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To sleep...perchance to dream...
 elcome to the sacred places I tread, the chthonian thresholds I cross for Otherworldly Imbas, Truth and the secrets of the Skies.
According to the Utraicecht Becc, Imbas is one of the "three things which dignify the dignities of a poet." To achieve Imbas, a fili would perform certain sense deprivation techniques, such as wrapping himself in a cowhide, chewing raw meat, fasting by a graveside, living by the edge of things as a hermit, or confining himself to a darkend room until he is in a wigged out Otherworldly altered state, during which he is able to tap into the past and the future, "see" and "speak" Truth, and generate inspired poetry.
ARTICLES
Imbas Forosnai by Nora Chadwick
Brehon Law Lecture on YouTube by Patrick Flannery
What were druids, fili, and bards? by Lisa L. Spangenberg
Were there Women Druids? by Lisa L. Spangenberg
Were the Druids Shaman? by Lisa L. Spangenberg
Did the Druids
perform human sacrifice?
by Lisa L. Spangenberg
Law, Literature and legend by by Vincent Salafia
"The Fabrication of 'Celtic' Astrology "
by Peter Beresford Ellis
Art credits
bronze sculpture of Cerridwen by Rosita Sikking Reeberg
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Calanais - Callanish Standing Stones, May 9, 2008 - 06:25
The Callanish Standing Stones are located on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland near the Gaelic-speaking village of Calanais.
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