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Summary: Made-up nonsense
Review: As one magazine reviewer put it, this book is half fantasy novel and half stream-of-consciousness essay. What it isn't is an accurate depiction of who the Druids were and what they did, nor even what most modern Druidic groups do.If the author wants to create his own religion and call it a form of Druidry, fine, but he shouldn't pass it off as historical, when the book is filled with falsehoods. His sexist tone is also disturbing. As others have noted here, buy works by Peter Beresford Ellis, Philip Carr-Gomm, Emma Restall Orr, Philip Shallcrass, and the Matthews if you want books grounded in history, or which provide a more accurate depiction of who modern Druids are and what they do. Give this turkey a miss.
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Summary: At Last, Good News
Review: Okay, finally there is new hope for those with an imagination! All of you who are so concerned with facts, are obviously looking for something other than faith and more for reality. Lets face it, most of our reality is our everyday life. We escape that by reading these kinds of books. the 21 Lessons had some GREAT practical lessons that resemble very closely what we have all been taught as children. To respect nature, each other and to pursue truth,happiness and peace within ourselves. There is also nothing wrong with seperating genders and their individual practices. We do that anyway. Men and women DO think differently. We also celebrate our individual beliefs differently.......right? I applaud Mr. Monroe for his many references he refers to. Mostly because it takes alot of guts to print things people can go back and check on, especially if they are not the truth. He risks alot of his reputation that he is so proud of if it is a lie. Lies or not, it has helped me a great deal and I find his references for christian religions to make alot of sense. How many of us ever wondered about the yule log,mistletoe and the real story behind halloween. The only thing I would like to know is what some of the spoken spells mean. Anail Nathrock Uthvass Bethudd Dochiel Dienve is one I have heard often. Anyone know what it means translated.
Anyway, good job Mr. Monroe, I am still enjoying the book and re-reference it all the time. Working on the lost books now.
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Summary: Little fact, weak fiction...
Review: While Mr Monroe has put a lot of work into the story that he created and seems to ties it all together nicely with "facts" from the book which cites for most of his information, the reality is that so much of what he has provided here is a creation of his own making. Monroe was a student of Israel Regardie, a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, author, and noted occultist, and the traces of Golden Dawn like ritual can be discovered within this book. While there is not the strict ritualism and familiar rites of the GD, there are references that ring of GD focal points. This led me to the conclusion that the nook is generally bunk. Another thing that I observed is the completely made up sections that supposedly quote Gaelic literature on Druids with charms and things like that...but, upon asking a person who I met in Ireland to translate the Gaelic for me, I was informed that what I was speaking was not Gaelic at all and while there were some words that the two had in common, the general attitude was that it was a creation of the author. So, taking all this in to consideration we start to see what I think is a man who has simply gotten caught up in his own ego. The fact that these methods might work for someone is irrelevant as Chaos Magick has shown, ANYTHING can work if you believe it. So it is with a hearty "HELL NO!" that I answer the question; should you buy this book?
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Summary: 21 lessons of merlyn and lost books of merlyn
Review: Well, what can one say about this book? If you are looking for any form of authentic druidic experience you will be disapointed. But as a work of complete fiction it has it's merits. The drawing of the map of Britain was ammusing as the New Forest for example is about 100 miles from where it was when I last looked. Accuracy is not important to the auther, but his imagination is exquisite !
More reliable books can be had by authers such as Phillip Carr Gomm, Emma Restal Orr and Phillip Shallcrass. Mot to mention John and Caitlin Mathews,
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Summary: Some Later Considerations
Review: One of the first books I ever read on the subject of Druidism/Druidry, whichever you prefer, I can only thank this book for setting me on the path of learning more. Looking back on this path after many years, I feel that I must steer others away from it. I won't bother rewriting the downfalls of this text, that has been done by many other reviewers. The book has two good points: First, the story portion is an inspired work of fiction. Second, it may help the student to discern fact from fiction. Read this book and the works of DJ Conway, if only to understand what is NOT true.
