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Ever Ancient Ever New
by Dolores Whelan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17th January 2011
ISBN: 978-1-908024-15-2
Price: €14.99
“A “must” book for all who are searching for a deep spirituality today.”
Matthew Fox
The Celtic spiritual and wisdom tradition is both ancient and new. It brings to light a new way for humankind to be in the world. Dolores believes that the deep truths held within the soul and psyche of our land are now ready to re-emerge. Her work endeavours to support this awakening, both within the land and the people.
Crucially, this book is not nostalgic. It uniquely explores how this ancient wisdom can form the basis of a value system upon which a new society can be built. It challenges us to integrate this wisdom into all aspects of our daily lives, reflecting the beliefs of our ancestors that there is no real separation between the spiritual and secular worlds.
Dolores Whelan has been involved with education all her adult life, initially as a Biochemistry Lecturer, and for the past 25 years as an educator and spiritual guide in Ireland, Scotland, England and the USA. She holds an M.Sc in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin and an M.A. in Spirituality from ICCS California. Her studies eventually guided her back to her own spiritual roots within the Celtic tradition.
She facilitates workshops and retreats in Celtic Spirituality and personal empowerment. She leads pilgrimages to many of the sacred places in Ireland and Scotland. She is author of Your Breaking Point (1993), contributor to Celtic Threads (1999), The Quiet Quarter 10 year anthology (2009) and Of Constant Heart (2010). Dolores is a respected speaker at conferences and in the Irish and international media.
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This book contains a Meditation CD
Praise for Ever Ancient Ever New
I found “Ever Ancient Ever New” a most interesting book, very informative, thought provoking and presents Celtic spirituality with great clarity. It is a wonderful resource book and one we can draw on in our preparation for the celebration of the Celtic Feasts.
Sr Mary Minehan ,
Solas Brid Kildare, Ireland.
Dolores Whelan’s book Ever Ancient Ever New gives an excellent illustration of her width of knowledge and appreciation of Celtic Spirituality. She makes a careful analysis of the spirit of our age with its materialism and rationalism which she contrasts with an earlier mindset in which mankind is integrated with nature and the feminine mystique receives its due place. This short book draws together the insights of ancient cultures which can lead us into the future
Fr. Sean O Duinn, Ph.D author of Where Three Streams Meet & The Rites of Brigid Goddess and Saint
Dolores has a knack for mediating both the transformative power hidden in the paradoxical nature of Myth and the mix of joy, earthiness and otherworldliness within the Celtic Soul. Her honest passion for the tradition is evident on every page.
Fionntulach – Order of Céile Dé Scotland
These important innovative insights of Dolores Whelan have been hugely transformative in my own life and work. This is truly an inspirational tome. Between the covers of ‘Ever Ancient, Ever New’, Dolores directly and succinctly articulates her own bold, daring, call to humanity. “More than ever, we now need to move towards a deeper understanding of life and from that understanding develop the boldness that dares to follow the heart”. Ever Ancient, Ever New IS that move and it promises every reader that understanding !
Dr. Noirin Ni Riain
Singer, theologian and musicologist
