All right I'm still looking into Druidism today. There are some organizations out there (I mean "out there" in the world, although some organization seem really "out there" in the other way. Like funny, "weird" not funny, "haha") and in that context they offer some classes. I'm not sure if I want to take Druid classes or not. This seems like Elf School or something. To be honest, if I had time I'd take them both. I'm a curious soul.

I'll address this in another post, but of course one has to decide which spiritual classes to take and one should create a spiritual budget of some kind. There are soooo many classes I want to take and services I want to do and try, products I want to buy. I don't even know what these are, but I want to try them! Scared Geometry Meditation Performance tools? Hell yeah! Count me in! It's always hard to decide. There's this guy: https://www.scalarlight.com who seems to base his healing work on the shoulders of Tesla. Countless Akashic Record readers, not to mention all the usual gamuts of astrology, Kabbalah, tarot, channelers, tuning forks, gold crosses, etc. I'll write about how to decide in another post.

As I've written a thousand times, I consider myself Christian (Celtic Christian). And lately I've discovered, as I've been exploring Christian thought more, some scholars even claim that St. Anthony represents the Roman god, Mercury and that St. Brigid was the goddess from Ireland. Who knows? This is why I'm here. To answer your questions. Anyway, I digress.

Awen as far as I can tell, is similar to chi or the muse. No one knows for sure because the Druids were an oral culture who, unlike the Egyptians and Greeks, didn't write things down. There are some theories as to why they didn't write things down. One of the most interesting ones I've heard was that they felt everything that needed to be "learned" could be learned from nature herself. Others say that the Druids viewed written language much like some Natives viewed photography, that it captured part of the soul.

Now, I don't mean to take Awen lightly. In several cultures, particularly ancient or indigenous ones, the "taking over" (oooo, spooky) during a creative performance was probably fairly common. Even today, if you ask a fine actor, he'll tell you that something "took over" during his best performances. If you go to the Tokyo National Museum of Japan, as I did in May 2024, just look at the traditional Kabuki outfits and recorded performances. I mean, seeing this in ancient times must have been a spectacle. Ohhhhh-Ahhhhhh. Also, the Khon Dance in Thailand (where I also went and I'll go again November 2024) must have seemed magical. Or imagine the Greek theatre, with its chorus wearing platform shoes and those heavy comedy/tragedy masks, all chanting with incense and long robes. All of these things were presented and refined to bring about some major "Awen" probably. The Latin word for mask is "persona." Of course, that's very similar to the Latin word, personalis ‘of a person’ and today's English word "personality."

The Festivals of Dionysus (at least as written about in the novel, The Secret History) was where participants felt a feeling of the divine suddenly raging through them, becoming at one with natural and primitive forces, creating madness. It must have been in-tense.

So, my point is: I think that Awen would be more related to a Dionysian aspect of performance, closer to an intense oneness or even a certain madness that took place for the performer. Then went and touched the audience. A shared madness? Chi seems a bit tame compared to what I think the reality of Awen must have been. But, I'm just now reading about Chi, so I'll let you know.