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Meet the Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Irish - Michael Conneely's Worldwide Vision Courses
We have been developing these vision journeys through 2018.
We are now at the point of publishing the start modules of the first two of our 'Vision courses to Meet the Gods and Goddesses of the ancient Irish':
We are now at the point of publishing the start modules of the first two of our 'Vision courses to Meet the Gods and Goddesses of the ancient Irish':
Each God or Goddess of the ancient Irish, when properly understood and approached, is a connection to the Divine Light, a guidance that we can embrace, a facet of the ultimate Divine. We seek to let our own consciousness connect with and be flooded by the Divine.
The point is, when we first Meet a God or Goddess, our first reaction to, for example, Meeting the Morrigan, is formed often from our personal individual 'egoic self', from our personal characteristics, it's constrained by our blocks and limits and upbringing and conditioning. We're probably not really seeing her: we are looking at her through a filter, through a glass darkly (and my astrology is most valuable in pointing to what these blocks and filters are).
So, it is most valuable to write it up and keep on record.
Using for example, just one astrological tool: the Nakshatras, the wonderful and most powerfully descriptive 27 Lunar Zodiac of Vedic Astrology, how someone first sees The Morrigan at their first Meeting with Her, i.e. what 'start qualities' they assign to The Morrigan, will inevitably be based on that person's personality.
Indeed each of us needs needs to develop enlightened awareness of the characteristics that we are given in this lifetime to walk our incarnational destiny path this time.
Indeed we may be not fully aware of parts of our personality, for example how pushy front can cover a mass of weaknesses behind that, for example how we might want to use The Morrigan to justify our negative behaviours. All of this gets explored as we make further, deeper Meetings with The Morrigan through the Modules of this course.
And in addition to getting to know ourselves better in relation to the Divine qualities of The Morrigan, the purpose of the different modules of the course to Meet the Morrigan is then to broaden and deepen our understanding of The Morrigan, Herself, and becoem more able to evaluate the way different authors recorded Her as manifesting.
The personal story of Cuchulainn and The Morrigan is of great value in learning - in learning, in fact, from his downfall: because he never recognised Her when She appeared to him in different earthly guises (and experiences for spiritual learning so often come into our life in 'guises') and Cuchulainn also always failed to recognise the true nature of the battlefield. So, although a teen prodigy hero wonder-warrior, he died: but - She was there with him at his last; because She loved him.
So, it is most valuable to write it up and keep on record.
Using for example, just one astrological tool: the Nakshatras, the wonderful and most powerfully descriptive 27 Lunar Zodiac of Vedic Astrology, how someone first sees The Morrigan at their first Meeting with Her, i.e. what 'start qualities' they assign to The Morrigan, will inevitably be based on that person's personality.
Indeed each of us needs needs to develop enlightened awareness of the characteristics that we are given in this lifetime to walk our incarnational destiny path this time.
Indeed we may be not fully aware of parts of our personality, for example how pushy front can cover a mass of weaknesses behind that, for example how we might want to use The Morrigan to justify our negative behaviours. All of this gets explored as we make further, deeper Meetings with The Morrigan through the Modules of this course.
And in addition to getting to know ourselves better in relation to the Divine qualities of The Morrigan, the purpose of the different modules of the course to Meet the Morrigan is then to broaden and deepen our understanding of The Morrigan, Herself, and becoem more able to evaluate the way different authors recorded Her as manifesting.
The personal story of Cuchulainn and The Morrigan is of great value in learning - in learning, in fact, from his downfall: because he never recognised Her when She appeared to him in different earthly guises (and experiences for spiritual learning so often come into our life in 'guises') and Cuchulainn also always failed to recognise the true nature of the battlefield. So, although a teen prodigy hero wonder-warrior, he died: but - She was there with him at his last; because She loved him.
So in these vision courses to meet the Gods and the Goddesses of the ancient Irish, we work together to meet and understand these Gods and Goddesses, as faces of the Eternal Divine, as gateways to the Divine Consciousness, as gateways to the Divine Light, which we all so need in our lives.
What we can reconstruct of the Gods and Goddesses of the ancient Irish from the medieval manuscripts is useful. But we must not get trapped in reconstruction, not when it's reconstruction of writing made from a later culture, from a lower state of awareness, or from a situation of spiritual loss, that most often in no way does justice to the Gods.
