EPISODE · Jun 24, 2021 · 35 MIN
Make Room for Magic: Celtic tales about fairies
from Myth Matters · host Catherine Svehla
Send us Fan Mail"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, pass the wit of man to say what dream it was." --Shakespeare, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"A few Celtic stories about encounters with fairies, to celebrate the solstice and midsummer, and to consider the need for healthy skepticism and making room for magic."The Celt in all ages of his long history, like the ancient Greek thinkers with whom his ancestors were contemporary, has always been inclined, unlike modern scientists, to seek an explanation for the phenomena of evolutionary life by postulating a noumenal world of causes as the background to a phenomenal world of effects. Today, the rapid march of scientific pioneers, chiefly those in psychical research, is bringing our own cold and exact science very close to that indefinable boundary which separates the two worlds [...]" --Walter Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries Support the showEmail Catherine at [email protected] a positive review on apple podcasts! Learn how you can work with Catherine at https://mythicmojo.comBuy me a coffee. Thank you!
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Send us Fan Mail "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, pass the wit of man to say what dream it was." --Shakespeare, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" A few Celtic stories about encounters with fairies, to celebrate the solstice and midsummer, and to consider the need for healthy skepticism and making room for magic. "The Celt in all ages of his long history, like the ancient Greek thinkers with whom his ancestors were contemporary, has always been inclined, unlike modern...
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