Jeff Russell on working with John Michael Greer's Druid Magic Handbook and Dolmen Arch curricula (the DMH and DA we keep mentioning in the beginning); the Ogham (Irish alphabet) and the Germanic runes; Eirik Westcott’s ‘American Futharch’; Rudolf Otto's concept of the numinous; the impossibility of creating a rational religion; the question of authenticity vs validity in modern paganism; Spengler's theory of distinct civilizations; a North American high culture in the far future; post-apocalyptic fiction; climate change; linguistic purism in English; literacy and its (dis)contents; finding a point in history where it all went wrong; mingling of ancient and modern; Christian religious figures expanding outwards from Christianity; the Ashes of the Urn series by Alexander Palacio.
Music: Aerograd - D.F.A.
Dodcast #72: Jeff Russell