British Mystery Tradition

[Sìle]

I was wondering if anyone here had any experience of the British Mystery Tradition or the book, "Becoming the Enchanter: A Journey to the Heart of the Celtic Mysteries" by Lyn Webster Wilde.

A friend has been telling me how the book explores the mysteries within the Mabinogion and how to unravel them. As it is a British tradition, I was wondering if any of our members had any experience of it?

[Lee]

But a chance encounter changed her life and, after fulfilling a series of tests, she was cautiously welcomed into a secret fraternity. She discovered that her new companions were the guardians of an ancient tradition of knowledge every bit as potent and life-transforming as that of the Native Americans or Siberian Shamans. It is a tradition that reaches back through the wisdom of the Celts to the megalith-builders of the Neolithic age and which continues to this day in the British isles.

smells of horseshit to me.

however, it may be that she has taken the mabinogion and used it to weave her own 'path' through it and use it. i cant really criticise that - it appears to have worked for her so all credit to her. now, if she is trying to sell that as some ancient system then that is appalling, she should be honest.

as to that other website- its hideous and has little content of apparent interest that suggests mysteries.

midnight bitching over

[littleraven]

Yep, read it, horseyshite.

[Adam]

Jan 27, 2009 21:29:28 GMT -1 Sìle said:

I was wondering if anyone here had any experience of the British Mystery Tradition or the book, "Becoming the Enchanter: A Journey to the Heart of the Celtic Mysteries" by Lyn Webster Wilde.

A friend has been telling me how the book explores the mysteries within the Mabinogion and how to unravel them. As it is a British tradition, I was wondering if any of our members had any experience of it?

I'm going to stick my neck out and say I thoroughly enjoyed the book :-) I give it about as much credence re exploring an ancient British Mystery Tradition as I give Castaneda re revealing the mysteries of the Yaqui shaman (sweet fa) but the book has merit as a metaphor and possibly as a description of personal trance-formation, IMO :-)

[megli]

cachu ceffyl.
ie. Horseshit.

[Lee]

i know i am going overboard with the H word at the moment, but it my new favorite word.

[Sìle]

I read it over the weekend, but had a few issues with it. Thought I was just being hypercritical, but ...

Thanks for the input. Much appreciated. ;D

[maglowyllt]

The House of Llew? Morgan? Mystery Tradition? Why is this site presented like some sort of point and click low budget game?

Horeshite is an appropriate word.

[Blackbird]

The website is exceedingly pretentious!

I've not read this book, but I have read her Amazons one. It was fairly entertaining if you read it as a personal journey, but rubbish for any proper information.

[Deleted]

kac'h marc'h? *grins*

even the title of 'becoming an enchanter' puts me off: that kind of titles attracts imho the 'wrong' kind of people: people attracted by the idea of having 'magyckal' powers to show to their friends, not really interested in any philosophy or mysticism at all....

[Sìle]

Jan 30, 2009 11:16:05 GMT -1 @ennys said:

even the title of 'becoming an enchanter'

Its more to do with taking on the role of a character in the Mabinogion rather than magic, which they don't seem to use.