Hello, my name is Dave the Bard and I'm the host of Druidcast, the podcast of the Order of Bards, Ovades and Druids.

Each month we present a wonderful selection of music, poetry and story, plus an interview or presentation by one of the leading teachers within the Western mystery traditions.

In the past, we've had Philip Cargom.

Mia Bashir, an Indian palmist, publishes a story called the Book of Shadows,

which apparently Gardner got his idea for, rather than calling the book, the Grimway.

He calls it the Book of Shadows and so on.

Professor Ronald Hutton.

Too often the horned god of nature can be turned into

a simple force of hoof and horn and grain and grunt and thrust and lurch

and armpits

and the men's locker room

rather than of the intellect,

the tongue with words, the speeder of thought, the creator of beautiful, delicate things.

Ellen Everett Hotman?

Hello, Helen.

Hello, and I'm sitting here in my oak forest in western Massachusetts.

You're oak forest.

I live in an oak forest. I do. Oh, you really do?

I really do.

Oh, okay.

Timothy Freak, and the Gnostics, I think, are particularly clear with it, or they speak to me very clearly, which is, here we are

in this perpetual, ever-changing moment,

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