The Way of Awen

by Manwaring, Kevan

• ISBN13: 9781846943119
• ISBN10: 1846943116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-16
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Awaken the bard within in this inspiring journey into your creative potential. Expanding upon the foundation of The Bardic Handbook, this volume explores the transformations the bardic initiate must go through to become a fully-fledged Bard. This originally took 12 years of study in the Bardic Colleges - but communities need bards right now, bringing healing and hope with their words and music and so the training process is accelerated over 12 months, echoing the 12 years of Taliesin's journey from Gwion Bach to the Shining Brow. Extracts from the author's notebooks and journals over 20 years illustrate his own journey - showing how this ancient wisdom has been gleaned and validated by powerful personal experience. The Way of Awen is a way of living creatively.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Introduction - The Journey to Deganwy	p. 4
The Books of the Fferyllt	p. 10
Afaggdu's Need	p. 13
Cauldron of Change	p. 18
The Crooked Crone	p. 26
A Man of Gentle Lineage	p. 32
Fair-face	p. 34
The Blind Servant	p. 37
The Awen Thief	p. 42
Fith-fath	p. 45
Hare	p. 53
Greyhound	p. 63
Salmon	p. 73
Otter	p. 78
Wren	p. 83
Hawk	p. 88
Cian	p. 98
Black Hen	p. 103
Elphin	p. 113
Gwyddno	p. 123
Maelgwn	p. 128
Taliesin	p. 148
Taliesin's Apprentice: Journal of a Bard	p. 164
The Way of Awen is...	p. 368
Conclusion: Living the Way of Awen	p. 370
Further Reading	p. 379
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