronto: EWS Press, 2002).
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Longman, Green, 1902).
Richard Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness (New York: Dutton, 1969).
Philip Carr-Gomm, The Druid Way (Shaftesbury: Element, 1993).
Ram Dass, Journey of Awakening (New York: Bantam, 1978).
Stefan Hoeller, The Royal Road (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1975).
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (New York: Harper and Row, 1970).
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul (New York: HarperCollins, 1992).
Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body (Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1993).
Charles Ponce, The Game of Wizards (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1991).
Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism (New York: Dutton, 1961).
Recommended Reading for The Fire Studies
Pauline Campanelli, Rites of Passage: The Pagan Wheel of Life (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1998).
Pauline Campanelli, Wheel of the Year: Living the Magical Life (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1989).
William Gray, Magical Ritual Methods (London: Helios, 1971).
John Michael Greer, Inside a Magical Lodge (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1998).
Ronald L. Grimes, Deeply Into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002).
Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Ceisiwr Serith, A Book of Pagan Prayer (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 2002).
Margie McArthur, Wisdom of the Elements (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1998)
Robin Skelton, Spellcraft (Custer, WA: Phoenix, 1998).
Recommended Reading for The Air Studies
Books on the ancient Druids and Celtic traditions:
Peter Beresford-Ellis, The Druids (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995).
Peter Beresford-Ellis, A Brief History of The Druids (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002).
Nora Chadwick, The Druids (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966).
Barry Cunliffe, The Celtic World (London: Constable, 1992).
Early Irish Myths and Sagas, trans. Jeffrey Gantz (London: Penguin, 1981).
W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (New York: University Books, 1966).
T.D. Kendrick, Druids and Druidism (repr. Minneola, NY: Dover, 2003, also published as The Druids).
The Mabinogion, trans. Jeffrey Gantz (London: Penguin, 1976).
Stuart Piggott, The Druids (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985).
Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees, Celtic Heritage (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961).
Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britain (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967).
Books on the Arthurian legends:
Geoffrey Ashe, Camelot and the Vision of Albion (London: Panther, 1975).
Gareth Knight, The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend (Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1983).
John Matthews and Marian Green, The Grail Seeker's Companion (Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1986).
Nikolai Tolstoy, The Quest for Merlin (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1985).
Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1983).
All the medieval Arthurian texts are also highly recommended, especially Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. Modern works of fantasy fiction based on Arthurian themes are not recommended.
Recommended Reading for The Spirit Studies
Catherine Albanese, Nature Religion in America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990).
Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (New York: Ballantine, 1972).
Peggy V. Beck and Anna L. Walters, The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life (Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College, 1977).
Graham Harvey, ed., Indigenous Religions: A Companion (London: Cassell, 2000).
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (New York: Vintage, 1972).
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949).
James Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Jim Nollman, Spiritual Ecology (New York: Bantam, 1990).
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends (New York: Anchor, 1972).
Jeffrey G. Sobosan, Romancing the Universe: Theology, Cosmology and Science (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999).
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings (New York: Modern Library, 1992).
Books on the Druid Revival:
Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon (Boston: Beacon, 1986).
Philip Carr-Gomm, Druidcraft: the Magic of Wicca and Druidry (London: Thorsons, 2002).
-----, ed., The Druid Renaissance (London: Thorsons, 1996; also published as The Rebirth of Druidry).
Ross Nichols, The Book of Druidry (London: Aquarian, 1990).
A.L. Owen, The Famous Druids (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962).
Sam Smiles, The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.)
J. Williams ab Ithel, ed., The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 2004).
