The Mist-Filled Path: Celtic Wisdom for Exiles, Wanderers, and Seekers (original 2002; edition 2002)

by Frank MacEowen (Author), Tom Cowan (Foreword)

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In The Mist-Filled Path, Frank MacEowen, a preeminent teacher of Celtic spirituality, shows how embracing the indigenous wisdom of Scotland and Ireland can lead to healing and transcendence. Using his own travels and teachings along with Celtic stories and myths, he explores ancient traditions, eco-psychology, the ancient mother, altars and hearths, Oran Mor (the Great Song), contemplation, and mysticism. The book tells how to draw on ancestral roots to find a personal spirituality that also works for the greater good.… (more)

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Title:	The Mist-Filled Path: Celtic Wisdom for Exiles, Wanderers, and Seekers
Authors:	Frank MacEowen (Author)
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I really wanted to like this book. I kept picking it up and reading a section and then putting it back down because nothing in what I was readng spoke to me. I have a feeling that it all depends on where you are in your journey. I had the priviledge to study with both John and Caitlin Matthews so maybe whatever itch this book scatches for others, is something I no longer feel the need for. This isn't a critique on the worthiness of the book. Just a suggestion about who the right readership might be. (

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owlsdottir | Sep 19, 2010 |

Very self-aggrandizing. (

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PirateJenny | Jun 28, 2009 |

This book got me back into the habit of having devotional time each morning. Now that the weather is fine, I meditate and study for an hour each morning on my front porch. The Mist-Filled Path is a good introduction to Celtic tradition. Being of Celtic heritage and having been reared on a farm close to nature and the elements, I was able to relate to this book. It touched my soul. (

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BlonnieMay | Oct 6, 2008 |

Reading some great stuff about Celtic history and the Druids, since all we ever seem to hear about, mystically and new age speaking, is China, China, China, India, India, India. Looking for parallels in my own indigenous cultures. Highly recommend is "The Mist-Filled Path" by Frank MacEowen (2002). I discovered that there is a Druidic prayer posture akin to "Hugging the Tree" in Qi
Qong.

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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
—JALAL-UD-DIN RUMI

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This book is lovingly dedicated to:

the memory
of my maternal grandmother, Nonnie (1916-1999),

the keening women, poets, and Celtic seers
who walked the mist-filled paths before us,

and the future generations who will inherit
this earth from us.

May we come to know all people as the Chosen Ones,
all the Earth as our Holy Land.

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Our world invites us to become what I call sleepwalkers.

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In The Mist-Filled Path, Frank MacEowen, a preeminent teacher of Celtic spirituality, shows how embracing the indigenous wisdom of Scotland and Ireland can lead to healing and transcendence. Using his own travels and teachings along with Celtic stories and myths, he explores ancient traditions, eco-psychology, the ancient mother, altars and hearths, Oran Mor (the Great Song), contemplation, and mysticism. The book tells how to draw on ancestral roots to find a personal spirituality that also works for the greater good.

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