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Summary: Druidic Delusions
Review: Monroes outlook on Druidism is not only archaic, its completely inacurate. Druidry did not have such a stringent line between sexes and much of the information given is FALSE. Example: The ancient celtic writtings he refers to DO NOT EXIST!
his information is NOT druidry.
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Summary: Just because it works doesn't mean that it's Druidic
Review: It may work, for some people. This does not mean that it's Druidic. If what he writes is embarassingly contrary to Celtic scholarship (and, despite our frequent disagreements on specifics, there is enough agreement on general topics), I don't see how anyone can claim that this is an authentic Celtic anything. If you're interested in this path, then study. Study the language, study the culture, study the archaelogy, study the mythology (and there are plenty of references to female Druids in there.) Get a grip on what we truly know about the ancient Celts. Then, perhaps, people will see that, no matter what else this book and its sequal are, they are *not* accurate depictions of Druidism.
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Summary: The 21 lessons of Merlyn
Review: THIS BOOK IS EXELLENT!Well reserched and very entertaining.This book paved the way for me into Paganism and changed my life.I would definatly recommend this book to beginers and experianced pagans alike!
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Summary: What happend to the old ways and their believes ?
Review: Well, I've read all of the comments to this book and don't quite understand the problem. Of course you can't use a book to learn about ancient ways, but I think the book is inspiring. I come from a family, which dates way back to 1300 and grew up with the old knowledge or what was left over. ... How we grew up was to respect and try to understand other peoples opinion ... Also in old traditions all over the world it's known, that there is female and male powers. I know that for a fact from the Native American ceremonies and there is no reason to feel bad about that. I can't see why this book should be sexist, because this is a story about Arthur and if the story is true or not, he is a male, so of course most of the stuff in the book will be about the male powers. I didn't see any raciest or sexist aspects in the book as I also talked to my wife about that and she read the book too. If you are more interested in the women power, there is some good books about that. We live now since some years in the US and work and live together with the Native American people and learned a great deal of their believes and teachings. After all that years of study the Native Culture and the knowledge I've learned from my grandmother and grandfather, I have to say that there is many similarities to our old traditions and I found also some answers to our own celebrations, which we celebrated since I was a child, but without really knowing what this tradition meant. ... I'm not a celtic specialist as there are many, I just grew up with some of our old knowledge as we use and used it in our family traditions....and prayers are good answers to our daily problems. ... I want to thank you for reading this and wish you all the best, greetings from the Black Hills of South Dakota Mitakuye Oyasin ( for all my relatives ) Thomas J. Steuer ( Stuir; Stewart )
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Summary: Uh, what?
Review: Don't get me wrong. I love Celtic books in general. And I tried to read this one.....The 21 Lessons of Merlyn is confusing, incoherent, and sexist. I can't follow this book from one paragraph to the next, since it doesn't seem to be organized very well. It skips from topic to topic. And, the author seems to look down his nose at women. He suggests that the young boy's "girls are icky" attitude is actually the proper attitude for a grown man, and that socialization is to blame for any attraction a man may feel for a woman. He claims that no one can become a powerful magician if he "depletes his power" through sex. This book has turned several women of my aqcuaintance away from the Celtic path, and that's sad. If you must read this, make sure you read some other Celtic books first, so you don't come away with the impression that this system is the one and only Celtic way.
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Summary: Why was this book published?
Review: The most inaccurate piece of writing I have read ever in Druid lore and tradition. This book is a fantastic voyage into the hypothetical realm of King Arthur and his Wizard Guide, Merlyn. The story was entertaining but the magical solutions and subtext reference is mundane and inaccurate, for a true Druid would have never revealed them. Sorry, I will never buy another book from this author again.
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Summary: Flawed Information
Review: This book should not be taken as an accurate account of the beliefs or "practices" of the ancient Druids. Monroe is self-referential, but also claims to have drawn knowledge from an authentic "Barddas" (which were also historically inaccurate writings, but from the Romantic period). He suggests that Druids were an all-male class of white-bearded wizards, suggests a magickal superiority of blue-eyed, blond-haired boys, and goes on about Celtic women posessing vampiric powers and relying on the energies of men for these powers. All these suggestions are historically inaccurate. There were indeed women Druids, they did not feed off the energies of men, and the Celts certainly did not consider any physical characteristics to be superior. Monroe also implies that the Celts held an importance for racial purity- which is rather disturbing. The Celts were a diverse group and were not even racially pure themselves, so this implication is foolish. A minor detail- Monroe suggests that in the time of Arthur, the English countryside was filled with pumpkins. Pumpkins are from the west and were not introduced to the British Isles for hundreds of years after the time of Arthur. This book is nothing more than a fantasy novel and should not be taken as a book of reference or research, unless you want to be seriously misinformed. The Book of Pferyllt was a forgery, and any author who says he/she draws from this text is not a reliable source.
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Summary: a excellent work.......... of fiction that is
Review: i was frist intrested in this book for i love celtism and would get anything on it i could browsing in a local new age store and i found this it said a study in druid magic and lore i was like wow i expected a book filled with lore magick and some hisory about druids what i found ways a work of ficition that is about as good as lord of the rings
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Summary: The work of a Draíodóir; his Bándhraíocht
Review: Douglas Monroe is a Draíodóir ... and his work and ways are ... druidism with all difficulty and actual beliefs of the Celts removed to be popular and profitable....There is no need for a lengthy list of all the fallicies and such throughout this... book..., READ what everyone else who knows what they are talking about says, its the truth, this book is just another Llewellyn money maker....
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Summary: Inaccurate fantasy
Review: I have to say that this book is many things, but accurate is not one of them. Relying on sources that are known to be falce sets the tone for the book. I did find the explanations of the fantasies to be quite amusing though. Unless you are wanting a book to keep in the bathroom, I would not recommend this book.
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