We must be careful not to imprison ourselves by something medieval or modern, not lock ourselves into what was written down much later than when the Irish people were actually in divine contact with these great beings.
What we aim to do in these vision journeys, is to encounter the true vastness of a God or Goddess, who is a portal to the Divine. if we succeed, noble understanding and vision will be ours.
Our sense of self and our actions are transformed after we truly face and enter into relationship with one of the Gods or Goddesses of the ancient Irish.
To do this is totally consciousness-changing. It is magnificent. It is life-changing.
What we can reconstruct of the Gods and Goddesses of the ancient Irish from the medieval manuscripts is useful. But we must not get trapped in reconstruction, not when it's reconstruction of writing made from a later culture, from a lower state of awareness, or from a situation of spiritual loss, that most often in no way does justice to the Gods.
We must be careful not to imprison ourselves by something medieval or modern, not lock ourselves into what was written down much later than when the Irish people were actually in divine contact with these great beings.
What we aim to do in these vision journeys, is to encounter the true vastness of a God or Goddess, who is a portal to the Divine. if we succeed, noble understanding and vision will be ours.
Our sense of self and our actions are transformed after we truly face and enter into relationship with one of the Gods or Goddesses of the ancient Irish.
To do this is totally consciousness-changing. It is magnificent. It is life-changing.
On this course, you can study the epics and hear how these great beings, the Gods and the Goddesses of the ancient Irish incarnated. They are Gods who had a special ideal for the purity of the land of Ireland, a purity formed when the world was created, but a beauty later sullied by the misrule of the Formorians.
And so, when the Tuatha De Danaan came back to Irleand after the exile of their vast voyagings and deep magical learning, they had a mission to pursue: to restore the land.
As the epics record, they were Gods and Goddesses of such special skill and beauty. They conquered the Formorians. But, later, when the Milesians invaded Ireland, the Tuatha despaired of ever being able to live according to their special skills and magics. And so, they retreated to the Hollow Hills to wait: to wait until humanity was again ready to hear their special message. They retreated to the mounds and barrows, refusing to sully themselves any longer where they could not be appreciated. They wait until the time is right for their return. The human world of their time in the Iron Age, now since, did not appreciate their great energy nor their special skills.
However, then a difference occured! With the coming of W B Yeats and Lady Gregory and others, and with the coming of the Celtic revival a hundred years ago, the divine beauty and qualities of the Tuatha De Danaan were seen once again. The door to connecting to them was reopened a tiny crack.
But Now: Now is the time to bring these great beings more fully into human contact and appreciation. Now is the time to open the door to connect to the Gods and the Goddesss of the Tuatha widely. The World is more ready. The world really needs the divine connection, now.
Learn the true greatness of the Gods and the Goddesses of the ancient Irish. Learn their true spiritual meaning. Now is the time to bring these great beings more fully into human appreciation; into your consciousness.
And so, when the Tuatha De Danaan came back to Irleand after the exile of their vast voyagings and deep magical learning, they had a mission to pursue: to restore the land.
As the epics record, they were Gods and Goddesses of such special skill and beauty. They conquered the Formorians. But, later, when the Milesians invaded Ireland, the Tuatha despaired of ever being able to live according to their special skills and magics. And so, they retreated to the Hollow Hills to wait: to wait until humanity was again ready to hear their special message. They retreated to the mounds and barrows, refusing to sully themselves any longer where they could not be appreciated. They wait until the time is right for their return. The human world of their time in the Iron Age, now since, did not appreciate their great energy nor their special skills.
However, then a difference occured! With the coming of W B Yeats and Lady Gregory and others, and with the coming of the Celtic revival a hundred years ago, the divine beauty and qualities of the Tuatha De Danaan were seen once again. The door to connecting to them was reopened a tiny crack.
But Now: Now is the time to bring these great beings more fully into human contact and appreciation. Now is the time to open the door to connect to the Gods and the Goddesss of the Tuatha widely. The World is more ready. The world really needs the divine connection, now.
Learn the true greatness of the Gods and the Goddesses of the ancient Irish. Learn their true spiritual meaning. Now is the time to bring these great beings more fully into human appreciation; into your consciousness.
Some see The Morrigan as initially human. Worth bearing in mind. Following my five-year ethnographic (social anthropological) field study of Spiritual Pathways new to the modern West, a field study mainly based in Glastonbury, the focus paths being Hinduism, Buddhism Paganism, Shamanism and Utopian Community, I see the Iron Age Gods as ‘Avatars’.
