Episode 17 – Celtic Spirituality with John Philip Newell

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On this newest episode Christine talks with John Philip Newell and so they talk about his curiosity in Celtic spirituality and the sacredness of Earth. He shares his background rising up in a conservative evangelical custom and the way his experiences in nature led him to discover Celtic knowledge. Newell talks concerning the significance of the island of Iona within the Celtic custom and its position as a skinny place the place heaven and earth meet. He additionally emphasizes the significance of recognizing the sacredness of all issues and the divine essence inside each human being. Newell discusses the facility of poetry and prayers in Celtic spirituality and the necessity to embrace knowledge from varied spiritual traditions.

John Philip Newell is a Celtic trainer and writer of spirituality who calls the fashionable world to reawaken to the sacredness of Earth and each human being. Canadian by beginning, and a citizen additionally of Scotland, he resides together with his household in Edinburgh and works on each side of the Atlantic. In 2016 he started the Earth & Soul initiative and teaches recurrently in the USA and Canada in addition to main worldwide pilgrimage weeks on Iona within the Western Isles of Scotland.

His PhD is from the College of Edinburgh and he has authored over fifteen books, together with his award-winning publication, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul. His new e-book, additionally with HarperOne, is The Nice Search (August 2024), during which he appears on the nice religious yearnings of humanity at present within the context of the decline of faith as we have now recognized it.

Newell speaks of himself as ‘a wandering trainer’ following the traditional path of many lone lecturers earlier than him within the Celtic custom, looking for the wellbeing of the world. He has been described as having ‘the center of a Celtic bard and the thoughts of a Celtic scholar’, combining in his teachings the poetic and the mental, the top in addition to the center, and religious consciousness in addition to political and ecological concern.

Extra about John Philip Newell may be discovered on his web site https://www.earthandsoul.org

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