EP: 202 Festival of the Dead with Luke Eastwood

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Nature, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Luke Eastwood joins us this week to discuss his book "Samhain: The Roots of Halloween" and the Irish genesis of the holiday. A practicing Druid and founder of the Irish Druid Network, Luke brings a unique perspective on the topic. We discuss how the modern celebration of Halloween is derived from the ancient festival of the dead in Ireland known as Samhain. Eastwood contends it is from Ireland that most of the Halloween traditions we have in the West have been inherited. Delving into the ancient past, our guest this week uncovers the history of this festival in Britain and Ireland, including the forgotten goddess Tlachtga and the sacred temple of the Druids in county Meath, named after her, where the first Halloween fires were originally lit. We discuss how this time of year it is believed the veil is thin, how candles are lit on Samhain to invite in the spirits of the dead, how fairies are real and can be found all over Ireland, and what this festival means to the pagan Irish and Druid class. support the show! blurrycreatures.com/members Guest: https://lukeeastwood.com Intro song: Dreamkid83 contact: blurrycreaturespodcast@gmail.com blurrycreatures.com Socials instagram.com/blurrycreatures facebook.com/blurrycreatures twitter.com/blurrycreatures Music Kyle Monroe: tinytaperoom.com Aaron Green: https://www.instagram.com/aaronkgreen/ Mastering: ironwingstudios.com Outro Song: TimeCop1983: timecop1983.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The main thing is
0:05.0	thing is venerating your ancestors inviting their spirits back to your home
0:11.0	back to which it probably is their home their ancestral home because families
0:15.1	kept their houses they didn't like move all over the place like now so you know your
0:20.1	parents and grandparents probably lived at the same place and you would set a table with
0:26.1	the place for them too. You'd invite them to come back to your house. At this time, the idea being
0:31.7	the veil between the other world, as it's called, and the world reality we live,
0:37.0	and it is so thin that they could pass backwards and forwards and come back and visit you, and you might be able to commune with them to talk with them and it's a time of
0:47.3	prophecy and divination as well very much so sown and it kind of basically means summer's end.
0:54.0	You're probably gonna run across the souls of the dead or ghosts
0:59.0	at this time.
1:01.0	I certainly say that has happened in my own experience. The history of our earth is so different from what we can imagine.
1:23.0	The Smithsonian,
1:26.0	that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere,
1:30.0	was to go get it.
1:31.0	I'm going to assume at least one person is right,
1:35.0	because if one person's right and bust the paradigm,
1:37.0	it all goes back to the fallen sheriff.
1:40.0	And the problem with the modern day church,
1:42.0	they have a very truncated view of a supernatural.
1:44.0	This backdrop, this just pregnant, with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount
1:49.2	Herman event.
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