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By Michael Conneely:
Martin leaves his loveless home, where his father only cares about exam results and career. He goes to live on a protest site which has formed to protect a Bronze Age stone circle – an ancient sacred site, threatened by the start of quarrying nearby. He finds happiness for the first time in his life and becomes involved in eco-protest, ritual and living close to the earth.
On his fourteenth birthday, Cathal decides to seize the magic of the Runes. He does a ritual to begin his quest, but finds himself taken by Magician God Odin to the Nine Worlds of Yggdrassil. Cathal is not a usual boy. His father is an eco-warrior and his grandfather is in prison for protesting against war. Lucy thinks she is a very ordinary girl, but it turns out that Lucy has magical powers of her own. The youngsters wonder why the All Father, the mysterious almighty shape-shifter Odin could have need of them. They discover the Nine Worlds are heading to destruction. Three wise women, the Nornir, daily chant the Orlog: the rules that govern cosmic balance, but to no avail. The dreadful three-year Fimbul Winter sears all life. Through love, courage and cunning, can the magic of the runes be preserved and a new world be created? Cathal and Lucy discover Odin has a plan to avert the Aesir’s prophesied catastrophe. What no one expected was that Cathal had a plan of his own.
By Michael Conneely:
A magical child has been conceived in the modern west. A new spiritual form has been born out of Hinduism, Buddhism, the Pagan religions of Northern Europe , Shamanism, utopian community and astrology. A great new collective discipline or structure emerges amid this reforging of ancient spiritual traditions. New tools are grasped such as ritual, meditation, tantra, body-energy-work, trance and vision. The astrological traditions of the Vedas and the West converge. Michael Conneely reports on the findings of a five-year field study of spiritual revolution conducted in Glastonbury in England which has become a globally important centre for pilgrimage, festival and new spiritual vision.
Michael Conneely describes how men find strengthening, loving and empowering, visionary examples of sacred masculinity by invocation of the Pagan and the tantric Buddhist gods. To create brotherhood, network and support, and develop new consciousness of masculinity, this book: ‘MEN invoking GODS’ details the invocation, possession, ritual, visionary, journeying, ethical and body-energy techniques that are used by men to contact and embody the spiritual power of gods. MEN invoking GODS includes:
When a young man heads out into the world from a home where his father has blessed him, respected him and honoured him and helped him, and given him the needed sketch-map of the ways of the world, then he will step out with strength and courage and a firm sense of who he is and what it is to be a man. In the same way, men can invoke into themselves these ultimately beautiful and powerful figures of sacred masculinity. To quote from Carlos Castaneda, "The real accomplishment in life is the art of being a warrior, which is the only way to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man."
By Michael Conneely:  The Sacred Landscape of Glastonbury PanGaia Magazine, September 2007:
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