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And whilst some sections of the druid community charge money for information available in any library or on the internet, in the form of correspondence courses, we ask "would you pay money to become a christian?" and maintain that the only way you will ever learn to become a druid, and take on the responsibilities involved in becoming real druids in the real world, is by joining in with other druids in the field and learning to work with the public. Anything less, is private, not public.
Caesar and other Roman writers told how, under roman occupation, druids had been forced to abandon their national temples, and "perform ceremonies in the depths of the forests." Those days are long gone. Now we are back where we belong once more. In our temples of stone, like the proto-druidic megalith builders of old.
© Rollo Maughfling, Stonehenge Officer, Samhain 2007.
Please Note
I would like to make it clear that these opinions do not apply to all correspondence courses and we recognise the valuable work that certain of the druidic teaching schools do, by means of systematic tuition, to provide education in practical druid matters, history, philosophy, poetry and the arts, etc; and intense personal teaching is time-consuming, and makes the course fee valid; I only really mean to say, that public druidry requires getting out there in sacred landscape and making druidry a living example to all who have an interest, not making celebration and ceremony a purely “in-house” affair only.
The Council of British Druid Orders, CoBDO, would like to recommend one of our initial co-founders, who at present is not a member, the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids, OBOD, as our correspondence course of choice, to those who feel that they need to learn more about druidry, but are not necessarily ready to embark on “fieldwork” to begin with.
Here is a link to their site if you would prefer to follow “the quieter way.” OBOD
Rollo Maughfling. Archdruid of Stonehenge & Britain.
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