Living Celtic Spiritual Tradition
The Path of An Céile Dé
SEATTLE - Fionn Tulach (Fiona Davidson) will offer a workshop on September 15, 16 and 19.about the living spiritual tradition of the Céile Dé entitled "Uniting Heaven and Earth: Celtic Harp, Sacred Song and Gaelic Myth."
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FIONN TULACH
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The Céile Dé (anglicised into Culdee) tradition is a living Gaelic Spiritual Path that, according to legend, originated 2,000 years ago, when the Druidic cult of the Divine Child (the enlightened Self) anticipated and welcomed the Christ Consciousness into its foundation.
Céile Dé means "Servants" or "Spouses of The Divine." The tradition is both nature-based and meditative and contains elements of both Gaelic Mythology and early Celtic Christianity.
While living in one of the remotest parts of the beautiful Scottish Isle of Arran, Fionn Tulach immersed herself in the study of the Celtic tradition. It has been her life for almost 30 years.
From 1986 until 2002 she worked, under the name Fiona Davidson, as a bard - a teller of the sacred legends of the Gael, a singer, poet and harper. She has toured the world performing, as well as teaching the tradition.
Fionn is a member of the Spiritual Order An Céile Dé (The Culdee), based in Scotland and Ireland. She has taught the Living Celtic Spiritual Tradition for many years and regularly gives lectures and workshops in Britain and Ireland, the United States, Germany, Denmark and Holland.
More recently, she has cut back on her bardic work to divide her time between leading a contemplative life within the order and teaching the tradition of An Céile Dé, in which there has been a great deal of interest world-wide.
Although she no longer tours as a performer, she frequently offers concerts as part of a workshop setting. Her lectures are also frequently punctuated with harp and song - the latter often ancient Gaelic prayer. The Celtic harp, song and legends offer a unique glimpse into a world-view that has a lot to offer us today, whatever our faith or nationality.
The tradition of the Céile Dé is a union between the best of Druidism and Celtic Christianity. The wisdom of the Druids offers us an understanding of the hidden realms of the psyche - but in the way the Celts know best - with a lyrical use of the imagination to take us on a voyage beyond our everyday selves.
Celtic Christianity takes the voyager further still, beyond what his imagination will ever conceive, into the realms of the Unknowable Divinity who came here, to earth, to break our hearts, so that we might find Him there - and know Him at last.
And finally, the wisdom of the Druids reminds us of the sanctity of The Mother - Earth - who birthed that Incarnation and will continue to birth Him in the surrendered hearts of every sentient being.
For more information about the Céile Dé , visit www.ceilede.co.uk.
"Uniting Heaven and Earth: Celtic Harp, Sacred Song, & Gaelic Myth" will be presented on September 15 at the East West Bookshop in Seattle; on September 16 at the Phoenix Rising bookstore in Port Townsend, WA; on September 19 at the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, WA; and on September 21-23 at the Salmonberry Hall on Whidbey Island, WA for a three day intensive workshop.
For more information: email: Sioban@whidbey.com, or call (360) 331-1105.
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