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Summary: excelent
Review: i think this book is great! i also think that most of the people who wrote bad things about it are just upset women. the whole meaning of the word druid means men of the oak. not women and men of the oak. women have their own course of study called WITCH CRAFT. there is obviously a difference between the sun and the moon dont you think? the women work off the moon, and the men the sun. why is that so hard to grasp? get a grip people. the author did an outstanding job on this book and should be given credit for his research on it.the author did make several trips to britain and ireland to research this subject. i have been a studying druid for 9 years now and i can say that this is a very good book to read for anyone who wishes to learn about druidry. there is an obvious difference between men and women, and the author never said one was better than the other, he just said that they have different forces to work with. get a grip people!
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Summary: a full experience
Review: I have to say that Mr. Monroe is quite a storyteller. Not a liar, but the stories in the book are wonderfully told, taking the reader way into a pleasant and ideal journey. But did any of this stuff really happen? We can never know. As far as Druidic teaching, the lessons are a little vague and the tasks far out of reach. If one is learning to become a Druid, this is not the book to read. The myths outweigh the facts in this book and the stories can not be spoken as truth. However, if you are far along on your journey to being a Druid, then this book will serve as a book of stimulating stories and tasks that you may or may not be able to attain. I suggest reading at least five true Druidic books before this one and not to make it your first as I mistakenly did. Monroe is in his own world and pushes his dogma colorfully across the table and no person should believe everything he says. If Monroe really believed that all women could not be Druids, then wouldn't he at least help women with guidance towards what they should be. Monroe is a true Druid, but he should be a leader of few, because it is the blind leading the blind. Monroe is in the Siberia lands of Druidism-way far from the truth. However, the book is well-crafted and can be used for reference in certain areas and can be used as a guide for activities, but which activities and references are the truth is the real question. If you have the money to spend on a story book and an open, untrusting mind then you can get this book. But if you think that this book will help you to becoming a Druid, the book will take a long time to get to where you are at Mars
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Summary: Ripping Tale
Review: This is a pretty good work of fiction; I think it can stand up very well as that and only as that. It does provide yet another point of view on the Arthurian legends and is intriguing for that reason if for no other. One should not look to it as a guidebook into the Old Ways, though. It is overly romantic in its depiction of a very warlike and brutal people whose main source of income was the raid on other clans. War was a virtue, not the NewAge Fluffbunny philosophy in this book. The author is less influenced by the ancient Celts of Central and Western Europe than he is by the Flower Children of Southern California.
It's published by Llewellyn, so accruacy and credibility are not to be expected.
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Summary: Give me a break.
Review: I have read the reviews of this book and the more I read the more I wanted to comment on the comments. One of my peeves is when people refer to a Druid or Sorcerer as a Wizard. Wizards were there more for entertainment purposes in those days. Druids and Sorcerers were for council, enlightenment, healing, teaching, etc.. Please do not confuse Wizards in the same station. I have been Celtic all my life. This is not a fad or infatuation with me and I enjoyed the book for seeing a different view. In reference to the comments about sexiest content in the book: I believe what the author was trying to explain was why the Female Druid symbol is the triple Moon as opposed to the Sun being the symbol of Male Druid. Although the Moon reflects the light, or energy, of the Sun that is not the point. The point is there is always a constant connection between the Moon and the Sun. They are always in constant view of one another "Balanced" sharing the sky. There were, are and always will be Female Druids. I grant you that they do not feel sexual discrimination by this book. Learning different ideas is what makes us all stronger. I hope this helped open some more possibilities for you.
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Summary: Very entertaining, well written, questionable scholarship
Review: Mr. Monroe would enjoy far more praise if he could back up his resources convincingly. Sexist content. Not a reliable resource for serious Pagan research. Content may be functional, but unless Mr.Monroe can really prove otherwise, fictional.
Three stars for creative writing.
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