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desired to possess.
4. With silent guile, they swept upon the cows, scattering the herd 408
3. I traveled many miles in the hard rain and lightning. My soul
The Book of the Great Dream
felt great pain and pity for itself. I stopped at a bus-shelter.
4. A tourist bus did pull up, and then did pour forth its passen-
by Mike the Fool
gers. They were the members of the class of 94 and 95, people
of the past who I didn t know and faces of people I had not met
Introduction
yet.
1. I add the account of this dream because it explains a lot of my 5. When the people got onboard, I asked if I could join them, for
devotion to the RDNA. my journey was long, and my feet were tired. Miraculously there
2. Other dreams, by others, are no less valid a source of inspira- was only one space open, and they were expecting me.
tion. Dreams deal with things that our waking minds cannot. 6. We traveled long and came to another pit-stop. When I got out,
they drove off without me. This upset me, but I continued to
travel onwards until I reached the top of the hill. Then I slid
Chapter the First
down the other side for a mile.
1. I decided that I would lead the Beltane of 1992, since no one
7. I finally slid under a parked truck and banged my head merci-
else seemed inclined. For truly, many Beltane rituals have bombed
lessly on the universal joint. I crawled out and saw a youth hos-
in the past.
tel. A warm YELLOW light did come from the windows.
2. The Beltane of 1990 collapsed because a strange man showed
8. I entered and there were all the people from the bus playing
up and threw blood on the altar stone of the Hill of Oaks while
cards and running about doing things. I asked if there was a bed
Heather was reinscribing the Druid Sigil.
I could sleep on. Miraculously they were expecting me, since a
3. This was my first ritual that I had led and it was held on Mai
late cancellation had made an opening!
Fete Island, not long after the slime-o-rama in the algae on the
9. Then did a man walk up to me. His body was covered with red,
previous day.
stiff hog bristles (in a black and white background) with a bald
4. It was done skyclad with Alex the hairy, Heather the Fair, and
head and piercing blue eyes. He reminded me of a Druid, Donny,
Sam the wise. We were to make a circuit of the lower Lyman
I had met on the Isle of Arann of Scotland the previous year.
lake. We assumed bird shapes for the first third, wolf-shapes for
10. This man did shake my hand, in a secret way, much like a
the second third and horse shapes for the third. Then, lastly, we
mason s handshake and said to me. Welcome to the club,
did assume fish shape and swam to the island in the chilly wa-
Michael. You are one of us, now! He smiled.
ters.
5. Then all did bed down by a ROARING hot fire, in a large
Chapter the Third
snuggle of wool blankets under a starry sky. All did dream strange
things, and here is mine which I remembered. 1. I awoke with a start and then snuggled into the blankets think-
ing upon this vision until the sun came up and we all chanted
2. He is the sun god! He is the one god! Ra! Ra! Ra! Ra! Ra!
Chapter the Second
3. I did take this dream as an initiation into a Druid priesthood.
1. It was a dark and stormy night in which there was no color but
4. Powerful are the spirits on this campus! There are many fairy
shades of grey. It was a desolate, mountainous road that I was
mounds, stone circles, groves, rivers, diversity of plants and ani-
traveling.
mals. It is a good place to do vigils or seek the spirits.
2. This road reminded me of the highlands, nothing scenic, just
road. So narrow was this road, that I had to press up against the
cliff face to avoid oncoming cars which sought to hit me.
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The Book of Stones The Book of Fire
by Mike the Fool and Andrea the Fair
Chapter the First
Chapter the First
1. Dark and stormy was the night that I pensively strode forth on
my last exploration in the arboretum, for I was preparing to go to
1. How to build a fire, sounds simple? It is. Certain conventions
the land of the rising sun.
have arisen over the years pertaining to fire collection.
2. I did not know the future of Druidism at Carleton, for the pre-
2. The Earth-Mother did choose well in putting her Druids on this
sumptive Archdruids did cry of thier unpreparedness, as often
campus, for wood abounds for the use in Fire, but you must
they do.
choose that wood wisely.
3. I went to the circle of stones near the Hill of Three Oaks, the
3. Sometimes fires are not very important.
Dancing Sisters as David Frangquist had named them so many
years ago, and asked them, O mighty stones, bones of the earth,
Chapter the Second
heareth now my plea, we who are thy siblings. How farest Druid-
ism in the future? 1. Though shalt use only dead wood. Live plants have psychic abili-
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