Avatars are incarnations of a facet of the divine into human form. An incarnation sent to walk the earth for a time, just like for the Greeks in The Iliad; or for the Hindus in the Bhagavad Gita where Lord Krishna appears to Arjuna, but also manifesting as Cosmic Krishna; or just like for Tibetan Buddhists: Avalokiteshvara, God of Universal Compassion - and: just like the Gods and Goddesses of the Tuatha De Danaan. The method of ethnography is that the anthropologist actually has to live in the communities/institutions he studies, and give them their voice.
Avatars are incarnations of a facet of the divine into human form. An incarnation sent to walk the earth for a time, just like for the Greeks in The Iliad; or for the Hindus in the Bhagavad Gita where Lord Krishna appears to Arjuna, but also manifesting as Cosmic Krishna; or just like for Tibetan Buddhists: Avalokiteshvara, God of Universal Compassion - and: just like the Gods and Goddesses of the Tuatha De Danaan. The method of ethnography is that the anthropologist actually has to live in the communities/institutions he studies, and give them their voice.
How are these Courses developing?
We have been developing vision journeys through 2018. We are now at the point of working together to begin to assemble our material, into courses to share with you.
The start Modules of our first two courses: Meet The Morrigan course and our Meet The Dagda Course, are now available.
Further moduels will be added for sale to these two courses.
From now on, also, the number of these wonderful courses will grow.
The entire series will eventually encompass twenty further Gods and Goddesses:
The Dagda, The Morrigan, Great Goddess Danu, Bridget, Llugh, Angus Og, Midir, Etain, Manannan, Ogma, Boann, Bel, Aine, Corra meets Saint Patrick, Nuada, The Healer Gods: Dian Cecht, Miach and Airmid, Crom, Goibniu and Donn.
We have been developing vision journeys through 2018. We are now at the point of working together to begin to assemble our material, into courses to share with you.
The start Modules of our first two courses: Meet The Morrigan course and our Meet The Dagda Course, are now available.
Further moduels will be added for sale to these two courses.
From now on, also, the number of these wonderful courses will grow.
The entire series will eventually encompass twenty further Gods and Goddesses:
The Dagda, The Morrigan, Great Goddess Danu, Bridget, Llugh, Angus Og, Midir, Etain, Manannan, Ogma, Boann, Bel, Aine, Corra meets Saint Patrick, Nuada, The Healer Gods: Dian Cecht, Miach and Airmid, Crom, Goibniu and Donn.
How do these vision courses to meet a God or Goddess of the ancient Irish work?
Quite simply, you read the presentation material I send you. You do your own favourite reading.
You then use the audios I send you to do your own individual vision journey to meet the God or Goddess.
You then send me a report about what happened on your journey, including sketches of the beings you see and other visions you might have and we then discuss this.
I then draw on your Western psychodynamic and evolutionary Astrology, as well as your Vedic astrology for deep and valuable guidance, as we work through the course, and I email back to you.
Quite simply, you read the presentation material I send you. You do your own favourite reading.
You then use the audios I send you to do your own individual vision journey to meet the God or Goddess.
You then send me a report about what happened on your journey, including sketches of the beings you see and other visions you might have and we then discuss this.
I then draw on your Western psychodynamic and evolutionary Astrology, as well as your Vedic astrology for deep and valuable guidance, as we work through the course, and I email back to you.
Pay to Enrol:
To Buy the currently available Modules of The Meet The Morrigan or The Meet The Dagda courses, please use the relevant Buy button, below.
As I also refer to your astrology for guidance we correspond about your course work, please therefore email me telling me that you have enrolled, telling me which Course, and also giving me your astrological natal data (place, date and time of birth, plus present location). Also, please tell me what email address you want to use for us to correspond about this course.
To see how these courses are taught, please see the Courses Page.
I look forward to working with you,
Michael
To Buy the currently available Modules of The Meet The Morrigan or The Meet The Dagda courses, please use the relevant Buy button, below.
As I also refer to your astrology for guidance we correspond about your course work, please therefore email me telling me that you have enrolled, telling me which Course, and also giving me your astrological natal data (place, date and time of birth, plus present location). Also, please tell me what email address you want to use for us to correspond about this course.
To see how these courses are taught, please see the Courses Page.
I look forward to working with you,
Michael
To enrol on a course, Pay using the relevant button on the Buy Page