Essays and Forays

This page will be updated every so often with new essays, reflections, and other works of prose which explore various dynamics of the Dinnseanchas work.  Topics may range from ecological interests, Celtic spirituality, Buddhist and Daoist thought, to narratives of travel and wanderings in the natural world.  Essays will open as a .pdf file.

Re-Dreaming the Druid 2009
An exploration of modern Celtic spirituality in relation to Thomas Berry’s essay, “Reinventing the Human” in attempt to determine the fitness of it as a 21st century spirituality capable of meeting our EcoSocial needs.

The Song of the Silver Branch 2007
The seed thoughts which went on to sprout into Jason’s book, The Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality, examining the human-nature relationship through an ecopsychological and depth reading of Irish myths.

Wild Earth, Wild Mind 2006
A look at place in story in the Irish tradition, examining our relationship with nature from an ecopsychological lens.  Influenced The Song of the Silver Branch and the Place and Story chapter from The Salmon in the Spring.

Song of the Earth 2006
Music in the Irish mythic tradition seen through the lens of shamanic healing traditions and ecopsychology.

Soul of the Body, Soul of the World 2005
A fairly early essay examining the interrelationship of the body and the world in a cosmological sense.  Although my thoughts on this have changed and matured quite a bit since its writing it may still be of interest and presents a fairly unique take on Celtic cosmology, initiation, and the “Cauldrons of Poesy.”