Kris Petersen - Nature does not end here on earth

We had a number of technical challenges with this episode and unfortunately lost about 10min of the recording. I hope it didn't detract too much.
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Alternative schooling at Rudolf Steiner. Leaving school at 16 he has followed a different path to many. He was able to reconnect to Nature as a young man. How caring for his autistic brother led him to be able to help others with mental health challenges. Story telling, therapeutic and holistic crafts. He became interested and continues to learn about the parallels between Native American and Celtic shamanism. The interconnection of all things. The Scottish Caledonian mountains were once part of the Appalachian mountains in North America so the land is the same. The original teachings of Shamanism are lost and we only have fragments. Their spirituality was based on Natural Law and Animism, where every natural thing is living (animate or inanimate) and a rock or a mountain is a “being”. 

Nature has a sentience far beyond our own.

Druids whole system was based on oral teaching and the only records we have are from Romans which contained much propaganda. The documentary The Last Druid gives good insights. Druids were told to integrate within the Church and new society. We see this integration in church buildings. Even the Celtic Church word Kerk, the root of that word means Circle and the churches were circular.  Unlike the square or rectangular Catholic  church.Celtic cross was the symbol was integral to Druids and is the symbol of the Celtic Cross (Crighton E Miller)

Nature does not end here on earth.

Trees were central to Druid (Scots - Oak Knower) or (Irish - Red God)

Yew tree was sacred and grow for thousands of years and can regenerate

Stone carvings of foliage personifies the landscape and may represent part of the Druid history. Around the 11th century The Green Man started to emerge in European Cathedrals & Chapels.

Pagan revival in 1940s

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